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The IRS cashed her check. Then the late notices started coming.

From the Wire February 16, 2021

A mountainous backlog of paperwork at the IRS continues to wreak havoc on America’s tax collection system — which especially hurts lower-income filers. by Lydia DePillis, ProPublica Kathy Brenneman hears plenty of taxpayer horror stories in…

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Flagstaff, Ariz   This summer there were over 50 marches, actions, and demonstrations in Flagstaff, Arizona sparked as elsewhere in the country by the death early this summer of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Documentarian Levi Stallings spent hours taking and compiling video from the Flagstaff actions and sit down conversations with residents from all walks of life. Read more, see the video here…

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‘Small Signs’, a powerful look at the underbelly of a tourist town
Meteor Staff 2020-10-23
by Madrone Kalil Schutten, Ph.D., Guest column for the Meteor Friday, October 23, 2020 Small Signs: A Protest in Flagstaff, Arizona is a documentary on the pulse of the second wave of the civil rights movement. Levi Stallings’ film hones in on the eruption of dissent incited by the murders of Ahmaud Arbery (February 23rd), Breonna Taylor (March 13th) and...

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These Afro-Indigenous practices challenge ideas of human supremacy. “I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour.” —George Washington Carver, Tuskegee University, 1930 by Leah Penniman 6 MIN READ February 16, 2021 In my early 20s,...
Savannah and Sam Peyton, who were without power for days last week, huddle in multiple layers under a sleeping bag at their home in Austin, Texas, on Thursday night, Feb. 18, 2021. Temperatures plummeted to the teens and single digits across Texas, and at least 58 have died in storm-affected areas across the country from causes including carbon monoxide poisoning, car crashes, drownings, house fires and hypothermia. Credit: Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times/Redux
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2021-02-23
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2021-01-29
The vast tonnage of this trash increases every minute, with an afterlife lasting centuries. by Jim Hightower, Other Words January 27, 2021 [caption id="attachment_29782" align="alignright" width="554"] Shutterstock[/caption] What do your toothbrush and your running shoes have in common? Plastic. We now live on Planet Plastic, where...
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2021-01-21
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2021-01-20
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Trump’s big gamble to gut US power plant emissions rules fails in court, opening door for powerful new climate rules
2021-01-20
by Daniel Farber, University of California, Berkeley Wednesday, January 20, 2021 The day before Joe Biden’s inauguration, he got a big judicial win for his climate agenda. The case involved plans for cutting power plant emissions and a big gamble by the Trump administration. Nearly a...
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2021-01-19
'Major Win for the Planet' "This decision frees up the new Biden administration to begin working immediately on the science-based greenhouse pollution rules we desperately need to make up for lost time." by Andrea Germanos, staff writer [caption id="attachment_29334" align="aligncenter" width="955"] The Sherburne County (Sherco) Generating...
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2021-01-14
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2021-01-14
"Joe Biden, we are asking you to stand on the right side of history and humanity by putting an immediate end to the deadly pipelines destroying our Earth, our communities, and all life." by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Thursday, January 14, 2021 [caption id="attachment_29207" align="aligncenter" width="955"]...

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Savannah and Sam Peyton, who were without power for days last week, huddle in multiple layers under a sleeping bag at their home in Austin, Texas, on Thursday night, Feb. 18, 2021. Temperatures plummeted to the teens and single digits across Texas, and at least 58 have died in storm-affected areas across the country from causes including carbon monoxide poisoning, car crashes, drownings, house fires and hypothermia. Credit: Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times/Redux
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[caption id="attachment_29871" align="alignright" width="651"] President Joe Biden on Tuesday signs a memorandum strengthening nation-to-nation relationships and directing federal agencies to...
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2020-10-28
Democrats agree that Trump’s caused asylum-seekers unacceptable misery. But the goal of deterring people from migrating to the U.S. —...
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2020-10-23
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Native American man shot protesting Trump border wall, others tear gassed, arrested by US agents on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
2020-10-13
"It's obscene and offensive to us that local and state governments move to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day while the federal...

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