A 20-year-old undocumented immigrant with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status and only one leg has been detained by federal immigration agents and held without charges for over a month, treated inhumanely and mocked for his prosthetic leg, an immigrant advocacy group says. Felipe Abonza-Lopez of San Marcos, Texas–detained by Customs and Border Protection agents…
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Cards Against Humanity is celebrating the holidays with a six-part promotion that the company claims will help save America. Part one? Stop President Donald Trump from building a wall by purchasing a plot of vacant land along the U.S.-Mexico border: Donald Trump is a preposterous golem who is afraid of Mexicans. He is so afraid…
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Although approval for a new border wall has yet to come, the Trump administration has taken subtle steps to be able to seize land to build one, including by restarting litigation that has laid dormant for years against landowners, according to a new report from Senate Democrats. Roughly two-thirds of the US-Mexico border runs through…
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A Trump administration proposal to delay enforcement of rules aimed at keeping produce free from fecal contamination came under fire yesterday from the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Center for Food Safety. The nonprofit food safety watchdog groups say that delaying compliance with provisions requiring microbial testing of water for E.…
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Kaiser Health News November 15 at 5:15 AM The Trump administration’s recent endorsement of work requirements in Medicaid and increased state flexibility is part of broader strategy to shrink the fast-growing program for the poor and advance conservative ideas that Republicans failed to get through Congress. Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare &…
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By cancelling DACA, Trump has put 800,000 young people at risk of losing their jobs and being deported from the only country they know as home. This is beyond heartbreaking – it’s cruel. Passing the bipartisan Dream Act would protect them. Tell Congress to Protect Dreamers and Pass a Clean Dream Act Now By cancelling…
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In late 1992, 1,700 scientists from around the world issued a dire “warning to humanity.” They said humans had pushed Earth’s ecosystems to their breaking point and were well on the way to ruining the planet. The letter listed environmental impacts like they were biblical plagues — stratospheric ozone depletion, air and water pollution, the…
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“Despite it’s reputation as being a “safe” opioid, [Tramadol] is still an opioid. These drugs have been massively over-prescribed over the past 20 years, causing an opioid crisis in the U.S. with thousands of people suffering the consequences of addiction, ruined lives, and death. In 2014 alone, more than 28,000 people died from opioid overdose…
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Welcome to the People Power team! Together we can make a difference in expanding access to voting in Michigan. One simple thing that everyone can do: please call or write your representative, and ask them to call for a hearing on HB4033, 4034 and 4035. These are all to introduce a version of No-reason Absentee…
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WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans have decided to include the repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most people have health insurance into the sprawling tax rewrite, merging the fight over health care with the high-stakes effort to cut taxes. They also have made a calculated gamble to help speed their bill to passage on…
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