TOP NEWS: 'Time to Scrap the Cap': Sanders, Warren Bill Targets Rich to Expand Social Security

 

June 09, 2022

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'Deny, Deceive, Delay': How 'Evolving' Disinformation Tactics Stymie Climate Action Pushing for policies requiring Big Tech "to be transparent and accountable about the harms their products create," one campaigner said that "we should not continue this endless game of climate denial whack-a-mole." by Jessica Corbett Make Manchin-Sinema Obstruction Central Target in Midterms, Sanders Tells Democrats "The leadership has got to go out and say we don't have the votes to pass anything significant right now," says the Vermont senator. "You got 48 votes. And we need more to pass it. That should be the message of this campaign." by Jake Johnson 'Time to Scrap the Cap': Sanders, Warren Bill Targets Rich to Expand Social Security Under the current system, notes Sen. Bernie Sanders, billionaires pay "the same amount of Social Security taxes as someone making $147,000 a year." by Jake Johnson

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The Collateral Damage Comes Home If we want to curtail mass shootings on the home front, we have to address, collectively, the national assumption that conflict and disagreement are the same thing as war, and that waging war—killing people—fixes all problems. by Robert C. Koehler The Uvalde Police Sent an Important Message to the Nation We're not going to save you or your children! by Bill Bianchi Media and Congress Enable Biden's Silence on Increasing Risk of Nuclear War Refusing to talk about the dangers of thermonuclear destruction makes it more likely, not less. by Norman Solomon

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