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the Guardian
US senator slams Republicans’ silence on Trump’s violent threats to Democrats
Mark Kelly, a veteran and Democrat targeted by Trump over military comments, says he is ‘not going to be intimidated’
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 Senator Kelly rebuked Republicans in Congress for almost complete silence about the persecutor's death threats against him and five other congressional Democrats. He contrasted that with their exaggerated reproach of those who dared criticize Charles Kirk's bigotry and hatred after he had been
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the Guardian
‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say
Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms
2014: September - December Political Notes - Richard Stallman
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 Even normally cool regions such as Scandinavia are having deadly
Demand Progress
Stop Trump from going to war with Venezuela!
“There was no legal justification for the Trump Administration’s military escalation in the Caribbean,” Representative Ilhan Omar said.
 US citizens: call on Congress to stop threatened U.S. military attack against Venezuela, Mexico, and other countries in Latin America.
The Intercept
How Universities Used Counterterror Intelligence-Sharing Hubs to Surveil Pro-Palestine Students
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
 *How Universities Used Counterterror Intelligence-Sharing Hubs to Surveil [student activists for Palestinians' rights].*
The Lever
Listeria, Food Labeling Rules Weakened In Shutdown Deal
Lawmakers quietly rolled back food safety regulations and nutrition guidelines in the government shutdown deal.
 The deal that ended the shutdown had a pernicious giveaway to Big Food that negated until 2028 some state regulations for food safety. I expect this will harm some Americans but not thousands. Still, Congress needs a way to designate a bill as "free from tangential riders" that would invalidate any that somehow appeared in the text finally passed.
the Guardian
Covid bereaved call for Boris Johnson to lose ex-PM benefits over inquiry report
Campaign group says it will pursue all legal means to ensure personal accountability for ‘grave betrayal’
 An inquiry found that Bogus Johnson did a careless job of handling the Covid-19 pandemic, and this caused thousands of avoidable deaths. The relatives of the deceased demand to punish him for this by denying him public funds.
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Demand Spotify drop ICE ads and stop helping hate-fueled recruitment
Spotify is running paid ICE recruitment ads that use dehumanizing language against immigrants and promote an agency with a long record of civil rig...
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 US citizens: call on Spotify to cease running recruiting ads for the bully's deportation thugs. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript
the Guardian
Mind-altering ‘brain weapons’ no longer only science fiction, say researchers
UK academics say latest chemicals are ‘wake-up call’ and urge global action to stop weaponisation of neuroscience
 Fast-acting mind-affecting drugs have been developed for use as weapons.
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the Guardian
Man wrongly jailed for 38 years says Merseyside police forced confession
Officers accused of using violence and threats to make Peter Sullivan confess to 1987 murder of 21-year-old Diane Sindall
 British thugs tortured Peter Sullivan into making a false confession of murder. (DNA evidence later proved that he was not the murderer.) False convictions seem to happen often. Perhaps the legal system ought to show more doubt confessions which no had evidence to support them.
civicshout.com
Ban Congressional Stock Trading Now!
Right after Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs that sent markets crashing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought up plummeting stocks and profite...
 US citizens: call on Congress to pass a law to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.