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Project 2025 threatens our rights, and is rife with proposals that would harm real people, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says.

This is not the first time Trump has been accused of politicizing the military for his personal gain. He’s allegedly called dead soldiers “suckers and losers,” insulted the late John McCain for being a prisoner of war and recently stoked controversy for saying civilian Medal of Freedom recipients are much better than those who received the Medal of Honor — the highest military award in the country, often given posthumously.

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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a powerful lobbying group widely known as AIPAC, has officially spent more than $100 million in the 2024 election cycle so far, pouring staggering sums into Democratic primary races in an effort to unseat progressive opponents of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.

The move followed a decision last year that the Biden administration had overstepped its authority by trying to forgive more than $400 billion in student loans.

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I’ve never actually seen one of Trump’s sales ads. I’m speechless for a number of reasons. How big is that dude’s jacket? Somehow, the second one is even worse.

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Western nations, including the United States and New Zealand, failed to understand swiftly enough the geopolitical importance of island nations in the South Pacific, leaving a power vacuum that allowed other countries to increase their diplomatic influence, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said.

Not exactly a big surprise after the secret meeting with Bibi, but still. Firm confirmation.

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Numerous Project 2025 groups have claimed over the years that abortion is comparable to or even worse than the Holocaust. Those partners have called abortion the “American Holocaust”; said that “someday, abortion will be viewed historically as a modern-day Holocaust, maybe even worse”; and claimed that “America’s holocaust against the unborn makes Hitler’s holocaust pale in comparison.”

In order to escape [the] cycle of democratic innovation, reform, and disappointment, we must stop thinking of democracy primarily as a matter of procedures for collective decision-making. Most basically, modern electoral democracy is simply a way of forcing competition for power into peaceful channels—and incentivizing the winners not to ignore the needs of too many people at once. While this may not sound like much, it does limit the ability of any group to capture state power entirely for itself.

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Democratic U.S. Congressmember Ilhan Omar said outside the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Wednesday [21 August], where members of the “uncommitted” movement launched a sit-in to demand a Palestinian American be allowed to address the convention from the main stage.

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Here is the full speech!!

Former Michigan Congressmember Andy Levin, a former synagogue president, lost his 2022 Democratic primary in a race that saw millions spent by pro-Israel groups to unseat the progressive Jewish lawmaker.

Choose the topics you areinterested in (democracy, abortion, climate change, …) and it gives you a brief interpretation of the implications including citations and page references to the 900 pages of the right-wing plan.

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/40146332

Amanda Zurawski, whose lawsuit challenging state abortion bans was ultimately rejected by the state’s high court, wants Republicans to rue Roe’s demise come November.

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As a venture capitalist, JD Vance repeatedly touted his guiding principles for investing in a company: A business should not only turn a profit, it should also help American communities.

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