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Public Souring on Project 2025
New polling finds that 54 percent of Americans are familiar with Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation proposal that aims to fundamentally reshape the U.S. federal government and consolidate executive power if a Republican wins the 2024 presidential election.
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Israeli Military Destroys Palestinian Water Facilities as Poliovirus Found in Gaza
Drop Site News reports in “The IDF Just De…
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Hezbollah Denies Killing Arabs on Golan Heights
“Hezbollah denies responsibility for attack in occupied Golan Heights, but Israeli officials insist on retaliation”
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Ahead of Venezuela’s Election, What Do the Polls Really Show?
“This Sunday, July 28, Venezuelans will head to the polls in what has been framed as the opposition’s best chance to unseat President Nicolás Maduro”
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Newsom Targets Homeless, Pushed by Palantir Co-Founder
“Newsom’s Executive Order will devastate the lives of thousands of people already struggling to survive.”
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What Does Trump Really Know About Project 2025?
A public spreadsheet lists the connections that each contributor to the Project 2025 proposal has to the Republican Party.
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South African Group Urges Banning Israel from Olympics
“The Olympic Games are a global symbol of unity, peace, and respect for human dignity. Allowing Israel to participate despite its ongoing violations of international law and human rights undermines these core values. Just as the international community rallied to isolate apartheid South Africa, we must now call for the exclusion of Israel from the Olympics until it ends its discriminatory practices and respects the rights of the Palestinian people.”
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Netanyahu Visit: Crimes and Lies
Al Jazeera reports: “At least 70 people were killed in an Israeli attack on eastern Khan Younis which began minutes after the Israeli military issued mass evacuation orders. … UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine] chief Philippe Lazzarini said that Israeli forces shot at a UN convoy heading to Gaza City on Sunday despite the movement being approved by Israeli authorities. Israel’s Knesset passed three bills banning UNRWA, and designating it a ‘terrorist organisation.'”
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After Step Aside Joe — Now What?
“We’re glad to see that Joe Biden has finally ended his presidential run. When we launched our ‘Step Aside Joe’ campaign 20 months ago, we’d hoped he would withdraw early enough for there to be an open primary process like in 2020, allowing the Democratic Party to consolidate behind a candidate strong enough to repel Donald Trump’s neofascism. While time is now short, we still hope that the Democrats will find a candidate who will animate the same kind of multigenerational, multiracial coalition of working people and grassroots activists that defeated Trump in 2020.”
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World Court Rules Overwhelmingly Against Israel’s Occupation
“The World Court has just rejected all Israeli, U.S. and western objections, ruled that the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (and all settlements), is entirely unlawful and declares Israel is committing racial segregation/apartheid in the OPT [Occupied Palestinian Territories.] Importantly, they also ruled that the Oslo agreements do not and cannot trump the obligations of international law, which protect the rights of the Palestinian people. And it rules that Israel must evacuate all settlers, dismantle settlements and the wall, provide full reparations to Palestinian victims, and allow all Palestinians who were forced out to…
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