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In October 2024, New York prosecutors set the groundwork for filing criminal charges against major fossil fuel companies for their significant role in contributing to the climate crisis. A fifty-page report released by Public Citizen and endorsed by New York officials detailed “admissible evidence, possible charges, and legal issues” pertaining…...
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14 days ago
Medicaid “unwinding” is affecting over 20 million Americans—predominantly Americans with disabilities. In April 2023, after the continuous enrollment provisions ended—which had previously allowed people to remain on Medicaid temporarily during the COVID pandemic, regardless of changes in their income—many states began reevaluating people’s Medicaid coverage, according to Daniel Chang for…...
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20 days ago
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire private contractors to “monitor and locate ‘negative’ social media discussion” about the federal agency, according to February 2025 articles by Sam Biddle for The Intercept and Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams. Biddle and Wilkins reviewed ICE documents that cited increased threats to…...
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20 days ago
In the first half of the program, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Leyna Quinn-Davidson, the Fire Network Director for the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources about the confluence of issues that are quite literally fueling the fires in LA County. Leyna highlights how we have to shift our...
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2 months ago
What happens when wealthy investors buy up local news outlets? Well, in addition to gradually shutting them down and restricting what they report, ironically creating news deserts, they can also memory hole online news archives. For the first part of the program, Mickey Huff is joined by investigative reporter Peter...
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3 months ago
The US military is taking the old adage “sex sells” to another level by using sexually suggestive social media posts on TikTok and Instagram—known as thirst traps—in an effort to recruit members of Generation Z in response to military recruitment numbers falling below goals in recent years. The main subject…...
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3 months ago
In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, online abortion services are facing global censorship on social media platforms. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Google have all allegedly restricted digital access to reproductive health organizations, according to a November 2023 report by…...
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3 months ago
Working in the United States is becoming more dangerous, and Black and Latiné workers in particular are at heightened risk of being killed or injured on the job, according to recent studies reported on by Truthout and Peoples Dispatch. According to a February 2024 report for Truthout by Tyler Walicek,…...
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3 months ago
Mickey hosts the special annual Banned Books Week program. This year we celebrate being "Freed Between the Lines.” In her best-selling novel Speak, young adult author Laurie Halse Anderson wrote, “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” Since the American Library Association (ALA) and Association of...
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6 months ago
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Project Censored is America’s longest running media research project, whose mission is to expose and oppose news censorship and promote independent investigative journalism, media literacy, and critical thinking through their website, weekly radio program, annual book, and other programs.