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How a Climate Doomsayer Became an Unexpected Optimist

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Bill McKibben isn’t known for his rosy outlook on climate change. Back in 1989, he wrote The End of Nature, which is considered the first mainstream book warning of global warming’s potential effects on the planet. Since then, he’s been an ever-present voice on environmental issues, routinely sounding the alarm about how human activity is […]

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California Bans Police From Concealing Killings While Grilling Relatives For Dirt

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A new California law will effectively ban a deceptive policing tactic used for years against the families of people killed by police and popularized by the nation’s largest developer of law enforcement policy manuals.  The legislation, signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, will require investigators for police agencies and prosecutors’ offices to tell the families […]

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The Radical Life of the Father of the Independent Living Movement

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Even attending university in the 1960s was a revolutionary and complicated process for Ed Roberts, who was paralyzed by polio in his early teens. Now known as the father of the independent living movement, Roberts—faced with many structural hurdles to moving through society—began pushing as a young man to win disabled people the resources to […]

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Judge Blocks Trump From Sending National Guard Troops to Oregon — for Now

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Gavin Newsom had challenged an order to send California troops, and warned that the US is on the “brink of martial law.”

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It’s Time for Soft Secession

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In 2013, venture capitalist Tim Draper launched a “Six Californias” ballot initiative. The upshot was that with some 40 million people, more than the population of the 20 smallest states combined, California was too big, too diverse, to be “efficiently” governed. So why not, Draper argued, break it up into six new “startups,” a.k.a. states? […]

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California Officials Defend Right to Read Banned Books — Unless You’re in Prison

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Books are heavily restricted behind bars, including some of the books that officials have fought for students to access.

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DHS Official Calls California Ban on Masked Agents “Garbage”

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“No one wants masked officers roaming their communities and kidnapping people with impunity,” said the bill’s sponsor.

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Los Angeles Therapists Say ICE Raids Take Severe Toll on Latino Mental Health

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Mental health professionals note an increase in stress, anxiety, fear, and anger in their clients since June.

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New Map Shows Where Cancer-Causing Chemicals Are Polluting Water for Over 200M

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The map focuses on arsenic, chromium-6, and nitrate — all scientifically known to cause cancer and other health issues.

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DHS Says Filming, Posting Videos of ICE Agents Is “Doxxing,” Vows Prosecutions

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Recording on-duty law enforcement agents is protected by the First Amendment.

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In Southern California, Small Groups of Activists Quietly Undermine ICE Operations

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Organizers confront ICE wherever they can be found, from the hotels where agents sleep to the streets they patrol.

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