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May 25, 2023
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Progressives Rip Effort to Insert Dirty Deal Into Debt Ceiling Hostage Agreement <[link removed]>
"These dangerous and dirty permitting deals are a matter of life and death for millions of people across our country who are already overburdened by decades of fossil fuel pollution," warned one campaigner. <[link removed]>
Jessica Corbett <[link removed]>
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Disciplinary Hearing for Indiana Abortion Doctor Denounced as 'State-Sponsored Harassment' <[link removed]>
"Attacks on reproductive freedom look like doctors being attacked and harassed for doing their job and providing essential abortion care," said one advocacy group. <[link removed]>
Julia Conley <[link removed]>
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House Slammed for Passing Fentanyl Bill That Repeats Worst Mistakes of 'Failed Drug War' <[link removed]>
"By passing this bill, the House has signaled that Congress is entering a new carceral era." <[link removed]>
Jake Johnson <[link removed]>
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Texas GOP Accused of 'Coordinated Effort to Force State-Sponsored Religion Into Our Public Schools' <[link removed]>
A Republican-passed bill to allow public schools to replace professional counselors with unlicensed chaplains is expected to be signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott. <[link removed]>
Kenny Stancil <[link removed]>
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Right-Wing US Supreme Court Delivers 'Catastrophic Loss for Water Protections' <[link removed]>
The court "ripped the heart out of the law we depend on to protect American waters and wetlands," said one critic, warning that the ruling "will cause incalculable harm." <[link removed]>
Jessica Corbett <[link removed]>
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Sanders Leads Senate Call for DOD Probe Into Price-Gouging Military Contractors <[link removed]>
Five U.S. senators wrote that the Pentagon "can no longer expect Congress or the American taxpayer to underwrite record military spending while simultaneously failing to account for the hundreds of billions it hands out every year." <[link removed]>
Jake Johnson <[link removed]>
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Rights Groups Alarmed as 'Fascist, Anti-Choice' DeSantis Launches Presidential Campaign <[link removed]>
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Ron DeSantis Has a Very Un-American Vision For America <[link removed]>
While the poet Amanda Gorman has provided a beautiful and promising song, the GOP presidential candidate-with hopes to do to the nation what he has done to Florida-offers up a dystopian nightmare. <[link removed]>
Steven Harper <[link removed]>
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It's Clear as Day the GOP Does Not Really Care About Debt or the Deficit <[link removed]>
Republican tax cuts for the rich have been the single largest driver of the federal deficit over the last two decades, followed by bipartisan military spending. <[link removed]>
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The Rise and Fall of Greece's Radical-in-Name-Only Syriza Party <[link removed]>
Lack of experience in governance, ideological confusion, severe structural constraints, crude political opportunism, and broken promises guaranteed that Syriza's downfall was just a matter of time. <[link removed]>
C.J. Polychroniou <[link removed]>
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