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Charles Pierce | The 'Anonymous Sources' Are Engaged in a Monumental Ass-Covering Campaign on Afghanistan
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Believe this. Almost everything you're reading on this topic in elite publications is an effort by somebody somewhere to duck out of their responsibility for 20 years of fantasy and illusion and outright lies."
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House Dems Plan Budget Vote Next Week, Defying Moderates
Alan Fram, Associated Press
Fram writes: "Top Democrats plan House votes next week on a budget resolution that could clear a path for future passage of a .5 trillion, 10-year social and environment package, suggesting a showdown ahead with rebellious party moderates."
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Read What The Taliban Told NPR About Their Plans for Afghanistan
NPR
Excerpt: "The Taliban, which have taken over Kabul, the Afghan capital, say they have changed. They are promising amnesty for their enemies and to let people leave the country - a departure from the mass executions and repression when the armed group ruled most of Afghanistan in the 1990s."
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Dan Kaufman | Is It Time to Break Up Big Ag?
Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker
Kaufman writes: "Renewed attention to antitrust has been focussed on Big Tech, but concentration in agriculture may be an underlying source of rural America's pro-Trump political backlash."
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Federal Government Targeted Black Lives Matter Activists in Bid to Disrupt Movement, Report Finds
Associated Press
Excerpt: "The federal government deliberately targeted Black Lives Matter protesters via heavy-handed criminal prosecutions in an attempt to disrupt and discourage the global movement that swept the nation and beyond last summer after the Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, according to a new report."
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'Haiti Is Reeling:' Earthquake Survivors Overwhelm Hospitals in Disaster-Hit Nation
Matt Rivers, Etant Dupain and Jack Guy, CNN
Excerpt: "Hospitals in Haiti are completely overwhelmed by survivors of Saturday's 7.2-magnitude earthquake and urgently need help to treat them, medical staff say."
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Federal Judge Rejects Trump-Era Permits for Major Alaska Oil Project
Joshua Partlow, The Washington Post
Partlow writes: "A federal judge on Wednesday threw out the permits for a controversial oil project planned for Alaska's North Slope, faulting the way the federal government had assessed its environmental impact, including how it might harm polar bears."
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DeSantis exposed for pandemic profiteering with supporter

 

Today’s Action: Mask up and get vaccinated!

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Biden unveils plan for vaccine boosters starting in September

Today's Top Stories:

Top DeSantis donor invests in COVID drug governor promotes
Florida's Republican governor has implemented policies that make people sick and touted a drug that is making his supporter richer — old fashioned disease profiteering.

Take Action: Add your name to call on Ron DeSantis to RESIGN!

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Afghanistan veteran DESTROYS Stephen Miller on national TV
Trump's top white nationalist aide got the verbal smackdown he deserved and we all need to see.

Take Action: Demand a path to citizenship in the budget reconciliation package!

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DeSantis finally gets what he deserves
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: About time.

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There was no way to withdraw from Afghanistan "without chaos ensuing," Biden says
In an interview with George Stephanopoulos, the president opens up on his decision to withdraw.

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Biden says US troops will stay in Afghanistan until every American who wants to leave the country has gotten out
There's no good answer in Afghanistan right now, but fulfilling America's obligations is a moral imperative.

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Trump praises Taliban for being "smart... good fighters"
Remember next time the disgraced ex-president criticizes Democrats whose side he's on.

Take Action: Call on Twitter to make Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ban permanent!

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Georgia removes more than 100,000 names from voter rolls
Republican schemes to rig elections are happening in plain sight.

Take Action: Add your name to stop voter suppression in the states!

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Inside America's secret war
American Refugee: Go inside the story of CIA betrayal of soldiers who fought for the US and how President Biden hopes to repeat a catastrophe as America withdraws from Afghanistan.

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Biden takes aim at states blocking mask mandates, setting Gov. Abbott up for showdown with feds
The president is trying to save lives while the Republican governor is letting his own state die in order to score political points.

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Judge throws out Trump-era approvals for Alaska oil project
Ruling calls federal reports flawed and says plan didn't do enough to prevent further harm to polar bears and their habitat.

Take Action: Tell President Biden — No new oil and gas leases on public lands!

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Appeals court upholds Texas law banning common second-trimester abortion method
It's not just the Taliban trampling women's rights.

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Tucson mayor defies GOP governor's "legally meaningless" ban on vaccine mandates
Republican governors are fighting for their constituents freedom to kill, but Democrats aren't standing for it.

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Preventable pandemic...

ICU's at least 90% full in 5 states with Republican governors

Over 20,000 Mississippi students in quarantine in first school week

Mom of 4 dies days after her husband, makes one final wish: "Make sure my kids get vaccinated"

Man shot six times waits over a week for surgery because of Covid

Biden announces vaccine mandate for nursing home staff

Seriously, not a joke...

Texas school pleads with grownups after parent rips mask off teacher

Larry David unloads on Alan Dershowitz in grocery store over Trump

Reminder: The planet is on fire...

Thousands of Californians flee from Dixie and Caldor wildfires

Parleys Canyon reaches 2,500 acres; thousands of homes evacuated

Hope...

Two women went door-to-door and got 94% of an Alabama town vaccinated

GoodGoodGood: There are ways to help the Afghan people

8th-graders lead effort to pardon wrongly convicted 'witch'

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Today’s Action: Mask up and get vaccinated!

As the Delta variant surges throughout the country, we desperately need a new way to message masking up and getting vaccinated. We are far, far away from the necessary numbers to reach herd immunity and protect our most vulnerable. As our ICUs fill up, overwhelmingly with unvaccinated Americans, children who cannot get vaccinated are increasingly among the gravely ill.

We have an obligation to take all necessary precautions to slow the spread of this pandemic. And let’s be honest. It’s not that hard. 

Get the free shot, put a piece of cloth over your face. You know, so you don’t accidentally kill your neighbor.

Follow the updated CDC guidelines and mask up indoors, even if you’re vaccinated. While you’re on the website, check out their recommended conversation points for talking to a loved one about getting vaccinated! 

There is still so much misinformation about masks and the vaccine. While you might be reading this already vaccinated and following updated CDC guidelines, the likelihood of you being just a few degrees of separation with someone anti-mask or anti-vax is high. If every reader sets an example by wearing their mask, or asking unvaccinated loved ones to talk to their primary care doctor about the vaccine, the chance of flattening the curve would increase exponentially.

Another COVID wave is scary, and we need all hands on deck to fight it and protect our neighbors. You can absolutely make a difference by following the science and opening constructive dialogue.

Take a few moments to review and share the updated CDC guidelines to mask up indoors, even if you’re vaccinated. Then, check out the CDC’s suggested talking points to help drive up vaccination rates! 

PS — Please don't forget to sign the petition to stop the hospital system that is preying on poor patients, and be sure to follow OD Action on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.