Ukrainians Remind Us ‘How Valuable Freedom and Liberty Are’
Republican Senator Marco Rubio gave fiery praises Friday to say that the peoples of Ukraine are inspiring by what they are willing to sacrifice in order to be free. “You have 70-something year old men, elderly women, younger children, taking up arms prepared to sacrifice everything,” the Florida senator said at the Conservative Political Action […]
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Biden Selects Jackson for Supreme Court From Left-Wing Donor ‘Shortlist’
D.C. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, was among the names on a shortlistDemand Justice, a liberal legal organisation funded by the mega-donor Arabella Advisors. Demand Justice forced Biden to select someone from its Supreme Court List during the 2020 campaign. It heralded Jackson as a jurist “stood […]
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Dark Money Is Behind “Women’s Groups” Attacking Biden’s Supreme Court Pick
Today, President Biden announced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Stephen Breyer’s announced retirement. If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman to serve as a justice on the nation’s highest court. Judge Jackson would join a court dominated by partisan justices handpicked […]
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Warren Expresses Concern Over Transition to Restarting Student Loan Payments
Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona this week, asking him to detail the agency’s plan to reduce hardship and confusion as student loan payments are soon scheduled to restart. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusett) led the lawmakers in expressing concern that borrowers might not be informed about the expiration of the payment […]
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Big Oil and Conservatives Are Using Russia’s Conflict to Call for More Drilling
Republicans, conservative pundits, and Big Oil took less then 24 hours after Russia invaded Ukraine for them to advocate for more oil drilling and fracking under the pretext of energy independence. Climate change is a major factor journalists Amy Westervelt Kate AronoffNews outlets like BloombergConservative commentators like The Atlantic’s David Frum are calling for expanding […]
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House Committee Expands Inquiry Into Trump’s Destroying, Hiding of Documents
The House Oversight Committee is expanding its investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified material, requesting that the National Archives hand over more information relating to Trump’s improper transfer of documents from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago estate following his exit from office. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, wrote a letter to […]
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My Country Has Become a Battlefield for Major Powers
Is this the end for an independent Ukraine? Russian officials threaten to overthrow the democratically elected Ukrainian government, and Russian forces seem to be preparing to take control of Ukrainian defenses. We speak with Nina Potarska, a Ukrainian peace activist who fled Ukraine after Russian troops entered Ukraine on Wednesday. Her 11-year-old daughter was also […]
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Critics Blast Biden Rebrand of Trump’s Medicare Privatization Scheme
The Biden administration, refusing to abandon the entire program, announced Thursday that it was redesigning the program. Trump-era experimentAs a plan to privatize Medicare fully, doctors and progressive lawmakers have been criticized. Instead of ending what’s known as the Direct Contracting model, which the Trump administration officially launched in 2020, the Centers for Medicare and […]
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Texas Families With Trans Kids Are Wondering If They Should Leave the State
Original publication by The 19th. On a September evening in 2016, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, Angela, arrived at Amber Briggle’s door in Dallas, homemade dessert in hand. The couple had traveled from the next county to have dinner. Briggle was nervous. It’s hard to hate up closeShe said so to herself. […]
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Biden Picks Ketanji Brown Jackson to Replace Breyer on Supreme Court
President Joe Biden selected Judge Ketanji B. Jackson to be the next United States Supreme Court Justice. Biden was given the task of selecting a new justice to replace Justice Stephen Breyer. Last month, he announced his resignation. In response to Breyer’s announcement, Biden reiterated his promise that he would select the first Black woman […]
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