Lever News • Nov 12, 2025
Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.
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Current Affairs • Nov 12, 2025
Why Is This Man In Charge of Anything?
Watching Chuck Schumer speak to the public is a cringe-inducing experience. He is ponderous, uninspiring, and painfully unfunny. (His attempts at “jokes” include things like “New data came out today from KFF, and that is not Kentucky Fried French Fries.”) He can be downright bizarre, as in the case of the imaginary family he consults for political advice. He is, perhaps worst of all, deeply uninspiring, which should be an automatic disqualification for someone whose job is to provide leadership.
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The Majority Report • Nov 12, 2025
The Democrats Have An Olds Problem | Rebecca Traister | TMR
Semafor • Nov 12, 2025
House and Senate Republicans splinter further on health care
They got out of the government shutdown with few substantive concessions to Democrats, but they’re diverging on their opponents’ top issue.
Chris Hedges • Nov 12, 2025
"You Have a Mother"
We lost my dear friend, Lola Mozes, who survived Auschwitz, this morning. I wrote her story a decade ago.
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The Majority Report • Nov 12, 2025
The End Of Chuck Schumer?
Semafor • Nov 11, 2025
BBC in crisis over resignations and Trump threats
The crisis comes at a particularly fraught time for the BBC, with its charter due for renewal in 2027
Semafor • Nov 11, 2025
After four centuries, a forgotten artist gets her due
Michaelina Wautier painted across genres, including those typically closed to women.
Semafor • Nov 11, 2025
Gaza peace plan progress falters
Israel still controls just over half of the enclave, and Hamas the rest.
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2218 headlinesFrom Minnesota to Georgia, Trump’s Plans to Interfere in the Midterms Are Becoming More Dangerous
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Pastor Arrested in ICE Protest Speaks to Zeteo
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Concessionists Crack Before ICE
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Winter storms don’t have to be deadly – here’s how to stay safe before, during and after one hits
The Conversation •
Over 120 civil society groups demand EU leaders phase out US fossil fuels in light of Trump’s fossil fuel imperialism
Common Dreams •
Who Takes Palantir’s Money? A New Tracker Finds Out.
Mother Jones •
Rescheduling marijuana would be a big tax break for legal cannabis businesses – and a quiet form of deregulation
The Conversation •
Americans want heat pumps – but high electricity prices may get in the way
The Conversation •
EPA’s new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a sledgehammer and license to ignore public health
The Conversation •
America is falling behind in the global EV race – that’s going to cost the US auto industry
The Conversation •
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