04 August 19
The Medicare for All Moment Is Here, Brought to You by Bernie Sanders
Meagan Day, Jacobin
Day writes: "Sanders has publicly supported some degree of decommodified health care for four decades. In the '70s, he called for fully socialized medicine. In the '80s, he said, 'We have a crisis situation. We are one of two nations in the industrialized world that does not have a national health-care system.'"
Meagan Day, Jacobin
Day writes: "Sanders has publicly supported some degree of decommodified health care for four decades. In the '70s, he called for fully socialized medicine. In the '80s, he said, 'We have a crisis situation. We are one of two nations in the industrialized world that does not have a national health-care system.'"
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And last night, he said, “We have a dysfunctional health-care system: 87 million uninsured or underinsured, 500,000 Americans every year going bankrupt because of medical bills, 30,000 people dying while the health-care industry makes tens of billions of dollars in profit.” He added, “Health care is a human right, not a privilege. I believe that, I will fight for that.” Sanders is nothing if not consistent.
St Pius X Church held a vigil for victims after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday. (photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Gun Violence in 2019: There Have Been 251 Mass Shootings in the US in 216 Days
Daniel Politi, Slate
Politi writes: "It was a particularly deadly 24 hours in the United States as a shooting spree early Sunday morning in Dayton, Ohio, which left at least 10 dead, including the gunman, took place less than a day after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and killed at least 20 people."
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Daniel Politi, Slate
Politi writes: "It was a particularly deadly 24 hours in the United States as a shooting spree early Sunday morning in Dayton, Ohio, which left at least 10 dead, including the gunman, took place less than a day after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and killed at least 20 people."
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Children are inside a detention center for unaccompanied migrants in Homestead, Fla., on July 15. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Saturday all children were removed from the site. (photo: Christopbal Herrera/EPA)
Feds Move All Children From Florida Detention Center
Sommer Brokaw, UPI
Brokaw writes: "Authorities said Saturday all children in the nation's largest detention center for migrant children have been relocated with upcoming tropical wave on the radar in South Florida."
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Sommer Brokaw, UPI
Brokaw writes: "Authorities said Saturday all children in the nation's largest detention center for migrant children have been relocated with upcoming tropical wave on the radar in South Florida."
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A man works in the garden of a high-end restaurant, Amber Room, where top Polish politicians and business people were secretly and illegally recorded over hundreds of hours in 2013 and 2014, in Warsaw, Poland. (photo:Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
Was Polish Scandal a Russian Test for US Election Tampering?
Vanessa Gera, Associated Press
Gera writes: "High-ranking Polish politicians used a side door to get to the VIP section of Sowa & Przyjaciele, a posh Warsaw restaurant. Sealed off from other patrons, government ministers and lawmakers felt free to speak their minds while enjoying continental cuisine and wine at taxpayers' expense."
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Vanessa Gera, Associated Press
Gera writes: "High-ranking Polish politicians used a side door to get to the VIP section of Sowa & Przyjaciele, a posh Warsaw restaurant. Sealed off from other patrons, government ministers and lawmakers felt free to speak their minds while enjoying continental cuisine and wine at taxpayers' expense."
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People gather at a McDonald's restaurant in Miami to demand a minimum wage increase to $15 an hour. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
US Fast-Food Workers Demand Better Pay Amid Growing Violence
ML Nestel, Guardian UK
Nestel writes: "Maria Torres followed eight sprinting co-workers into the kitchen's walk-in fridge, screaming 'Gun!' They locked the door against an armed intruder."
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ML Nestel, Guardian UK
Nestel writes: "Maria Torres followed eight sprinting co-workers into the kitchen's walk-in fridge, screaming 'Gun!' They locked the door against an armed intruder."
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Abha Airport. (photo: AFP/Getty Images)
Saudi Arabia Will Allow Women Over 21 to Travel Without Permission of Male Guardianship
D. Paravaz, ThinkProgress
Paravaz writes: "In another blow to its guardianship laws, a series of royal decrees published by Saudi Arabia's state media on Friday allow women 21 and older to get a passport and travel without permission from male family members."
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D. Paravaz, ThinkProgress
Paravaz writes: "In another blow to its guardianship laws, a series of royal decrees published by Saudi Arabia's state media on Friday allow women 21 and older to get a passport and travel without permission from male family members."
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Notre Dame Cathedral. (photo: Getty Images)
The Notre Dame Disaster Carpeted Paris With Lead Dust
Feargus O'Sullivan, Grist
O'Sullivan writes: "Three months after the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, reports of a new, previously unheeded threat to local residents have emerged: lead poisoning."
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Feargus O'Sullivan, Grist
O'Sullivan writes: "Three months after the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, reports of a new, previously unheeded threat to local residents have emerged: lead poisoning."
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