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Elizabeth Warren | Trump's Appointment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Is Undermining Its Public Service 
Senator Elizabeth Warren. (photo: Getty)
Elizabeth Warren, The Wall Street Journal
Warren writes: "From the moment Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Republican critics ranted about the CFPB's supposed lack of accountability."
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Top Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth in 2010. (photo: Paul Sakuma/AP)
Top Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth in 2010. (photo: Paul Sakuma/AP)

'Maybe Someone Dies': Facebook VP Justified Bullying, Terrorism as Costs of 'Growth'
Avi Selk, The Washington Post
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Rally attendees listen to a speaker during 'The People's Movement- United We Stand Rally' held on the Capitol steps in Frankfort, Monday, March 12. (photo: James Crisp/Special to Courier Journal)
Rally attendees listen to a speaker during 'The People's Movement- United We Stand Rally' held on the Capitol steps in Frankfort, Monday, March 12. (photo: James Crisp/Special to Courier Journal)

Kentucky Teachers Prepare to Strike After Lawmakers' 'Bait and Switch' on Pension Reform
Madison Park, CNN
Park writes: "Several Kentucky teachers won't be going to work Friday after the state legislature approved changes to their pension on Thursday."
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Head of EPA Scott Pruitt. (photo: Getty)
Head of EPA Scott Pruitt. (photo: Getty)


Scott Pruitt Took Taxpayer-Funded Security Detail to Disneyland, Rose Bowl Game
Morgan Gstalter, The Hill
Gstalter writes: "Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) inspector general, alleging that Administer Scott Pruitt has used his security detail on nonofficial trips to Disneyland and a Rose Bowl game."
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Supreme Court justices. (photo: Win McNamee/Getty)
Supreme Court justices. (photo: Win McNamee/Getty)

The Chief Justice of the United States Has No Clue How Elections Work
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "The guy who said America isn't racist enough to keep the Voting Rights Act also believes some odd things about gerrymandering."
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New York Times article on Israel firing on peaceful protesters. (photo: The New York Times)
New York Times article on Israel firing on peaceful protesters. (photo: The New York Times)

'NYTimes' Covers Up Israel's Killing of Nonviolent Protesters Along the Gaza Border
James North, Mondoweiss
North writes: "The NYTimes today continues its biased coverage of Israel/Palestine, with a shocking, one-sided report that tries to cover up how Israel has opened fire on the mass nonviolent Palestinian protest inside the Gaza border."
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Toucan in Brazilian Amazon. (photo: Getty)
Toucan in Brazilian Amazon. (photo: Getty)

Climate Change Has Become a Major Threat to Global Wildlife
Chelsea Harvey, E&E News
Harvey writes: "Warming now rivals habitat loss and land degradation as a threat to global wildlife."
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