Omicron Supply-Chain Disruptions Are Hitting Low-Income Communities the Hardest
As the Omicron virus of the coronavirus has spread across the U.S., supply chains have been hampered. Three things seem to be happening: the first is that so many workers are now out sick that delivery systems to grocery stores and retailers are starting to break down; in other words, the produce has been harvested, […]
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Joe Biden, Year 1: Presidential Promise-Breaker-in-Chief
President Donald Trump’s friends and foes alike can agree on this: He fulfilledThere are so many promises. During his first year in office, he signed a $1.5 trillion tax-rate cut, killed some 1,500 meddlesome regulations, greenlighted the Keystone XL Pipeline, scrapped Obamacare’s individual mandate (but not the entire program), curbed Southern border crossings, erased the […]
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8 Takeaways From Biden’s First Press Conference of 2022
In a press conference lasting nearly two hours Wednesday morning, President Joe Biden appeared not to have checked his list of reporters and took questions on the legitimacy for the upcoming midterm election, his cognitive ability, China and Russia, as well as his son Hunter Biden. On the eve of completing one year in office, […]
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Oath Keepers Stored 30 Days of Supplies for January 6, Bracing for “Civil War”
Federal prosecutors have discovered that Oath Keepers members stored weapons and supplies in a hotel near Washington, D.C., to prepare for the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6. According to the prosecutors’ memoArguments for the pretrial detainment of Oath Keepers member Edward Vallejo, he and other members of the so-called “quick reaction force” (QRF), […]
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Polling Finds 67 Percent of Voters Support Banning Congress From Stock Trading
According to Data for Progress, a majority of voters support banning members from trading stocks while they are in office. In a January survey of over 1,200 likely voters, 67 percentA majority of respondents supported the ban. The poll found that 74% supported the ban after being presented with arguments in support and against the […]
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Parents Sue Virginia Governor Over Executive Order Banning Local Mask Mandates
A group of Virginia parents are suing Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), was sued by a group of parents in Virginia over an executive order that effectively ended masking rules that certain school districts had put in place to limit the spread COVID-19. Thirteen parents in the Chesapeake Public school District filed a lawsuit this week, […]
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Trump Revealed His New Electoral Strategy in Arizona, and It Is Horrifying
This past weekend in Arizona, Donald Trump ratcheted up his inadvertent impersonation of Freddy Kreuger — the villain of Nightmare on Elm Street — in a political horror show designed to infiltrate our dreams and then warp our reality. Trump has been a flirt with, cajoled and encouraged anti-vaxxers for two years. He did so, […]
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January 6 Committee Subpoenas Giuliani, Obtains Eric Trump’s Phone Records
The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack has subpoenaed four former Trump campaign officials and advisers, including former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani, who once served as Trump’s personal lawyer. According to the January 6 commission, Giuliani “actively promoted claims of election fraud on behalf of the former President and […]
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WHO Chief Says Pandemic Is “Nowhere Near Over,” Warning About Vaccine Inequity
On Tuesday, the head of the World Health Organization urged countries to not let Omicron waves get in their way. appearto have reached their highest levels in some parts of the world, a trend that some countries have cited to justify lifting public safety measures. During his weekly media briefing, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus […]
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Senate Dems Push to Bring Back “Talking Filibuster” in Pursuit of Voting Rights
U.S. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer confirmed Tuesday night that if Republicans continue obstruction to a long-delayed vote rights package, he will move for the return of the talking filibuster to that legislation. Schumer (D.N.Y.), flanked at right by other top Senate Democrats announcedThe plan was presented at a press conference following a caucus meeting. […]
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