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TOP NEWS: 'Beyond Shameful': Manchin Joins Senate GOP—Again—to Block Abortion Rights


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May 11, 2022
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Joe Manchin
'Beyond Shameful': Manchin Joins Senate GOP—Again—to Block Abortion Rights
Rep. Pramila Jayapal says it is "clear that we urgently need not just a Democratic majority in the Senate, but a true pro-reproductive rights majority, as we have in the House."
by Jessica Corbett


Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a hearing
Sanders: GOP Ended Filibuster to Pack Supreme Court, So Dems Must End It to Save Abortion Rights
"If Republicans can end the filibuster to install right-wing justices nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote in order to overturn Roe v. Wade, Democrats can and must end the filibuster to make abortion legal and safe."
by Jake Johnson


Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is pictured
'Blatant Murder': Al Jazeera Accuses Israel of Killing Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
"We pledge to prosecute the perpetrators legally, no matter how hard they try to cover up their crime, and bring them to justice," the media network said in a statement.
by Jake Johnson
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Laughing Republican senators
The GOP Attack on Women Is Funded by Corporate America
If a woman can be barred from controlling her own uterus, then everything else she thinks she controls is in doubt.
by Jim Hightower


Freedom sign littered with evidence that GOP only want power
Republicans Don't Believe in Freedom—Only Power
The GOP agenda centers on taking away freedom, not defending it.
by Robert Reich


The wife of an Ukrainian soldier who fell during the fights against Russia cries
Ukraine Needs a Negotiated Peace Because Everyone Will Lose This War of Attrition
Despite the brutality of Russia's assault, Ukraine should intensify the search for a negotiated peace of the kind that was on the table in March, but which was abandoned following atrocities in Bucha.
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
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