Conservative leadership voting enters its final week
The voting process to determine the next Conservative leader/prime minister will close on Friday. Members of the Conservative party have been voting between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss since early August to determine who will be the next leader. Only Conservative party members who joined before 3 June are eligible for voting. Anybody whose membership […]
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Sanders Rebukes GOP For Hypocritical “Squawking” About Student Debt Relief
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) rebuked Republicans on Sunday for complaining about President Joe Biden’s Recently announced planYou can cancel up to $20,000 in student debt. This will provide relief for millions of borrowers. Sanders criticised the GOP for focusing on the costs and benefits of student debt relief while ignoring the trillions of dollars that […]
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Critics Deride Postmaster DeJoy’s Consolidation Plan as a True Danger to USPS
Officials from the postal union are sounding the alarm about the potentially damaging impacts of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s effort to consolidate post offices across the U.S. as part of his widely condemned 10-year plan to transform the public mail agency. Government Executive reported Friday that “more than 200 post offices and other U.S. Postal […]
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Newsom Threatens to Veto Farmworker Union Bill as He Buys $14.5M Vineyard
A march of hundreds of farmworkers spanned 335 miles from Sacramento to demand that Governor Gavin Newsom support legislation to make it easier for farmworkers who wish to vote in union elections by mail. Newsom has threatened veto the bill which would keep farmworkers protected from employer retaliation. Teresa Romero, president and founder of United […]
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When We Rose to Fight COVID, We Were Deliberately Turned Against Each Other
Since the beginning of this year, I have been writing with dreary regularity about the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 1 million Americans have died and nearly 94 million have been infected. There have been 90,000 new infections per day over the past two weeks. These terribly high numbers are, in fact, low because our testing and […]
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Graham Says Trump Loyalists Will React Violently if Former President Is Indicted
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, suggested that on Sunday Fox News that officials should stop inquiries into former President Donald Trump’s misconduct, warning that an indictment against the former chief executive could result in violence by his loyalists. Graham, himself a Trump loyalist, didn’t acknowledge the attack on the U.S. Capitol building by a mob […]
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Federal Government Wants to Help Companies Keep Workplace Demographics Secret
The federal government is inviting thousands of companies to fight the public release of their diversity numbers, even after a judge ruled that the workplace demographics reports shouldn’t be kept secret. For many years, RevealThe Center for Investigative Reporting fought in court to make public diversity reports from companies that receive government contracts. This is […]
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Trump Affidavit Contains Broad-Based Probable Cause of Three Federal Crimes
The August 8 search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound yielded 11 sets of classified documents, including several “Secret,” “Top Secret” and “Confidential” documents, according to the Property ReceiptAugust 11th, filed with the court Agents also seized documents marked “SCI,” or highly classified “sensitive compartmented information.” After considering the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) affidavit, U.S. District […]
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Uvalde Parents Protest, Play Audio of Their Children Outside of Abbott’s Mansion
Families of the children killed in the Uvalde Elementary School shooting in Texas protested before Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) mansion early on Saturday morning, demanding that he call a special session of the legislature to address gun violence. The family members were joined by March for Our Lives members. around 5:15 am on Saturday to […]
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Corporate PACs Have Given $22.2M to “Stop the Steal” Republicans Since Jan. 6
Republican members of Congress who opposed certifying 2020 presidential election results were paid more than $22.2million by corporate PACs between January 7, 2021 and June 30, 20,22. This is a new figure. OpenSecretsAnalysis found. The Senate and House members with 147 electoral objections voted against the certification of the President Joe Biden’s victory in Arizona […]
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