LIVE: Our ministerial resignation tally
Yesterday’s evening’s announcements that health secretary Sajid Javid, and chancellor Rishi Sunak quit the cabinet have since been followed by a string of other resignations. As it stands now, there are 18. This includes: Rishi Sunak – chancellor Sajid Javid – health secretary Bin Afolami – vice chair Jo Churchill – health minister Will Quince- […]
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No doubt now – The MP arithmetic marks the end for Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson, his colleague, won a no confidence vote by a margin that was 211 to 148 one month ago today. The outcome was not conclusive. To remove the prime minister from office in any future contest, 31 more Conservative MPs would have to change their minds. Since that date, there have been two Conservative […]
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Workers at Over 300 Starbucks Locations Have Filed to Unionize
Starbucks Workers United, which is behind more than 180 Starbucks unionizations, recently reached another milestone: More than 300 Starbucks workers have filed for unionization. The union announced the milestone in a tweet on Tuesday as it posted yet more letters from workers — this time in Clifton Park, New York, and Springfield, Oregon — announcing […]
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Largest US Nursing Union Calls for Ending Filibuster to Codify Abortion Rights
The largest nursing union in the United States recently sent an open letter to lawmakers in the Senate, demanding that they pass a bill recognizing and protecting abortion rights — and calling on them to suspend the filibuster in order to do so. National Nurses United (NNU), stated in a letter that such legislation should […]
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Zahawi fails to rule out snap election
More to come The post Zahawi fails in snap election was originally published on Politics.co.uk
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Quince quits as Johnson premiership on the brink
Will Quince MP announced his resignation today as minister for children, families and social services. Quince defended the government on Monday’s media round jus two days ago, echoing the now rescinded line that No 10 was unaware of any “specific allegations” that ought to have ruled out Chris Pincher for the deputy chief whip appointment […]
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Petition Calling for Clarence Thomas’s Impeachment Reaches 1 Million Signatures
A petition calling for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be impeached has reached over 1 million signatures in the wake of numerous extremist right-wing Court decisions and an ethics scandal over Thomas’s familial ties to the January 6 Capitol attack. The petition was posted on MoveOnAs of Monday morning, it had nearly 1,078,000 signatures. […]
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The Highland Park Shooting Was a Very American Attack
A Klezmer band was just starting to play at the Highland Park, Illinois July 4 parade when the all too familiar sound of an automatic gun fire ripped the day in two. Six people were killed and many more injured when a man on a roof poured shot after shot into the crowd. One victim […]
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The Supreme Court Is Now Further Right Than It’s Been Since the Early 1930s
An analysis of the Supreme Court’s decisions from this past term has shown that it is now more conservative than in previous generations. The far right tilt is largely due to Republicans were able to block the Democratic nomination in 2016, when former President Barack Obama selected now-Attorney General Merrick Garland to replace Antonin Scalia […]
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Putin Declares a Win in Luhansk Despite Massive Losses
Russian forces fighting for control of eastern Ukraine are believed to be preparing for an “operational pause” after taking control of Luhansk, one of two provinces in the Donbas region that Russian President Vladimir Putin claims to be “liberating” through a devastating war of attrition that has left entire cities in ruin. Putin declared victory […]
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