Republican Senators Reject Bill to Provide Veterans Care for Toxic Exposure
The Senate Republicans voted to reject a bill that would have provided benefits for veterans who were exposed to chemical agents and toxic burn pits during their military service. Only 55 senators voted to advance the billThe Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act (or PACT Act) failed to pass the 60-vote threshold to invoke Cloture. […]
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ALEC Focuses on “Woke Capitalism,” Bodily Autonomy and More at Annual Meeting
Adherents of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have come together this week for their first big meeting of the year to take on “woke capitalism,” women’s right to abortion, voting rights, China, Big Tech, the administrative state, and more. ALEC’s annual meeting at the four-star Hilton Hotel in downtown Atlanta features speakers such as […]
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ExxonMobil Is Counting on Trump-Chosen Judge to Undermine Right to Sue Polluters
A new ruling ExxonMobil vs. Environment TexasExpected to be completed by August. ExxonMobil has asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for a second appeal to limit citizens’ rights to sue polluters in federal courts. Andrew Oldham, a Trump-appointed Federalist Society Member, is the presiding Judge. The Clean Air Act citizen lawsuit, which dates back […]
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Sam Tarry ‘surprised’ by sacking
A former shadow transport minister has said he was “surprised” after Keir Starmer fired him from the Labour frontbench earlier this week. It happened after Tarry joined the striking rail workers at the picket line picket lines on Tuesday morning, despite Starmer warning his frontbench team against it. The erstwhile shadow minister for buses and […]
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Foreign Office denies ‘deliberately misleading’ MPs over Afghanistan withdrawal
The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office has denied being “deliberately misleading” in the wake of the Afghanistan withdrawal. Today, the foreign affairs committee publishes the government’s response to the committee’s report “Missing in action: UK leadership and the withdrawal from Afghanistan”. The FCDO states that “there are fundamental lessons to learn” from the withdrawal, and […]
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Democrats’ New Proposal Does Nothing to Lower Inflation
The reconciliation bill Sens. Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin came to an agreement Wednesday that the reconciliation bill Sens has absolutely nothing to do with inflation, despite its absurd name. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is crammed with the very same spending, corporate welfare, price fixing and tax hikes that were part of Build […]
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Government Eyes More Data on Americans to Study Pay Disparities
The federal government collected data on 100 million Americans from 70,000 employers to prioritize investigations for what a report calls “systemic” pay discrimination. To address the issue of pay disparities, the government is also open to expanding data collection. “Is this going to be a smoking gun that definitively answers whether there is pay discrimination? […]
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When Clinton, Biden, Schumer Defended Marriage Against Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy, Democratic senator from Massachusetts, was faced with prominent opposition in his own party when he led the fight to stop the 1996 federal law that would have defined marriage only as the union of one man or one woman. They included Chuck Schumer, Senator from New York, Joe Biden of Delaware, as well […]
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Republicans Might Skip Liberal Interviews? Good
It’s way too early to talk about the 2024 presidential campaign, but it cannot be staved off any more than you can stop Jim Acosta from yelling. Liberals are already concerned about the Republican candidates’ press strategy. New York magazine posted David Freedlander’s article, “Why Republicans Stopped Talking to the Press.” This headline is inaccurate, […]
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Putin’s Repression Is Driving Many Antiwar Russians Abroad
We will examine the impact of the Russian war in Ukraine on the Russian people. Many Russian dissidents opposing the invasion choose to flee abroad, after they are subject to brutal crackdowns at home. Russian historian and writer Ilya Budraitskis left Moscow after the conflict in Ukraine started. He recently launched the media outlet Posle. […]
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