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GOP Introduces Bill That Makes It Easier to Fire Workers at Federal Agencies

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy’s introduction Friday of a bill to make federal bureaucratic personnel at-will employees further stoked fears that marginalized workers will suffer discriminatory firings under a future Republican administration or even GOP-controlled Congress. The Public Service Reform Act “will empower federal agencies to swiftly address misconduct and remove underperforming or ill-willed employees, creating […]

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GOP Officials in at Least 3 States Have Refused to Certify Primary Results

Republican election officials in at least three states have refused to certify primary votes, in a sign of things to come amid the party’s baseless election fraud crusade. Many Trump supporters have repeated the lies about voter fraud while on the campaign trail. Trump-backed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari LakeNevada U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt both […]

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Media Mogul Murdoch Dumps Trump for DeSantis. How Will This Impact the Election?

Sometimes things end with more a whimper than a bang. In the nearly two years since Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, the would-be-strongman has done everything in his power to keep himself in the spotlight and to fuel a sense of inevitability that he will be the GOP’s standard-bearer in the 2024 presidential election. […]

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Your opinion: Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak?

Only Conservative party members are eligible to vote for our next Prime Minister. But what does the public think?Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak? We went to London Bridge to find the answer. Sunak had a slight lead but opinions were divided.

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The New Age of Orwellianism

Community organizer and left-wing social activist Saul Alinsky wrote, in his 1971 book “Rules for Radicals,” that “he who controls the language controls the masses.” Alinsky, whose work profoundly influenced at least one notable fellow Chicagoan, Barack Obama, was in that quip channeling George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel “1984.” “Newspeak,” the language of Orwell’s fictional […]

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Inflation Reduction Act a Euphemism for Bigger Government, Higher Prices

Inflation has been consuming $6,800 annually in purchasing power, according to families with two employees. The Inflation Reduction Act would have every American family subject to price controls, manipulation federal subsidies, and tax increases. The bill would worsen the recession, continue to depress household incomes, increase prices, and continue to deepen it. The bill’s publication […]

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369 Groups Tell Biden to Reject Manchin’s Big Oil “Handouts” in Reconciliation

On Friday, hundreds a environmental and community organizations called on President Joe Biden (D-New York), and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer(D-New York), to reject any provisions that would support or expand fossil fuel projects in the new reconciliation bill. On Wednesday, Democrats announced that they had made a decision.. In a letter signed by 369 […]

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4 Companies Filed Nearly 15,000 Eviction Actions in COVID’s First 16 Months

In the first 16 month of the pandemic four large corporate landlords filed almost 15,000 eviction cases against their tenants. Executives and property managers engaged in harassment and deception of their tenants, and intentionally inflicting cruelty upon people who were unable to pay their rent. The U.S. House Select Subcommittee of the Coronavirus Crisis releasedThursday’s […]

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Alito Gloats and Taunts Critics of His Anti-Abortion Ruling

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mocked world leaders who criticized his anti-abortion ruling last month and decried what he called a “hostility to religion” in his first public comments since the decision. Alito, who authored the court’s majority opinionIn the DobbsCase that was overturned Roe v. Wade, bragged during a surprise appearance at a religious […]

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Warnock, Abrams in Close Races With Republicans in Georgia Races

New polling indicates that the midterm elections for senatorial and gubernatorial seats in Georgia are likely to be very close. Sen. Raphael Warnock will be competing against Republican nominee, former NFL player Herschel Walk, in the general elections this November. Democrat Stacey Abrams is challenging incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R). a rematch of their controversial […]

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