Truss, Sunak and Javid back Johnson as former Johnson loyalist issues rebuke
Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, and Sajid Javid have all leapt to defend Boris Johnson following Sir Graham Brady’s confirmation that Conservative MPs will hold a no confidence vote in the prime minister this evening. Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who received a fine for breaching Covid rules alongside the PM back in April, wrote via Twitter today: […]
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Putin Threatens to Escalate War If Ukraine Receives Long-Range Missiles
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday threatened to further escalate the war in Ukraine in light of Western countries’ continued military assistance to the former Soviet state, warning the U.S. and other countries against providing long-range rocket systems capable of hitting targets in Russia. A shipment of such weapons would prompt Russian forces to target […]
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Boris Johnson to face no confidence vote tonight
The chair of the 1922 committee, Sir Graham Brady, has confirmed that Conservative MPs will maintain a no confidence vote within the prime minster later immediately. This comes after quite a few Conservative MPs introduced that that they had submitted letters of no confidence. When quizzed over his dialog with Boris Johnson over the matter, Brady […]
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Getting Formula Was a Strain for Many Low-Income Families Before Shortages
Miracle Abbott fell pregnant in her junior year at University of South Carolina Upstate. Her low-wage work and student debt meant that she turned to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, also known as WIC, at the age of 19 to receive infant formula and food. After giving birth, her baby […]
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Landmark California Task Force Calls for “Comprehensive Reparations” for Slavery
California is the only state in the United States to establish a reparations taskforce specifically for Black Americans. The Task Force to Study the Development of Reparation Proposals For African Americans was established June 1. a 500-page document that traces the history of white supremacyFrom slavery to Jim Crow to the present. It calls for […]
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Trump Allies Concocted Plan to Seize Voting Machines With Armed Contractors
According to new reporting, Trump’s former allies sought to have voting machines taken by private contractors armed with weapons in the weeks following the 2020 election. As the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday, draft executive orders dated December 16 and 17, 2020 regarding the seizure of voting machines appear to have started as an “authorizing […]
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GOP Wants to Blame Biden for Inflation. What About COVID and Capitalism?
I was afraid to go to the grocery store two years ago lest I find COVID-19 lurking among the bananas or swirling around some unmasked dudehead coughing deliberately under a MAGA cap. That fear has since vanished. remains ever-presentUnfortunately, the aisle-by-aisle sticker surprise has arrived: It costs How much, now? As the Cambridge band Morphine […]
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Mass Shootings Are Evidence of a Deep Rot in Our Society
The horrific mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, revealed that no one — whether elderly Black people in a supermarket or 10-year-old Latino children at school — are safe from gun violence in America. This is clearly a failure in our gun policies and misplaced faith with policing. However, it also shows […]
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Organizers Are Demanding a Green New Deal for the Gulf South
The Gulf Coast is home to “over 47% of total petroleum refining capacity … as well as 51% of total U.S. natural gas processing plant capacity,” according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Given that the burning of fossil fuels is the primary cause of the climate crisis, the Gulf Coast is a primary site […]
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Migrants Died on Her Watch Under Trump. Then She Ran a Shelter Under Biden.
The woman who oversaw family separation under President Donald Trump was the leader of the U.S. Border Patrol. She later got a job assuring the care for migrant children as the number of border crossings rose in early 2021. Former Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost became site director at the Pecos Children’s Center, a 2,000-bed […]
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