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What You Need To Know About The Supreme Court’s Citizens United 2.0
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a case deciding the future of campaign finance — these are the standout moments.
 Beyond "Citizens" United: Republicans want to erase the little that remains of campaign donation limits.
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‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever
The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in North America, and this week were spotted in Northern Ir...
 Invasive mussels have caused a disaster in Lake Geneva.
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Trump signs order reclassifying marijuana as less dangerous
Change will loosen limits on research and certain regulations but stops short of making marijuana legal
 The US will make it easier to do research on marijuana but did not end criminal penalties for using it.
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 Only a small fraction of the plastic containers for food are actualy recycled. We need to reduce the amount of plastic that we use. Many of these containers, as currently made, are not feasible to recycle, even if theoretically it is possible. <!--
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US Senate confirms billionaire Musk ally Jared Isaacman as Nasa chief
Vote on Isaacman, private astronaut and Mars missions advocate, passes 67-30 for him to be agency’s 15th leader
 Making a supporter of the muskrat head of NASA will give the muskrat too much power over NASA's decisions.
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Data reveals Sydney’s ‘frightening concentration’ of gun ownership ahead of the Bondi terror attack
Chris Minns vows to review gun laws, with thousands of licensed firearms located in the state’s major cities
 Australia's rather strict gun regulations have some gaps that can be closed.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/12/estados-unidos Amnesty International: how deportation prisons in Florida gravely violate human rights .
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The Joseph Welch Award for Standing Up to Tyrants Goes To …
Republican senators in the Hoosier State, whose civic tradition won out over fanatical political warfare
 The bully and his supporters launched threat after threat against the state legislators of Indiana (mostly Republicans), and against the state and its people, to demand that they vote for gerrymander of the House of Representatives, but they refused.
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Woodside Energy’s Meg O’Neill, who criticised ‘zealous’ young climate activists, moves to BP
O’Neill tapped to lead global oil and gas giant, which has broken from net zero strategy and will ramp up fossil fuels
 Billionaire Polluters has hired a new CEO who calls the policy of avoiding climate disaster "ideological". To depend on companies to decide whether to save civilization or run it into the ground is foolish and weak. We must impose the choice to save it.
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Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center in Colorado
Governor Jared Polis warned that breaking up Boulder’s NCAR would put ‘public safety at risk’
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 The wrecker's henchmen seek to wreck the National Center for Atmospheric Research, perhaps because it works on understanding and modeling global heating. The magats deny global heating exists, so they see NCAR as an enemy