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Critics Use Bernie Sanders's Heart Attack to Smear Medicare for All Michael Corcoran, Truthout In the days since presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders suffered from a heart attack, his critics have shamefully spread lies about Medicare for All. They argue single-payer health care is bad for seniors and that Sanders "would be dead" or stuck with long wait times under a single-payer system. Experts tell Truthout why these statements have no credibility.
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Senate Bill Would Cut Social Security Operations Again Kathleen Romig, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities This summer's budget deal between President Trump and congressional leaders offers enough total discretionary dollars to give the Social Security Administration (SSA) a much-needed funding boost in 2020, but the Senate majority plans to cut $2.7 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars from the appropriations bill that funds SSA operations.
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GOP "Never Trumpers" Just Think He's Bad for the Brand William Rivers Pitt, Truthout When Colin Powell says, "The Republican Party has got to get a grip on itself," he is clearly inferring that the Trump administration is an aberration. This is the pleasant fiction he represents, as if the GOP was some sort of masterpiece society that only became sullied when that bad man from New York City came to town. In reality, Powell's penchant for playing footsie with atrocity dates back more than 50 years.
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New Poll Shows Nearly 60 Percent of Americans Support Trump Impeachment Inquiry Jake Johnson, Common Dreams A new poll released Tuesday showed a majority of Americans approve of House Democrats' impeachment inquiry into President Trump, a dramatic jump in support. The poll also showed 49 percent of Americans believe the House should call for the president to be removed from office, which would require conviction by the Senate.
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AOC Is Talking About Prison Abolition. Will She Take Action? James Kilgore, Truthout Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was courageous in risking "breaking some people's brains" by introducing abolition in mainstream circles, and her desire to explore "just alternatives to incarceration" is admirable. I look forward to how she advances these ideas and how she elaborates her abolitionist vision. Let us hope she takes us down a new path.
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Over 700 Arrested During Extinction Rebellion Climate Actions Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! More than 700 people have been arrested in civil disobedience actions as the group Extinction Rebellion kicked off two weeks of protests in 60 cities worldwide, demanding urgent government action on the climate crisis. Extinction Rebellion co-founder Gail Bradbrook discusses the significance of the coordinated global protests.
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State Department Blocks EU Ambassador's Deposition in Impeachment Inquiry Shira Tarlo, Salon The State Department directed U.S. Ambassador to the European Union (EU) Gordon Sondland not to appear Tuesday morning for a scheduled hearing about President Trump's communications with Ukraine. Sondland, a key figure in the burgeoning scandal at the heart of the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry, had previously agreed to appear voluntarily before the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight committees behind closed doors.
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Fracked Gas Blowout in Louisiana Could Burn for Two More Months Julie Dermansky, DeSmogBlog For the fifth week since the blowout began, a large flare is still burning at the site of GEP Haynesville, LLC's blown-out fracked gas wells in northwestern Louisiana. The flare has gone out at times, resulting in fluid from the well, including what the oil and gas industry calls "produced water," spreading a mist into the sky over a mile away, alarming nearby residents.
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The U.S. Economic System Doesn't Just Allow Poverty -- It Generates Poverty Janine Jackson, FAIR When it comes to poverty, corporate media's narrow understanding of data doesn't necessarily reflect the lived reality of many Americans who feel themselves to be in crisis, even if there are indicators that suggest to others they are not. What would it mean to take some of the energy devoted to defining poverty and dedicate it to ending poverty?
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Republicans and Right-Wing Media Show Signs They'll Break With Trump Alexis Goldstein, Truthout Cracks in the Republicans' united defense of President Trump are showing up among GOP politicians as House Democrats pursue their impeachment inquiry. As the evidence against Trump continues to build, Republicans are effectively trapped: If they defy Trump, they enrage their base, which still supports Trump in large numbers. But if they defend Trump, they are binding themselves to his scandals, and they have no idea how deep his scandals go.
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Supreme Court Will Decide If Workers Can Be Fired for Being Trans or LGBQ Gabriel Arkles, Truthout Obviously, it's illegal to fire people for being trans or LGBQ -- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act makes that clear. But on October 8, the Supreme Court will hear three cases that could result in decisions stripping TLGBQ employees of protections they have had for years. Such rulings would also harm anyone who relies on protections against discrimination both in and beyond the workplace.
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