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"Netanyahu not only has unleashed vicious crimes onto Palestinians, but he failed his own people." commondreams.org/news/benjam…
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"Remember when Donald Trump promised to get rid of ‘waste, fraud, and abuse’ in Washington?" said one senior Democratic senator. "Well, GAO continues to uncover incompetence and waste at the highest levels of ICE." commondreams.org/news/ice-wa…
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Watchdog Says Trump Control of $400 Million Political War Chest a 'Clear-Cut Violation of Campaign Finance Law' commondreams.org/news/trump-…
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President Donald Trump has said every American should want a data center in their town. But his home county in Florida just voted to block them. commondreams.org/news/palm-b…
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"Extremely disturbing." commondreams.org/news/does-t…
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Voting rights advocates warn US citizens "could lose the right to vote" after the Supreme Court gave the Trump admin a green light to use a federal database with "known errors, including incorrectly flagging numerous eligible citizens... as noncitizens." commondreams.org/news/suprem…
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Dem Ad for US Senate Seat in Kansas Highlights Marshall Having Pregnant Mom Arrested Over $50 Medical Payment commondreams.org/news/roger-…
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“This is the sort of government propaganda one might expect in North Korea, not the United States of America, and it is an egregious and utterly illegal misuse of Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars,” said four lawmakers. commondreams.org/news/trump-…
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Trump may have usurped the podium at UNGA to malign multilateralism, but we're doing the work beyond the podium. commondreams.org/opinion/tru…
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"Trump and Miller have made clear they plan to exploit the broad counterterrorism authorities of the executive branch to unleash this machinery of repression upon their domestic political opponents. Unless Congress acts now, they will get away with it." commondreams.org/news/fbi-na…
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Lula Campaign Teams With Bad Bunny to Highlight Dangers of Trump's Colonial Ambitions commondreams.org/news/lula-b…
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Israel's genocidal war on Gaza has not only caused mass death and destruction. It has also created what one UN Trade official described as "the world's most severe economic crisis on record." commondreams.org/news/gaza-e…
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'Never Fails to Disappoint': Fetterman Joins GOP Vote Down Resolution to End Trump's Iran War commondreams.org/news/fetter…
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This is a familiar political playbook: Choose a wedge issue that polls well, use it to normalize the once-radical idea that civil rights law is negotiable, then expand from there, writes @MeganJPeterson of @GenderJustice. commondreams.org/opinion/min…
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MAGA right-wingers define America as a white nation and seek to shrink our non-white population, so the only solution acceptable to them is persuading or forcing women to have more babies than they want. It won’t work. commondreams.org/opinion/mag…
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Nobody skipping meals is waiting for a footnote. What they are waiting for is action, and action comes from pressure, writes @jenny_ricks of @fightinequality. commondreams.org/opinion/mov…
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People don’t organize their lives around resistance alone. They organize around belonging, purpose, hope, and the possibility that tomorrow can be better than today. commondreams.org/opinion/nee…
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"No lie can change the fact that he remains the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity,” New York City's mayor said of the Israeli prime minister. commondreams.org/news/mamdan…
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"Not exactly the cancer cure we were promised," quipped one critic. commondreams.org/news/ai-in-…
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As Trump Threatens to 'Annihilate' Iran, Most Senate Republicans Still Refuse to Demand End to Illegal War commondreams.org/news/senate…
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