01 January 19
Joel McCollough, far right, at a climate march launch event in Chicago hosted by Food and Water Watch in April 2017. (photo: Courtesy of Gloria Araya)
The Infiltrator: How an Undercover Oil Industry Mercenary Tricked Pipeline Opponents Into Believing He Was One of Them
Alleen Brown, The Intercept
Brown writes: "For months, a man calling himself Joel Edwards had posed as a pipeline opponent, attending protests, befriending water protectors, and paying for hotel rooms, supplies, and booze."
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Amazon's New York home qualifies as 'distressed' under federal tax law. (photo: NYT)
Trump's Gentrification Scheme to Enrich Real Estate Developers
Bryce Covert, The New Republic
Covert writes: "Buried within the more than 500 pages of Donald Trump's 2017 tax cut was an unobtrusive line item with potentially damaging consequences. [...] The provision allows governors to select certain census tracts in their states, in economically distressed areas, as 'opportunity zones.'"
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Activists outside the Russian Embassy in London calling for an investigation of reports of torture to L.G.B.T. people in Chechnya, which the Russian government has long willfully ignored. (photo: Tolga Akmen/London News/ZUMA)
Bryce Covert, The New Republic
Covert writes: "Buried within the more than 500 pages of Donald Trump's 2017 tax cut was an unobtrusive line item with potentially damaging consequences. [...] The provision allows governors to select certain census tracts in their states, in economically distressed areas, as 'opportunity zones.'"
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Activists outside the Russian Embassy in London calling for an investigation of reports of torture to L.G.B.T. people in Chechnya, which the Russian government has long willfully ignored. (photo: Tolga Akmen/London News/ZUMA)
Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
Gessen writes: "A report by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, confirms that what happened to Lapunov is by no means exceptional: kidnapping, torture, and even extrajudicial killings are the norm in Chechnya, as it is the norm for Russian federal authorities to ignore these practices."
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A patient looks over paperwork with a doctor. (photo: Craig F. Walker/Denver Post)
Arkansas Is Kicking Thousands Off Medicaid Every Month Because of Sadistic Work Requirement
Samantha Grasso, Splinter News
Grasso writes: "Arkansas' Medicaid work requirements, which already proved to be a disaster months after their implementation in June, has kicked thousands of people off the state's Medicaid rolls in the months since for 'failing' to log their mandatory 80-hours of monthly work or volunteering."
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Samantha Grasso, Splinter News
Grasso writes: "Arkansas' Medicaid work requirements, which already proved to be a disaster months after their implementation in June, has kicked thousands of people off the state's Medicaid rolls in the months since for 'failing' to log their mandatory 80-hours of monthly work or volunteering."
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Videos show staffers pushing and dragging migrant children in a shelter operated by Southwest Key, the nation's largest provider of migrant children shelters. (photo: CNN)
Galvan writes: "Arizona authorities said Monday they sent prosecutors the results of an investigation into a now-shuttered shelter for immigrant children where videos showed staffers dragging and shoving kids."
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Monday's march was called for by a group of professionals including doctors, teachers and engineers, after it organized a similar rally on December 25. (photo: Reuters)
Sudan Police Fire Teargas, Live Ammunition at Khartoum Protesters
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed 'for calm and restraint' and called on 'the authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the deaths and violence.'"
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Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed 'for calm and restraint' and called on 'the authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the deaths and violence.'"
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An orca. (photo: Thinkstock)
Happy New Year? Tell That to the Natural World We Are Destroying
Philip Hoare, Guardian UK
Hoare writes: "So the animals must pay for our dysfunctionality."
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Philip Hoare, Guardian UK
Hoare writes: "So the animals must pay for our dysfunctionality."
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