Erica's Trending Newsbites 081119

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Here Are The Democratic Presidential Candidates With The Most Donations From Billionaires (Forbes)

Pete Buttigieg: 23
Cory Booker: 18
Kamala Harris: 17
Michael Bennett: 15
Joe Biden: 13
John Hickenlooper: 11
Beto O’Rourke: 9
Amy Klobuchar: 8
Elizabeth Warren: 2
Bernie Sanders: 0

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Did Corporate Fashion Campaign Goof Trying to Appropriate Climate Activism?

A climate change activist who is the youth director of conservation group Earth Guardians was tapped to launch a new Dickies fashion line.  Meanwhile the group Extinction Rebellion is launching its next nonviolent civil disobedience action to raise awareness about the environmental damage caused by the fashion industry.

Both from Teen Vogue:

Timberland and Dickies Release A New Clothing Collaboration

Extinction Rebellion Wants to #Cancel London Fashion Week

​More newsbites from the Vagrom algorithm known as Erica's brain:

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US Far Behind on Using Tax Incentives for Electric Vehicles
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