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Food & Water Watch Applauds Failure of Bad Senate Farm Bill
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/food-water-watch-applauds-failure-of-bad-senate-farm-bill
Published: August 6, 2026 19:07
Today Republicans failed to move their disastrous Farm Bill, the Agricultural Act of 2026, out of the Senate Agriculture Committee. A fierce movement of advocates built enough pressure to keep poison pills, like the Save Our Bacon Act, out of the…
Congress Must Strengthen Farm Bill to Fight Unfolding Hunger Crisis
Published: August 6, 2026 18:51
A child hunger crisis is unfolding in plain sight: it’s very likely that more than 1.5 million children nationwide have lost food assistance in the wake of unprecedented SNAP cuts in last year’s Republican reconciliation law. While the farm bill considered…
New National Policy Agenda Offers Blueprint for Shifting and Keeping People Power
Published: August 6, 2026 17:39
Today, Dēmos is releasing its 2026 Policy Agenda, Power Policies: How to Get and Keep People Power in the United States, which centers on nine reforms addressing the intertwined crises of economic inequality and democratic erosion. The agenda not only…
Free Press Plans to Take Carr to Court in Response to Thursday's Unlawful Decision to Eliminate a Vital Limit on Media Consolidation
Published: August 6, 2026 15:51
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines to eliminate the 39 percent national television-ownership cap, a statute that the agency lacks the legal authority to repeal. Free Press and allies plan to appeal this unlawful…
Sanders Introduces Bill to Guarantee Paid Vacation for U.S. Workers
Published: August 6, 2026 15:50
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today reintroduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — legislation that would guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every…
Michigan/America Is Not For Sale
https://www.commondreams.org/further/michigan-america-is-not-for-sale
Published: August 6, 2026 04:21
Wowza, rare glimmer of good news. We take a moment to honor the stunning Michigan victory of Abdul El-Sayed, who was outspent 12-1 by his opponent's millions from establishment Dems, Zionist PACS and corporations and still managed to win even though he is…
Senate Must Block ‘Corrupt, Toadying, Vengeful’ Todd Blanche After Committee Vote
Published: August 4, 2026 16:46
Today, in a partisan split, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General on Tuesday, setting the stage for a floor vote to confirm him to the post.In response, Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert…
Senate Judiciary Republicans Advance Blanche Nomination, Co-Signing His Scandalous Record at DOJ
Published: August 4, 2026 16:11
Today, Republicans on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary voted to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination to be U.S. Attorney General to the full Senate.Stand Up America’s Managing Director of Policy & Political Affairs, Brett Edkins, issued the…
SEC Should Withdraw Proposal Limiting Investor Access to Essential Climate-Related Information
Published: August 3, 2026 17:51
More than 35 groups today called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to withdraw its proposal to rescind its 2024 climate disclosure rule. The 2024 rule, which is currently stayed in litigation, requires large public companies to disclose…
Big Oil Giant BP Banks Blockbuster Profits as Climate Disasters Strike Across the Globe
Published: August 3, 2026 15:42
As communities across the world endure record-breaking heatwaves, wildfires and rising living costs, the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have confirmed another blockbuster quarter of profits. The Make Polluters Pay coalition says the timing exposes…
Craven and Inadequate Deal, Blanche Must Not Be Our New Attorney General
Published: August 3, 2026 15:26
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General on Tuesday, after Blanche’s Department of Justice (DOJ) reached an agreement with Republican Senator John Cornyn with a stated goal of rescinding the corrupt…
We Shall Prevail: An Echo That Doesn't Die
https://www.commondreams.org/further/we-shall-prevail-an-echo-that-doesn-t-die
Published: August 2, 2026 02:36
More than 50 years after the murder of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, the last man convicted of killing him has been tracked down and brought to justice. In 1973, a day after Pinochet's coup, Jara was seized, tortured, his hands broken to silence what…
Press Conference to Preview First-Ever IACHR Hearing on Excessive Use of Force Against Immigration-Related Protesters in the United States
Published: August 1, 2026 13:30
The University Network for Human Rights (UNHR) will host a press conference on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, ahead of a landmark public hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The hearing -- "United States: Freedom of Expression…
Unwise, Unworkable and Unlawful: Families USA Urges Trump Administration to Withdraw Medicaid Work Requirements Rule as Comment Period Ends
Published: August 1, 2026 13:27
Today, Families USA, along with hundreds of other consumer, patient, community, and health stakeholder groups submitted comments by today’s deadline to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding CMS’s interim final rule to implement work…
Free Press Calls for End to Carr’s Unconstitutional Crusade Against ABC
Published: July 30, 2026 21:27
On Wednesday, Free Press called out Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr for engaging in a political crusade against broadcaster ABC that not only violates free speech rights but distorts and weaponizes existing agency rules and…
Senate Should End Blanche's Nomination, Not Just Delay It
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/senate-should-end-blanche-s-nomination-not-just-delay-it
Published: July 30, 2026 21:25
In response to the Senate Judiciary Committee postponing its vote on Trump's unqualified personal lawyer Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general, MoveOn Political Action Chief Communications Officer Joel Payne released the following statement:“Todd…
Nonprofits Sue to Block New USDA Rules That Force Them to Change or Abandon Food-Access Work
Published: July 30, 2026 21:21
Five nonprofit organizations working to build a more just food system filed suit today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to challenge unlawful terms and conditions that USDA is…
Desperately Seeking Scapegoats
https://www.commondreams.org/further/desperately-seeking-scapegoats-2677287389
Published: July 30, 2026 06:00
Killing The Messenger Dept: Somehow going still lower, Republicans - aka "you absolute fucking pieces of shit" - just hauled Dr. Anthony Fauci into a Senate hearing to charge the guy who saved three million lives with "sabotaging" a dog heartworm pill,…