Congressional Staffers Arrested During Climate Protest in Chuck Schumer’s Office
In an unprecedented move, a group of congressional staffers were arrested on Monday after waging a sit-in for climate action in Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-New York) office in the Senate, demanding that the senator push harder to pass climate legislation in Congress. Seventeen House and Senate staffers protested in Schumer’s office after a […]
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DOJ Is “Finally Going for the Jugular” as Top Pence Aides Testify About Jan. 6
Multiple news reports reported Monday that two top aides of former Vice President Mike Pence were subpoenaed. They appeared before the federal grand jury probing the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Marc Short, who served as Pence’s chief of staff, “was caught by an ABC News camera departing D.C. District Court […]
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Since Jan. 6 Attack, Corporations Have Given $21.5 Million to “Sedition Caucus”
In the month of June, as the House January 6 committee revealed alarming new details on former President Donald Trump’s coup attempt, corporate trade groups and Fortune 500 companies donated more than $819,000 to the Republican members of Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 election results. That’s according to a new analysisThis information is […]
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Myanmar Executes Four Activists as Resistance to Military Government Grows
Human rights activists are sounding the alarm in Burma, where the military junta has executed four men imprisoned for their pro-democracy activism and opposing last year’s coup. It is the first time in three decades that Burma has seen this kind of execution. Maung Zarni is a Burmese dissident, human rights activist, and exile. She […]
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World Oil Production Is Rising, With No End in Sight
It may seem hard to believe, but only 15 years ago many of us were talking confidently about “peak oil” — the moment of maximum global oil output after which, with world reserves dwindling, its use would begin an irreversible decline. Then, hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) was introduced and the notion that peak oil had […]
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Government ‘doesn’t know’ whether Covid travel rules worked
In a report today the public accounts committee says despite spending at least £486 million on implementing the international travel “traffic light system” during the pandemic, government “does not know whether the system worked or whether the cost was worth the disruption caused”. Between February 2021 – January 2022, at least 10 changes were made […]
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YouTube Will Scrub Abortion Misinformation on Platform
YouTube announced Thursday it would begin removing content containing abortion misinformation and “unsafe abortion methods.” The move came nearly a month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on June 24. “Starting today and ramping up over the next few weeks, we will remove content that provides instructions for unsafe […]
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OK for California, Too Wacky for America
Democrats coalesced behind the presidential nomination of Joe Biden after Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucuses, briefly becoming the Democratic Party’s front-runner. Democrats quickly joined hands with the more electable Biden after Sanders was defeated by President Donald Trump. But compared to “democratic socialist” Sanders, is California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s policy is really any different? […]
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Almost half of Welsh Councils accused of ‘contentious’ diversity policies
The author of a landmark race report has said a “contentious interpretation of anti-racism, based on division, has taken hold” after a study found nearly half of Wales’ councils promote contentious diversity policies. Research from the group Don’t Divide Us (DDU) found that nine Welsh councils employed or were “at risk” of deploying anti-racist policies, […]
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January 6 Committee Has Provided Sufficient Evidence for Garland to Indict Trump
More than two years after Donald Trump orchestrated a massive criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, including directing an armed and violent mob to attack the U.S. Capitol, Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has still not indicted the former president. The House of Representatives Select Committee to […]
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