Youngkin Appoints Angela Sailor as Diversity Officer, Unborn Ambassador
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin named a new anti-critical race theory diversity officer to lead the state’s equity office on Wednesday. Angela Sailor was appointed to be Virginia’s director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, according to a press release. Youngkin also issued his 10th executive orderSailor is the chief diversity, opportunity and inclusion officer for the commonwealth as […]
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Voting Rights Legislation, Filibuster Changes Fail to Pass in the Senate
Wednesday night’s Senate vote on federal voting rights was canceled by Democrats after they failed to unite their caucus around a plan to amend the filibuster rule. This would have allowed the Democrats to bypass the opposition from the GOP. If a simple majority vote had been allowed to move the bill forward, its passage […]
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After a Year of Biden, We Still Have Trump-Era Foreign Policy
Joe Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of Donald Trump’s foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would quickly remedy its worst impacts. As a senior member of the Obama administration, Biden surely needed no schooling on Obama’s diplomatic agreements with Cuba and Iran, both of which began to resolve longstanding […]
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Sunrise Movement Calls Out Biden for Siding With Fossil Fuels
The youth-led Sunrise Movement on Thursday deemed President Joe Biden’s first year in office a failure on the existential threat of climate change, which the administration has vowed to tackle while simultaneously greenlighting fossil fuel projects that will worsen the crisis. In a statement marking the one-year anniversary of the president’s inauguration, Sunrise executive director […]
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Amid Rising Russia Tension, US May Stumble Into War, Warns Katrina vanden Heuvel
President Biden said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a “serious and dear price” if he orders his reported 100,000 troops stationed along the Russian-Ukraine border to invade Ukraine, a scenario Biden says is increasingly likely. This comes as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Ukraine’s president on Wednesday, similarly warning […]
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The IDF Killed a Palestinian US Citizen. Why Is the US Doing Nothing?
Assad Assad, Omar Abdulmajeed Asad’s nephew, describes his uncle Omar as a social and caring man. Omar immigrated to America in the 1970s. He became a small business owner in Milwaukee. He and his wife had seven kids and many grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. Omar Asad retired in Jaljulia, Palestine, 10 years ago. He was […]
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Florida Bill Would Ban History Lessons That Cause White Students “Discomfort”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is pushing for the passage of a bill that would forbid public school teachers from teaching information that could cause students to feel “discomfort,” in yet another GOP attempt to censor lessons about the history of racism in the U.S. Companies that require employees to be trained on discrimination and […]
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Sanders Says He’s Open to Supporting Primary Challengers to Manchin and Sinema
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), ahead of the crucial vote to amend filibuster to support voter rights, has stated that he would be open for candidates to challenge conservative Democrats Senators Joe Manchin in West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona. Sanders told reportersTuesday, he would consider backing primary challenges to the two filibuster holdouts when […]
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Bree Newsome Bass: “Capitalism Has to Collapse”
Artist, filmmaker and organizer Bree Newsome Bass.Courtesy of Bree Newsome Bass “Capitalism is the unfolding disaster,” says Bree Newsome Bass. “It’s this factor that has grabbed us all in its arms and it’s simply plummeting down.” On this episode of “Motion Memos,” Kelly Hayes talks with activist and artist Bree Newsome Bass about lengthy COVID, […]
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Students Are Walking Out of School Rather Than Returning to an Unsafe “Normal”
“I just wish they could see these flashing lights, this extremely dangerous situation that we’re in.” That’s how New York City high school senior Dora Chan put it, referring to the recent Omicron-fueled surge of COVID cases in the New York public schools. “Mayor [Eric]Adams said that schools were the safest place today for our […]
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