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This additude is how we end up with a Weekend at Bernie's presidential candidate. Just like activism within national politics is essential to our country's vitality and growth, activism within party politics is essential for the party to stay relevant and effective. Just as our country will be lost to corporatocracy, oligarchy, and bigotry if no one fights for democracy, justice, and equality, our party will succumb to corporate donors, consultants, and myopic geriatrics if we sit on the sidelines.

Dems have a serious old people problem. We are the party of Dianne Feinstein, who clung to her senate seat until death despite being literally senile. We are the party of Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Hillary Clinton is another symptom of the same disease. She used the power she accumulated within the party over decades to foist herself on a reluctant party base by calling in favors and pulling strings that only someone who has grown old floating in the stratosphere of national politics can.

This country needs a revolution, and it needs to start within the Democratic Party.

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Radio host resigns after admitting Biden aides gave her questions for interview (www.theguardian.com)

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The outlet, which describes itself as Pennsylvania’s only African American-owned and operated radio station, also said the White House’s decision to supply questions to Lawful-Sanders prolonged a historical practice of marginalizing and “de-legitimizing Black voices” in US media.

"Lawful-Sanders was one of two battleground state radio hosts who aired an interview with Biden on 4 July and described being given questions by the president’s staff ahead of the conversation."

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Biden’s migrant order is recipe for chaos at US border: ‘It will only cause suffering’ (www.theguardian.com)

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To suspend the number of people who can apply for asylum, Biden is relying on the same mechanism Donald Trump turned to during his presidency: section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

But in the 40 years since the US created its asylum system, no other Democrat suspended people’s ability to seek refuge in the US – an international right.

Moreover, under the order, people apprehended near the border will have to “manifest” their fear of prosecution if deported, and will not be explicitly asked by immigration officials, as has been the case for decades. This practice, known unofficially as a “shout test”, could turn back those who could still be eligible for protections.

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Columbia Law Review board shutters website over article critical of Israel (www.theguardian.com)

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Student editors at the Columbia Law Review say they were pressured by the journal’s board of directors to halt publication of an academic article written by a Palestinian human rights lawyer that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and upholding an apartheid regime.

When the editors refused the request and published the piece on Monday morning, the board – composed of faculty and alumni from Columbia University’s law school – shut down the law review’s website entirely. It remained offline on Tuesday evening, a static homepage informing visitors the domain “is under maintenance”.