Chuck Schumer Blasts Fox News Over Amplification of Racist Far Right Theory
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, sent a letter to both the executives and the public. Fox News and its parent company Fox Corporation on Tuesday, demanding that they stop promoting white supremacy on air, and citing the network’s amplification of the so-called “Great Replacement” theory that inspired a white supremacist massacre in Buffalo, […]
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Progressive Summer Lee Declares Victory in Pennsylvania Primary With Slim Margin
Summer Lee declared victory late Tuesday in the Democratic primary race to represent Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District in the U.S. House, voicing confidence that the remaining uncounted votes will favor her campaign over corporate attorney Steve Irwin’s. Lee has 93% of precincts reporting and leads Irwin by 446vote. Irwin was a former Republican U.S. Senate […]
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Madison Cawthorn Loses GOP Primary Election, Is Out of Running for 2022 Midterms
United States Congressman Madison Cawthorn (R-North Carolina) has lost his bid to remain in office for another term in Tuesday’s primary election. He lost to Chuck Edwards who is a three-term GOP senator. Cawthorn was narrowly defeated by Edwards attaining 33.4 percent of the total vote in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District GOP primary. Cawthorn […]
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BLM Cut Massive Checks for Co-Founder’s Brother, Father of Her Child
Black Lives Matter paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the brother of the group’s co-founder and the father of her child, according to the group’s 2020 tax filing. BLM paid almost $970,000 to Trap Heals, LLC run by Damon Turner, for the 2020 tax year, according to the group’s IRS Form 990. Turner is the father of Patrisse Cullors’ child. […]
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The GOP Is Attacking LGBTQ Rights in Schools. These Students Are Fighting Back.
For members of the Gender and Sexuality Alliance at Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans, Louisiana, the tirade of anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ bills upending state legislatures is a dangerous reaction to what they’ve worked so hard to build: visibility and safety for LGBTQ students. Gathered in the student union at the University of New […]
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Progressive Charles Booker Wins Primary to Challenge Rand Paul in November
Former Kentucky Rep. Charles Booker overwhelmingly won the state’s U.S. Senate Democratic primary on Tuesday, taking the progressive candidate one step closer to his goal of unseating far right Republican Sen. Rand Paul in November. Booker currently holds a record of about 97.9% of votes as of Wednesday morning. won over 73 percentJoshua Blanton was […]
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Environmental Advocates Decry Plan to Dump Water From Fukushima Into the Pacific
Despite protestations from the locals Leaders and the Japanese public, and warnings environmental campaigners, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday gave its approval for a plan to discharge contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, a move critics say will pose a major threat to marine life. After spending several […]
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Black Feminism Insists That We Not Treat the Attack on “Roe” as Isolated Issue
This is the latest threat to end the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision comes as yet another blow to women in general — and Black and poor women in particular, as well as trans and nonbinary abortion seekers. Recent leaks of the draft opinion by the conservative court indicating that they plan […]
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The Media’s Big Lie About ‘Great Replacement Theory’ and Conservatism
A racist mass shooter murdered 10 people and injured three more at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store. The shooter was a white supremacist. His hate-filled 180-page explanation of why he had done the shooting was filled with neo Nazi sentiments. According to the shooter the shooter had to kill innocent black Americans in order […]
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Boris Johnson under pressure over growing calls for energy windfall tax
Keir Starmer took Boris Johnson to task over resisting growing calls for a windfall tax in the first Prime Minister’s Questions of the new parliamentary session. Labour’s leader repeatedly asked Johnson why the government was doing the “hokey cokey” on a one-off tax on energy companies to ease the pressures of the cost-of-living crisis for […]
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