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**The Week in Review**
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October 27, 2023
'Never Again for Anyone': Jewish Protesters Demanding Gaza Cease-Fire Arrested in Grand Central Station
"While Shabbat is typically a day of rest, we cannot afford to rest while genocide is unfolding in our names," said one rabbi.
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October 27, 2023
With 7,300+ Gazans Dead, Israeli PM Adviser Says 'Tonight We Are Starting Payback'
One critic declared that "a horrific slaughter is happening in plain sight, while the world watches and the U.S. shamelessly aids and abets it!"
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October 26, 2023
'Madness in the Name of Freedom,' Says Stephen King After Maine Gun Massacre
The author and one of the state's most famous residents said the culprit is clear: "It's the rapid-fire killing machines, people.... Stop electing apologists for murder."
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October 25, 2023
New GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson Has Proposed Trillions in Cuts to Social Security and Medicare
"Now that Johnson is speaker, he will do what the Republicans never stop doing-everything in their power to cut our Social Security and Medicare, by hook, crook, or commission."
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October 25, 2023
'An Absolute Outrage': Israel to Deny Visas to UN Officials Over Secretary-General's Gaza Remarks
Human rights advocates called on the U.S., U.K., and other European countries to take action against Israel's "intimidation" tactic.
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October 24, 2023
IEA Report Makes Clear the Urgent Need to 'Rapidly Replace and Phase Out All Fossil Fuels'
The International Energy Agency warned that while renewable energy use is surging, fossil fuel production worldwide remains "far too high" to prevent catastrophic warming.
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****Opinion****
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Sink, Sank, Sunk: One Year in and Musk's Twitter Is Down the Drain
In Musk's distorted world view, his critics are to blame for Twitter's sinking fortunes. But if there's anyone to blame, just look at the man holding... the sink.
Tim Karr
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Eulogy for My Father, Daniel Ellsberg
In the final days, his joy and gratitude were based on the hope that others would carry on the effort for a better, more peaceful future. I pray that his joy may be justified.
Robert Ellsberg
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The US Supreme Court's Incoherent, Idiotic, and Racist Rulings on Gerrymandering
The Court may be ready to scuttle remaining portions of the Voting Rights Act by giving states the ability to racially gerrymander by claiming that they're only engaging in partisan gerrymandering. It's outrageous.
Miles Mogulescu
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With Shutdown Averted, Is Social Security Safe? Nope!
More tax giveaways to the rich simply mean less revenue, higher deficits, and more justification for taking a meat cleaver to programs that serve and protect ordinary Americans.
James Roosevelt Jr.,Henry Scott Wallace,June Hopkins,Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall
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