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  Senate passes $739bn healthcare and climate bill after months of wrangling

  Guardian US - Joan E Greve in Washington

  Senate Democrats passed their climate and healthcare spending package on Sunday, sending the legislation to the House and bringing Joe Biden one step closer to a significant legislative victory ahead of crucial midterm elections in November. If signed into law, the bill, formally known as the …

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  18 hours ago

  Trump’s worst toadies hold degrees from Harvard and Yale. Did they learn anything?

  The Guardian - Robert Reich

  The original justification for elite higher education in the United States was to train the future leaders of American democracy. As Charles W Eliot, who became president of Harvard in 1869, noted, Harvard existed to inculcate the ideals of “service and stewardship”. Since then, Harvard has produced …

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  3 days ago

  Signs of hate: Parental guide to far-right codes, symbols and acronyms

  The Guardian - Sally Weale Education correspondent

  Far-right extremists use a variety of codes, symbols and acronyms to communicate and signal shared ideologies, some of which are adopted by children and young people and may be among signs of potential radicalisation. The following is a sample from Signs of Hate, a safeguarding guide on the far …

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  5 days ago

  “Come on, Kyrsten”: Koch network pleads with Sinema to kill Manchin’s climate deal

  Salon - Jake Johnson

  The Koch network, headed by billionaire oil and gas tycoon Charles Koch, is mobilizing its vast resources in an effort to convince holdout Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to tank the Democratic Party's new reconciliation package ahead of a possible vote this week. Since the deal was announced last week, Sinema, …

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  3 days ago

  The Kansas victory shows that Democrats can fight for abortion rights and win

  The Guardian - Moira Donegan

  It wasn’t even close; it was a blowout. With an unexpectedly large turnout and a huge margin, Kansas voters on Tuesday rejected a measure that would have removed the right to an abortion from their state’s constitution. Nearly 60% of voters in the deeply conservative state rejected the …

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  3 days ago

  In exchange for climate legislation, Joe Manchin was promised a pipeline. Will he get it?

  grist.org - Naveena Sadasivam

  When Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin announced the surprising rebirth of a deal to pass sweeping climate legislation …