While Democrats Try to Woo Manchin, He’s Headed to Billionaire-Hosted Fundraiser
Amid a new push by Democrats to revive talks with conservatives in their party on President Joe Biden’s social, economic and climate agenda, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) is headed to a fundraiser at a billionaire’s house in California this weekend, hosted by the right-leaning political group No Labels. As uncovered by The InterceptManchin will […]
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Oklahoma Republicans Pass Texas-Style 6-Week Abortion Ban
The Republican-controlled Oklahoma state legislature passed a bill on Thursday that is modeled after the six-week abortion ban that Texas implemented last fall, which allows private residents to sue abortion providers in order to enforce the ban. Senate Bill 1503 would prohibit all abortions in Oklahoma after six weeks of pregnancySo early in pregnancy, that […]
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Sanders Ridicules Romney for Saying that Student Loan Cancellation Is a “Bribe”
Student debt cancellation advocate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) ridiculed Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Thursday after the Republican said that government benefits like loan forgiveness are tantamount to a “bribe.” After news had been circulated President Joe BidenWednesday: Congress will be looking at options to cancel student loans without Congress Romney wrote, “Desperate polls call […]
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Minister says she was assaulted by former Conservative MP
International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has said male MPs ought to “keep their hands in their pockets”, after admitting a former MP assaulted her. Quizzed by Sky News today over whether she agreed with Attorney General Suella Braverman that “a very small minority of men [in parliament]…behave like animals”, she explained: “I think all of […]
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Indigenous Women Lead Effort to Push Biden to Block Enbridge’s Line 5 Expansion
Indigenous women leaders and more than 200 advocacy organizations sent a letter Wednesday demanding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers block federal permits for an expansion of Enbridge’s Line 5, a 645-mile-long pipeline that currently transports millions of gallons of crude oil and natural gas liquids per day from Wisconsin to Ontario, Canada. Environmentalists […]
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Trump Conspiracy Theorists Made 8 Attempts to Breach Voting Systems in 5 States
According to a, Republicans attempted to hack voting systems in five different states eight times in search of evidence that a conspiracy theory that voting machines changed votes from President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden was false. Reuters investigation. Trump and his allies targeted voting systems in Colorado (Colorado), North Carolina, Michigan. Ohio, Pennsylvania, […]
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Calls Grow for Biden to Win WNBA Star Brittney Griner’s Release From Russia
Image Credit: Enrico Calderoni/AFLO SPORT This week, the Biden administration participated with Russia in a prisoner swap. A Russian pilot was released from Connecticut on drug charges. In return, a Marine veteran who had been held in Russia since 2019 was freed. Brittney Griner, a basketball player in jail, remains uncertain. One of the biggest […]
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A Court Decision Against Marjorie Taylor Greene May Only Embolden Her Base
As the investigations into the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol ramp up, it’s becoming increasingly clear that right-wing QAnon adherent Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was a leading advocate of declaring martial law after Donald Trump’s election defeat. This week, Judge Charles Beaudrot pondered whether to recommend to the Georgia secretary of stateUnder a […]
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Indigenous Abolitionists Are Organizing for Healing and Survival
Activists march for lacking and murdered Indigenous girls on the Girls’s March California 2019 on January 19, 2019, in Los Angeles, California.Sarah Morris / Getty Photos “We would like a world the place persons are supported, the place our persons are not made forcibly weak to violence, and the place interventions happen lengthy earlier than […]
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Propaganda Wars Are Raging as Russia’s War on Ukraine Expands
Propaganda has played an important role in warfare ever since World War I. Propaganda is used by a nation to increase support for its war effort. Targeted propaganda campaigns are also used by national governments to influence public opinion in the countries they’re at war with and to influence international opinion. Public opinion manipulation is […]
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