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Progressives back [Elijah Manley] over Wasserman Schultz in Florida
News outlets refuse to put the names of progressive candidates in headlines.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/14/florida-debbie-wasserman-schultz-elijah-manleyOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldHouse GOP, With Help of 4 Dems, Votes to Take Food Aid From Millions of Women and Kids
Vicente Gonzalez, Adam Gray, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, and Don Davis.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-cuts-wicOpen linkView original on lemmy.world8 Democrats Help Pass GOP Bill Forcing Teachers To Out Transgender Students
Henry Cuellar, Donald Davis, Cleo Fields, Laura Gillen, Vicente Gonzalez, Marcy Kaptur, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, and Eugene Vindman
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/8-democrats-pass-bill-forcing-teachers-to-out-trans-students_n_6a0f2d3ee4b084c012e3b6d4Open linkView original on lemmy.worldTen Senate Democrats cave to avert government shutdown
Democratic Sens. Richard Durbin (Ill.), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Maggie Hassan (N.H.), Gary Peters (Mich.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) and Brian Schatz (Hawaii) (Nev.) all voted "yes" in addition to Schumer, — as did Maine's Angus King, an Independent who caucuses with Democrats.
TikTok executives know about app’s effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege
In each of the separate lawsuits state regulators filed, dozens of internal communications, documents and research data were redacted — blacked-out from public view — since authorities entered into confidentiality agreements with TikTok.
But in one of the lawsuits, filed by the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office, the redactions were faulty. This was revealed when Kentucky Public Radio copied-and-pasted excerpts of the redacted material, bringing to light some 30 pages of documents that had been kept secret.
