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Saw the !usa@lemmy.ml comm and has a... suspicious amount of negative articles and specific people who submit things and stuff. Just want to get some actual news up in a /c/ that Americans can refer to if they would like.

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The CBO has estimated at least 15 million people would lose health care coverage due to the bill’s cuts to Medicaid.

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The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the project could cost as much as $831 billion over the next 20 years.

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“The reason I use the word ‘murder’ is because they know that it’s going to cause death,” Barber says.

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Interior Department appointee Daniel Gustafson is a longtime Trump loyalist who participated in a protest to “stop the count” of Michigan ballots in 2020.

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A new book documents the fight against Atlanta’s Cop City — and provides a blueprint for organizers everywhere.

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New analysis by MIT Technology Review reveals AI's rapidly growing energy demands, with data centers expected to triple their share of US electricity consumption from 4.4% to 12% by 2028. According to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory projections, AI alone could soon consume electricity equivalent to 22% of all US households annually, driven primarily by inference operations that represent 80-90% of AI's computing power.

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Moody’s decision to downgrade the US’s credit rating is a slap on the wrist. In the past, the US might have dismissed it, but investors are signaling they think America is fundamentally untrustworthy — and they may soon put hard limits on Trump's program.

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In 1986, black workers in apartheid South Africa walked off the job in support of unionists in New Jersey. Their strike marked a rare moment of international labor solidarity at the height of deindustrialization and apartheid.

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