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The American Lung Association released its 25th annual “State of the Air” survey for the US, reporting that 40% of the population live with poor air quality, an increase of nearly 12 million people since last year’s survey. More people than ever have...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 02:45 AM PDT
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Thursday (Apr.4) VP Kamala Harris made her fourth trip to North Carolina this year, her second to Charlotte, NC to� announce �selections for $20 ...
by lpeacock
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Subject to court approval, Norfolk Southern will pay $600m to the residents and businesses affected by the 3 Feb 2023 cataclysmic railroad derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Over one million gallons of hazardous materials and pollutants were released...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 12:11 AM PDT
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Also: AZ Repubs move to end early and mail-in voting Trump coughs up $175M bond in NY, sees gag order expanded FL Supremes approve abortion ban, allow abortion rights ballot measure in November... As it is said, "the arc of the moral universe is long,...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 06:37 PM PDT
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Trump staring down barrel of both civil and criminal accountability in Empire State Also: Biden forgives another $6B in student loans U.S. calls for 'immediate, sustained ceasefire' in Gaza Scientists baffled by spike in record year of global...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 07:25 PM PDT
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Republicans hated the Inflation Reduction Act and its climate-friendly provisions from the get-go. Not a single GOP senator or representative voted for it in 2022. Over the past few years, a number of congressional Republicans have given up outright...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Guest: Legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern on two ridiculous cases, increasing court dysfunction Also: Primary, Special Election results from AZ, FL, IL, KS, OH, CA And the Biden EPA's 'biggest climate move yet'... From top to bottom, the Federal...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 06:58 PM PDT
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Trump is promising political violence whether he wins or loses Also: Navarro goes to prison Scofflaw MI MAGA attorney arrested SCOTUS allows TX to override federal law, Constitution Biden's SOTU success... On today's BradCast, some much needed...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 07:04 PM PDT
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Guest: Labor journalist, author Steven Greenhouse Also: Putin steals another election Trump tries to avoid coughing up $450M in NY... On today's BradCast: Given all of the ongoing madness, this story has not yet broken through all of the noise. But...
by TheBradBlog
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 06:27 PM PDT
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Also: New rightwing voter suppression schemes in swing-states Sinema not running again Trump CFO headed back to prison New charges for Menendez 'Christian' Liberty U. covered up sex abuse, rape crimes... We'll have likely-unsurprising results from...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 05:52 PM PST
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Guests: Former Dep. Asst. AG Lisa Graves and attorney Keith Barber on oral argument over the 'Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause'... We've been telling you for years on The BradCast that most rightwingers who claim to be "Constitutional...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 05:33 PM PST
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Also: Trump loses in court again 10 GOP state Senators barred from OR's 2024 ballot U.S. House passes bipartisan bill; Biden Admin climate and clean energy triumphs you probably haven't heard about... Legislation is hard. It involves compromise and...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 07:03 PM PST
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Pick a random Democrat who regularly follows politics to talk about the party’s messaging and you’re likely to get a reply along the lines of “it sucks” together with suggestions on how to do it better. This is usually accompanied by legitimate...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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As he continues to push the salmon-killing Delta Tunnel, Sites Reservoir and voluntary water agreements, Governor Gavin Newsom, with no sense of irony today, announced new actions and efforts “already underway that California is taking to help restore...
by Dan Bacher
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 12:26 PM PST
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Republicans on the Supreme Court are, it appears, planning to gut most of America’s regulatory agencies, in what could be the most consequential re-write of the protective “deep state” since it was largely created during the New Deal in the 1930s. The...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 08:03 AM PST
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Also: Our COVID rebound and more... Lucky me. I now have a rebound case of COVID. But with the first votes cast in the critical 2024 Presidential race in frozen Iowa on Monday night, I mustered as well as I could to bring you a fresh BradCast today....
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Jan 16, 2024 at 05:02 PM PST
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NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD
This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue . The platform gives readers interested in North Carolina politics a place to share their knowledge, insight and ...
by randallt
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on Sun Jan 07, 2024 at 10:00 AM PST
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For the tens of millions of Americans who rent, whose roofs and yards are unsuitable for solar panels, or whose wallets aren’t ample enough to cover upfront costs of $20,000 or more, collecting on the promise of getting cheap, clean energy from the sun...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Jan 07, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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Roadrunner here and I’m a bit hangry this weekend because it's too cold for lizards to bask, which means I didn’t get a good lunch today or yesterday. So rather than mope about the lack of fence lizards on my fence, I thought I’d instead highlight the...
by Roadrunner65
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on Sun Dec 03, 2023 at 08:51 PM PST
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EPA to mandate removal of nation's lead water pipes Interior's firefighter, wildfire resilience funding OPEC to cut production again; NY re-gags Trump Biden in CO touts clean energy jobs, manufacturing boom... We've got an unusually large amount of...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 07:06 PM PST
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