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We need to pass Medicare for All. We can afford it. No more copays, deductibles, or coinsurance. Service should be free at the point of use. Healthcare is a human right. www.currentaffairs.org/news/politic...

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We should house everybody as quickly as possible. Enact rent freezes, stop evictions, and build more affordable housing. Homelessness should not exist. www.currentaffairs.org/news/politic...

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April 4th, 2025 ❧ Current Affairs News Briefing 🦩 British police raid a Quaker meeting house 🦩 The fight for paid leave in Nevada 🦩 Trump’s tariff chaos And much more! currentaffairs.org/briefing

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To start tackling poverty, we must stop dehumanizing and criminalizing our fellow Americans who are poor, homeless, and working-class and start from the principle that everyone deserves a good life. www.currentaffairs.org/news/politic...

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airports should be less like bars, drink lounges, pubs, shopping malls, and the like. why does the airport have to be at all like any of these when we can just go to those places some other time?

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Gaza has disappeared from nightly news and Sunday shows and no longer merits front page NYT coverage. It’s totally bipartisan and totally normalized mass death: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

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In Compact magazine, Jacob Savage complains that the “white male writer” is becoming an endangered species. But that’s a lazy, self-absorbed narrative that obscures the real threats to literature today. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-whi...

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Is the white male writer vanishing?! Turns out, No. Hardly. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-whi...

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Some news: @joho.bsky.social is in Important Context this week with a piece about Donald Trump’s new FDA and NIH heads. www.importantcontext.news/p/trumps-got...

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If you don’t test then you don’t have any infectious diseases

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Today, @jenniferdines.bsky.social writes about how her high school students are targets in Trump’s cruel deportation spree. It can’t be allowed to continue. www.currentaffairs.org/news/teachin...

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The worst thing the federal government has done to unions in my lifetime happened last night. The second worst thing was three weeks ago. The labor movement will either protect ourselves right now or be smashed. That's all there is to it. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...

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My high school students are targets in Trump’s cruel deportation spree. It can’t be allowed to continue. www.currentaffairs.org/news/teachin...

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RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he wants excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

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March 28th, 2025 ❧ Current Affairs News Briefing 🦩 Mass protests in Turkey 🦩 Another student kidnapped by ICE 🦩 Trump’s war on unions And much more! currentaffairs.org/briefing

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so is it the official view of the white house that race is a biological reality?

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If you’re new to my page, check out the Accountability Journalism Institute. We are exposing the big money behind disinformation campaigns to undermine America’s vital institutions. www.accountabilityjournalism.org

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Austerity feeds the right. It fuels their narratives and heightens divisions. Don’t do austerity.

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“The US supreme court’s 1927 decision to uphold forcible sterilization in Virginia has never been overturned. It remains legal in at least 31 states and Washington DC to forcibly sterilize a disabled person.” www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

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state medical boards are an absolute failure! they have failed to go after quacks and misinfo spreaders during covid and this latest case below is an outrage. beyond disgusting

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A lawyer for St. Peter’s told ProPublica and @montanafreepress.org that the hospital gave the licensing board 160,000 pages of documents relating to the care of 64 patients; the state received those records in early 2021, months after Weiner was fired.

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Pete Hegseth is violent, incompetent, and openly deranged. www.currentaffairs.org/news/pete-he...

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why do the Dems get another 'way'? What psychological mechanisms keep people so locked into this party that they will not consider a third, independent left party?

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“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza,” he said. “Keep telling our stories — until Palestine is free.”

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Fishing sustainability is based on a pseudoscientific theory that justifies taking the most marine life for maximum profit. www.currentaffairs.org/news/sustain...

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Far from crypto’s lofty promises of creating a democratic exchange space that empowers consumers, the industry has emerged as one whose success hinges on its ability to disempower its own traders and curry favor with elites. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-cry...

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i wonder how many of them subscribe to the atlantic, though lol

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this is an absolute disgrace for the medical profession - allowing unjust law to dictate practice. it's now, first, follow the law. not first, do no harm.

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"Parisians vote in a referendum on Sunday to decide whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised and greened, in a new push by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality."

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We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words. In the Phoenix area, 59-year-old Mary gets emotional when she thinks about the loss of blue baby shoes that her son and daughter wore: propub.li/4hEGcgx

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Remember when Kennedy promised to study long COVID during his Senate confirmation hearing? I do. This is despicable and a betrayal of millions of Americans suffering long COVID—especially as we do nothing to prevent infection.

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The crypto industry uses vast sums of money to create majorities in Congress to champion their unpopular cause. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-cry...

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If your client or loved one has been disappeared by the US gov, whether to Guantánamo, a Salvadoran gulag, or some other incomunicado/unregistered ICE or CBP facility, I urge you to report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (thread): www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

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No more billionaires. Any political party that includes billionaires as advisers or allows billionaire influence of any kind is not a worthwhile political party.

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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects. (Published July 2024)

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Nazi-owned companies deserve to fail.

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Abundance is such a funny political slogan. “What’s another word for wealth but three syllables long and something most people wouldn’t use in casual conversation?”

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The deputy secretary of the DHS admitted to NPR that Mahmoud Khalil was targeted for “basically pro-Palestinian activity.” This is squarely in violation of the First Amendment, of course, but also the Fifth Amendment, which guarantees due process of law. www.currentaffairs.org/news/trust-m...

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National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has said they are pursuing a “wholesale shift on what a terrorist is and how they should be treated in the United States,” a view that would allow the state to conclude it could conduct extrajudicial executions. www.currentaffairs.org/news/trust-m...

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It's pretty obvious what Democrats need to do, and it doesn’t have anything to do with throwing marginalized groups under the bus. They just need a clear set of “New Deal” values and a clear agenda that can help people. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-fec...

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rfk jr's attitude toward anyone or thing that gets sick is "if he dies, he dies."

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"The late archconservative economist Milton Friedman himself said, 'IMF bailouts are hurting the countries they are lending to, and benefitting the foreigners who lent to them.'" (via @currentaffairs.bsky.social ) www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/02...

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Dressing for walkable neighborhoods is so much more fun than dressing to ensure that American car culture doesn’t kill you.

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If you are in Manchester next month, come see me talk with @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social of @currentaffairs.bsky.social about his new book w/ Noam Chomsky. Tickets are cheap or free if you get a copy of the book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-myth-o...

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No two conflicts are exactly like, but Northern Ireland offers lessons for today’s seemingly intractable conflicts. If the international community can underwrite war, it can also underwrite peace and justice. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/01...

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The refusal to pay taxes has been a powerful form of resistance against war and imperialism in North America since before the United States even existed. It may provide a potential mode of resistance against American funding for violence in Gaza, too. www.currentaffairs.org/news/what-ha...

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Trumpism thrives when the opposition is stupid. MeidasTouch makes millions comforting liberals by telling them that "Trump is COLLAPSING!!!!" -- whether it's true or not. www.currentaffairs.org/news/meidast...

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