Activists Demand Permanent Environmental Protections for Arctic Wildlife Refuge
Conservationists, climate campaigners on Thursday welcomed The news that another fossil fuel company has canceled a controversial Trump-era lease to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, while calling on policymakers to permanently protect the pristine wilderness from future threats. According to the Anchorage Daily News, Regenerate Alaska, a subsidiary of Australia-based 88 […]
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DeSantis’s Next Move in War Against Trans Kids Is Banning Gender Affirming Care
Far right Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration is moving to ban transgender youth and Medicaid recipients from accessing gender affirming care in Florida in an extreme escalation of Republicans’ war on transgender people. On Thursday, state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo sent a letterThe governing body that oversees doctors and nurses in Florida requesting that it “establish […]
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Unemployment Due to Voluntary Quits Falls in May Amid Strong Job Growth
The economy added 390,000. However, the unemployment rate remained at 3.6 percent for the third consecutive monthly month. The May report clearly showed that the labor market is stabilizing, with wage growth slowing. The annualized rate to wage growth in comparison of the last three months (March-April-and-May) with the previous three months, December-January-and February was […]
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Sen. Blackburn Says ‘Biden’s Greatest Hits of Failures’ Plague America
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., joins this edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss key questions and issues in our current politics. After 16 years in the House and being elected to the U.S. Senate, Blackburn outlines the main themes and principles that Republicans must articulate as they move into the 2022 midterm elections. She […]
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Leaked Tapes Reveal GOP’s Plan to Train Right-Wing Operatives to Be Poll Workers
The Republican Party is hatching a plan to infiltrate polling places using GOP-trained operatives and to create an “army” of right-wing lawyers in order to make it easier for the party to challenge and overturn election results, newly leaked video recordings reveal. A Michigan-based Republican National Committee (RNC staffer gave an overview of the party’s […]
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Public Was Uninvited From Memorial Day US Capitol Celebration
The 2022 PBS National Memorial Day Concert took place outside the United States Capitol, but you probably weren’t there to witness it. The exclusive, nationally televised PBS event, which was only open to congressional VIPs and their friends, was closed to the general public. To protect the few people allowed to attend, hundreds upon hundreds […]
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Progressive Jamie McLeod-Skinner Triumphs Over Big Pharma Ally Kurt Schrader
Progressive candidate Jamie McLeod-Skinner has won the Democratic primary in Oregon’s fifth district, ousting conservative Democrat Rep. Kurt Schrader, who worked with fellow conservatives in the party to undermine Democrats’ agenda last year. With over 80 percent of votes counted, numerous outletsIncludes The Associated Pressa race for McLeod Skinner, making her the Democratic House Candidat […]
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Corporate Media Fail to Cover War in Yemen Due to US Support for Saudi Arabia
Although the war in Ukraine gets the most attention, American news outlets tend to overlook the fact that the U.S. has supported a war between the Houthis of Yemen and a Saudi-led alliance that includes the United Arab Emirates. As a result, most of the U.S. public is unaware of the war’s catastrophic impact on […]
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Seattle City Council Passes US’s First Minimum Wage Guarantee for Gig Workers
Labor activists and gig workers in Washington State are celebrating this week after the Seattle City Council approved new rules Tuesday designed to ensure that companies such as DoorDash, UberEats, Grubhub, Instacart and Amazon Flex are paying their couriers, delivery drivers, and other gig workers the city’s minimum wage, which is set at $17.27 for […]
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As Biden Cancels Corinthian Students’ Debt, They Urge Cancellation for All
The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will erase $5.8 Billion in federal loan debt owed by half a Million borrowers who attended Corinthian Colleges. Corinthian Colleges was a for profit education company that was defrauded by students across the nation in 2015. The victory of an estimated 560,000 borrowers is the result seven years […]
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