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Saw the !usa@lemmy.ml comm and has a... suspicious amount of negative articles and specific people who submit things and stuff. Just want to get some actual news up in a /c/ that Americans can refer to if they would like.

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Here’s the list of every Democrat who voted against measures from Senator Bernie Sanders to stop giving weapons to Israel.

  1. Michael Bennett (CO)
  2. Richard Blumenthal (CT)
  3. Cory Booker (NJ)
  4. Maria Cantwell (WA)
  5. Chris Coons (DE)
  6. Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
  7. John Fetterman (PA)
  8. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
  9. Maggie Hassan (NH)
  10. John Hicklenlooper (CO)
  11. Jon Ossoff (GA)
  12. Alex Padilla (CA)
  13. Gary Peters (MI)
  14. Jack Reed (RI)
  15. Jackie Rosen (NV)
  16. Adam Schiff (CA)
  17. Chuck Schumer (NY)
  18. Mark Warner (VA)
  19. Ron Wyden (OR)
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The decision to drop the case comes days after the Justice Department fired two of its top antitrust officials.

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Forty Democrats signed a letter expressing alarm over starvation in Gaza this week — but only 27 voted to withhold arms.

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The Senate confirmed Joe Kent as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in a 52 to 44 vote.

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Paywall Bypass Link https://archive.is/ML3dn

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A brief recent history of "soft-sided" facilities and their many faults.

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For years, mad and disabled people have been asking Americans to fight the criminalization of disability. Will they?

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Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than two-thirds of that.

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Rashid Khalidi Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT

Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.

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Do you condemn Israel? (www.motherjones.com)
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For years, the Democratic Party has litmus-tested candidates by asking if they disavow Hamas. Now, could the opposite become the norm?

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