Dreamers borrow the healthcare playbook

The implosion of the Republican healthcare bill was one of the biggest wins of the resistance movement since so far. Now, Daca (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) activists are planning to deploy the same resistance tactics in their fight against deportation.

On Tuesday – just six months after Donald Trump promised to “show great heart” in dealing with undocumented people brought to the US as minors, the president abruptly terminated the Daca program. Trump’s decision put the futures of nearly 800,000 ‘Dreamers’ – undocumented people brought here as children – in doubt.

Indivisible is one of the groups leading the resistance fight. They’re calling for people to challenge their members of Congress, and have put together an incredibly comprehensive site to help them do so. It shows the number of Daca recipients in each state and includes a sample script to use when calling congressmen and senators.

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US governors aren’t getting off lightly either. Moveon.org has launched a campaign demanding that governors defend Daca, while fifteen states have challenged Trump’s Daca decision in court, and some companies are already planning to defy the president’s order.

Clinton: Sanders responsible for ‘crooked’ attack

Hillary Clinton has a book coming out – her seventh – next week. It’s called What Happened and is about what happened during her campaign that led to her loss and a 71-year-old bigot, molester and builder becoming president of the United States.

It turns out that Bernie Sanders is among those to blame for the loss.

“His attacks caused lasting damage, making it harder to unify progressives in the general election and paving the way for Trump’s ‘Crooked Hillary’ campaign. I don’t know if that bothered Bernie or not,” Clinton writes in What Happened.

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Sanders offered his own view of what happened on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday.

“Look, Secretary Clinton ran against the most unpopular candidate in the history of this country and she lost, and she was upset about that,” Sanders said. “I understand that.

Elizabeth Warren for all

On Thursday Warren joined Kamala Harris in sponsoring Bernie Sanders’ medicare-for-all bill, in a big boost for the universal healthcare fight.

Under Sanders’ bill – which will be made public later this month – “everyone is covered”, Warren said.

“Nobody goes broke paying a medical bill. Families don’t have to bear the costs of heartbreaking medical disasters on their own.”

Some 78 congressmen and women have signed up to co-sponsor a single-payer bill introduced in the House by Democrat John Conyers – many of them since the 2016 election.

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What we’re reading

This week Trump cut a deal with Democrats over an increase in the debt ceiling. That rare occurrence prompts the Guardian’s Ross Barkan to wonder whether a new era is upon us. The answer? Probably not. “Trump can change his mind tomorrow. He usually does,” Barkan writes. “Congressional Republicans are furious [...] They will yell at him and maybe he’ll listen. The last person in his ear usually has the advantage.”



Kids say the darndest things

This reporter from InfoWars has a real way with children.

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