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The Republican version of the ACA is the ACA and it always has been.

It's a corporate-friendly, cobbled together, cumbersome piece of legislation that bends over backwards to minimize any efficiency or government involvement.

They can't replace it because it's the best they could ever do.

We have a broken healthcare system that must be fixed, but the solution in the short-term isn't to deny people the ACA tax credits that they rely on.

We must extend the subsidies so people aren't kicked off their healthcare next month, *and* we need Medicare for All.

How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles

EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my
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Trump’s Health Care Cuts Are a War on Children - The American Prospect GOP funding cuts mean that more children will grow up with the lifelong implications of untreated illnesses.

The GOP is pretending that their drastic cuts to healthcare won't hurt children. But that's a lie. Kids will be hurt most of all. The funding cuts mean more children will die, more will have lifelong medical complications, more will be sent into foster care. New from me in @prospect.org:

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Worth noting just how impressive it is that public opinion has so steadily turned against Israel in the United States considering the fact that news like this basically does not get covered in any of the legacy media publications.

Doughnuts and Bullets: The Absurdity of Working for RFK Jr. What happens when your new boss thinks you’re a child killer?

It was in late January that CDC staff received an email with the subject heading “A Fork in the Road.” Employees who wished to resign, the email said, should type “Resign” in the body of a reply email. Also they should “hit send.”

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CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves Israel’s military is continuing to pound the Gaza Strip in violation of the October 10 ceasefire agreement. Al Jazeera reports Israeli ships opened fire toward the coast of Khan Younis, while air raid...

CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves

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Israel plots to empty Gaza amid media silence And Israel is burning alive Palestinian children amid a media blackout

#gaza #ethnic-cleansing #palestine #ceasefire

Israel is planning to drive out Gaza’s surviving population using the cover of media silence. Meanwhile, despite a supposed ‘ceasefire’, it is burning children alive in tents, killing little kids as they collect firewood, & refusing to let in aid.

Israeli attack kills two children in Gaza, medics say An Israeli attack killed two children in Gaza on Saturday, medics and relatives said, in violence that has persisted in the Palestinian enclave despite a fragile ceasefire.

The IDF reportedly killed 2 kids getting firewood for their wheelchair-bound father. 300+ Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire began. We still need the Block the Bombs Act to hold the IDF accountable and push for adherence to the ceasefire.

the debt created by these acquisitions is so massive, the acquiring companies inevitably look immediately toward all sorts of layoffs, causing a cannibalization of service and brand quality.

But hey, some overpaid execs get to pretend they're savvy dealmakers with a temporary stock boost

To be clear here:
1) i didn't write this article, PPI did
2) yes, i think this bill is a bad idea and will likely end clemency. it matters because clemency is for people who don't have any other way to get released. Leonard Peltier had no other option.
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It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.

This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.

This is almost everything the government is doing.

Baby boy born to brain-dead Georgia mother remains hospitalized nearly 6 months later, family says Adriana Smith's pregnancy made national headlines when she was declared brain dead but placed on life support to let her fetus grow. Now her family is sharing an update on the condition of her infant ...

This remains one of the most disturbing stories of the year. A 1st trimester fetus incubated in a dead woman's body against the will of her family until a very early term birth when the corpse could no longer sustain life.
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Men don’t have to “pretend to be women” to enter women’s locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms. Famously, Donald Trump just strolled right in

Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:

Israel's Ben Gvir promotes head of unit involved in executing two Palestinians The far-right minister is also calling for an end to investigations into the killings of Palestinians

Ben Gvir promotes head of unit involved in executing two Palestinians, and calls for an end to investigations into the killings of Palestinians

A Dark Money Network is Recruiting U.S. Mayors to Criminalize Pro-Palestine Speech Right-wing mega-donors are flying mayors to an all-expenses-paid summit in New Orleans, where they’ll push a policy framework that codifies mainstream criticism of Israel as “antisemitic.”

A dark-money network is flying U.S. mayors to an all-expenses-paid summit in New Orleans to push policies that classify mainstream criticism of Israel as “antisemitic.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-dark-...

Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.

She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities

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World Jewish Congress president Ron Lauder encouraged the high-profile attendees of the Israel Hayom summit in Manhattan to embrace his grand delusions that American politicians like Zohran Mamdani and pundits like Tucker Carlson want to “kill Jews everywhere” and are “glorifying violence against Jews.” Lauder, the cosmetics heir, then invoked Father Charles Coughlin, whose antisemitic radio broadcasts reached millions, saying: “Father Coughlin was the Tucker Carlson of the 1930s — and radio was the TikTok and YouTube of the era.” Other speakers at the lavish Manhattan gala included failed Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz, Israeli billionaire and Trump donor Miriam Adelson, and many others. The summit also honored Rep. Elise Stefanik and Sen. John Fetterman with the group’s highest award for “combating antisemitism.”

World Jewish Congress pres. Ron Lauder encouraged the high-profile attendees of the Israel Hayom summit in Manhattan to embrace his grand delusions that American politicians like Zohran Mamdani & pundits like Tucker Carlson want to “kill Jews everywhere” & are “glorifying violence against Jews...

New—Hillary Clinton will be speaking at an event hosted by Israel Hayom (Israel's most read newspaper, run by Israeli-American billionaire & Trump megadonor Miriam Adelson). She'll join John Fetterman, Eric Adams, Trump UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, Biden official Amos Hochstein, and Israeli officials.

New: Hillary Clinton will be speaking at an event hosted by Israel Hayom (Israel's most read newspaper, run by Israeli-American billionaire & Trump megadonor Miriam Adelson).

She'll join John Fetterman, Eric Adams, Trump UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, Biden official Amos Hochstein, and Israeli officials

#WATCH | Palestinian photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi has been killed after Israeli drones deliberately targeted him in central Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

"Vote blue no matter who" is awfully quiet right now. They reach across the aisle because they actively support all the bigotry of the GOP, the ratchet theory holds true yet again.

Dem. Senator Gallego's Leaked Texts Echo Far-Right Gender Panic And Misogyny Last week, Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego's texts leaked, where he lamented that Democratic "women look like men and men look like women."

1. Over Thanksgiving, texts from Dem. Sen Ruben Gallego leaked where he repeats far-right talking points on masculinity, lamenting that Democratic women "look like men."

Using far-right gender-panic rhetoric will not ingratiate the Democratic Party towards men.

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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer

"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them

Kholoud is helping so many nieces and nephews all of whom have lost a parent: Lama, 16, Falastin, 14, Khaled, 13, Ahmed, 12, Ahmed, 10, Amal, 8, Samar, 7, Mahmoud, 6, Kamal, 6, Lian, 3 and Sidra, 3