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Environment & Energy Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind "boom?" 188,885 551

Cable News Clips Al Jazeera English Live 70,903 99

Liberal YouTubers A "man of the people". NOT. 112,684 155

Occupy Underground These utility bills are almost as bad as the job market: NC families struggle as temps and utility bills soar 11,216 318

Civil Liberties Turning Point USA's high school push in GOP states meets free speech and religion concerns 6,675 244

Foreign Affairs Russia Finally Lost Its Major Advantage -- Z-Army Surrenders to an Unexpected Enemy. - The Russian Dude 56,428 221

Media Jessica Tarlov 5,495 138

Omaha Steve's Labor Group Executive Order 14251 17,979 261

Health Younger adult colon cancer deaths are concentrated in people with less education, study says 39,079 272

Economy Wall Street Is Spending Its Big Windfall on Wall Street 101,944 393

Drug Policy Ambien as a schedule IV drug 3,617 118

Education Textbook titan McGraw Hill on ransomware crew's reading list after 13.5M records exposed 15,387 250

Israel/Palestine Israeli settlers block Palestinian kids' path to school with tear gas and barbed wire 145,507 235

Democrats SCOTUS 8,016 160

Women's Rights & Issues Re: Melania from last November. 17,091 276

National Security & Defense Kristi Noem's first DHS meeting where she entered to 'Hot Momma' was like being in a South Park episode, staffers say 17,635 139

Congress Sudden GOP infighting explodes over bipartisan immigration reform bill (Dignity Act) 5,221 117

Single Payer Health Systems Some respite from the extremism of absurd medical bills: Governor Mills Signs Law to Strengthen Protections for Maine 1,125 92

LGBT Civil Rights and Activism Republican lawmaker intentionally misgenders Sarah McBride -- so she misgenders him back 2,074 167

Religion Pope Leo's peace prayer vigil, Saturday, April 11, 2026 328,443 318

Public Transportation and Smart Growth No little kid ever pointed excitedly and said "A rideshare!" 4,809 102

Activist Headquarters How we fight back against Tr*mp's mass detention camps LOCAL ACTION WORKS! 5,099 256

Social Security & Medicare Anyone here been on SSDI and then signed up for SSA retirement? 2,124 137

Veterans VA Claims Are Moving Faster, But Some Veterans Still Wait Months for Decisions. Here's Why. 12,477 163

Cannabis Cannabis experiment going well... 12,343 312

Disability Hold off on Celebrating Trump's Proposal to Increase Disability Education Funding 1,869 107

Election Reform What Happens If They Don't Accept the Election? 3,117 190

Campaigns Congressional candidate and current mayor of Scranton, Paige Cognetti, consistently calls out corruption 8,410 139

Gun Control Reform Activism Virginia makes headway on gun control: 14,563 196

Pro-Choice The GOP's Plan to Shut Down Abortion Pill Websites - Jessica Valenti and Kylie Cheung 3,819 134

Gun Control & RKBA Philadelphia sues Glock, says gunmaker's firearms are too easy to make fully automatic 214,064 369

Race & Ethnicity Protective Fictions: James Baldwin's Warning and the Church of the Founders - Tad Stoermer 1,302 83

Poverty Christmas in Appalachia, The Permanently Poor - A CBS News Special Report, 1964 1,320 110

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