Nine dead gray whales have washed ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area this year

A dead gray whale washed ashore on a San Francisco beach Monday morning -- the ninth such death in the Bay Area this year, scientists at the Marine Mammal Center said.

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Like the ‘Loch Ness Monster’: basking sharks return to California waters

Ryan Lawler saw the dorsal fin in the distance, swaying slowly side to side, and assumed it was a great white shark. As his boat got closer, he saw the massive fish’s snout sticking out of the water, its mouth wide open. 

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Judge to weigh freeing Coast Guard officer called terrorist

A Coast Guard lieutenant accused of drafting a hit list of prominent Democrats and journalists is getting a hearing on the conditions of his possible release from federal custody. 

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Happy birthday, Pete.
"He knew there were possibilities that we could—through collective participation and struggle—build a better world."

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'His Legacy Lives On': Pete Seeger Remembered on What Would Have Been 100th Birthday

"He knew there were possibilities that we could—through collective participation and struggle—build a better world."

Pete Seeger: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Hubert Gesenhues My former Las Vegas neighbor Peter Gough in the mid 2000s did a telephone interview with Pete Seeger to gather information for his book Sounds Of The New Deal. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/.../75grm3xf9780252039041...

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Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West

Pete Seeger Lives! On Folk Legend's 100th Birthday, Remembering How Music and Love Conquers Hate

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Pete Seeger Lives! On Folk Legend's 100th Birthday, Remembering How Music and Love Conquers Hate

The folk musician and legendary social justice activist was loved by people across the world because Pete actively loved people across the world... Go tell all the little children… [on our] one earth…give it one more try, to show [our] Rainbow race, it’s too soon to die. —Pete Seeger “Rain...

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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow just dropped the mic.

Rachel Maddow asks viewers to pause show to take a shower after her report on Jerry Falwell, Jr’s sex picture scandal

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow warned viewers at the start of her Tuesday show that they may feel dirty enough to require a shower after her lead story on Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Exclusive: Trump fixer Cohen says he helped Falwell handle racy photos

"Fundamental change in America's agricultural and rural policies is no longer just an option; it's an absolute necessity." —Sen. Bernie Sanders

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Back in Iowa, Sanders Says Big Ag's Stranglehold a Key Part of 'Major Crisis' Facing Rural America

With a major speech on Sunday, 2020 candidate will set forth policy vision to save small farmers and rural communities

"Big ag companies killed family farms and polluted our water, while politicians blamed our immigrant neighbors. Let’s not turn on each other again."

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Farm Country: Don’t Get Fooled Again

Big ag companies killed family farms and polluted our water, while politicians blamed our immigrant neighbors. Let’s not turn on each other again.. I’m a retired public school teacher living in Des Moines. I grew up here close to the city limits, with an easy escape to the countryside that was o...

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• Brenda Funk Same thing happened here in Manitoba Canada. We used to be one of those small farms. But companies like Maple Leaf have taken over. First the price of hogs dropped to the point we were losing $50 for each live animal we sold. Didn't matter to Maple Leaf because they also own processing and retail. No worries for them. Just more profits. So now there are giant hog factories, no more small producers.

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  Kevin Cheesman Logarithms showed decades ago that Americans spend the lowest percentage of their income on food in the world. Therefore if you can control the market there is plenty of room for increased profits. Big investors ruthlessly pursued this.