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More than 30 years ago, a young Susan Collins played a leading role in a battle to cut workers’ compensation that at one point led to the first government shutdown in Maine history.

The Israeli government has threatened to strip the NAZA directors of their citizenship and prosecute them. Their crime is making a film that confronts war guilt head on, something American culture has spent decades medicalizing out of existence.

At the time of writing, massive demonstrations are rocking Spain and France, and our sections in those countries are in the thick of it, as it couldn’t be otherwise. In France, students have taken to the streets to protest the bad condition of the high schools in the country. Violent clashes with the police have […]

Berfin Güneş, Academy of Jineolojî   Traces of a quest stretching from women’s truth to socialisation For some time now, we have been evaluating and discussing the various aspects of Jineolojî work, which has been carried out in Europe for over a decade. The recent workshop held in Marseille to evaluate European Jineolojî work, the […]

International solidarity needed as Les Républicains calls to ban La France Insoumise (LFI) and arrest Phillipe Poutou from the NPA-A.

Federal lawmakers want to ban imports of wild sloths to the United States, a move experts say could have global implications for the conservation of the tree-dwelling species.  Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) is set on Tuesday to introduce a bill, co-sponsored by Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), known as the “SLOTHS Act”—Stopping Legalized Organized Trafficking and Harm […]

In the Permian Basin of West Texas, methane gas billows from oil wells. It blasts out of pressure valves on pipelines, wafts from sprawling gas processing plants and rises up in plumes when companies air out systems during routine maintenance in the nation’s largest oilfield. More than a decade of efforts to bring these practices […]

It’s been more than three decades since Democrats held a trifecta in Pennsylvania, but the prospect of a blue wave in next month’s elections has Gov. Josh Shapiro and party leadership optimistic that their time could come in Harrisburg.  After flipping the state House of Representatives in 2022, Democrats now have a chance to take […]

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here . Picture a buoyant triangular steel or concrete platform roughly the dimensions of a baseball field. Now place a wind turbine…

Amy Winton doesn’t like that she has to depend on fossil gas for her restaurant, Mexican taquería Pandita in Eugene, Oregon. But she’s stuck with the gas-fueled burners, heaters, and outdoor fireplace that came with the space. “We just don't have the funds” to switch to electric equipment, Winton said. “If we had…

Botany, welfare, friendships, work and housing. David Matthews picks six of the best new books for leftists

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By Simon Pirani Britain’s largest community-owned solar project is fighting for its life, after the local grid company stopped it generating electricity for four months. Derril Water solar park in Pyworthy, north Devon, started supplying power to the grid again late last month, when some technical problems blamed for the shutdown were solved. But the […]

From Chicago ABCF ​Chicago Police Attack the Marathon and Generator Show Seizing Equipment and Arresting Four On Saturday the 19th of September, chapters of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) on occupied Turtle Island held the annual Running Down the Walls (RDTW) non-competitive solidarity 5K marathon and fundraiser event. Each year people hit the concrete […]

Internal material from the far-right German party Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) and its surrounding infrastructure. The data includes more than half a million emails,...

From Noema What comes after the dissolution of the liberal world order. Sudan has often served as a mirror for judging the health of the liberal

Regulators in Texas did not stop processing permits for data center projects when Gov. Greg Abbott ordered a pause last month, according to an analysis of public records released Monday by the oil and gas watchdog group FracTracker.  Amid an upswell of public opposition to the booming buildout of digital infrastructure in Texas, Abbott directed […]

CODY, Wyo.—On a warm October evening at a bar in downtown Cody, Wyomingites gathered to ponder the future of what some hope will be the Cowboy State’s next booming industry: data centers. This summer, outgoing Gov. Mark Gordon signed an executive order titled “Data Centers the Wyoming Way” that he said would “guide responsible development […]

While many of his attempts to compromise the midterms have failed, stay vigilant. Subversion doesn’t always look like insurrection.

Across hundreds of miles of the northern Gulf of Mexico, a deep-water ecosystem collapsed after the massive 2011 Deepwater Horizon oil and gas spill, and recovery is uncertain, new research concludes. The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that animal populations, including octopus, krill, squid and shrimp declined […]

Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have called France’s protests the work of Muslim and Third World invaders. Ignoring the movement’s roots in high schooler demonstrations, they are using violent episodes to paint a dark picture of racial conflict.