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1 week ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is playing the same role he played more than two decades ago — ineffectively — in trying to stop the U.S. from committing to full-scale involvement in a war in the Middle East. Sanders is urging caution and emphasizing the parallels between today’s calls to attack Iran with U.S. missiles to destroy its nuclear capabilities — and possibly open the door to “regime change” — and similar calls heeded during the George W.
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1 week ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
While President Donald Trump‘s Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testified Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee during a hearing about the DoD’s FY2026 budget, the Department of Defense released a statement by Pentagon Chief Spokesperson Sean Parnell. Parnell wrote: “The President recently ordered a change to the Unified Command Plan. This change shifts Greenland from the U.S. European Command area of responsibility to the U.S. Northern Command area of responsibility.
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1 week ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) released a 12-minute video (below) about Emil Bove, the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice, who President Donald Trump has nominated for as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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1 week ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
Former Fox News star Tucker Carlson, who suggested that the U.S. “drop Israel” after the country initiated missile strikes against Iran on Friday, released his one-on-one interview with U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) today. Cruz is in favor of Israel’s missile strikes against Iran, which target Iranian nuclear facilities and military ranks.
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1 week ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
As Israel continues to target Iran’s nuclear facilities and top military personnel with missiles, an exhibit of the Israeli weapon manufacturing company Elbit Systems at the International Paris Air Show has been closed.
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1 week ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a retired Army National Guard Lieutenant Colonel and combat veteran of the Iraq War, called the President of the United States Donald Trump “a tin-pot dictator wannabe” over the weekend. On MSNBC, Duckworth criticized Trump and the decision to spend a reported $45 million on a military parade to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, which coincided with Trump’s 79th birthday.
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1 week ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
MAGA celebrities including conservative political pundit Tucker Carlson disagree with the Trump administration in backing Israel after it launched an ongoing series of missile attacks against Iran on Friday. Carlson wrote in his newsletter that the U.S. should “drop Israel.” MAGA lawmakers including U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) are responding to the war and to the suggestion of American involvement.
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2 weeks ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
In the Capitol building on Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-GA) spoke with the press about Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), who was detained and handcuffed at a Los Angeles press conference held by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Reports about the incident that led to Padilla’s detainment vary depending on the source.
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2 weeks ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
Dr. Jake Scott, an infectious diseases doctor and associate professor at Stanford Medicine, is slamming President Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., after Kennedy fired all 17 members of a CDC advisory committee (ACIP) that reviews vaccines and replaced them with eight new members. [Note: Kennedy promised not to pick “anti-vaxxers” but some public health doctors accused him of breaking his word.
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2 weeks ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
The MAGA-aligned X account “End Wokeness” shared a photo of former Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg and reported that “DNC members vote 294 to 99 to annul vice chair victory of David Hogg, citing diversity quotas.” The New York Times reported Wednesday that Hogg said he would not run again for vice chair after the party voted for a new election.
