Manchin Just Delivered Another Blow on Climate. He’s a Threat to Humanity.
Every person who cares about salvaging the climate crisis’ ongoing, deepening effects is likely to mention Joe Manchin. Another senator with unholy conflicts of interests regarding his coal fortune has put soot and ash in the gears for progress. It is clear that the man does not intend to let any meaningful climate legislation get […]
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AOC Demands Accountability for High Gas Prices as Crude Oil Price Drops
As crude oil prices fall, gas prices remain high, progressive lawmakers are calling for accountability for “profiteering” fossil fuel companies, pointing out the deterministic power that such corporations hold over the country. The crude oil price has risen roughly every week for the past week have been dropping after they spiked in response to Russia’s […]
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New Hampshire Republicans Seek to Repeal State’s Ban on Youth Conversion Therapy
Republicans in New Hampshire’s state House of Representatives have proposed a bill that seeks to rescind elements of the state’s ban on conversion therapy for minors — a move that critics have lambasted as cruel and harmful to LGBTQ youth. If the bill is signed into law, New Hampshire would become the first state in […]
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White House Says Funding for Testing and Vaccines for Uninsured May Run Out Soon
The White House announced Tuesday the possibility that the government will soon cease providing free COVID tests, vaccines, and treatments for uninsured individuals. This is because Congress has not approved additional funding to address this pandemic in recent spending bills. If COVID funding continues to stall, providers won’t be able to submit claims for COVID […]
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Global Nurses Union Says Russian Attacks on Hospitals Amount to War Crimes
A world nurses’ union representing greater than 2.5 million healthcare employees worldwide issued an announcement late Tuesday accusing Russia of committing conflict crimes throughout its assault on Ukraine, a weeks-long navy marketing campaign that has included assaults on dozens of hospitals and different medical services. “The most recent such assault, the bombing of a maternity […]
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Tennessee Republicans Advance Abortion Bill That’s More Extreme Than Texas Law
The Tennessee House of Representatives is advancing an anti-abortion law that would be stricter and more conservative than the Texas controversial law. The Texas anti-abortion law has so far escaped serious judicial scrutiny due to its mechanics.The Supreme Court is conservative-leaning — instead of the state of Texas enforcing a six-week ban on abortion, the […]
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A Movement to Defend Pensions Sparked an Educator Uprising in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico’s educators have shown us how to be dignified throughout February. They have demonstrated once again how to protect your rights as workers and win. It all started the first week of the month, when activists called for educators to call out sick with the “#TeacherFlu” to protest their low wages, poor working conditions […]
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Biden Calls Out Oil and Gas Companies as Oil Prices Drop But Gas Remains High
President Joe Biden has demanded that gas prices are lowered to lessen the impact on the public as crude oil prices continue to fall. Biden tweeted Wednesday a chart that showed the discrepancy in oil price and gas price trends. “Oil prices are decreasing, gas prices should too,” Biden said. “Last time oil was $96 […]
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Doulas Push Back Against California’s Proposal to Pay Them Shockingly Low Rates
Sacramento, California — This was supposed to be the year that low-income Californians could hire a doula to guide them through pregnancy and advocate for them in the hospital. But the new benefit for people enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid health insurance program, has been delayed twice as the state and doulas — nonmedical […]
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Marina Ovsyannikova Refuses to Retract Antiwar Statements in Moscow Court
Marina Ovsyannikova, a former employee of the state-run Channel One television station in Russia who protested the invasion of Ukraine by holding up a “No War” sign on the air, was offered the chance to retract her antiwar statements in a Moscow court on Tuesday. She refused to do so, and pleaded no guilty to […]
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