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Report: Trump, Bush Tax Cuts Have Largely Driven National Debt Issues Since 2001

“America doesn’t have a high-spending downside; it has a low-tax downside,” the report concludes. Republicans’ main tax cuts for firms and the wealthy are overwhelmingly the drivers of present points over the nationwide debt, which the GOP is utilizing as an excuse to drive by means of cuts to welfare and authorities spending that aren’t […]

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House Republicans Pass First National Bill Targeting Transgender Youth

Although the invoice is unlikely to advance within the Senate, it represents a big second in trans laws. On Friday, Home Republicans handed the so-called “Dad and mom Invoice of Rights Act,” which might drive educators to misgender trans college students and out them to their mother and father. The invoice is the first federal […]

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When Missouri Proposed Library Censorship, Librarians Got Organized

The librarians’ partial victory reveals how pro-worker, anti-censorship organizing can work even in a conservative state. In October 2022, Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft issued a draft of a proposed state regulatory rule that might get rid of state funding to libraries that did not adjust to an inventory of necessities meant to limit […]

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Pentagon’s Proposed 2024 Budget Reflects Arms Industry’s Capture of Congress

On March thirteenth, the Pentagon rolled out its proposed price range for Fiscal 12 months 2024. The outcomes had been — or no less than ought to have been — gorgeous, even by the requirements of a division that’s used to getting what it desires when it desires it. The brand new Pentagon price range […]

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Anti-Trump ‘Hush Money’ Case Has More Holes Than Doral Golf Course

If filed, Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg’s extremely anticipated “hush cash” indictment towards former President Donald Trump can be unprecedented. No sitting or former president of the USA has ever been indicted. The U.S. Home impeached Trump twice — and Presidents Andrew Johnson and Invoice Clinton, as soon as every. The Senate did not convict any of them after […]

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Fracking May Have Caused a Record-Breaking Earthquake in Canada

A seismologist says wastewater disposal from fracking could have brought about the biggest earthquake ever recorded in Alberta. Final November the Canadian province of Alberta skilled the largest earthquake in its recorded history. Shortly thereafter a geologist from the College of Calgary claimed that the sequence of seismic occasions — which registered a 5.6 on […]

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“We Have to Fight”: LGBTQ Kids Stage Walkouts, Marches Against Anti-Trans Bills

LGBTQ advocates are taking to the streets to protest the coordinated legislative attacks on transgender folks nationwide after efficiently beating again bans on gender-affirming take care of trans youth in West Virginia and Wyoming. Trans activists have organized demonstrations at capitol buildings throughout the nation and are at the moment coordinating protests for Trans Day […]

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Ocasio-Cortez: A TikTok Ban Wouldn’t Solve Data Privacy Risks Posed by Big Tech

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) has condemned congressional conservatives’ current efforts to ban TikTok within the U.S., saying {that a} ban wouldn’t come near addressing actual issues of knowledge privateness dangers. On Friday, in her first ever video posted to TikTok, Ocasio-Cortez mentioned that TikTok shouldn’t be banned and that Congress ought to as a […]

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Sanders-Led Committee Releases Damning Report on Starbucks’s Anti-Union Activity

“Starbucks has engaged in probably the most important union-busting marketing campaign in fashionable historical past,” mentioned Sen. Bernie Sanders. A Senate committee headed by Bernie Sanders of Vermont launched a report late Sunday geared toward debunking Starbucks’ narrative that it helps employees’ rights and has not dedicated large-scale violations of U.S. labor legislation — claims […]

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Protests Sweeping Israel Are Demanding Democracy But Ignoring Palestinian Rights

Staff throughout Israel are participating in a normal strike Monday to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to disempower Israel’s judiciary. This comes after Netanyahu fired his protection minister, Yoav Gallant, on Sunday over Gallant’s warning that the judicial overhaul represents “a transparent, speedy and tangible menace to the safety of the state.” Tons […]

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