Rikers Island and the Shapeshifting Monster of Reform
Former prisoners of Rikers Island, members of the family of prisoners who’ve died on the jail and advocates for closing Rikers Island protest the deaths of 12 prisoners in 2021 on October 1, 2021, exterior of Metropolis Corridor in downtown Manhattan, New York. Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis by way of Getty Photos “This disaster embodies […]
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Manchin’s Compromise Voting Rights Bill Gets Zero Support From GOP Senators
Senate Republicans filibustered a voting rights invoice that was meant to be a compromised model of earlier voting rights laws proposed by Democrats — and which Sen. Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia, has stated would get at the least some GOP help. All 50 Republicans in the Senate voted to filibuster the […]
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Africa Will Lose All Three of Its Icebergs to Climate Change
The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro are nothing wanting iconic. Pictures of the dormant volcano in Tanzania usually spotlight the white streaks on the aspect, which develop thicker as they rise towards the highest. Whenever you arrive on the cap of the volcano, it turns into nothing however white, like a dollop of cream pressed flat […]
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What’s “in the Damn Bill” for Families? Bernie Sanders Wants You to Know.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) desires you to know “what’s within the rattling invoice.” The chairman of the Senate Funds Committee is in fact speaking concerning the finances reconciliation package deal that Democrats are at the moment haggling over in Congress, a debate that Sanders and different progressives say the media has framed across the authentic […]
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The Biden Administration Is Building Back to the Brink of a New Cold War
Earlier than it’s too late, we have to ask ourselves a vital query: Do we actually — I imply really — desire a new Chilly Battle with China? As a result of that’s simply the place the Biden administration is clearly taking us. In the event you want proof, try final month’s announcement of an […]
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Could Vice President Harris Take a Page From Nixon and Challenge the Filibuster?
Yesterday Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer held a vote within the Senate to easily open a dialogue on the Freedom To Vote Act, authored by Senator Amy Klobuchar and co-authored by Senator Joe Manchin. After the failure of the For The People Act to get even one single vote from any Republican, Manchin instructed his […]
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Manchin and Sinema Are Doing Big Pharma, Big Oil and Wall Street’s Bidding
For weeks, conservative Democrats in Congress have prevented the passage of the Construct Again Higher Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. Congressmember Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has been a vocal critic of Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who’ve stalled the payments and compelled President Biden to radically reduce […]
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Sinema and Manchin Go for the Throat of the Social Infrastructure Bill
If an correct historical past of the Construct Again Higher Act is written, the “course of” of crafting that laws will go down as one of the shamelessly corrupt bag jobs within the annals of American politics… and mates, that’s saying one thing. At this juncture, even minke whales plying the frigid seas beneath the […]
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Sinema Is “Obstacle to Progress,” Say 5 Vets Who Quit Her Advisory Panel
5 navy veterans who served on an advisory panel for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) abruptly resigned on Thursday, writing in a letter addressed to the senator that she was “hanging [her] constituents out to dry” by refusing to assist the progressive beliefs she espoused as a candidate for workplace. Within the letter despatched to Sinema, […]
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GOP Opposes Build Back Better Because They Fear “A Changing Country”
When requested about Republicans’ refusal to barter with Democrats on the Construct Again Higher Act, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) mentioned that the GOP is upset as a result of the nation’s attitudes and demographics are altering. “I believe that they’re upset a few altering nation,” Ocasio-Cortez said, including that Republicans are angered by their […]
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