Watchdog Finds 515 Duplicate Voters in 6 Minnesota Counties Watchdog Finds 515 Duplicate Voters in 6 Minnesota Counties
Minnesota election officials are investigating six counties where duplicate names were found on voter registration lists—in one case reaching more than 300 duplicate names in a single county. The Public Interest Legal Foundation is an election watchdog organization that found 515 duplicate names in voter registration lists across six Minnesota counties. It filed complaints. An […]
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Trump Judge Issues “Outrageous” Decree Overturning Special Master’s Order
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who appointed a special master to determine which of the documents that the FBI retrieved from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last month were privileged — if any — has overruled an order from the special master that sought to clarify Trump’s claims that the classified documents may have […]
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US Gas Flaring Releases 5 Times More Methane Than Previously Thought
Flaring, which is the burning of natural gas escaping from fossil fuel wells to produce methane, releases five times more methane that was previously thought. according toAn analysis of U.S. operations, published in the journal Science. The study, led by researchers at the University of Michigan, is based on data collected during 13 flights over […]
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Brazil’s Former President Lula Heads Into Sunday Election With Massive Lead
Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro faces former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s presidential election. Lula, a former union leader, was in office from 2003 to 2010. He’s running on a leftist platform to uplift Brazil’s poor, preserve the Amazon rainforest and protect Brazil’s Indigenous communities, and is supported by a broad, grassroots […]
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Week-in-Review: The canny politics behind Starmer’s ‘GB Energy’
A week is a long time for politics. So you’ll be forgiven for forgetting Wednesday was Labour’s annual party conference. Since then, the Bank of England has begun buying bonds to prop up the British economy, the pound dropped to a low of $1.05, interest rates seem destined to rise further and faster, pension funds […]
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Disapproval of the Supreme Court Is at a Record High, Polling Finds
After the overturning of Roe v. WadeNew polling shows that trust in federal judicial branches, including the High Court, has fallen to its lowest level in 40 years, according to far right extremists who occupied the Supreme Court this Summer. According to a Gallup poll published on Thursday, only 47 percent of Americans say they […]
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San Francisco Airport Workers End Strike After Pay Victory
San Francisco airport workers ended a three-day strike Thursday after reaching a tentative deal that includes “significant” pay increases and improved healthcare benefits. The deal, which still must be ratified by union members, came after around 1,000 restaurant, coffee shop, and bar workers at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) walked off the job to […]
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Activists Condemn GOP States’ “Sham” Lawsuit Over Student Debt Forgiveness
Six Republican-led states filed a lawsuit on Thursday aiming to stop tens of millions of student loan borrowers from receiving relief from President Joe Biden’s debt forgiveness plan in one of Republicans’ first legal challenges to the plan. Arkansas, Iowa and South Carolina are suing the Education Department, saying that the plan is too broad […]
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Republicans Are Lying About Fentanyl to Scare Voters
Fentanyl, a painkiller legal administered in emergency departments every day, is legal. “Fentanyl” is also a catch-all term for synthetic opioids fueling panic and misinformation about the overdose crisis — and a central theme of the GOP’s fearmongering midterm election strategy. A recent appeal to voters was pannedCritics as “substance-free” in terms of concrete policy […]
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DeSantis Accepts Fed Help for Florida — But in 2013 Tried to Block Aid Elsewhere
President Joe Biden, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis have been in constant talks with one another following the landfall of Hurricane Ian in Florida — but despite DeSantis’s willingness to collaborate with the president for hurricane relief for his state, he has a history of opposing hurricane relief funds for areas that are more Democratic-leaning. […]
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