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Bill McKibben | Big Oil Is Sloshing a Crude Tsunami Across the Country 
Anti-Fracking protest. (photo: Boulder County News)
Bill McKibben, The Washington Post
McKibben writes: "Forget the blue wave: Big Oil is sloshing a crude tsunami across the country instead, and in the process trying to bury some of the most innovative ideas for energy progress."
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Google employees in Dublin walk out in protest over claims of sexual harassment, gender inequality and systemic racism at the tech giant. (photo: Niall Carson/Getty)
Google employees in Dublin walk out in protest over claims of sexual harassment, gender inequality and systemic racism at the tech giant. (photo: Niall Carson/Getty)

We're the Organizers of the Google Walkout. Here Are Our Demands
Claire Stapleton, Tanuja Gupta, Meredith Whittaker, Celie O'Neil-Hart, Stephanie Parker, Erica Anderson, and Amr Gaber, The Cut
Excerpt: "These stories are our stories. We share them in hushed tones to trusted peers, friends, and partners. There are thousands of us, at every level of the company. And we've had enough."
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A racist ad portraying undocumented immigrants as killers promoted by President Donald Trump. (photo: CBS)
A racist ad portraying undocumented immigrants as killers promoted by President Donald Trump. (photo: CBS)

Trump's Racist Ad Shows How Low Republicans Have Sunk
Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post
Rubin writes: "President Trump's blatantly racist ad - showing an illegal immigrant boasting about killing police officers - is a fitting final pitch for a party and a campaign that are now nearly entirely focused on whipping up xenophobia."
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Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke has been drawing huge crowds. (photo: Getty)
Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke has been drawing huge crowds. (photo: Getty)

Trump and Aides Getting 'Spooked' About a Coming GOP Midterms 'Slaughter'
Asawin Suebsaeng, The Daily Beast
Suebsaeng writes: "In recent months, President Trump has insisted that a 'red wave' is coming this November and that Republicans would hold onto, and even expand, their majorities in the House and the Senate. But as the election has gotten closer, the president's outlook has increasingly soured."
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Federal judges on Wednesday ordered Ohio to allow voters who had been purged for not voting over a six-year period to participate in this year's election. (photo: John Minchillo/AP)
Federal judges on Wednesday ordered Ohio to allow voters who had been purged for not voting over a six-year period to participate in this year's election. (photo: John Minchillo/AP)

Federal Judges Order Ohio to Allow Purged Voters Back In
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Federal judges on Wednesday ordered Ohio to allow voters who had been purged for not voting over a six-year period to participate in this year's election."
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James Adakai, the San Juan county Democratic party chairman, in Oljato, Utah. (photo: Jeremy Miller/Guardian UK)
James Adakai, the San Juan county Democratic party chairman, in Oljato, Utah. (photo: Jeremy Miller/Guardian UK)

'They're Playing Dirty': Can Navajos Win Power After Racial Exclusion?
Jeremy Miller, Guardian UK
Miller writes: "Hundreds of people lined up in view of Monument Valley's towering red mesas to enjoy traditional singing and dancing but also to register to vote - and end the legacy of racial gerrymandering that, for decades, has blocked Native Americans from power in this isolated corner of the American west."
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Butterflies swarm a flowering plant at the National Butterfly Center in Hidalgo County, Texas. (photo: Claire Harbage/NPR)
Butterflies swarm a flowering plant at the National Butterfly Center in Hidalgo County, Texas. (photo: Claire Harbage/NPR)

Butterfly Preserve on the Border Threatened by Trump's Wall
Claire Harbage, NPR
Harbage writes: "The National Butterfly Center, a 100-acre wildlife center and botanical garden in South Texas, provides a habitat for more than 100 species of butterflies. It also sits directly in the path of the Trump administration's proposed border wall."
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