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WHOA! Bernie BRINGS THE HOUSE DOWN at PACKED RALLY MUST WATCH!

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 + 15,300 COMMENTS WORTH READING! FIRING 83,000 VA WORKERS! BETRAYING VETERANS! SLASHING DEPT OF EDUCATION & PELL GRANTS  DENYING FOOD TO HUNGRY AMERICANS! TRUMP & MUSK LIES REFUTED! SOCIAL SECURITY LIES! DISTRACTING! BERNIE SANDERS: FIGHT THE OLIGARCHS TOUR! 60% OF AMERICANS LIVING PAY CHECK TO PAY CHECK! HEALTH CARE SYSTEM! UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS THE SOLUTION!  800,000 PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS! INEQUALITY!  POVERTY! LIFE EXPECTANCY! STRESS KILLS, WORRY, POOR NUTRITION, POVERTY  LACK OF HEALTH CARE!  CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT!  TRUMP ALLIGNING US WITH AUTORITARIANS!  TRUMP LIES - ZELENSKY IS NOT A DICTATOR & DID  NOT START THE WAR WITH RUSSIA!  TRUMP IS ABANDONING OUR ALLIES & UNITING THEM AGAINST THE US! END CORRUPT CAMPAIGN FINANCE SYSTEM!  OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED!  TRUMP ALLIGNING US WITH AUTORITARIANS!  TRUMP LIES - ZELENSKY IS NOT A DICTATOR & DID  NOT START THE WAR WITH RUSSIA!...

POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: DeSantis takes immigration fight to Massachusetts

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  View in browser   BY  LISA KASHINSKY FLORIDA MAN DRAWS MASS. CONDEMNATION —  Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has  followed through on his proposal  to send undocumented immigrants from Florida to Martha’s Vineyard in a rebuke of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies that was denounced by Democrats in both states as a  political stunt . Massachusetts is the latest target of Republican governors' ongoing campaign of busing  — and now flying — migrants to cities like New York City and Washington, D.C., and Chicago. GBH’s Sarah Betancourt reports some migrants sent north by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are now  showing up at Boston-area hospitals seeking medical attention  and housing assistance. DeSantis had talked about busing migrants to Biden’s home state of Delaware,  in a more direct antagonization of the man he might run against for president in 2024. He  secured $12 million  from Florida’s legislature to carry out his pl...

Dear Teachers

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Open in browser Thank you for joining the  Steady   community. A gentle reminder that paid subscribers   help fund our effort, allowing us to produce more content freely available to all. Upgrade to paid Dear Teachers You nurture the flames of democracy Dan Rather  and  Elliot Kirschner Aug 28 One of the great sadnesses of our current age is how politics has polluted so much of our public discourse and spread into realms that once seemed free of partisanship. That this occurs at a time when much of the Republican Party has adopted the posture of a bully and is gripped by extremist ideology and attacks on truth and justice makes it all the more dangerous and dispiriting.  Perhaps nowhere is this more true than in the battlegrounds that our schools have become. We are living in an age when the number of books being banned is on the rise and the willingness to confront America’s complicated history is on the decline. We see intolerance worn as a badge of tough...