There Are Good Reasons to Defund the FBI. They Have Nothing to Do With Trump.
The FBI executed a search warrant at the Mar-a-Lago residence of former President Donald Trump this week. This is an unprecedented move. No other former president has ever been searched. This is the subject of such an investigative procedure. In response, chief Trump supporter and MAGA cheerleader Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed outrage at the FBI’s […]
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Activists Living in Shadow of Fossil Fuels Oppose Democrats’ Deal With Manchin
Environmental justice activists say plans in Congress to fast-track approval of new fossil fuel infrastructure — part of a controversial side deal struck by Democrats over passing the Inflation Reduction Act — endanger communities in the path of new mega-pipelines and export terminals. The organizers state that these projects would almost guarantee climate-warming polluting pollution […]
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The Day the FBI Raided Trump
The FBI raided the Florida home at Mar-a-Lago of former President Donald Trump this week. They based their raid on the purported rationale that they suspected Trump of having mishandled classified information, taking home materials meant for the National Archives: according to The New York Times, the search “appeared to be focused on material that […]
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Don’t Ignore the Threat of Right-Wing Violence in Wake of Mar-a-Lago Search
After months of waiting in seething frustration, it does feel quite like we’ve all jumped out of an airplane at the same time. The doorbell at Trump’s house has been rung by federal agents, and there is no un-ringing it. What had appeared to be a slow, desultory affair for so many years is now […]
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“Let’s Send Ron Johnson Packing”
Wisconsin’s progressive Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes handily won the state’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday, advancing to take on Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in a November matchup that could play a key role in determining which party controls the upper chamber next year. “This is the honor of a lifetime,” Barnes said following his […]
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Biden Will End “Remain in Mexico” Policy, But Immigrants Face Ongoing Trauma
The Biden administration says it is officially ending the controversial Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy that forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico as their cases wind through court, often in grueling conditions for months or years. We speak to attorney and activist Efrén Olivares with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project about […]
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America Has a Two-Tiered Justice System and the FBI Just Proved It
Unless scores upon scores of witnesses saw Donald Trump standing in the middle, 5Th Avenue and shoot someone, the FBI’s raid of his Mar-a-Lago home represents an unforgivable politicization of our justice system. The proof is in the peaceful, unperturbed abodes Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Jim Biden, James Comey, Stefan Halper, Rodney Joffe, and all other […]
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The Universal Basic Income is wrong for Wales
Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been touted for years now by the Left as a solution for everything, and with the cost-of-living seriously biting across our country, its advocates may think it’s time has come. The cause already has a foothold in Wales where the Labour Government started a basic income pilot for care leavers […]
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Battle lines being drawn over Commons privileges inquiry
Allies of Boris Johnson have accused a committee of MPs investigating whether he misled Parliament of conducting a “vengeful and vindictive” “witch hunt”. Although the prime minister is set to leave No 10 in September, the Commons Privileges Committee is going ahead with its inquiry into whether Boris Johnson mislead MPs with his Commons statements on partygate […]
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GOP Lawmakers Vow Probe of FBI Raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Following an FBI raid Monday on former President Donald Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, Republican members of Congress are vowing to launch an investigation into what they view as a blatantly partisan political Justice Department if they retake control of the House of Representatives in November. “Since they took office, the Biden administration has […]
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