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[Link] Corporations Won’t Pay $15 an Hour Unless They’re Forced To

Read: 19/4/2022 www.vice.com

The vast majority of big food and retail corporations in the United States aren’t paying anywhere near a $15 an hour minimum wage, according to a new report from Harvard researchers and the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.

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[Link] Joe Manchin Wants to Let Companies Keep Polluting in Private, Thanks

Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com

Should companies have to explain their role in causing climate change? There’s a simple answer, according to Sen. Joe Manchin: Hell no.

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[Link] Warren, Sanders Demand Investigation into Amazon’s Attendance Policy

Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com

Senators Cory Booker and Richard Blumenthal and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush also wrote the letter.

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[Link] Ethereum Companies Suddenly Ban Users In Certain Countries

Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com

MetaMask is the most popular crypto wallet for Ethereum users, including NFT traders. It is owned by the same parent company as Infura, which is a centralized API that feeds MetaMask data from the Ethereum blockchain.

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[Link] Supreme Court Says Racial Gerrymandering Is No Big Deal

Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com

The Supreme Court just undercut Black voters’ power in Alabama—and signaled that it’s likely to further gut the Voting Rights Act. This ruling isn’t specifically on the merits of whether the map violated the Voting Rights Act or not—that’ll come later.

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[Link] Free Community College in the US Is Officially Dead

Read: 7/2/2022 www.vice.com

The Biden administration’s more than $45 billion plan to offer free community college to Americans is officially dead. The lofty promise from the president’s 2020 campaign, would have provided eligible students with the option to go to college for at least two years without any cost to them.

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[Link] The Right Is Losing Its Mind at the Idea of a Black Woman on the Supreme Court

Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com

The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has paved the way for President Joe Biden to fulfill a campaign promise to be the first to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court.

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[Link] ‘People Need to Know She Sucks’: Kyrsten Sinema’s Volunteers, Ex-Staff Are Fed Up

Read: 23/1/2022 www.vice.com

When Maria-Elena Dunn first met Kyrsten Sinema, she said she was elated.

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[Link] Lawmakers Plan Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

Lawmakers have proposed new legislation that they say would ban surveillance-based advertising. The legislation would target the underlying practice of targeted or personalized ads that facilitates surveillance-based advertising itself.

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[Link] AOC Says She Doesn't Own Bitcoin to Do Her Job 'Ethically'

Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com

On Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clarified on Instagram that she does not hold any digital assets or tokens, including Bitcoin, and said she doesn’t believe policymakers should be able to hold financial products like stocks.

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[Link] Republican Tweets Grossest Christmas Card of All Time

Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com

On Saturday, the Kentucky Republican tweeted a photo of himself and his family all holding firearms with the message, “Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo.”

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[Link] Lauren Boebert Went Full Racist Conspiracy Theory Against Ilhan Omar

Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com

Rep. Lauren Boebert used the censure of her fellow right-wing colleague to throw a best-of list of unproven Republican personal attacks at prominent House Democrats—including one of the most prominent progressives in Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar.

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[Link] Michael Flynn Wants to Outlaw All Religions Except Christianity Now

Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com

Disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn claimed this weekend that if the U.S. wants to be one nation under God, then it needs to outlaw all religions aside from Christianity.

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[Link] Democrats Are Getting Crushed in the ‘Vibes War’

Read: 14/11/2021 www.theatlantic.com

To explain the Democrats’ poor performance in state and local elections Tuesday, various commentators have made very specific claims: It was mostly about critical race theory, or mostly about Terry McAuliffe’s flaws as a candidate for Virginia governor, or mostly about suburban white women votin

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[Link] Paul Gosar’s Violent Anime Video of AOC Could Get Him in Real Trouble

Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com

Rep. Paul Gosar’s staff-made anime video, which shows his character killing a congresswoman and attacking President Joe Biden, could earn him a rare censure from his colleagues.

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[Link] Big Telecom Is Mad Because New FCC Appointment Gigi Sohn Actually Defends Broadband Consumers

Read: 8/11/2021 www.techdirt.com

So after the longest (and completely unexplained) delay in FCC and NTIA history, last week the Biden administration finally got around to fully staffing the nation's top telecom regulator.

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[Link] NRA Shell Companies Funneled Up to $35 Million to GOP Candidates, Lawsuit Says

Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com

The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center and Giffords, the gun safety advocacy group started by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Sen. Mark Kelly, filed the federal lawsuit on Tuesday in D.C.

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[Link] If Americans can’t have basic things like childcare, our democracy is a sham

Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

In 2014, Northwestern and Princeton researchers published a report statistically documenting how lawmakers do not listen or care about what most voters want, and instead mostly care about serving their big donors.

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[Link] House Democrats Back Off Targeting Billionaire Tax Schemes and Swap in New Nicotine Levy

Read: 6/11/2021 theintercept.com

A new version of the Build Back Better Act that the House Rules Committee released Wednesday was amended to protect tax avoidance schemes used by the ultrawealthy in their estate planning.

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[Link] Alec Baldwin Just Shot Someone and He’s Tweeting Through It

Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. While filming a scene near Santa Fe, New Mexico for the Western last month, Baldwin, 63, shot and killed Halyna Hutchins, the film’s director of photography, and injured director Joel Souza.

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[Link] Jen Psaki, White House press secretary to Joe Biden, tests positive for Covid

Read: 1/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Jen Psaki, Joe Biden’s White House press secretary, said on Sunday she had tested positive for Covid-19. Psaki, 42, did not travel with Biden to Rome, for the G20 summit, from where the president was due to travel on to Glasgow for the Cop26 climate talks.

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[Link] Sure Looks Like Democrats Are Killing Paid Family Leave to Please Joe Manchin

Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Democrats have been toiling to push through their own New Deal—a massive social spending bill covering climate, health, and child care—and secure President Joe Biden’s legacy.

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[Link] QAnon Influencer Who Calls Democrats Pedophiles Is an Actual Child Abuser

Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. QAnon promoter David Trent has spent the last four years telling his tens of thousands of followers that the Democrats are pedophiles working as part of a global child sex trafficking ring run by the world’s elite.

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[Link] Even Republicans Can Be Convinced That Big Oil’s to Blame for Climate Change

Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. What does it take to convince a Republican that oil and gas companies lied about the existence of climate change and are responsible for contributing to it?

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[Link] Former Adviser Says Trump Let Thousands Die of COVID for no Reason

Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. One of former President Donald Trump’s key coronavirus advisers thinks his administration could have prevented up to 40 percent of U.S. coronavirus deaths with a better pandemic response.

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[Link] Paris Hilton Just Spoke Out About Her Time in the “Troubled Teen Industry”

Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. This week, Paris Hilton showed up in a somewhat unusual spot for the queen of early-aughts reality TV: Congress.

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[Link] A Proud ‘Lady Trump’ Is Running For Nevada Governor

Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Fiore is perhaps best known for her hardline gun rights advocacy. In December 2015, Fiore posted a family Christmas photo to Facebook showing her entire family holding guns—including her five-year-old grandson.

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[Link] Black Democratic Party Chair Says He Got Lynching Threat For Criticizing Trump

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Ross Wilburn says he received multiple threats, including one that threatened to lynch him, after he wrote an op-ed that criticized former President Donald Trump.

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[Link] Bipartisan Police Reform Bill Is Officially Dead in Congress

Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com

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[Link] 2 ‘Moronic’ Congressmen Went to Kabul But No One Wanted Them There

Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com