Biden Is Reportedly Requesting Over $770 Billion for Defense for 2023
According to anonymous sources, President Joe Biden will ask Congress to allocate $770,000,000,000 for defense in fiscal year 2023. as first reported by Reuters. This would be at least $17 billionHigher than the defense budget requested for 2022 by the Biden administration, which was already enormous. Biden’s request is also much higher than the $740 […]
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Democrats Lose Trust As Pandemic Fatigue Seeps Into Culture Wars
A Politico-Morning Consulting found that Democrats are losing the culture warfare in key areas. poll released Wednesday found, due in part to pandemic fatigue and distrust in the federal government’s COVID-19 response. The polling data shows that although Democratic voters remain divided on the issue of mask mandates lifting, the majority of voters favor it. […]
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John Durham, Almost the Media’s Invisible Man
It is impossible to claim that the Mueller investigation and Trump-Russia collusion were dismissed or ignored by the media. It was quite the contrary. It was a huge and incessant story. Rich Noyes from the Media Research Center discovered that between Jan. 20, 2017 and July 20, 2019, evening newscasts at ABC, CBS and NBC […]
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Medicare Privatization Needs to Be Ended, Not “Fixed,” Doctor-Activists Say
On Tuesday, progressive advocates and physicians urged the Department of Health and Human Services not to reject an appeal. industry appeal to tweak and rebrand — not end altogether — a Medicare privatization scheme known as Direct Contracting, which the Trump administration launched in 2020. Members of Physicians for a National Health Program, which includes […]
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Unionizing REI Workers Launch Petition to Combat Company’s Intimidation Campaign
New York City unionizing REI workers have started a petition asking that the outdoor equipment company cease its union-busting campaign. REI SoHo retail workersAfter the company refused to recognize the union, the union filed for unionization last month. Despite the company’s claims of progressive values and a cooperative work environment, the company has used intimidation […]
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From Banning Books to Burning Them, the Right Is Threatening Education
If you walk into my apartment with the right kind of eyes, the first thing you’ll notice is the books. You will find them stacked on walls, floor to ceiling, organized according to topic until the esoteric character of the collection. I have a study about artificial intelligence next to a history the internet because […]
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Indiana School Allows Parents to Opt Students Out of Black History Month Lessons
In Indiana, an elementary school allows parents to opt-out of lessons that relate to Black History Month. According to a letter from school counselor Benjamin White at Sprunica Elementary School in Nineveh, Indiana, parents are encouraged to allow their students to receive “lessons related to equity, caring, and understanding differences,” noting that studies have shown […]
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US Push to “Reign Supreme” Stokes the Ukraine Conflict
Irrational panic is as American as apple pie. It is often caused by a failure on the part of the powers that be to control developments that could pose a threat to the interests of either the existing socioeconomic order, or the status quo in the geostrategic context. The era of the Cold War speaks […]
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Biden’s Pandemic Testing Board Has Done Little to Nothing Since Its Creation
This story was originally published in ProPublica. ProPublicaThis newsroom is a non-profit that investigates power abuses. Register to Receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. While President Joe Biden was running for office, he said that to beat the coronavirus, the U.S. needed the testing equivalent of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s War Production […]
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Biden Rejects Trump’s Executive Privilege Claims on White House Visitor Logs
President Joe Biden is rejecting executive privilege claims made by former President Donald Trump, allowing the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack to access White House visitor logs from Trump’s tenure. The committee made the request last summerAlong with many other requests for documents. After Biden waived executive privilege claims on hundreds […]
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