Sanders Takes Oligarchy Fight to Appalachia With Standing-Room-Only Crowd in West Virginia | Common Dreams Join Bernie Sanders on his Fighting Oligarchy Tour as he rallies against the billionaire class's control and Republican cuts to healthcare and social programs. #FightingOligarchy

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Violence Deconstructed: Hysteria Over Zohran Mamdani’s Crime Platform Is Rooted in Lie That Cops Make Women Safer New York City Councilmember Vickie Paladino, best known for her rabid Islamophobia and calls for white nationalist militia members to attack her own constituents, sank to a new low earlier this month—...

Mamdani’s campaign shared a thoughtful video outlining his evidenced-based plan to create a Dept of Community Safety to bolster the city’s safety net, leading to a reduced reliance on the police. He sees that cities where people’s needs are met are safer than cities with excessive police funding”

John Leguizamo just destroyed MAGA’s Dean Cain—and we all needed this! Leguizamo is the real Superman!

John Leguizamo just destroyed MAGA’s Dean Cain—and we all needed this!
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Andrew Cuomo tweet: In case you forgot, I’m Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, grandson of Andrea. Welcome to the heavyweight bout, @ZohranKMamdani This is a two man race. You look tired already. It’s just the second round.

What if there were already some sort of contest where people were able to choose between them, I wonder how that would go

Trump Slammed for Letting Netanyahu Carry Out 'What Amounts to Ethnic Cleansing' in Gaza | Common Dreams "Biden was wrong about his support for Israel's war in Gaza. Trump is even worse," said U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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The Trump Administration Tried To Silence Mahmoud Khalil, so I Asked Him To Talk This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYT Audio app, Apple, Spotify,

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Click here to demand Roblox stop enabling predators!

A recent lawsuit alleged something horrifying: Roblox--an online game platform used largely by minors--hosted digital “Diddy parties” and games where players must escape the notorious late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. We are disturbed and loudly speaking out.

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The Epstein Scandal Is Getting Much Worse. Don’t Look Away Coverage of the Epstein scandal is starting to wane, we can't let the story fade from the conversation.

"We simply cannot let Trump, his administration, and Republicans in Congress cover up a president’s ties to a child sex trafficker"
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Tell the Washington State Catholic Conference: Drop the lawsuit and support clergy as mandatory reporters! Washington passed a law protecting children. The local Catholic Church sued to stop it.

Tell the Washington State Catholic Conference: Drop the lawsuit and support clergy as mandatory reporters! act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/wa-mand...

Municipal Grocery Stores Are Sensible and Obvious Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for city-run grocery stores is entirely practical. What’s more unrealistic, begging corporations to sacrifice profits to fulfill a necessary social role or simply providing b...

"Mamdani’s proposal for municipally owned grocery stores is a revival of the pragmatic socialism that built modern cities. Mamdani’s vision is no different: food should be treated like water, transit, or libraries, essential infrastructure that belongs to the people."

'Gouging': US Health Insurance Giants Raked in Over $71 Billion in Profits Last Year | Common Dreams The seven largest publicly traded U.S. health insurance companies made a collective $71.3 billion in profits last year, and their CEOs took home a total of $146.1 million in compensation.

'Gouging': US Health Insurance Giants Raked in Over $71 Billion in Profits Last Year www.commondreams.org/news/health-...

Chief Actuary Says Trump-GOP Budget Law Will 'Worsen' Social Security's Finances | Common Dreams "Republicans have brought Social Security closer to running out of money," said Sen. Ron Wyden. "Every day that goes by makes it clear that the Republican agenda is making Americans sicker and poorer....

Chief Actuary Says Trump-GOP Budget Law Will 'Worsen' Social Security's Finances www.commondreams.org/news/social-...

600+ Journalists Renew Call To Let Foreign Press Enter Gaza As Israel Begins ‘Full Conquest’ As Israel prepares for a full occupation of Gaza, foreign journalists have renewed calls to be allowed into the besieged strip. More than 600 journalists and media organizations have signed a petition...

"What's happening in Gaza reveals a far broader crisis: the erosion of press freedom as a pillar of democracy."

Miss United States Files Restraining Order Against GOP Rep. Cory Mills Lindsey Langston reported the Florida Republican to law enforcement for harassment last month.

Miss United States Files Restraining Order Against GOP Rep. Cory Mills
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Big Data Is Already Jacking Up Your Airline Fares Despite Delta’s recent denials to lawmakers, the airline and its competitors already work with AI and data companies to increase your ticket costs.

Despite Delta’s recent denials to lawmakers, the airline and its competitors already work with AI and data companies to increase your ticket costs.
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All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory!
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Musk's X must face part of lawsuit over child pornography video A federal appeals court on Friday revived part of a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk's X of becoming a haven for child exploitation, though the court said the platform deserves broad immunity from claims ov...

What if we just didn't put rapists in positions of power? Or pedophiles?
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12. From Ghislaine Maxwell to The Tea Hack Both show that everything is about regulating men's access to women, not keeping women safe

“If men are serious about supporting girls and women, and want to be part of building something better, they’ll stop demanding their own emotional protection in the face women’s lives and fears and start confronting attitudes & violence, esp among men alone, that makes our speaking out so necessary”

Real question: are there no criminal charges that could be brought under New York State law against child sex trafficking Ghislaine Maxwell such that she does not get released from federal prison after a pardon, but instead can be remanded into custody in New York?

Marking Time: Looking Forward and Looking Back In a fascist time, decency is everything.

“This is a time of choosing, an era wrought with danger, grief and so much depends on what we decide, who we want to emulate, who we want to be. These decisions are often both harder and easier than we make them. ”

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In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote To Stop Arming Israel Late Wednesday night, the US Senate once again blocked a Bernie Sanders-led effort to end certain weapons sales to Israel, which is currently starving 2 million Palestinians. The resolutions, brought ...

"26 Democrats joined Bernie Sanders in his effort to end certain weapons' sales to Israel - but were blocked by 70 pro-war senators, including every Republican present. Here's how the vote went. The majority of Democratic Senators bucked AIPAC."
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Notorious Pro-Trump Lawyer Should Be Disbarred for 2020 Election Plot: Panel | Common Dreams Former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark faces disbarment for his role in the plot to keep Trump in power. Panel recommends disbarment for flagrant dishonesty.

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‘Exceptionally Dangerous’: Trump EPA Targets Endangerment Finding That Enables Climate Rules U.S. President Donald Trump's administration faced an onslaught of criticism on Tuesday for starting the process of repealing the 2009 legal opinion that greenhouse gases endanger public health and th...

"Zeldin & Trump only care about maximizing short-term profits for polluting corporations & CEOs funneling $ to them. Zeldin's assertion that the EPA shouldn't address greenhouse gas emissions is like a fire chief claiming that they shouldn't fight fires. It is as malicious as it is absurd."

A legal black hole "We're surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland," President Trump said earlier this month, referring to the new detention camp in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz.

A legal black hole
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US labor activist Chris Smalls assaulted by IDF during Gaza aid trip, group says Freedom Flotilla Coalition says Smalls was ‘choked and kicked’ after aid ship trying to reach Gaza was intercepted

“This level of force was not used against other abducted activists. We condemn this violence against Chris Smalls and demand accountability for the assault and discriminatory treatment he faced.”
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Epstein Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg: The Trump Protection Machine and the Epidemic of Violence Against Women On July 2, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against music mogul Sean Combs for his decades of horrific sexual abuse of women with the help of his extensive staff and deep poc...

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society. "

‘South Park’ vs. Trump: And the Little Children Shall Lead Them What does it say about America that the only people taking on President Trump on his own terms — which is to say, in the gutter — are two bad-boy cartoonists? In its 27th season opener this week, titl...

"South Park’s key demographic is young males, precisely the cohort that has been drifting toward Trump. If they are persuaded by the episode that Trump is a tyrannical buffoon and a fair target for ridicule, that may affect their next trip to the polls"
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