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Sunday, May 20, 2018

pleasant valley sunday

billion dollar fine won't cut into wells fargo's profitable patter of banking abuses

ranks of extreme hate group include active military personnel

white, american born citizens make up the largest percentage of illiterate adults

don't cry for comey 
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Saturday, May 19, 2018

empty handed saturday blues

more people have died in schools than have military personnel in 2018

inside the rise of the fascist youth movement in the u.s.

national nurses united reminds dems that most people want medicare for all

joseph conrad and the dawn of globalization 
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Friday, May 18, 2018

friday night fireside

us paid $60m to cover up border patrol violence

art gallery discovers more than half its paintings are fake


deaths from opioids rose 28% from 2015 to 2016

data workers of the world unite!

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Thursday, May 17, 2018

taking back thursday

things are looking bad for republicans in november

the definition of terrorism: big oil, big pharma, big banks


privatization is hell (french edition)

bird missing for years returns speaking spanish

and rip great character actor, joseph campanella 
 
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

wednesday language

us media whitewashes gaza massacre

anonymous surveys from women employees blew up nike executive ranks

'cork' glacier holding back sea level rise may pop

the myth that private gun ownership prevents tyranny
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

tuesday night is always karaoke

why the alt-right can't build an alt-internet

why are diapers so expensive?

damning audit of poverty fuels poor people's campaign

feds arrest 57 white supremacist gang members on drug trafficking charges

and rip lois lane (and mental health advocate), actress margot kidder

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Monday, May 14, 2018

monday night on lenox avenue

electric buses are hurting the oil industry

connecticut passes law to give electoral vote to winner of popular vote

pelosi pushes back against impeachment

the smartphone slowdown is real
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Sunday, May 13, 2018

on sunday

now racial epithets are being punctuated with trump's name

anti-vax misinfo denies children's rights

we are witnessing a plutocratic coup

seriously, it's time to drop wells fargo
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Saturday, May 12, 2018

early morning saturday

white supremacy and capitalism are deeply entangled with the colonial slave trade

west virginian republican who mocked striking teachers loses re-election - thanks to teachers

nurses demand johns hopkins end anti-union campaign

could artificial intelligence get depressed?

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Friday, May 11, 2018

friday night fever

they spew hate in trump's name

detroit is about to cut off water for 1000's of people 

why undertakers are worried

here's how the dept of homeland security manipulates immigrant crime numbers
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Thursday, May 10, 2018

sweet thursday

bookstores are booming again

the dirty secret in the world's plan to avoid climate disaster

the sciences have not so much had their #metoo moment

that 'new organ' they discovered isn't all that new

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Wednesday, May 09, 2018

wednesday jones

they're not just demanding medicare for all, they're organizing for it

huge piles of broken bikes in china

home ownership is not a guarantee of prosperity

emerging infectious diseases in india
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Tuesday, May 08, 2018

tuesday night in berlin

if we had a liberal media we wouldn't have had paul ryan
 gop candidate for california senator calls for a country free of all jews

trump's enemy (amazon) is not your friend

big brother in india requires fingerprints for food, phones, finances

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Monday, May 07, 2018

monday night nitro

world debt reaches record $164 trillion

why banning plastic straws isn't enough

the resistance is infiltrating trump country


water shortages could affect 50b people by 2050

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Sunday, May 06, 2018

on any sunday

the majority of texas voters oppose the wall

congressional report debunks anti-choice talking points

boulder colorado is the latest city to sue big oil over climate change

the gop farm bill is a disaster
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Saturday, May 05, 2018

dublin saturday night

administrators didn't defeat richard spencer, campus and community organizers did

how to destroy an ar-15

woman takes dna test, finds her real dad is her mom's doctor

to be a survivor in a nation of embedded racism

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Friday, May 04, 2018

friday night explodes


parkland high school shut down a black lives matter statement days before shooting

women who watched the x-files pursued more careers in stem

1,224 complaints of sexual harassment by ice agents

farm bill proposal gets military food stamp policy wrong
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Thursday, May 03, 2018

suite thursday

polls show most americans hate the gop tax cuts

marching for science

trump's move to gut the post office 


scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles
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Wednesday, May 02, 2018

wednesday jam

kids' lawsuit against the government about climate change will proceed

the bizarre right wing attack on striking arizona teachers

top republican admits trump won wisconsin because of voter id law

the robots are killing tesla
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Tuesday, May 01, 2018

tuesday night in austin

wells fargo faces $1b in fines over auto, home loan abuses

striking teachers in coal and gas country are forcing states to rethink energy company giveaways

big box stores are dying. what do we do with all the bodies?

white supremacist blows himself up buidling isis-style bomb

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Monday, April 30, 2018

monday night nothing

republicans have given up on obamacare appeal

do weak labor laws actually spur more teacher strikes?

the orwellian danger of facebook

subprime carmegeddon: specialized auto lenders begin to collapse
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Sunday, April 29, 2018

on almost any sunday morning

a neuroscientist explains what could be wrong with trump supporters' brains

more than 10,000 people joined unions last week

more sinkholes for texas

how much booze can you drink before it starts killing you?  not much

and rip the man behind burning man, larry harvey
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Saturday, April 28, 2018

drive in saturday

there's growing evidence tesla's auto-pilot can't handle lane dividers well

german politicians invest in opera when seeking re-election

did w.h. auden create the hardest course in the humanities?

this could revolutionize that
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Friday, April 27, 2018

friday night blues

paul ryan forced house chaplain to resign over praying for "balanced tax reform"


12 ideas that explain what's wrong with american schooling today

ethics experts say white house budget director should be investigated for bribery

hot air dryers suck in nasty bathroom bacteria and blow them onto your hands
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Thursday, April 26, 2018

strangers talk to me in colorado springs on a thursday night

sending troops to the border will cause more migrant deaths

washington first state to adopt comprehensive anti-bias rule for jury selection

the whitesplaining of history is over


number of republicans quitting congress hits 44-year high
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

wednesday in your garden

the biggest black lives matter page on facebook is a fake

harry reid on what we know about ufos

where have all the wild horses gone?

do art scenes lead to gentrification?




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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

tuesday night fever

america has a neo-nazi problem

trumpers don't think 'drain the swamp' means 'end corruption'

can we be saved from facebook?

we've never seen the nra as rattled as it is now
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Monday, April 23, 2018

monday night in new orleans

sin taxes are designed to punish the poor

more companies have monopoly power over workers' wages and it's killing the economy

is it a coincidence that trump uses the language of white supremacists?

parkland high school shut down a black lives matter statement days before shooting
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Sunday, April 22, 2018

Earth Day 2018

we know environmental degradation here in santa barbara. we have known if for a long time.
in fact earth day was inspired by the massive oil spill that occurred here in 1969.

we thought we had come a long way, but the headlines on this earth day are sobering.

americans waste nearly 150,000 tons of food every day - newsweek
spoiled water for 300,000 - living on earth
scott pruitt is slowing strangling the epa - vox
trump's epa pick is a current dow chemical employee - cnn
scott pruitt's attack on science would paralyze the epa - nytimes 
instability, uncertainty and chaos: how climate change threatens national security - the revelator
wasted water: the crappiest places in america - the revelator
internal emails show epa working to limit agency's use of science - the hill 
the world is sending tons of illegal electronic waste to nigeria - ehn 
pittsburg scores all f's on the american lung association's air quality report card - ehn
damage to great barrier reef from global warming is irreversible say scientists - nytimes
why is oklahoma burning? - weatherunderground
brain damaging lead found in 100's of homes tested across chicago   -  chicago tribune
radio active sludge barrel ruptures at idaho nuclear facility - opb 
ca oil and gas firms had nearly 400 violations in three years- mercury news 
seas are rising too fast to save much of the mississippi delta- washington post

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what a wonderful world


climate change is weakening gulf stream ocean currents


when it comes to electronics repair is better than recycling


marketing our favorite animals as they slide into extinction

schwarzenegger wants to sue big oil over climate change

facebook is profiting from illegal wildlife traffickers


and rip mini-me, character actor verne troyer




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Saturday, April 21, 2018

did you hide from saturday night?

conditioned to cheer for the rich

stoneman douglas students could be punished for participating in national walkout

suspicion of muslims deeply rooted in bigotry

how trump and the gop are radicalizing each other
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