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This Week In Techdirt History: July 20th – 26th

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Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the DHS was going full gestapo in response to protests in Portland, then quickly expanding the tactics to other cities, starting with Chicago, and was also engaging in domestic surveillance to protect statues and monuments. We asked why the US was trying to punish hackers for accessing vaccine […]
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Duckworth Leads Colleagues in Commemorating 35th Anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act, Condemning Trump's Medicaid Cuts

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ahead of the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) tomorrow, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) led a group of 24 fellow Senate Democrats in introducing a resolution that commemorates the signing of this historic, landmark law and condemns any efforts to cut Medicaid or implement work-reporting requirements that endanger the health of Medicaid recipients. The resolution comes after President Donald Trump signed his Big, Beautiful Bill into law, which makes the biggest cuts to Medicaid in American history and rips health care coverage away from over 15 million Americans. “35 years after the historic ADA was signed into law, it’s unacceptable that Americans with disabilities are still fighting for the same rights and opportunities this landmark bipartisan law promised,” said Duckworth. “By enacting the largest cuts to Medicaid in our nation’s history, Trump’s Big, Beautiful Betrayal is eroding hard-won

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