“You can trust me to do the right thing”, says Liz Truss
Speaking at the final day of the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, the prime minister Liz Truss has said “you can trust me to do the right thing”. In her first Conference speech as prime minister, she has vowed to lead the UK “through the tempest” and “get Britain moving”, saying that despite the challenges […]
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Democrats’ Straight Line from Tammany to Jim Crow to HR 1
This is an adapted excerpt from Fred Lucas’ new book “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections,” now out from Bombardier Books. After Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed election reforms into law, several Democrats framed a talking point for their party by referring to the changes as “Jim Crow […]
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Michigan Proposition 3 Would Do Far More Than Just Codify Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in its Dobbs decision in July. Abortion did not become illegal in the U.S. The court simply ruled that the U.S. Constitution does not allow for abortion. That redirected the abortion question back to the states. Some states had pre-existing laws that supported life. Others […]
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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear 2 Cases on Federal Bump Stock Ban
The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed two challenges to a federal regulation that bans bump stocks, semiautomatic weapons accessories that allow multiple bullets to be fired at once, as opposed to one. The cases in question — Garland v.And Gun Owners of America v. Garland — involved plaintiffs who had sued the federal government over changesThe […]
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Noam Chomsky Talks With David Barsamian
This is a shortened version of Chapter 9 of the book. Notes on ResistancePublished by Haymarket Books. David Barsamian: What we are facing is often described as unprecedented — a pandemic, climate catastrophe and, always lurking off center stage, nuclear annihilation. Three of four horsemen of apocalypse. Noam ChomskyI can add a fourth: The impending […]
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A Bill Intended to Protect Journalists Could End Up Boosting Far Right Media
Recently, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill with the noble goal of supporting local and independent journalism by allowing news publishers to “collectively negotiate” with the Big Tech platforms they depend on to reach readers. Critics are concerned that the legislation could empower conspiracy theorists, feed media […]
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The Onion Files Parody Brief to Supreme Court in Defense of Speech Rights
The Onion a parody news organization that bills itself as “America’s Finest News Source,” has filed a brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case involving the suppression of a man’s speech rights after he parodied his local police department. Six years ago, Anthony Novak created a Facebook Page in which he made […]
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Joe Biden Told Al Sharpton He’s Running for President in 2024
President Joe Biden is telling Democratic Party stalwarts that he’s planning to run for office in 2024, the clearest indication yet that he’ll seek his party’s nomination for president in two years’ time. According to an NBC News report, Biden told Al Sharpton that he’s planning on running for a second term in a private […]
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Amazon Warehouse Workers Wage Work Stoppage in Protest After Fire Breaks Out
According to the union representing the workers, hundreds of Amazon workers protested Monday’s fire at their warehouse in Staten Island. According to Amazon Labor Union, (ALU), over 650 employeesAround 8 pm on Monday, protestors began to protest that they could still smell the stench of the fire that had been set in a trash compactor […]
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Trump Lawyer Refused Trump’s Request to Say All Documents Were Returned
One of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers refused his request in February to say that he had returned all of the documents taken to Mar-a-Lago, according to The Washington Post. In February Trump asked Alex Cannon, Trump’s attorney, to tell the National Archives and Records Administration all documents had been returned. Cannon refused the request […]
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