Manchin’s Climate Reversal Comes With Major Caveat: Expanding Oil and Gas
Conservative coal baron Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) announced on Wednesday that he has come to an agreement with Democratic leaders for a reconciliation bill with key climate, prescription drug price and tax reforms — with a major caveat to expand oil and gas exploration. The bill is named the Inflation Reduction ActIncludes roughly $433 […]
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Clarence Thomas Bows Out of Teaching at GWU After Students Demand His Dismissal
After thousands of student protests and calls for his resignation, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will no more co-teach a course in George Washington University’s upcoming semester. Thomas had been teaching a course at the university for the last 10 yearsGregory Maggs, Thomas’ former clerk. But after the Supreme Court’s latest term, in which Thomas […]
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Kansas GOP Seeks to Remove Abortion Rights From State Constitution in Primaries
August 2 marks the beginning of the primary in Kansas. Voters will be choosing their party’s nominee for governor, congressional representatives and state representatives. It’s a typical primary day ballot, except for one item: Amendment 2, which would remove the right to an abortion from the state constitution. In the aftermath of the end Roe […]
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Big Oil Has Spent Over $200 Million in 1.5 Years to Sabotage Climate Action
The oil and gas industry, one of the most powerful corporate forces in American politics, has spent more than $200 million over the past year and a half to stop Congress from slashing carbon emissions as evidence of their catastrophic impact — from deadly heatwaves to massive wildfires — continues to accumulate in stunning fashion. […]
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GOP Opposition to Drug Pricing Bill Shows Scope of Big Pharma’s Grip on Congress
For months now, President Biden’s ambitious economic and social justice reforms have been whittled down and whittled down again. Every time a major policy package has been put together with the hope that it will pass with 51 Senate votes via budget reconciliation, it eventually runs afoul Senators Joe Manchin & Kyrsten Sinema. In desperate […]
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MPs urge new ‘Menopause Ambassador’ to keep women at work
Employers’ lack of support for menopausal symptoms is pushing ‘highly skilled and experienced’ women out of work, with knock-on effects on the gender pay gap, pension gap and the number of women in senior leadership positions. Today’s cross-party House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee calls on the government for action. They want to amend […]
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Dozens of Clinics Have Dropped Abortion Services Since Overturn of “Roe v. Wade”
Original publication by The 19th. Since then, Roe v. Wade43 abortion clinics in 11 states were forced to halt offering abortions after the ruling was overturned. Data from the Guttmacher Institute shows that in the seven states that are enforcing total abortion bans — Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas — there […]
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Gun Makers Have Made $1B From Assault Weapons Sales Over the Past Decade
According to a House investigation released Wednesday, major gun companies that made the weapons used in mass shootings earned over $1 billion in revenue over ten years. They sold hundreds of thousands of assault guns to the public each and every year. The House Oversight Committee report findsFive major manufacturers received this revenue purely from […]
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Pelosi’s Husband Dumped Up to $5M of Tech Stock Right Before Senate Passed CHIPS
Just before the Senate passed a major bill to subsidize computer chip manufacturers on Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-California) husband sold thousands of shares of Nvidia — a tech company that could stand to gainFrom the passage of nearly $80 billion bill. Paul Pelosi — an extremely active stock trader who’s gained a following […]
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Dems Favored to Win the Senate Due to “Weak” GOP Choices, FiveThirtyEight Says
FiveThirtyEight reports that Democrats have a better chance than Republicans of retaining control over the Senate. The site, well-known for predicting the outcome of elections, noted that the change had come in part due to Republicans selecting “weak candidates” in some of the key races for this fall’s midterm contests. FiveThirtyEight’s election modelIt uses polling […]
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