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Jeremy Bearer-Friend

@bearerfriend.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Law at GW 🌈 I write on tax, race, and democracy: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAu…

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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sometimes we start writing and by the time we’re done, the work is less important. But with this book, the work kept getting more and more and even MORE important. A must read! We are getting gouged and it’s a problem we can fix now that we know HOW prices got so damn high 💪
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026
“The playing field of the social media informational environment is uneven, and it systematically benefits autocracies.” www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...
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Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation
Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Should we also be adding disclaimers to all our circulated drafts that readers do not have permission to upload our work to LLMs?
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm not a college football person but this is lovely www.thedailybeast.com/trump-80-get...
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Trump, 80, Gets Loudly Booed at College Football Game
The president’s Saturday football outing drew a strikingly chilly reception in deep-red Tennessee.
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This reporting on the AI policy vacuum notes the lag between regulators and tech boardrooms… but why no mention of the @sanders.senate.gov bill to put the public IN the boardroom of big tech? No time delay between company decision making and public review. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/t...
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As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
"Free Hong Kong! Free Hong Kong! Free Tibet!" -- anti-Xi protesters are making their voices heard ahead of tonight's state dinner
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026
NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it used to be a core political truism that there was a gas price threshold, above which people would riot. Or, at least, become very very activated. we have seen some analysis of other such truisms like inflation. I need someone to explain this one, stat.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
As Yom Kippur came to a close this evening, I was privileged to join my friend, Ruth Messinger, at a break fast in her home. It was an honor to celebrate this moment of renewal with many of our Jewish neighbors. May it be a year of justice, joy and peace.
Mayor Mamdani, Ruth Messinger, and two children hold challah bread.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This call for democratic control of the AI frontier is so important! But why does @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social completely ignore the already introduced @sanders.senate.gov legislation that gives control of systemically important AI firms to the public? S.4825 does this!!
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The future tense of the headline (“will pay him back”) conflicts with the past tense that the president used (“I hear he’s paid him back”). The story doesn’t tell us whether the Times attempted to confirm whether Don Jr. has done this or plans to do so. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/u...
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Trump Says His Son Will Pay Back Russian Businessman for Wedding Party
The president said his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., had decided to return the money, but defended the gift worth hundreds of thousands of dollars as “totally allowed.”
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I haven’t weighed in yet on the new mountain of AI safety concerns, but to me it further elevates the case for an AI tax paid with stock. Depending on the tax rate, the public could, quite literally, be put in control. And not via the Pentagon, but a nonpartisan board created by Congress.
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
*spoiler alert* Altman not actually planning to donate shares of OpenAI… TLDR; it’s long past time to TAX ‘em! washingtonsun.com/technology/s...
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Sam Altman Privately Rejected Giving OpenAI Shares to the Government
The remarks follow months of reports connecting Altman to the idea of giving the government equity in his company.
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
These are the top institutional downloaders of my work with @polcz.bsky.social on taxing AI. Number 1 is the United States Senate. Number 5 is the US House of Representatives. No wonder the billionaires are so scared.
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Sarah Polcz @polcz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I enjoyed talking to The Majority Report podcast this morning about the potential of AI equity taxes and my work with @bearerfriend.bsky.social on Senator Sanders' American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act in particular! @majorityreport.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3uH...
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MR FUN | 9/1/26
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
Again, we’re regularly told surveillance will reduce policing but what happens is this technology is deployed along with the police while targeting the people who’ve always been over policed.
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The median homebuyer age rose to 59 in 2025 from 39 in 2005. #EconSky
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One of the things we have lost is the power to shame public officials. It seems quaint but it is actually very important. Without it, formal law is significantly weaker and our lives are significantly poorer. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/u...
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A Republican Attack Ad Used a Family’s Tragedy. Now They’re Furious. (Gift Article)
Relatives of a family killed by a semi truck say they were not consulted about the ad, which connected the crash to illegal immigration.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Protesters march around the Luminary hotel, a Marriott property in Fort Myers where immigration agents are staying.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/08/2026
TODAY: Learn how you can take action to defend the vote and stop election interference from Trump and his Big Lie cronies. Join our election protection training with guest speaker Cliff Albright, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of @blackvotersmatterfund.org.
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Hands Off Our Vote: Election Protection 101 & 201 · Indivisible
Calling all activists who are ready to demand Hands Off Our Vote! This August, Indivisible is holding two trainings on election protection: the actions you and those around you can take to ensure ever...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
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Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
The federal judge, who cited Dolly Parton in his ruling, found that the state law violated the First Amendment.
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Not sure which group should be more embarrassed: the profs or the institution
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 22/08/2026
A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation this week in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation. www.notus.org/immigration/baby-asyl…
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 21/08/2026
Another 2 million vehicles were subject to a separate, overlapping recall.
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China Orders Tesla’s Largest-Ever Recall For Nearly 3 Million Cars
Another 2 million vehicles were subject to a separate, overlapping recall.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/08/2026
Thousands of employers are keeping tabs on workers through technology that was adopted widely during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more about how workers can protect their personal information: bit.ly/4wFQrZy #APIllustration by Peter Hamlin
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 20/08/2026
I wanted to learn more about @sanders.senate.gov's proposal for taxing the shares of AI companies, so I went to the academics that helped inspire the proposal. Here's my conversation with @bearerfriend.bsky.social and @polcz.bsky.social. www.firesidestacks.com/p/bernies-ai...
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How Bernie’s AI tax idea came to be (with Jeremy Bearer-Friend + Sarah Polcz)
Meet the experts who put AI public equity stakes on the map.
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This was so much fun to do
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19/08/2026
In 1965, CEOs were paid 21 times as much as a typical worker. Today, that number has spiked to 281. The system is rigged and it's time we level the playing field.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Trump's approval rating hit a new low in Reuters/Ipsos polling: Just 33% of Americans approve of his job performance. That's the lowest level of this term and ties his low point from his first term. 64% disapprove of his performance.
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Is taxing tokens or AI data center energy use really going to be enough to protect workers? And compensate the public for AI theft? See the latest in @bloombergtax.com about these questions: news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights...
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Taxing AI to Help Workers Sounds Good, But Public Deserves More
Opinion: A proposed tax on artificial intelligence tokens shows why taxing AI use is a poor proxy for taxing automation. Lawmakers should instead give the public an equity stake in the firms that capt...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Yes! These machines should be owned by all of us. And here’s how: journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/ta...
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Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solution to Generative AI | Columbia Journal of Tax Law
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The tagline of “own it or lose” is so good. Perfectly encapsulates the urgency of worker equity stakes in AI—ideally remitted as taxes!
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The best write-up about my work with @polcz.bsky.social I’ve read yet! Thank you @georgievlaw.bsky.social @jotwell.bsky.social for making our tax paper accessible to a much broader audience.
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Owning the AI Revolution - Corporate Law
Jeremy Bearer-Friend & Sarah Polcz, Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solution to Generative AI, 17 Colum. J. Tax L. 1 (2025).George S. GeorgievMost legal responses to generative artificial intelligence ...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/08/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.
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Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships
Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service
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Forbes @forbes.com · 13/08/2026
Almost half of Americans between the ages of 18-34 also had at least somewhat favorable views on socialism, a new poll found.
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Young Americans Don’t Trust Billionaire AI Leaders, New Poll Finds
Almost half of Americans between the ages of 18-34 also had at least somewhat favorable views on socialism, a new poll found.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2026
New in PN: Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids "Miller is making his dreams come true: accelerating the arrest and removal of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant kids. This is a scene taking place out of public view across the country, impacting 24,000 children."
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Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Altman and Trump have tried to coopt the @sanders.senate.gov AI Equity tax. Don’t be fooled. In our latest for Time Magazine, @polcz.bsky.social and I walk through the different ways to achieve a public stake in AI. And why tax is best way to guard against corruption. time.com/article/2026...
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An AI Tax Could Be the Great Equalizer America Needs
“A tax is the best way to secure the public’s standing as a co-owner of AI,” argue Sarah Polcz and Jeremy Bearer-Friend.
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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Quick thoughts on @repcasar.bsky.social token tax introduced last week: 1) Compatible with @sanders.senate.gov AI equity tax--both could be in effect at the same time w/ no prob; 2) Leg text follows Bernie's--excise tax on AI activity plus a new trust fund; 3) Incidence will be on consumers.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/08/2026
The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists.
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She protested ICE raids. Then agents showed up at her door
The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Reuters: U.S. APPEALS COURT BLOCKS TRUMP'S $400 MILLION WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM PROJECT - COURT ORDER
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Word not used in this article: bioterrorism.
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NPR @npr.org · 05/08/2026
Rates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines. n.pr/4yZJVPo
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Appalachia's black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners' protections stall
Rates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.
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