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Wednesday Night Owls: Before Trump feinted at the military-industrial complex, he pushed arms sales

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At Common Dreams, Ariel Gold, the national co-director and Senior Middle East Policy Analyst with CODEPINK for Peace, writes Peace Through Weapons Sales to the UAE:

On September 7, Trump spoke out against the revolving door of U.S. weapons sales and endless wars. Pushing back against a report in the Atlantic that he had disparaged fallen U.S.

Monday Night Owls: Rightist attack on solar undermines potential for a just transition on energy

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Andrea Germanos at Common Dreams writes—To Support an ‘Urgently Needed Clean and Just Energy Transition,’ 450+ Groups Demand Federal Regulators Rebuff Attack on Community Solar:

Over 450 environmental, faith, and consumer advocacy groups on Monday urged federal regulators to reject a proposal from a secretive rightwing organization that would upend policies seen as “foundational to a

Wednesday Night Owls. Kuttner: Georgia on my mind

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Robert Kuttner at The American Prospect—Georgia on my mind:

Almost everything that could go wrong with an election did in Tuesday’s Georgia primary election. Is this a harbinger of November? At the very least, it’s a wake-up call.

The state had ordered 30,000 new machines, and these machines are tricky to use and prone to malfunction.

Wednesday Night Owls. Kuttner: Georgia on my mind

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Robert Kuttner at The American Prospect—Georgia on my mind:

Almost everything that could go wrong with an election did in Tuesday’s Georgia primary election. Is this a harbinger of November? At the very least, it’s a wake-up call.

The state had ordered 30,000 new machines, and these machines are tricky to use and prone to malfunction.

Tuesday Night Owls: Debt collectors aren’t letting up just because of Pandemic Recession

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Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen at Pro-Publica write—Capital One and Other Debt Collectors Are Still Coming for Millions of Americans:

Federal, state and local officials have all taken some steps to protect Americans from the ravages of the economic crash due to COVID-19. Congress halted a substantial portion of evictions, foreclosures and collection on student loans.

Tuesday Night Owls: Debt collectors aren’t letting up just because of Pandemic Recession

Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week

Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen at Pro-Publica write—Capital One and Other Debt Collectors Are Still Coming for Millions of Americans:

Federal, state and local officials have all taken some steps to protect Americans from the ravages of the economic crash due to COVID-19. Congress halted a substantial portion of evictions, foreclosures and collection on student loans.

Monday Night Owls: Lawmakers call on Trump to forget about new nuclear weapons tests

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Andrea Germanos writes—80 Lawmakers Demand Trump Ditch Any Thought of Resuming ‘Dangerously Provocative’ Nuclear Tests:

A group of 80 Democratic federal lawmakers on Monday called on President Donald Trump to drop his reported consideration of atomic bomb nuclear testing, calling it an “awful” and “dangerously provocative” proposal that could give rise to “a n

Huge number of protests against police violence encouraging, but there’s a tough fight ahead

Braving the still raging coronavirus and the potential for being tear-gassed and bloodied by unprovoked cops showing their skill with billy-clubs, in cities large and small, hundreds of thousands of mostly masked Americans turned out Saturday to express their opposition to police violence and to grieve and show their support for the family of George Floyd, the hand-cuffed African American killed on camera in Minneapolis by out-of-control police May 25.

Friday Night Owls: U.N. chief, Friday for Future activists call for bolder global climate action

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Jessica Corbett at Common Dreams writes—World Environment Day Provokes Warnings That ‘To Care for Humanity, We Must Care for Nature’:

As a pandemic that’s killed over 393,000 people rages on and demonstrations demanding racial justice continue across the globe, the international community on Friday marked World Environment Day with scientifically supported warning