Multiple Democratic groups, House members, and candidates say it’s time for the Senate minority leader to go. It turns out any single Senate Democrat can force a vote on Schumer’s job.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish is a staff writer at The American Prospect. She previously worked in the Financial Times newsletters division, The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh, and the Herald News in New Jersey. Her work has been published in multiple outlets, including The New York Times, The Baffler, Los Angeles Review of Books, Music & Literature, North American Review, Sentient, Semafor, and elsewhere. She is a coauthor of The Majority Report’s daily newsletter and publishes short fiction in a range of literary magazines. She can be reached on Signal at wwimbish.07.
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Texan Takes On Corporate Abuse as Trump’s FTC Abandons Workers
Ric Davidson’s motion to defend the federal ban on noncompete clauses would force the FTC to undertake a formal process to roll it back, not just quietly suffocate it in the dead of night.
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New Yorkers Say Yes to Mamdani, That’s Spelled M A M D A N I
By 3 p.m. Tuesday, New York voters had already surpassed the turnout of any mayoral election since 2001, casting 1.4 million votes. Volunteers and advocates say the best thing to do today is celebrate, rest—then keep organizing.
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Mamdani Dogwalks Disgraced Ex-Governor Cuomo in First NYC Mayoral Debate
In the same way that he trounced Cuomo three months ago, he showed an understanding of working New Yorkers and the struggles they face.
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After First Missed Paycheck, Federal Workers Call for Solidarity
With no end to the government shutdown in sight, federal workers are drawing down their savings accounts and retirement plans, and getting help from family members, food pantries, credit unions, and a variety of other sources.
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Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump on Saturday
Millions of people will take to the streets again this Saturday to protest the autocratic regime of President Donald Trump, his government shutdown, and his demolition of Medicare, Medicaid, and other public programs in service of tax cuts for billionaires.
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Crypto Bros Want to Create Micro Landlords
You might expect crypto enthusiasts to look down their noses at landlording as an antiquated way to earn a fortune, not worth their time when they are busy democratizing money. But in finance, everything old is new again. “Fractional ownership” of “tokenized real estate,” the latest crypto scheme, works like this: a company sells investors […]
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Opening Parks During Shutdown Part of Plan to Ruin Them
Staying open with a skeleton crew makes parks dangerous for remaining staff, visitors, and ecosystems alike.
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Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.
The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.
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Workers Sue Vought for Threatening to Use Shutdown to Fire Them
Multiple labor unions sued the OMB director for abusing his position and pushing an extremist Project 2025 agenda.