Conservative Leadership: A Summer of Invented Enemies?
In a week of “campaign” launches the candidates for Prime Minister all spoke broadly along the same two themes: tax cuts and culture war. While the first is not controversial, it is a fairly common political fayre. The second is more dangerous. “Culture war” transfigures public debate into a rage-soaked fantasyland and leads to the […]
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Former Oath Keeper Testifies That Trump Fueled Extremists’ Actions
Chilling live testimony at the seventh hearing of the January 6 House select committee hearing came from former Donald Trump supporters who detailed their own radicalization in response to Trump’s actions leading up to the deadly insurrection. “I think we need to quit mincing words and just talk about truths. It was going to be […]
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Workers Filed More Union Petitions in 8 Months Than in Entirety of FY 2021
As workers wage successful union campaigns at major corporations like GE, the number of workers who want to join a union is on the rise. Starbucks Amazon, new data from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) shows. Between October 1 and June 30 – the first nine months of Fiscal Year 2022 – union petitions […]
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Reproductive Freedom Organizers in Michigan Put Right to Abortion on the Ballot
A grassroots poll initiative in Michigan to acknowledge abortion as a basic proper within the state structure might be included on the November poll, after organizers efficiently submitted tons of of 1000’s of signatures in help of the measure. Reproductive Freedom for All, a coalition of pro-abortion organizations that embrace the Michigan American Civil Liberties […]
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At the 1/6 Hearings, Trump the Troll Is Getting a Taste of His Own Medicine
“Can I say a word about Vice President Pence? I think the vice president did the right thing, I think he did the courageous thing,” former White House attorney Pat Cipollone saidYesterday’s January 6 House Select Committee hearing via videotape. “I think he did a great service to this country. I suggested to someone he […]
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Warren Asks Facebook & Instagram to Stop Censoring Truthful Posts About Abortion
Since the Supreme Court’s decision to reverse its previous ruling, Roe v. WadeInstagram and Facebook have been taking down posts that help people access abortions and other reproductive services. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D.Massachusetts), is asking the companies for an end to the practice. Warren and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) sent a letter to the two […]
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Trump’s White House Counsel “Corroborated” Almost All Jan 6. Witness Testimony
A member of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol building and the attempts by Trump allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results says that former President Donald Trump’s White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, did not contradict previous testimonies from former aides when he met with the […]
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Warren Introduces Bill That Would Allow 16 & 17 Year Olds to Preregister to Vote
In light of declining support for mainstream politicians among young voters Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.Massachusetts), and Rep. Nikema Williams, (D.Georgia), have introduced a bill that aims to greatly expand youth voting access. Young voters consistently have the lowest voter turnoutAll age groups. Even in 2020, young voters will still be eligible to vote turned outOnly […]
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Leaked Bannon Audio Shows Trump Planned to Declare Himself Winner No Matter What
Trump’s former president had planned ahead, regardless of the outcome, to claim he had won 2020 presidential election. He did this by discounting millions more votes that were cast through the mail or early, as a newly found recording from his staunch ally Steve Bannon illustrates. Bannon was speaking with a group of associates on […]
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In a Year, Amazon Disciplined Workers 13,000 Times at Now-Unionized Warehouse
Over the course of just one year ending at the beginning of the pandemic, Amazon issued thousands of disciplinary notes against workers for what seem like nearly inconsequential mistakes in a warehouse that’s now the only unionized Amazon warehouse in the U.S., new reporting finds. Reuters reports that, in the year ending in April 2020, […]
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