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  Secret Recordings Show Ugly Conditions Ahead of Denver’s Slaughterhouse Ban Referendum

  The Intercept - Natasha Lennard

  Advocates hope the graphic videos, which were shared with The Intercept, will help rally support for the ballot initiative. The largest lamb …

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  Hurricane-Struck North Carolina Prisoners Were Locked in Cells With Their Own Feces for Nearly a Week

  The Intercept - Schuyler Mitchell

  “We thought we were going to die there. We didn’t think anybody was going to come back for us.” In the early morning hours last Friday, Nick climbed …

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  The Dirty Business of Clean Energy: The U.K. Power Company Polluting Small Towns Across the U.S

  The Intercept - Camille Corcoran, Bertie Harrison-Broninski

  Based on dubious carbon accounting, Drax, which runs the U.K.’s biggest power plant, is rapidly expanding its wood pellet operations across …

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  The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk

  The Intercept - Nick Turse

  An Intercept investigation reveals that the Army National Guard has known about poisonous lead dust at armories open to the public for years, but is …

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  They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects.

  The Intercept - Cody Bloomfield

  FBI counterterror officials went in person to Michigan to spy on “Stop Camp Grayling” demonstrators, new documents reveal. The protest did not go off …

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  GOP Platform Doesn’t Mention the Word “Climate” Once — Even After Hottest Year on Record

  The Intercept - Prem Thakker

  The Trump-led 2024 Republican platform instead calls for an American Iron Dome and the largest deportation operation ever. 2023 was the hottest global …