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The Contrarian covers the Democracy Movement Tuesday: Rep. Mike Flood gets an earful at a Nebraska town hall, plus Rage Against the Regime rallies in Kansas, Michiga

The democracy movement stays strong! Rep. Mike Flood gets an earful at a Nebraska town hall, plus Rage Against the Regime rallies in Kansas, Michigan, and South Carolina.

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A quote from "A Primer on Pitching Translation" by Lara Vernaud

Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud’s sharp, humorous essay offers advice to translators trying to navigate the pitching landscape. Read “A Primer on Pitching Translations” on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump’s gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural US The ‘big, beautiful’ bill will cut more than $1tn from the health plan, with rural hospitals feeling the brunt of it

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South Carolina Miscarriage Patient Turned in to Child Protective Services Then she was arrested for 'desecration' of a corpse

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Trump effort to ditch greenhouse gas finding ignores ‘clearcut’ science, expert says Architect of landmark EPA ‘endangerment finding’ says repealing it will lead to more extreme weather in US

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Six months into Donald Trump's presidency and parents are having to choose between taking out a loan or letting their families go hungry just so they can buy school supplies

This week's story in our summer flash fiction series is "Evasion" by Ciara McElroy necessaryfiction.com/stories/evas...

"...Once I drove a long summer night
to your ragged room, to the soft and narrow
tin-tined bed, to your arms where morning sun
poured its gold..."

from "At Twenty" by Mary Buchinger
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El país de Polinices - Literal Magazine Hay tantas maneras de ser Antígona. O peor: tantas maneras de ser y encarnar el cadáver irrecuperable, exiliado del derecho, de su hermano Polinices. Digo esto con indignación, dolor y perplejidad. Y ...

"Hay tantas maneras de ser Antígona. (...) Digo esto con indignación, dolor y perplejidad" Giovanna Rivero literalmagazine.com/el-pais-de-p...

And to top it all off, there's also this:
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This from Wyden is striking:

"Epstein clearly had access to enormous financing to operate his sex trafficking network, and the details on how he got the cash to pay for it are sitting in a Treasury Department filing cabinet."

He lays out roadmap for DOJ to follow:

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“I am convinced that DOJ ignored evidence found in the Treasury Department’s Epstein file [involving] mountains of cash Epstein received from prominent businessmen...to finance his criminal network,” Wyden says.

Wyden's investigators viewed these documents:

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Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.

NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way.

Read here:
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"21 Gaza[n] children have starved to death over ... three days."

For #ClimateAction, I enjoyed lobbying yesterday 4 Oregon Congressional Offices to #ActOnClimate as part of the @cclusa.org Lobby Day on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. #Grassrootsclimate #CCL2025 #ORClimateAction

My investigators also found that several ultra-wealthy Wall Street financiers, including Leon Black, paid Jeffrey Epstein hundreds of millions of dollars. There's a clear paper trail here between Epstein and these guys, and DOJ needs to follow the money to figure out why.

Trump's DOJ needs to demand more documents and more answers from banks that worked with Epstein. That includes investigating how Epstein used shady, sanctioned Russian banks to send hundreds of millions of payments likely linked to sex trafficking.

EPSTEIN LATEST: In light of what we released last week from my staff's investigation, I'm handing Trump's DOJ a ready-made case with seven different lines of investigation for them to follow the money on Jeffrey Epstein.

What ICE’s Assault on Ventura County, California Means for the Rest of America “Mom is gone. They took her away.” These are the words of an 8-year-old Mexican-American girl I will call Maria, in my hometown of Oxnard, California. She spoke them to her summer school teachers t…

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Trump releases frozen school grants with conditions; most funds for California still in limbo The Education Department plans to release previously withheld grant money for after-school programs

Let's be clear about what's happening here. Trump & Vought released a *fraction* of the $7 billion of education funding they are illegally impounding, and now the congressionally-approved money can only be spent on Trump-approved programs or else it will be rescinded.
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US House calls early summer recess amid turmoil over Epstein files Republicans say last votes will take place on Wednesday, a day earlier than scheduled

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After ten years of service, the head of FEMA’s urban search and rescue team has resigned, citing mounting frustration with Trump-era bureaucracy that he says hindered the agency’s response to the deadly flooding in Texas.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will meet with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, Bondi says Attorney General Pam Bondi has released a statement from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announcing he anticipates meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Yeah this is totally on the up-and-up and not at all Trump's former attorney meeting with a witness to cut a deal to protect his client...

Trump's DOJ does not serve victims or the American public. It only serves Trump.

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ACCOUNTABILITY AUGUST TELL CONGRESS WHAT THE MEGABILL MEANS AT HOME July 23rd, 1 pm ET / 10 am PT Register: bit.ly/congresscomeshome Congressman Greg Casar (TX-35) Sulma Arias, People’s Action Trisha Maharaj, Indivisible Alex Lawson, Social Security Works Rachel Phipps, Action North Carolina DaMareo Cooper, Popular Democracy in Action Catherine Rowland, PCAF

The GOP megabill guts healthcare, food, and clean energy to fund giveaways to the ultra-wealthy and billions for ICE raids.

What can we do? Join Rep. Casar and more great guests for tomorrow’s conversation about our plans for Accountability August and congressional recess: bit.ly/congresscomeshome

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Epstein files fallout: Republicans divided as Johnson cancels votes and House committee subpoenas Ghislaine Maxwell - live House Republican leaders cancel scheduled Thursday votes; House oversight subcommittee approves motion for Epstein confidante to testify to Congress

Mike Johnson and Republicans shut down Congress until September to avoid voting on release of the Epstein files. Total collusion, shameless coverup and distraction, not to mention a cowardly, lazy-ass failure to govern.
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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Not good.

“'This sends a dangerous message to scholars globally: that academic publishing contracts are conditional, revocable, and subject to external political calculations.'”

A Full Blown Cover-Up: GOP May Shut Down The House For 6 Weeks To Avoid Releasing Epstein Files House Republican leadership announced that the Rules Committee would not be returning this week, so no legislation can advance as the House may shut down for 6 weeks to avoid the Epstein scandal.

A Full Blown Cover-Up:
House Republican leadership announced that the Rules Committee would not be returning this week, so no legislation can advance as the House may shutdown for 6 weeks to avoid the Epstein scandal.
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