‘They’re selling the safety of the traveling public’: TSA workers decry Trump privatization push www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘They’re selling the safety of the traveling public’: TSA workers decry Trump privatization push
Union exploring options to oppose program that would put US airport screening into hands of private contractors
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New law has developers poised to build on thousands of acres of farmland around Florida jasongarcia.substack.com/p/new-law-ha...
New law has developers poised to build on thousands of acres of farmland around Florida
Records show state legislators worked closely with lobbyists for major developers on the "agricultural enclave" law, which strips Florida counties of some of their power to control urban sprawl.
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Health Coverage Tracker: Millions of People Are Losing Coverage Following 2025 Republican Policy Changes www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
Health Coverage Tracker: Millions of People Are Losing Coverage Following 2025 Republican Policy Changes
This tool tracks declines in the number of people enrolled in the ACA marketplaces and Medicaid: two sources of coverage that have been crucial to delivering affordable health care to people with low…
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Missouri Republicans Count on Foot Dragging to Help Jam Through Gerrymander talkingpointsmemo.com/news/missour...
Missouri Republicans Count on Foot Dragging to Help Jam Through Gerrymander
Missouri Republicans have been transparent about their strategy to drag out the...
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Mediation agency changes how labor disputes move forward www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
Mediation agency changes how labor disputes move forward
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service says it is clarifying when it can decline to provide arbitrators, a change unions say exceeds its role.
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The EPA Heralds Its Omaha Cleanup as a Success. But We Found Many Yards Still Have Toxic Levels of Lead. www.propublica.org/article/lead...
The EPA Heralds Its Omaha Cleanup as a Success. But We Found Many Yards Still Have Toxic Levels of Lead.
The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, Nebraska, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show…
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Republican Senators Pretend to Constrain Trump prospect.org/2026/08/04/r...
Republican Senators Pretend to Constrain Trump - The American Prospect
John Cornyn caves and agrees to vote for Todd Blanche as AG, while Susan Collins orchestrates a loophole-ridden deal on OMB rules politicizing federal grants.
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Frances Perkins: The Architect of Social Security prospect.org/2026/08/04/a...
Frances Perkins: The Architect of Social Security - The American Prospect
In her words, Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet secretary, ‘came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common workingmen.’
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Voters Reject Republicans’ Attempt to Ban Abortion in Kansas Through Back Door talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kansas-...
Voters Reject Republicans’ Attempt to Ban Abortion in Kansas Through Back Door
Kansas voters foiled state Republicans’ latest scheme to snatch back their abortion...
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New Lawsuit Challenges Missouri’s Rejection of Citizen Challenge to GOP Gerrymander talkingpointsmemo.com/news/lawsuit...
New Lawsuit Challenges Missouri’s Rejection of Citizen Challenge to GOP Gerrymander
The group behind an effort to force a statewide vote on Missouri...
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I think winning a race where you get outspent by like a factor of 10 is a pretty solid outcome all things considered, if you wanted a landslide, I dunno which race you were watching
Politico@politico.com · 17h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Yes, the one who couldn't win a primary in her own party despite a $55 MILLION dollar advantage—much of it from a PAC that would prefer to see the Republican win anyway—is the more "electable" one, the one who can really reach voters. That is a thing people believe.
he won by the same margin as Trump, which represented "a huge mandate" back then.
Politico@politico.com · 17h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.
404 Media@404media.co · yesterdayMike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
The American Ethnic Cleansing Regime Ramps Back Up www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/the-...
The American Ethnic Cleansing Regime Ramps Back Up - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Markwayne might be doing a better job of keeping ICE a bit quieter than Noem, but the American ethnic cleansing is back to record levels. Detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement set a…
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The Push to Elect Kansas Supreme Court Justices Is a Cynical Anti-Abortion Power Grab talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-pus...
The Push to Elect Kansas Supreme Court Justices Is a Cynical Anti-Abortion Power Grab
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It...
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REVEALED: The Scope of ICE’s Surveillance of Its Online Critics talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
REVEALED: The Scope of ICE’s Surveillance of Its Online Critics
ICE’s Round-the-Clock Digital Dragnet About a month ago, it emerged from upstate...
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The Antifa Terrorism Threat Trump Describes Does Not Exist www.techdirt.com/2026/08/04/t...
The Antifa Terrorism Threat Trump Describes Does Not Exist
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The State Department on July 16, 2026, hosted what officials billed as a ministerial o…
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Missouri Secretary of State Comes Up With Reason to Not Certify Challenge to New Republican Gerrymander talkingpointsmemo.com/news/missour...
Missouri Secretary of State Comes Up With Reason to Not Certify Challenge to New Republican Gerrymander
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) announced Tuesday — Missouri’s primary...
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Is Blanche Vow to Make Dobbs Permanent in ‘Every Single State’ Tied to Cornyn, Tillis Appeasement? talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Is Blanche Vow to Make Dobbs Permanent in ‘Every Single State’ Tied to Cornyn, Tillis Appeasement?
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and a handful of women’s rights and reproductive...
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the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about…
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46 Democrats Voted for the Laken Riley Act. For Some, It’s Now a Midterms Liability.
46 Democrats Voted for the Laken Riley Act. For Some, It’s Now a Midterms Liability.
This story was originally reported by Mel Leonor Barclay of The 19th....
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Congress May Actually Try to Put a (Temporary) Limit on Trump’s Latest Power Grab
Congress May Actually Try to Put a (Temporary) Limit on Trump’s Latest Power Grab
With the prospect of another government shutdown looming, the Senate Appropriations Committee...
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What Amazon Workers Can Learn From the Successes (and Failures) of the Fight for 15
What Amazon Workers Can Learn From the Successes (and Failures) of the Fight for 15
If the labor movement is to maintain and raise standards, then we must organize Amazon—one of the largest employers and most powerful corporations in the U.S. today.
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If I Prove That You Can Win Statewide Taking On AIPAC, That Is Catastrophic portside.org/2026-08-03/i...
If I Prove That You Can Win Statewide Taking On AIPAC, That Is Catastrophic
On July 8, Abdul El-Sayed had just wrapped up a campaign stop inside a sweltering church auditorium in Ferndale, Michigan. The room was packed with supporters fanning themselves with campaign signs,…
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