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Reject Scott Pruitt
This week, the Senate will vote to confirm Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma Attorney General who has spent a sizeable chunk of his tenure as Attorney General organizing other states to sue the very agency he's slated to lead.
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#DeleteUber and corporate accountability
The hashtag #DeleteUber has trended amongst the Twitterverse and in doing so has translated into boycott-oriented action on an impressive scale. Thousands have deleted the transportation app Uber and have shared screenshots of their…
Trump's Devious"Voter Fraud" Sucker Punch
Donald Trump, who lost the 2016 presidential election by at least 2.8 million votes, has announced an "investigation." He says the federal government will look into his false assertion that some three million illegal aliens voted for…
Lawsuit Launched Over Fracking in Wayne National Forest: Feds Fail to Address Danger to Wildlife Habitat, Streams
Conservation groups filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over invalid and outdated Endangered Species Act approvals of oil and gas leasing plans for the Wayne…