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TOPICS IN TODAY’S SUMMARY:
US News: Coordinated Resistance
US News: Fascism Watch (Deportations, mass layoffs, DOGE)
International News: Myanmar Earthquake
International News: Turkey, Democracy
International News: Gaza
Nature News: Carbon Capture
Sources used to create this summary:
US News, Coordinated Resistance
Tesla Takedown https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-tesla-doge-protests-a07cb5f20d65d0fb4dcb3547e2b7879c
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/business/tesla-takedown-elon-musk-doge/index.html
Hands Off Action
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/map/
Booker Filibuster:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/cory-booker-senate-speech-trump
https://time.com/7273556/cory-booker-filibuster-speech-takeaways/
US NEws: Fascism watch
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doge-musk-federal-payroll-system
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/trump-running-third-term-reactions
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-begins-mass-layoffs-health-agencies-sources-say-2025-04-01/
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5339698/green-card-holders-detained-border-crackdown
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/2/trump_deportations_el_salvador_immigrants
International news:
Myanmar Earthquake
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-thailand-earthquake-c4ccdcd3ff2e38c54046274ee039cbf7
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ygpplz72yo
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2ydkvxdvno
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thailand-earthquake-bangkok-building-collapse-investigation-china-italy-firms/
Turkey:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g3eer4737o
GAZA:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/middleeast/bakeries-close-gaza-wfp-intl-latam/index.html
Nature News:
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0kys7pd/this-machine-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-fuel
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/greener-simpler-way-to-create-syngas