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A classified State Department report released just before the ceasefire agreement went into effect found that Israel has committed “many hundreds” of potential human rights violations that would render it illegal to continue sending weapons to them.
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The State Department has a bespoke process for probes into Israel that is deferential to its military.
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Trump has urged Senate Republicans to scrap the legislative filibuster to end the prolonged government shutdown without Democratic support — the kind of scenario progressives warned about when imploring Democrats to eliminate it during Biden’s term.
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Progressives have long warned that Republicans would scrap the filibuster if it interfered with their agenda.
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During a heated debate, Katie Miller suggested that her co-panelist on the show, progressive commentator Cenk Uygur, should be deported. “You better check your citizenship application and hope that everything was legal and correct,” she said.
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Miller also accused Uygur of being antisemitic toward her, despite Uygur making no mention of her faith or ethnicity.
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CNN has reported the Trump administration plans to build a new network of mass immigration jails that can hold up to 100,000 prisoners by funneling billions of dollars through the Navy to help facilitate the construction.
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The new jails are expected to look like the tent camps built at Fort Bliss, an immigration policy expert says.
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Israel’s top military lawyer has resigned after taking responsibility for the leak of a horrific video showing the sexual abuse of a Palestinian prisoner by Israeli guards, after the military launched a investigation into the leak this week. https://t.co/rXAn6NZ144
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The arrest of the guards in the video launched protests from far right Israeli groups last year.
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Trump’s administration officially announced that it is restricting the number of refugees for this fiscal year to 7,500, with most spots going to white South Africans. “Let’s call this what it is — white supremacy disguised as refugee policy.”
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The administration said the lowest-ever refugee cap of 7,500 would primarily be allocated to white South Africans.
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DOD officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them. https://t.co/XOgFvAPsJq
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The White House cannot “satisfy the evidentiary burden” to prosecute those they have been killing, one lawmaker said.
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There are multiple ways that a disruption in SNAP benefits could be avoided. If funding does lapse for food stamps, it will be the first such disruption to the federally funded safety net program since it was started in its current form in the 1960s.
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The critical safety net program has never been disrupted since it began in its current form in the 1960s.
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Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Trump has intensified the New McCarthyism, compelling willing bosses to censure, suspend, and fire workers. Texas State University fired tenured professor Tom Alter for the “crime” of speaking at a socialist conference.
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Professor Tom Alter is appealing to Texas’s Board of Regents after being temporarily reinstated and then fired again.
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Ohio Republican State Rep. Melanie Miller has introduced legislation that would require Ohio public schools to show a video about “Baby Olivia,” inaccurately detailing fetal development, to students as young as the third grade.
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Republicans can’t seem to convince adults to vote against abortion, so they’re trying to brainwash kids instead.
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“The U.S. has now murdered 57 civilians in attacks on 14 civilian boats,” said Ben Saul. “A systematic attack on civilians is a crime against humanity under international law. When will other governments speak out?” https://t.co/zDNoA8lLGQ
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Amnesty International USA said the strikes are nothing more than a “murder spree.”…
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The Senate voted to scrap a Biden-era policy that protected millions of acres in the Alaskan Arctic from fossil fuel drilling. The final vote on the resolution was almost entirely along party lines. Sen. Fetterman was the only Democrat to join Republicans.
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This comes after Trump’s Interior Department wrenched open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing.
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A newly released DOD memo calls for all states to form “quick reaction forces” within the National Guard that will be trained in “riot control” procedures—the latest indication that Trump is set to escalate his militarization of cities across the country.
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Critics call the order an escalation of Trump’s militarization of cities across the country.
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“A systematic attack on civilians is a crime against humanity under international law. When will other governments speak out?” said the UN Special Rapporteur for the protection of human rights. Read more: https://t.co/QE8IIvWfo1
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Gender-affirming care for trans youth is banned in 27 states. However, if new rules that have been proposed by the Trump administration were implemented, it would make it next to impossible to obtain such treatment across the entirety of the country.
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The vast majority of research indicates that gender-affirming care for trans kids is safe and beneficial.
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Trump told reporters that he wanted to work with Democrats on an alternative to Obamacare, omitting that many of it's problems stem from decisions his own administration have made. Read more: https://t.co/QVJu3c153x
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The Trump administration’s murderous strikes on small boats at sea constitute unlawful extrajudicial killings.
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The Trump administration’s murderous strikes on small boats at sea constitute unlawful extrajudicial killings.
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On Sunday, the paramilitary force took control of el-Fasher, which was the Sudan Armed Forces’s last major outpost in Darfur. The forces stormed the city, displacing thousands and killing 2,000 people in door-to-door killings, executions, and a massacre at a hospital.
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Calls are growing for the U.S. to end arms transfers to the United Arab Emirates after reports of horrific slaughter in Sudan this week by the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces.
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The US has provided the UAE with billions of dollars’ worth of weapons, even as it’s funneled weapons into Sudan.
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The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. embargo on Cuba for the 33rd consecutive year, with just seven opposed, including the United States, Israel and Ukraine.
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The US embargo and other economic sanctions make it much harder for Cuba to respond to disasters.
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