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Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
Sanders writes: "The Democratic National Committee is meeting this weekend in Orlando to mark up a platform laying out the views and aspirations of the party. Up to this point, we have made good progress in helping to create the most progressive Democratic Party platform ever. But more needs to be done."
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Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
Sanders writes: "The Democratic National Committee is meeting this weekend in Orlando to mark up a platform laying out the views and aspirations of the party. Up to this point, we have made good progress in helping to create the most progressive Democratic Party platform ever. But more needs to be done."
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As Live-Streaming of Violent Events Becomes More Common, How Are Social Media Companies Handling It?
Lauren C. Williams, ThinkProgress
Williams writes: "The aftermath of the police shooting of Philando Castile, 32, was broadcast to the world when his girlfriend Diamond Reynolds used Facebook Live to document the traffic stop turned fatal in St. Paul, Minnesota. Castile's death is the latest of a string of police-involved shootings of African Americans, but it's also part of a growing trend: live-streaming violent events. And social media companies are now being scrutinized for how they handle them."
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Lauren C. Williams, ThinkProgress
Williams writes: "The aftermath of the police shooting of Philando Castile, 32, was broadcast to the world when his girlfriend Diamond Reynolds used Facebook Live to document the traffic stop turned fatal in St. Paul, Minnesota. Castile's death is the latest of a string of police-involved shootings of African Americans, but it's also part of a growing trend: live-streaming violent events. And social media companies are now being scrutinized for how they handle them."
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And who believes anything Shillary says?
Clinton Formally Backs Public Option in Bid for Sanders Supporters
Harper Neidig, The Hill
Neidig writes: "Hillary Clinton formally adopted a more progressive stance on health care in a proposal released Saturday, as part of an effort to appease Bernie Sanders and his supporters."
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Harper Neidig, The Hill
Neidig writes: "Hillary Clinton formally adopted a more progressive stance on health care in a proposal released Saturday, as part of an effort to appease Bernie Sanders and his supporters."
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Hillary Clinton. (photo: Andrew Kelly/Reuters)
illary Clinton formally adopted a more progressive stance on health care in a proposal released Saturday, as part of an effort to appease Bernie Sanders and his supporters.
The plan includes a so-called “public option” within ObamaCare, an allowance for people to enroll in Medicare at age 55, and increasing funding for community-based health centers by $40 billion over the next ten years.
Clinton emphasized her goal of eventually providing universal health care.
"We have more work to do to finish our long fight to provide universal, quality, affordable health care to everyone in America," she said in a statement.
"Already, the Affordable Care Act has expanded coverage to 20 million Americans. As president, I will make sure Republicans never succeed in their attempts to strip away their care and that the remaining uninsured should be able to get the affordable coverage they need to stay healthy."
In a press call with reporters Saturday timed to coincide with the plan's release, Sanders applauded the move, calling it an "important step forward."
"I congratulate Secretary Clinton for this extraordinary initiative," he said. "It will save lives, it will ease suffering and it will improve healthcare in America and it will cut healthcare costs."
Sanders is expected to end his presidential campaign and endorse Clinton next week. He refused to concede after Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee last month, insisting he would keep his fight up through the Democratic National Convention in late July.
Clinton has made policy moves toward Sanders's positions in recent days, and Sanders has praised the moves, in an apparent prelude to an endorsement.
On Wednesday, Clinton released an education proposal that would eliminate public, in-state college tuition for most families — a significant move toward Sanders, who has called for making all public colleges and universities tuition free.
Clinton signaled her willingness to lower the Medicare age during the campaign before, saying in May that she would support allowing people who are "55 or 50" buy in to the program.
She also cosponsored legislation as a senator in 2001 that would have set the age at 55.
Doctors Indicted for Role in $122 Million Medicaid Fraud Scheme Face Prison
Gus Burns, MLive
Burns writes: "Four of six Michigan doctors indicted on health care fraud charges in 2015 are likely to spend years in federal prison after being linked to a massive Medicaid and Medicare scheme."
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Gus Burns, MLive
Burns writes: "Four of six Michigan doctors indicted on health care fraud charges in 2015 are likely to spend years in federal prison after being linked to a massive Medicaid and Medicare scheme."
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Class Is in Session: Millennials Now Overwhelmingly Identify as Working Class
Dustin Guastella, Jacobin
Guastella writes: "Bernie Sanders's deep support among millennials was a surprise for many political analysts. Some have tried to write off the support as youthful exuberance, ignorance, angsty white-male privilege, a profound shared hatred for Clinton, or some combination of these elements."
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Dustin Guastella, Jacobin
Guastella writes: "Bernie Sanders's deep support among millennials was a surprise for many political analysts. Some have tried to write off the support as youthful exuberance, ignorance, angsty white-male privilege, a profound shared hatred for Clinton, or some combination of these elements."
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Iraq War Created Islamic State Group: Chilcot Report
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The U.S. invasion of Iraq created the material and psychological conditions on the ground that ultimately led to the Islamic State group, according to the Chilcot intelligence report released Wednesday."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "The U.S. invasion of Iraq created the material and psychological conditions on the ground that ultimately led to the Islamic State group, according to the Chilcot intelligence report released Wednesday."
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Monsanto and DuPont Announce New Weed Killer for GMO Crops
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "One of the biggest concerns about the cultivation of genetically modified crops is the rise of superweeds caused by the overuse of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's best-selling Roundup and other pesticides."
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Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "One of the biggest concerns about the cultivation of genetically modified crops is the rise of superweeds caused by the overuse of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's best-selling Roundup and other pesticides."
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