Biden OK’s $2.5 Billion Arms Sale to Egypt, Disregarding Government Oppression
The U.S. State Department Tuesday’s approval of a massive $2.5 billion arms sale for Egypt was approved by the Biden administration. withhold a far smaller sum of military aid — $130 million — over expressed concerns about human rights abuses by the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a disconnect that critics said makes a […]
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Ocasio-Cortez Urges Biden to Expand At-Home Test Program for Multifamily Homes
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is leading an effort to urge President Joe Biden to address oversights in his administration’s program to allow people to order free at-home COVID tests. “[W]e write requesting your attention on a salient issue that has arisen in the distribution of the testing kits to multifamily households,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in […]
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South Carolina Lawmakers Propose Fines or Prison Time for Asking Vaccine Status
A bill proposed by the South Carolina state legislature would make it a crime for employers or business owners — and possibly even state residents in general — to ask someone if they have been vaccinated for protection against COVID-19. The lead sponsor of the bill, Republican Rep. Mike Burns, defended the proposal by claiming […]
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Starbucks Asks Labor Board to Stop Ongoing Union Election in Mesa, Arizona
Starbucks is seeking to stop or pause an ongoing unionization vote at a store in Mesa, Arizona, in order to overturn a regional labor officials’ ruling that the election would be conducted on a store-by-store basis, rather than region-wide. Monday will see the company filed an appeal with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to […]
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GOP Is Increasingly Bent on Controlling Schools. Glenn Youngkin Is a Case Study.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin ran for Virginia governor using the tactic to berate teachers for pushing critical racism (CRT). As was the case in all of the country, the candidate was largely attacking an untrue straw man. CRT is an academic idea that is complex and taught in universities, rather than in K-12 schools. But […]
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McConnell Deconstructs Biden
Once, it was a well-known tradition to deconstruct an argument by refuting and hold a person responsible for any previous statements that they have contradicted. It has been replaced by sound bites statements that are made in political parties and used to confuse the general public. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., unpacked this once […]
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Judges Approve Special Grand Jury for Probe Into Trump Election Tampering
A Fulton County court in Georgia has agreed to a request from county District Attorney Fani Willis to convene a special grand jury to assist in the investigation into Donald Trump’s attempt to persuade state officials to overturn the 2020 election results. Willis is conducting an investigation What if Trump calls state officials in late […]
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Court Rejects Alabama GOP’s Congressional Map That Marginalized Black Voters
Federal judges in Alabama rejected Monday’s redistricted congressional map. They ruled that the Republican-drawn map likely violated The Voting Rights Act, which protects non-white groups’ voting rights. The judges ruled that the Republican-led legislature in the state must redraw new maps that give Black voters two districts with a majority-Black population or “in which Black […]
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Julian Assange Can Now Seek Appeal Against US Extradition to Top UK Court
The British High Court of Justice was established on January 22, 2022. allowed WikiLeaksJulian Assange asked the U.K. Supreme Court if he could appeal the extradition order. In December 2021, the High Court overturned U.K. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s January 2021 ruling denying the U.S. request for extradition. Baraitser concluded, after a three week evidentiary […]
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Sanders Says Arizona Democrats’ Decision to Censure Sinema Was “Exactly Right”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I – Vermont) praised the Arizona Democratic Party over the weekend for censuring Senator Kyrsten Sinema, D-Arizona, over her obstruction to federal voting rights. Interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sanders called Sinema’s vote in the Senate last week against filibuster changes to allow the passage of voting rights legislation “terrible.” Certain […]
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