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Schwab: Yes, your Medicaid’s gone but you can gloat over gators
What Trump is taking from the social safety net, he’s adding to the cruelty against working immigrants.
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Congress’ passage of tax cuts bill marked shameful day for GOP
This July 3 was one of the most shameful days in American history.
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Tell senators to keep vaccine aid by rejecting recissions bill
The Senate could vote on a Trump administration-proposed rescissions package before July 18. The package aims to cut…
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Too much risk, noise and annoyance with fireworks
Let’s hear it for all the “kids” who like to endanger life and limb with bigger and bigger…
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Comment: About that Social Security email sent to retirees
It was uncharacteristically political, inaccurate about the BBB’s benefits and likely to cause mistrust of the SSA.
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The Buzz: What the mainstream media don’t want you to know
They’re not, but we just liked how that looked at the top of the page and thought you’d…
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Comment: When ‘politically correct’ becomes ‘Trump approved’
Companies and reporters are seeing the consequences of using words the president doesn’t approve of.
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Editorial: Retain Escamilla, Binda on Lynnwood City Council
Escamilla was appointed a year ago. Binda is serving his first term.
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Blame Democrats’ taxes, rules for out-of-state ferry contract
Gov. Bob Ferguson should be ashamed of the hypocrisy shown by choosing to build Washington’s new ferries in…
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Letter used too broad a brush against Democrats
In response to a recent letter to the editor, this Democrat admits they witnessed the decline of Joe…
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Kristof: Women’s rights effort has work to do in Africa, elsewhere
Girls in Sierra Leone will sell themselves to pay for school. The feminist movement has looked away.
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French: Supreme Court hits a vile industry with its comeuppance
While disagreeing on the best test, the justices agreed on the threat that porn poses to children.
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Welch: A plan to supply drugs to addicts is a dangerous dance
A state panel’s plan to create a ‘safer supply’ of drugs is the wrong path to addiction recovery.
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Douthat: Conservatives sacrificed own goals to pay for tax cuts
Along with its cuts to Medicaid, long-held GOP priorities were ignored in the Big Beautiful Bill.
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Comment: Supreme Court porn ruling a naked change to speech rights
The majority ignored a 20-year-old ruling that overturned an age-verification law similar to the Texas law.
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Comment: With Voice of America silenced, who’s next?
The Trump administration saw VOA as ‘radical left’ media. It’s the mark of authoritarian governments.
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Comment: Michelle Obama is quitting politics. Or is she?
She may be stepping back from campaigns and speeches, but her new podcast is in itself a political…
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Was Republicans’ BBB just socialism for the ultra-rich?
It seems to this reader that the recently passed spending and tax bill provides a big Christmas morning…