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A Year Later, We’re All Paying for Trump’s Assault on the “Green New Scam”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Village of Sauget in St. Clair County, Illinois, was founded in order to be polluted. Incorporated in 1926 by a group of Monsanto Chemical Company executives (and initially named “Monsanto”) it was and is an industry town: with deliberately lax manufacturing and […]

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He Spent Decades Building the Religious Right. Now He’s Marching to Undo It.

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He helped build the religious right in the United States. Now he’s in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to join the clergy’s fight ICE’s siege of the city. “Being here, in solidarity, is part of the repair work in my own soul,” said Rev. Rob Schenck, an Evangelical minister who spent decades commingling church and state to advance […]

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Some Conservatives Veer Off Party Line After DHS Agents Kill Another US Citizen

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It didn’t take long for the Trump administration to blame 37-year-old Alex Pretti for his own death after a federal immigration agent shot and killed him on Saturday in Minneapolis.  Pretti, an intensive-care unit nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital, is the second US citizen to be killed by federal immigration agents in less than […]

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Nurses Union Calls ICE Agents “Public Health Threat” After Alex Pretti Killing

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The nation’s largest union of registered nurses fervently renewed their demand to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and cease current deportation operations in American cities after a federal immigration agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old registered nurse, in Minneapolis on Saturday.  “The nation’s nurses,” National Nurses United, which has more than 225,000 members […]

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Inside the Largest Effort Ever to Save the Great Barrier Reef

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “I just got a whiff,” said Peter Harrison, a marine scientist, as he leaned over the edge of the boat and pointed his flashlight into the dark water. “It’s really coming through now.” It was shortly after 10 pm on a […]

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“It’s a Horror Show”: Anguish Sweeps Minneapolis After Federal Agents Kill Another Neighbor

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Minnesotans awoke to yet more terror Saturday morning as news broke that federal agents had shot and killed another local in the streets. The victim, 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti, was pinned down by several agents before being shot multiple times. The Associated Press said Pretti was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans […]

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Video Contradicts Trump Administration Account of Minneapolis Killing

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A new video published on social media contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of why federal agents killed 37-year-old Minneapolis man Alex Pretti in broad daylight on Saturday. The graphic video, which was uploaded by Drop Site News, shows Pretti appearing to direct traffic and film federal agents on his phone. Soon after, he […]

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Breaking: Video Shows Another Shooting by Federal Agents in Minneapolis

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Federal agents shot a man multiple times in south Minneapolis on Saturday morning, according to witnesses and video posted to social media.  The video, a version of which was posted to X, shows several agents wrestling the man to the ground before a gunshot rings out. Agents scattered and fired multiple shots at the man. […]

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What’s the Deal With That Scary-Looking Green Gas ICE Is Using in Minneapolis?

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Immigration officers in Minneapolis are now using a weapon that’s unfamiliar to many protesters: grenades that spew a noxious green gas. On Wednesday, Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino made headlines when he hurled a canister of it at a crowd that had gathered at Mueller Park. “I’m gonna gas. Get back. Gas is coming,” Bovino […]

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In Helene’s Wake, Rural North Carolina Turns to Solar and Battery Hubs

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Double Island Volunteer Fire Department in Yancey County, North Carolina, is the beating heart of this remote community in the shadow of Mount Mitchell, about 50 miles northeast of Asheville. Once home to a schoolhouse that doubled as a church, the red-roofed building […]

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How Sports Became a Battleground Over Trans Rights

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During an NCAA women’s swimming championship in March 2022, two seniors tied for fifth place. The race was unremarkable except for one fact: One of the swimmers, Lia Thomas, was a transgender woman. The swimmer she tied with, Riley Gaines, believed the NCAA never should have allowed her to participate. The matchup, and Gaines’ subsequent […]

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Trump DOJ Uses Anti-KKK Law to Charge ICE Protesters With Felony

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The Trump administration is using an anti-Ku Klux Klan law to prosecute Minnesota activists for demonstrating against ICE at a St. Paul church. On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation had arrested Chauntyll Allen, Nekima Levy Armstrong, and William Kelly for their alleged […]

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