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[] ['Downright Irresponsible and Shameful': DNC and NBC Ripped for Democratic Debate That Spent Less Than 10 Minutes on Climate Emergency](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL) 1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Our survival is worth more time than vague, irrelevant, and trivial questions posed 80 minutes into the debate." [] [] News... 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Gavin Newsom cited the #WayfairWalkout as the impetus for the request --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Fiasco for Democracy' as Right-Wing Supreme Court Gives Green Light to Partisan Gerrymandering](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL) 1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL by Jake Johnson, staff writer Critics call ruling a "nightmare scenario for voting rights" with negative impacts that are "hard to overstate" --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senate Democrats Demand Trump Administration Answer for 'Unconscionable' Delay of Puerto Rico Food Aid](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL) 1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL by Jake Johnson, staff writer "There are no excuses for this, and the Trump administration must act now to correct this tragic situation that they have caused." --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL) [] [] Views... 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(Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection) ](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL) by Jennifer Lunden Portland, Maine is welcoming a wave of migrants with kindness as the administration comes under fire for its cruelty at immigrant detention centers --------------------------------------------------------------- [The First Democratic Debate Was a Circus](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL) [ When 10 people are "debating" multiple large policy topics, as we saw with the first Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday night in Miami, you get about what you might expect: a mess. (Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) ](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL) by Ryan Cooper Key policy questions were left hanging as the conversation flitted from topic to topic --------------------------------------------------------------- [American Concentration Camps](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL) [A bus transporting immigrants leaves a temporary facility at a US Border Patrol Station in Clint, Texas, on June 21, 2019. - Lawyers who were able to tour the facility under the Flores Settlement, which governs detention conditions for migrant children, said they witnessed inhumane conditions of overcrowding, and about 250 children being held over the limit of 72 hours, some saying they were there for weeks in overcrowded cells. (Photo: Paul Ratje / AFP)](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL) by Robert C. Koehler No, they are not death camps. But, I fear, they are evolving. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Warren's Medicare for All Moment Was Critical](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL) [Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during the first night of the Democratic presidential debate on June 26, 2019 in Miami, Florida. A field of 20 Democratic presidential candidates was split into two groups of 10 for the first debate of the 2020 election, taking place over two nights at Knight Concert Hall of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, hosted by NBC News, MSNBC, and Telemundo. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3AEbtNKbRtL) by David Dayen The 2020 candidate had been more equivocal on single-payer in the past. 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