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At Least 58 Dead After Migrant Boat Breaks Apart Near Italian Coast <[link removed]>
20 minors are among the dead, including one newborn <[link removed]>
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Progressives Urge Senate Dems to Ditch Tradition That's Allowing GOP to Veto Biden Judges <[link removed]>
"Senate Democrats should eliminate every barrier possible" to confirm President Joe Biden's judicial nominees, said Indivisible. <[link removed]>
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'I Am Disturbed': Locals Alarmed Over Plan to Inject Toxic Ohio Wastewater Underground in Texas <[link removed]>
"It's foolish to put it on the roadway," said one Houston-area resident. "We have accidents on a regular basis. Do they really want to have another contamination zone?" <[link removed]>
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Sanders Pushes Biden to Embrace Social Security Expansion <[link removed]>
"It is not enough to point out the reactionary, anti-worker vision of the Republican Party," the democratic socialist senator stressed. "We have to present a positive, pro-worker alternative." <[link removed]>
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge to 'Unconstitutional' Arkansas Anti-BDS Law <[link removed]>
"The struggle for collective liberation requires global solidarity and economic pressure," said U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib. "Today's decision is a travesty, but the people will not be silenced." <[link removed]>
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'Gift to the Ruling Class': Florida Bill Would Make It Easier for Officials Like DeSantis to Sue Critics <[link removed]>
"Floridians should not tolerate their governor's experiments in authoritarianism in their name and at their expense." <[link removed]>
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Investigation Shows Rail Giant Donated to Ohio Governor a Month Before Toxic Crash <[link removed]>
If Norfolk Southern "can pay for lobbyists and politicians, they can pay to clean up the mess they made in our community," said one local group. <[link removed]>
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Biden DOJ Supporting Rail Giant Norfolk Southern's Effort to Block Future Lawsuits <[link removed]>
If the U.S. Supreme Court sides with the company behind the East Palestine disaster, workers and consumers could have less freedom to sue corporations. <[link removed]>
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Inequality Causing Massive Loss for Our Social Security System <[link removed]>
When Congress set the cap on Social Security contributions in 1983, they didn't anticipate forty years of rising inequality. And it's cost us - a lot. <[link removed]>
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Why NPR's Layoffs Are a Public Policy Problem <[link removed]>
The struggle to find the revenue to keep NPR reporters on their beats is a failure to advocate for policies that would increase the public funding it and other noncommercial media outlets need to thrive. <[link removed]>
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Expanding Social Security Is Winning Policy and Politics for Democrats <[link removed]>
Biden is right to highlight Republican attacks on Social Security. He should also propose a plan to expand it. <[link removed]>
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Seven Things We Could Do If We Cut the Pentagon by $100 Billion <[link removed]>
About half of the Pentagon budget every year goes to corporate contractors who pay their CEOs multi-million dollar salaries. <[link removed]>
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