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Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger
A USPS postal worker wears protective gloves while making deliveries in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the COVID-19 pandemic on April 8, 2020. (Photo: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Julia Conley, staff writer
As of Friday afternoon, more than 650 demonstrations were planned as part of "Save the Post Office Saturday," a national day of action in which people across the U.S. will demand that President Donald Trump and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy end their assault on the U.S. Postal Service.
Olivia Riggio
A protester carries a sign during a "Defund the Police" march from King County Youth Jail to City Hall in Seattle, Washington on August 5, 2020. (Photo: Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty Images)
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Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"We want leaders to step up, take responsibility, and treat the climate crisis like a crisis."
Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"I'm furious at the incompetence and severe inhumanity of this," one advocate said.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Millions rely on the Postal Service for prescription drugs that treat diabetes, high blood pressure, and more," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Postmaster General DeJoy must go."
Julia Conley, staff writer
Public health experts on Friday raised alarm over a new policy unveiled by the Health and Human Services Department, blocking the Food and Drug Administration from regulating a number of laboratory tests including those that test for Covid-19.
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Juliet Ferguson
"European governments provide subsidies to fossil fuel industries under many guises: tax breaks, capacity markets, the Emissions Trading System," writes the author. (Photo: Jack Sem, Semtrio.com/Flickr/cc)
Kunal Sen
A stranded mother carries her child by a road with little traffic as she awaits transport to get into the central business district of Harare, Zimbabwe on June 2, 2020. (Photo: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP via Getty Images)
Juan Cole
The "Trump administration is perfectly capable of maintaining publicly that international UNSC sanctions on Iran have been restored even if no one goes along with Washington," writes Cole. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
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Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The group aims to "address cascading collapses in biodiversity due to overfishing, human-caused climate change, deep sea mining, and other marine emergencies."
Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"This voter suppression scheme is intended to intimidate voters and cause a chilling effect on the electorate."
Melanie Benesh
"The Trump administration has made it a priority to roll back the Clean Water Rule, which more clearly defined which kinds of bodies of water are subject to the Clean Water Act," writes Benesh.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"DeJoy himself confirmed that there have been significant service slowdowns. It makes no sense at all for him to say USPS sorting machine 'are not needed.' Put them back."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
According to David Williams, Mnuchin required members of the USPS Board of Governors to "come to his office to kiss the ring."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"American history tells us that it's been in our darkest moments that we've made our greatest progress, that we've found the light. In this dark moment, I believe we're poised to make great progress again, that we can find the light once more."
Chad Marlow, Gillian Ganesan
"In response to a loss of funding, police departments are likely to consider shifting from more expensive, racist, human policing to more cost-efficient, racist, technology-driven policing," writes the authors. (Photo: Jim Gehrz/The Star Tribune/AP)
