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April 12, 2023

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Calls for Feinstein's Resignation Grow as Her Absence Stalls Biden Judges

"This is unacceptable," wrote one commentator. "It is also, like Durbin's continued inexplicable deference to blue slips, easily resolvable. It is time for Feinstein to resign her seat."

Jake Johnson

Reappointed Justin Pearson Vows to Fight on Against Tennessee GOP That Expelled Him

"The message for all the people in Nashville who decided to expel us: You can't expel hope. You can't expel justice. You can't expel our voice. And you sure can't expel our fight," the representative declared. "Let's get back to work."

Jessica Corbett

Biden's Colorado River Plans Fail to Address 'Abuse' of Water by Big Ag and Big Oil: Watchdog

"Any legitimate plan for the Colorado River must directly confront a key driver of the crisis in the first place: the overuse and abuse of limited water resources by big agribusiness and fossil fuel corporations—the very same industries contributing to climate chaos in the first place."

Kenny Stancil

'Global LNG Boom Must Be Stopped in Its Tracks,' Climate Coalition Tells Biden

"Every LNG terminal that comes online risks locking in decades of avoidable climate pollution and environmental injustice."

Julia Conley

Green Group Says Widely Praised Biden Auto Pollution Rules 'Fail to Meet' the Climate Emergency

"This is Biden's chance to take the biggest single step of any nation to confront the climate crisis, but the EPA's proposal stalls out when it comes to new gas-guzzlers," said Dan Becker of the Center for Biological Diversity.

Jake Johnson

'It's About Hurting the Poor': GOP Ramps Up Cruel Push for Work Requirements

"The legislators that want new work requirements for food stamps and Medicaid are the same ones working to eliminate the estate tax so that billionaire heirs never have to work a day in their lives."

Jake Johnson

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Opinion

I'll Never Forget That Smiling Face of Ron DeSantis... As I Was Being Tortured at Guantanamo

Let this be a warning to the American people. He did not torture me, but he sure seemed to take joy from it.

Mansoor Adayfi

NPR and the Double Standards of "State-Affiliated Media"

All are right to impugn the whims of Musk, who, to all appearances, harbors a personal animus against NPR. Still, the outrage against Twitter's policy is highly selective.

Julianne Tveten

Tennessee GOP Tried to Stem Tide of Progress—Instead, They Unleashed a Tsunami

Nothing could be more revealing of the fragility of the Republican Party than the recent expulsion of two Black Democratic lawmakers.

London Lamar,Svante Myrick

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