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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)

Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to immigration facilities further blurs the line between military and law enforcement.

The sustained attention around the Epstein files lets us shine a light on the bipartisan architecture of impunity.

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

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

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.

A Liberian-born double amputee was thrown into solitary confinement at a Georgia immigration detention center after refusing to enter his flooded cell — a move that could have destroyed his battery-powered prosthetic legs and left him unable to walk, according to a report.

Rodney Taylor spent three days in a "restrictive housing unit" at Stewart detention center after guards tried to force him into a cell with an inch of standing water. For Taylor, whose microprocessor-controlled prosthetic legs cannot get wet, entering that cell would have been catastrophic, The Guardian reported.

The 46-year-old barber has lived in the U.S. nearly his entire life after arriving from Liberia as a child on a medical visa. He underwent 16 operations and has only two fingers on his right hand.

Parts of Fateh and Mamdani’s platforms would be difficult to execute without cooperation from their city councils.

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.