President Trump is pushing for a redrawing of the Texas electoral map to favor Republicans in next year's midterms and beyond. Journalist @ariberman.bsky.social calls it an "unprecedented power grab" that will further disenfranchise voters of color in the state.
www.democracynow.org/2025/8/1/tru...
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“Designed as Death Traps”: U.S. Veteran Reveals Rampant War Crimes at GHF Sites in Gaza
As more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed seeking aid at militarized aid distribution sites run by the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a former GHF security contractor tel...
At least 159 Palestinians in Gaza have starved to death amid Israel's ongoing siege blocking most humanitarian aid from entering the territory. Meanwhile, Israeli forces continue to kill scores of Palestinians on a daily basis, including at food distribution sites widely described as "death traps."
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Earlier this week, the Senate voted 70-27 against a measure introduced by Vermont's Bernie Sanders to block $675 million in additional U.S. arms sales to Israel. While many Democrats joined the effort, both Schumer and Gillibrand voted no.
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Antiwar activists led by @jvp.bsky.social occupied the lobby of the New York offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand on Friday to denounce their votes against halting arms shipments to Israel.
Banging pots and pans, they chanted "Stop starving Gaza!" and "Never again for anyone!"
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"Our children are dying."
Roishetta and Kamea Ozane are a mother and daughter from Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," where oil and gas pollution is linked to a host of health issues. They are in New York this week to protest "toxic billionaires" who finance the industry harming their community.
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The Trump administration is looking to revoke a key Obama-era rule known as the Endangerment Finding.
@daviddoniger.bsky.social of @nrdc.org says such a move would "knock the legs out" from the Environmental Protection Agency's power to curb harmful emissions that contribute to climate change.
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The Trump administration wants to revoke an Obama-era rule, known as the Endangerment Finding, that allows the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars, power plants and other sources. "What this administration is doing is a danger to the entire planet," says @michaelemann.bsky.social.
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Dr. Ambereen Sleemi, a urogynecologist just back from Gaza, recently lost a pregnant patient who was malnourished and injured by Israeli bombing. www.democracynow.org/2025/7/31/ga...
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While recent moves by Western nations to recognize Palestinian statehood are filled with caveats and loopholes, they indicate that global opinion is rapidly shifting. www.democracynow.org/2025/7/31/tw...
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Palestinian American Student Sereen Haddad Wins Diploma Withheld by VCU over Peaceful Protests www.democracynow.org/2025/7/30/he...
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Activist Odeh Muhammad Hadalin was fatally shot in the occupied West Bank on Monday by an Israeli settler.
His relative Alaa calls Odeh an exceptionally “humane” and “peaceful” person, in a video by Oren Ziv.
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Today marks the 60th anniversary of the creation of Medicare and Medicaid — and nearly one month since President Trump's federal budget cut almost $1 trillion from Medicaid.
“It is a matter of life and death. Literally, Medicaid has been a lifeline, and people will die.”
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"The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation needs to be defunded, shut down, and the United Nations needs to be allowed back in at full scale," says former GHF security contractor Anthony Aguilar, who calls it "un-American" for the U.S. to back Israel's starvation of Palestinians.
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