WEEKEND EDITION: The GOP's 'Disgraceful' Assault on Public Education

 

July 16, 2023 Top News 'Ancient Heat Records Will Be Broken': Southern Europe Braces for Unprecedented Temperatures "If the disasters we're seeing this month aren't enough to shake us out of that torpor, then the chances of our persevering for another hundred and twenty-five thousand years seem remote." Jake Johnson Ocasio-Cortez Rallies With Teamsters and Rips UPS Greed as Historic Strike Looms "Let's remind them who's actually the boss in this, and that's the workers." Jake Johnson Catastrophic Flooding and Landslides Kill 20+ in South Korea "Nowhere is immune any longer from the explosion of extreme weather brought about by the collapse of the climate," said one scientist. Common Dreams Staff Medicaid Purge Has Now Impacted at Least 2.1 Million People—Including Many Children "States like Florida and Arkansas are weaponizing the bureaucracy against the poor and revoking healthcare for millions, the vast majority for incomplete paperwork." Jake Johnson 'Disgraceful': GOP Advances Bill That Could Remove 220,000 Teachers From Classrooms "If left to their own devices, Republicans would gleefully take public education to the graveyard," said Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro. Jake Johnson At Least 289 Children Have Drowned Trying to Reach Europe This Year: UNICEF "Children are dying not just in front of our eyes; they are dying while we seem to keep our eyes closed," laments one UNICEF official. "Hundreds of girls and boys are drowning in the world's inaction." Brett Wilkins

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Opinion Why Is Biden’s Medicaid Office Holding Out on Voter Registration? Several states have attempted to implement automatic voter registration based on Medicare enrollment—but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is still stalling. Ananya Kalahasti The GOP's Autocratic Attack on Education Imperils Life on Earth Where information and educational systems are increasingly being used as tools for thought control, more and more people will be going through life ill-equipped to understand how much ecological peril humanity faces, or how deep a transformation will be required of us. Stan Cox The Climate Emergency Is Now Turbo-Charged—And This Is What It Looks Like We can stop this. As the U.N. says, our world is dying before our eyes. Andy Rowell

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