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The Week in Review
'Game-Changer and Reason for Hope': House Passes Inflation Reduction Act
"We've got more to do," Rep. Pramila Jayapal said on the House floor. "But today, let's celebrate this massive investment for the people."
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'Let's Send Ron Johnson Packing': Mandela Barnes Wins Wisconsin Senate Primary
"We're going to the Senate to rebuild the middle class," said Barnes. "We're going to protect the right to choose. We're going to fight to make the American Dream an American reality."
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Pentagon Contractors in Afghanistan Pocketed $108 Billion Over 20 Years
Military contracting "obscures where and how taxpayer money flows," and "makes it difficult to know how many people are employed, injured, and killed," said the Costs of War Project report's author.
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'Lock and Load': Trump-Loving Extremists React to FBI Search of Mar-a-Lago
"None of this demonstrating in the snow shit," one commenter wrote in a MAGA forum. "Summertime was made for killing fields."
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Sinema Received Over $500K From Private Equity Before Shielding Industry From Tax Hikes
"Remember the days when taking half a million bucks from an industry, and then passing legislation that only benefits that industry, while passing the costs onto everyone else, would be called corruption?" asked one critic. "Today it's just lobbying as usual."
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Violent Threats Against FBI Soar as Trump Lies About Mar-a-Lago Search
Menacing messages posted online "include a threat to place a so-called dirty bomb in front of FBI Headquarters" and "general calls for 'civil war' and 'armed rebellion,'" officials warned.
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Opinion
In Ukraine, Nuclear Catastrophe Looms
Instead of focusing on who is to blame for creating this dire situation, Ukraine, Russia, and the international community need to work together to figure out how to stem the danger of a strike on Zaporizhzhia or its supporting safety systems.
by William Hartung
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Partisan Gerrymandering Is Carving Up US Democracy
To reverse the long-term decline of compet­it­ive districts, reforms to create fairer, more inde­pend­ent map-draw­ing processes will be essen­tial.
by Michael Li, Chris Leaverton
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What the GOP Really Loves Is Money, Power, and Hate
If this was just routine political corruption by a few rogue politicians, it would be a problem but not a crisis—however—this cynical embrace of strongman oligarchy has put America itself at risk.
by Thom Hartmann
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