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Trump Administration Pauses Construction on All Offshore Wind Projects in US
9+ min ago Trump's Department of the Interior just halted construction on all five offshore wind projects underway in the United States. The pauses impact these projects: Vineyard Wind 1, Revolution Wind, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind 1. The Sierra Club…...
Facing Backlash and FTC Probe, Instacart Ends Pricing Experiments In Wake of Groundwork Report
1+ hour, 23+ min ago The report generated widespread media coverage, sparked massive backlash on social media, and spurred a flurry of action on Capitol Hill, including a letter from Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to the Federal Trade Commission. Last week, the FTC launched an…...
Cross-Ideological Coalition to Congress: Rein in Trump’s National Guard Deployments
2+ hour, 32+ min ago MWEG's members from across the country have felt a deep unease as they have watched domestic deployments of the military this year," said Emma Addams, Co-Executive Director of Mormon Women for Ethical Government. Their party affiliations and political ideologies may…...
Trump Ends Year on Voters’ Naughty List As Rising Unemployment and Snowballing Prices Crush Holiday Spirit
2+ day, 20+ hour ago Groundwork Collaborative's Chief of Policy and Advocacy Alex Jacquez released the following statement: This week in the Trump Slump, new polling and economic indicators continue to show that President Trump's actions are deeply unpopular, hurting the economy, and harming America's…...
US: Masked Federal Agents Undermine Rule of Law
3+ day, 15+ hour ago Law enforcement officers must be identifiable to be accountable," said Belkis Wille, associate crisis and conflict director at Human Rights Watch. This kind of secrecy should be an exception, never the norm, and it's even more alarming given the widespread…...
Veterans For Peace Condemns Trump’s Illegal War on Venezuela
3+ day, 20+ hour ago Veterans demand the withdrawal of U.S. armada from the Caribbean and call on military personnel to refuse illegal orders. Veterans For Peace unequivocally rejects the Trump administration's escalating attacks and threats of war against Venezuela. The U.S. seizure of a Venezuelan oil…...
AI chatbots share climate conspiracies, denial and disinformation
3+ day, 20+ hour ago Artificial intelligence chatbots can spread climate conspiracy theories, climate denial and disinformation to users, a new Global Witness investigation reveals Investigators tested popular AI chatbots " ChatGPT, MetaAI and Grok " to see whether they provided climate disinformation, and whether they were…...
EU: New Rules on Asylum and ‘Safe Countries’ Undermine the Foundation of Refugee Protection
3+ day, 22+ hour ago Reacting to the agreements between the European Parliament and Council on new EU asylum rules, which undermine the very foundation of refugee protection, Olivia Sundberg Diez, the EU Advocate on Migration and Asylum at Amnesty International said: "This is an…...
ACLU Will Challenge Trump Administration’s Unconstitutional Effort to Ban Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth
3+ day, 22+ hour ago The administration's proposal seeks to prohibit the provision of evidence-based, medically necessary care for transgender people under 18care that is supported by every major medical association in the United States, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics....
Following Groundwork’s Bombshell Report, FTC Opens Investigation Into Instacart Price Experimentation
3+ day, 22+ hour ago Following a bombshell report from Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union revealing that Instacart uses AI to run pricing experiments on consumers, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday launched an investigation into the company's pricing schemes. The report…...