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The Young Turks: January 25, 2022

The UN’s Covax program, which distributes COVID vaccines to underserved nations by means of ‘charity’ from rich countries, has run out of funding, which spells disaster for any nation that can’t produce their own vaccines.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has just received state funding to combat the homelessness crisis in California cities by clearing out shantytowns and tent cities to move these people into indoor facilities. Author Michael Shellenberger joins TYT to discuss how we can solve California’s, and the nation’s, homelessness crisis.
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Billionaire Mark Cuban has just launched a new online pharmacy called "Cost Plus Drug Company” that allegedly sells generic medications for lower prices than traditional distributors. Cuban is hoping to keep costs low by negotiating directly with drug manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies.
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Senator Bernie Sanders congratulated the striking workers of Kroger-owned supermarket chain King Soopers for winning their strike for a new contract. The contract includes pay raises, improved health benefits, and safer working conditions.
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A traveling nurse has gone viral on TikTok for venting about overcrowded hospitals and the frustrations of working in emergency rooms during the pandemic. Nurse Alexis Hinkley clarified that when the media reports that they are no beds available, there really are no beds available even for routine patients.
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During the end of a press event, reporters hurled questions at President Biden hoping for a response. Fox’s Peter Doocy asked Biden if inflation would hurt him and the Democratic Party in the midterm elections, where Biden called Doocy a “…stupid son of a bitch”.
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Legendary rock artist Neil Young has given Spotify an ultimatum: keep my music on the platform or keep the Joe Rogan Experience. Young is irate about the alarming amount of vaccine and COVID misinformation that has been spread due to Rogan’s huge audience and is calling on Spotify to take action.
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The saga of West End Caleb and his questionable dating habits has been well documented across media platforms and has even attracted the attention of several large brands and corporations. But as Caleb lost his job and privacy after being doxxed by internet critics, corporations and brands profited handsomely from his misery, raising ethical questions about the saga as whole and how mob mentality almost always goes too far.
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The Young Turks: January 24, 2022

ABC News is reporting that the FBI raid of Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar is in connection to an ongoing investigation about Cuellar’s ties to and business interests in Azerbaijan. The organization he has close ties to has previously been under FBI investigation for serving as a front to Azerbaijan’s nationalized oil company.
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Co-founder of the Black Votes Matter organization LaTosha Brown joins TYT to talk the voting rights bill, voter suppression, and what activists are doing to make the change happen.
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Tensions at the Ukraine-Russia border are ramping up as the U.S. and NATO allies are supplying weapons to the Ukrainian military in order to deter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Although the Russian state has made no outward declaration of invasion or war, NATO nations are fearing the worst.
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Cryptocurrency investors were reeling after popular currencies Bitcoin and Ether plunged to 8-month lows, wiping around $130 BILLION from the market. At this point, both currencies are around "45% and 49% off their respective all-time highs."
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Former President Donald Trump is once again attacking the January 6th select committee after it asked his daughter Ivanka for an interview.
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Aaron Rodgers is not doing himself any favors with the media recently as he went on another anti-vax rant during an ESPN interview. Rodgers misquoted a COVID death study, sowed distrust in the CDC, and slammed President Biden for his quote on this being a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”.
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Merrill Lynch asset manager Jim Iannazzo has been fired by the company after a video of Iannazzo racially attacking a group of young workers at a local smoothie shop for allegedly causing his son to have an allergic reaction went viral.
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The Young Turks: January 21, 2022

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki gave some interesting suggestions for how to deal with the constant failures of the Democratic party. Psaki encouraged those who are frustrated to put those emotions into a kickboxing class or having a nice margarita to make everything seem alright.
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President Joe Biden has fell into the tried-and -true legislative trap of being a moderate/centrist in order to gain bipartisan support. Even though Biden spent 8 years as Obama’s Vice President, he is still flabbergasted that Republicans won’t work with him and his fellow Democrats.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife Ginni Thomas may have contributed to some of her husband’s rulings over the years as she is a prominent member of C.N.P. Action, a dark money group that connects radical right-wingers to wealthy donors. Oh and believes that the country is in danger from the “fascist left”.
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A Jewish couple from Tennessee had their bid to foster and adopt a disabled child denied because their faith “didn’t align” with the adoption agency’s belief system. The couple and multiple other residents have filed a lawsuit against Tennessee’s Department of Child Services.
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A viral video of a New York couple going on a wildly racist rant has lead to the arrest and firing of the two offenders. Justin Likerman and Kristin Digesaro have been charged with aggravated harassment and endangering the welfare of a child for their racially-charged anti-immigrant attack.
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Fox News mainstay Sean Hannity recently interviewed Donald Trump to hear what the former-President had to say about President Biden’s first year in office. Unhinged insanity ensued.
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Virginia mother Amelia King recently threatened Page County School Board members, as well as the children who attend these schools, with gun violence over the imposition of mask mandates in schools. King told school board members that she’ll “see y’all [board members and students] on Monday”, prompting an increased police presence in Page County schools.
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Lauren Boebert is no stranger to controversy and seeks it out whenever she can, and her most recent attention-seeking stunt revolves around her asking a group of Jewish Capitol visitors if they were there to do “reconnaissance”. Yikes.
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Lobbying firms have been raking in more cash than they normally do as the assault on President Biden’s agenda took flight in 2021. It turns out that top firms have had record amount of profits from their efforts to block social spending, environmental spending, and decreased corporate regulation.
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Radio host Charlamagne tha God went off on the Democratic Party and President Biden regarding their failure to pass voting rights reforms as well as the party’s lack of urgency in passing their own agenda.
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The Young Turks: January 20, 2022

Senate Democrats made the first step in highlighting the unwillingness of their Republican colleagues to pass voting rights and filibuster reform bills, as both were struck down as expected.
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The FBI has raided the home of Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas’ 28th District, which includes San Antonio and Laredo.
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President Joe Biden pushed back on White House correspondent Peter Doocy, who accused Biden of pushing the country “too far left” by claiming that he’s not a “socialist” like Senator Bernie Sanders.
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During a recent press briefing, President Biden tried to pressure Congress into passing voting rights reforms by that claiming that without reform, the upcoming midterm elections would be illegitimate. Biden doubled-down on this claim by arguing that Republicans and Democrats who stand in the way of these reforms are trying to alter the results of this election cycle as well as future elections.
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Right-wing propaganda network Newsmax recently interviewed Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, who spewed terrible anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric and defended Hungary’s ban on LGBTQIA+ content in schools.
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Right-wing extremist radio host Pete Santilli parroted Tucker Carlson and urged his listeners to “literally put our lives on the line for free and fair elections”. Santilli continued his unhinged rant by predicting future violence between American citizens in the government as well as shouting out his hero Tucker Carlson.
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Students at UPenn’s Wharton School of Business were asked by professor Nina Strohminger to guess what the average American citizen makes in a year.
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A West Virginian news reporter Tori Yorgey was struck by a car during a live news report yet proceeded to continue her reporting on a water main break.
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The Young Turks: January 19, 2022

The nursing shortage and overall healthcare worker shortage has been a controversial topic since the start of the pandemic. However, reporting from the New York Times reveals that the nursing shortage has its roots in the broken, privatized medical system and has been going on for years.
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Some Congressional Democrats are siding with their Republican colleagues to undermine the Biden Administration’s No Surprises Act, which bans surprise medical bills and could lead to standardized rates under private insurance plans in the future. Lobby groups likes the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association and private insurers have fought against the provisions passing and seem to be gaining more congressional support.
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The Trump family has been called to testify, under oath, about the possible, and probable, fraudulent activities of the Trump Organization. New York State attorney general Letitia Jones has accused the family business of misrepresenting the values of multiple assets, many of them being property values.
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The IRS is once again ignoring the ultra-rich and wealth tax reform in favor of targeting small, independent vendors and business people. Online business owners will now have to pay taxes if they make more than $600 through their online business, a harsh drop from the previous $20,000 threshold.
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A undercover cop working for the British state infiltrated the climate change movement around 10 years ago and proceeded to have a romantic relationship with Kate Wilson, a climate activism leader and organizer. Wilson had no idea her lover was using her, and at least 10 other women activists, to gather intelligence and sell the activists out to corporations and the UK government.
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As COVID cases increase in schools nationwide, some Oklahoma cops stepped up the occasion and filled in as substitutes for sick teachers. But shouldn’t sick teachers be replaced by qualified substitutes instead of cops or any other random citizen?
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Tech giant Microsoft announced that they will be acquiring the video game magnate Activision-Blizzard to the tune of $68.7 BILLION. Activision-Blizzad’s reputation took a huge blow as multiple women came forward to report constant sexual harassment, frat-boy culture, and other abuses by the company’s executives and HR division.
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Senate candidate from Louisiana Gary Chambers Jr. is making another run at Congress and is firing up his voter base with a provocative ad displaying the racial disparities and stigmatization regarding marijuana arrests. Chambers Jr. smokes a huge blunt throughout the 37 second ad, which is gaining national traction and attention to his campaign.
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The Young Turks: January 18, 2022

A gunman took four hostages during a livestream of a Texas synagogue’s service this past Saturday in an attempt to demand the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a woman convicting of attempted murder of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
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Tensions between Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have been heating up lately as Trump continues to take shots at DeSantis ahead of a showdown in the Republican Party primaries in 2024.
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Former Bill Clinton aide Paul Begala laid out his thoughts on the Democrat’s agenda in a recent CNN interview, blaming the party’s failures on Democratic constituents, NOT Democratic leadership. Begala also claims that President Biden is giving his all to pass voting rights legislation, but he needs “better followers” to actually pass the laws.
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Black children’s book author Jerry Craft is the most recent example of how Republican lawmakers and their voter base are banning books from public school libraries. Two of Craft’s books were removed from a Houston-area public school as well as having his school visit postponed.
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In a recent rally held in Florence, Arizona, Donald Trump baselessly claimed that white people “have to go to the back of the line” when receiving COVID treatment. Of course Trump is blaming the fictional narrative on the left.
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Hillary Clinton, a moderate liberal, who is white, took it upon herself to ’subtweet’ other white moderates with MLK’s famous quote on how white moderates “block the flow of social progress”. The internet had an absolute field day in the replies to her Tweet with many pointing out how Hillary fits perfectly into MLK’s views on society.
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Florida Republican Jason Mariner is refusing to concede his election loss even though he lost by almost 60 percentage-points to progressive Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick. Mariner is making oddly similar claims as Donald Trump about the election, citing irregularities in the election's results.
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The Young Turks: January 14, 2022

Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema is holding back the passage of more legislation, and this time she is putting a hold on voting rights reform by refusing to eliminate the filibuster. Although she claims to support voting rights, its curious that she won’t back her own party’s agenda.
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Rumor has it that Kyrsten Sinema is planning to run for President in the 2024 election. But will it be as a Democrat, Republican, or third-party candidate?
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Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Tammy Baldwin are demanding for the Wall Street firm BlackRock to back striking coal workers in Alabama as they fight for better wages and benefits. the Senators are calling on BlackRock, the largest shareholder of Warrior Met Coal, to pressure the coal company to negotiate with workers.
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Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is the newest target of right-wing hate for siding with the liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts on maintaining the vaccine-or-test mandate for healthcare workers.
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Podcast mogul and staunch anti-vaxxer Joe Rogan got a healthy dose of public humiliation after one of his many anti-vax arguments was debunked live by guest Josh Zepps. Better yet, 270 scientists wrote an open letter to Spotify urging the company to address the COVID misinformation being promoted on Rogan’s show.
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A bill has been introduced in Florida that would permit schools to put cameras in classrooms and record teachers’ audio during lessons. The bill was proposed by Republican state Rep. Bob Rommel and is another state-level law that could have sweeping implications on the education system.
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VP Kamala Harris did not do herself any favors by spouting a word salad reply to Craig Melvin’s question on the possibility of switching COVID mitigation strategies.
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A scientific research paper from Oregon State University has gone viral online by presenting data that suggests compounds found in cannabis “prevented entry” of the coronavirus into isolated human cells. While this doesn’t mean smoking cannabis prevents COVID infections, it does show promise for future, more accessible treatments or preventatives.
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Virginia Beach cops have allegedly been using forged DNA documents in order to coerce suspects into confessing or further cooperation during interrogations.
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The Young Turks: January 13, 2022

The Supreme Court has halted President Biden’s sweeping vaccine and testing mandate for large employers, citing a legal gray-area about the executive branch’s authority. However, vaccine and testing mandates for healthcare workers at Medicare and Medicaid funded facilities.
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President Biden has just admitted that the Democrats’ push fro voting rights legislation may be dead in the water after failing to convince fellow Democrats like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to reform the filibuster.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren did not hold back when questioning Fed Chair Jerome Powell about how corporate profits and big businesses and driving up inflation. Powell begrudgingly admitted that concentrated corporate power could lead to price gouging, thus driving up inflation.
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Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, and Paul Pierce are being slapped with a class action lawsuit for promoting an alleged cryptocurrency pump-and-dump scheme. The token named EthereumMax reportedly rose in price by 632% after Mayweather and Pierce’s promotion.
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New reports and polling data have revealed that Kroger employees suffer from severe financial insecurity, so 8,000 workers in Colorado went on strike to demand better wages and healthcare benefits. So far the work stoppage has affected almost 80 King Sooper stores in the Denver metro area with the possibility of more stoppages occurring in Colorado Springs.
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Judge Robert Adrian, from Adams County in western Illinois has been harshly criticized for throwing out the conviction of an 18-year-old man who sexually assaulted and raped a 16-year-old girl. The man only spent 148 days in prison instead of the mandatory 4 year sentence.
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The media has had a field day attacking Senator Lindsey Graham for expressing that he wouldn’t support Mitch McConnell retaking his Senate Majority Leader position if Trump wins the presidential election in 2024. Graham has reiterated that any Republican Senate Majority Leader must have a working relationship with Donald Trump to succeed.
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Stewart Rhodes, leader and founder of the far-right militia group the "Oath Keepers” has been charged along with 10 other militia members of seditious conspiracy for their role in the January 6th Capitol Insurrection. The charge alleges that Rhodes and his followers conspired to oppose the certification of the 2020 presidential election by force.
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The Young Turks: January 12, 2022

U.S. seniors will be paying even more money for their Medicare plans as drug companies hiked prices at the start of 2022. These retired seniors, who live on fixed incomes, will be hit with the biggest price increase ever.
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The two Texas doctors that have created the world’s first open-source, patent-free COVID-19 vaccine are struggling to find funding for production and distribution of the potentially pandemic-ending vaccine. Dr. Peter Hotez and Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi created this vaccine with no profit motive and better yet, this open-source Corbevax vaccine is far less expensive than Pfizer and Moderna’s renditions.
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MSNBC’s newest contributor Symone Sanders decided to use her debut on the network to criticize those who boycotted Joe Biden’s speech on voting rights in Atlanta. Sanders also did some positive PR for the Biden-Harris administration’s failures on passing actual legislation.
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Both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal put out bizarre op-ed pieces about possible Democratic strategies for winning the presidential race in 2024. NYT writer Thomas Friedman floats a Biden-Liz Cheney ticket while WSJ writers Douglas Schoen and Andrew Stein suggest the epic comeback of Hilary Clinton.
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In a recent interview with OAN, Trump took shots at popular Republican Ron DeSantis, Trump’s biggest political threat within the Republican party. Trump indirectly called DeSantis’s “gutless” for refusing to admit that he received the COVID-19 vaccine booster.
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As the fight for unionizing Starbucks stores continues across the nation, workers at the first unionized Starbucks in Buffalo, New York have gone on strike, demanding safer working conditions, increases in pay, and the right to deny service to customers who don’t comply with state COVID protocols.
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Senator Rand Paul continued his assault on Dr. Anthony Fauci in a recent congressional hearing regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Things got personal as Fauci brought up death threats that he and his family received.
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Georgia Rep. and notorious grifter Marjorie Greene is at it again and this time she's whipping up her voter base by suggesting that Democrats are coming to take their guns away. Furthermore, Greene suggested that the Second Amendment was designed to protect citizens against a tyrannical government, like the supposed tyranny of the Biden Administration.
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The Young Turks: January 11, 2022

Voting rights activists and Biden allies have decided to boycott Biden’s voting rights and filibuster reform speech in Atlanta, Georgia. Activist Cliff Albright voiced his frustrations with the Biden Administration for their inaction on voting rights and did not want to be used as a “prop” by Biden.
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Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have outperformed the stock market on a ridiculous level, again raising ethical questions about the motivations of our legislators. Politicians have been outperforming the average stock trader and the market since at least the early 90s, making it easy to believe that insider trading runs rampant in Congress.
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Former Trump adviser Larry Kudlow cited a Jacobin article during his most recent appearance on Fox News. Kudlow even approved of the reporting, regarding Nancy Pelosi’s massive gains in the stock market.
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Protesters of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline have been slapped with some extreme charges for arrests made at last year’s protests, like felony theft and felony attempted suicide. Prosecutors and Enbridge have been colluding to pursue these harsh charges for compensation.
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North Carolina voters are pushing for state officials to block Madison Cawthorn’s reelection bid for his role in the January 6th Capitol insurrection. Cawthorn spoke just before the Capitol riots took place and is accused of firing up the MAGA crowd, critical details that will surely be considered in the state’s decision.
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President Joe Biden has announced that private insurance companies must cover the cost of eight at-home COVID tests per month. A step in the right direction, the plan raises questions about the logistics of the operation as well as how this policy will impact uninsured citizens.
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A newly filed lawsuit alleges that prominent universities are illegally restricting some students’ access to federal financial aid. The Wall Street Journal reports that 16 U.S. universities are included in the lawsuit, including prestigious institutions like Yale, Georgetown, Columbia, MIT, among others.
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Notorious conspiracy theorist, and apparently very successful supplement and doomsday prep salesman, Alex Jones is under fire for pleading with his audience for financial support as Jones has raked in around $165 million from his online store from 2015-2018.
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57-year-old David Bennett is the first human to successfully receive an animal-to-human heart transplant as doctors at the University of Maryland replaced his heart with a modified pig heart. Bennett was ineligible for a traditional heart transplant and opted for this surgery instead.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has triggered right-wingers in many ways as of late, with the most recent criticism coming from former VP-nominee and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Palin claims that AOC and other liberals deflect from issues of substance by focusing on gender and sex.
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