Why the Sudden Hunter Biden Epiphany at Washington Post?
Just when you thought the Hunter Biden scandals were dead in darkness, The Washington Post published over 6,300 words March 30 admitting that a significant fraction of his laptop contents were authentic. Why not now? Why not last yea? Why did liberal outlets assume that every person expressing concern about Biden is a Trump-loving kook?” […]
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Homeland Security 20th Agency to Track Religious Vaccine Objectors Homeland Security Latest Agency to Track Religious Accommodations
The Department of Homeland Security has been at least the 20th federal agency in the creation or proposal of tracking lists for employees who request religious accommodation under the COVID-19 vaccination mandate. A rule placed in the Federal Register on Friday allows the DHS “to collect and maintain records on employees and applicants for employment” […]
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Pence’s ‘Freedom Agenda’ Urges Patriotic Education, Challenges Big Tech
Former Vice President Mike Pence announced what he calls a “Freedom Agenda” on Friday that includes policy proposals for border security, stopping Big Tech censorship, patriotic education, national security, and more. “You can’t beat a program without a program,” Pence said on a conference call Friday sponsored by Advancing American Freedom, a conservative policy group. […]
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Corporate Profits Reached Record High of Nearly $3 Trillion in 2021
As the working class struggled with high inflation in America, corporate profits reached a record high of nearly $3 trillion in 2021. Data from the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic AnalysisIt is clear that pre-tax profits outnumber aftertax profits. the whole year increasedBy a staggering 25 percent, the total reached $2.8 trillion. The annualized […]
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Federal Judge Blocks Parts of Florida GOP’s Election Law, Citing Racism
Civil rights defenders on Thursday welcomed a ruling by a federal judge who struck down parts of a Florida voter suppression law, calling racism “a motivating factor” in the GOP-backed legislation’s passage. In 288 pages ruling, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker blocked provisions of Florida’s Senate Bill 90, a massive attack on voting rightsSigned by […]
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March Employment Growth Closes in on Pre-Pandemic Levels
According to expectations, March saw an increase of 431,000 jobs. Revisions of the previous two months data added 95,000 new jobs to January and Feb growth, bringing the monthly average to 562,000. The total employment has fallen by 1.6million from pre-pandemic levels. Strong job growth led to unemployment falling to 3.6%, just 0.1 percent below […]
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Judge Finds WI Speaker in Contempt for Refusing to Turn Over Recount Documents
Thursday’s circuit judge found the Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Republican, in contempt of court for refusing to turn over documents relating to the state’s recount of the 2020 presidential election. “Robin Vos had delegated the search for contractors’ records to an employee who did nothing more than send one vague email to one […]
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Family Members of Emmett Till and Ida B. Wells Respond to Anti-Lynching Law
On Tuesday, President Biden signed into law the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. This marks the culmination of efforts to make lynching an federal crime. We’re joined by Emmett Till’s cousin and best friend, Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr., who was 16 years old when he witnessed Till’s abduction from his great-uncle’s home in Money, Mississippi, prior […]
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Right-Wing Book Censorship Is an Attack on the Minds of Children
A favorite quote from Stanley Kunitz, two-time poet laureate of the United States, hangs on a wall in my classroom: “Poets,” he writes, “are not easily domesticated… and they can be outrageous; but they are also idealists and visionaries whose presence is needed… to clear the air of corruption and hypocrisy, to mock oppression, and […]
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Anti-Russian Bigotry Increases in the US and Beyond Amid Putin’s War on Ukraine
On a warm Thursday in March, Firouza, an immigrant from Uzbekistan, is sitting in front of her shop in Brooklyn’s Little Odessa, a section of Brighton Beach. It’s home to more than 35,000 people, many of them born in the eastern European countries that once comprised the Soviet Union. Firouza is methodically cutting pieces of […]
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