How Did We Go From Stimulus Checks to “Go to Work With COVID”?
In the early days, Democrats criticized Donald Trump for not doing enough in order to allow people to remain at home during the pandemic. “Flatten the curve” was the phrase of the month, and even centrist Democrats found their inner democratic socialist, at least temporarily. They argued for regular monthly payments to Americans at the […]
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Djokovic Is Obnoxious, But His Story Highlights Cruelty of Australian Detention
Tennis player Novak Djokovic’s refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19 — and his subsequent efforts to manipulate Australia’s medical exemption system so as to be allowed a visa to enter the country and compete in the first Grand Slam of the year — is one of the most surreal developments in tennis history. Djokovic remains […]
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State Legislatures Are Silencing Native Voices Through Redistricting
Another census is showing an increasing diversity of people heading into an election year. Experts are closely following redistricting and arguing that diversity is not being reflected in the process. Many examples prove “Republicans could have chosen to compete for the votes of a multiracial America” but instead chose to undermine it, top redistricting expert […]
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Monthly Child Tax Credit Payments Have Ended as Congress Debates Its Future
Original publication by The 19th. For six months at the tail end of two tumultuous years, parents received direct payments — no strings attached — of as much as $300 per child in their bank accounts. Many accounts show that this money provided long-awaited relief to 61 million children, reducing poverty and hunger rates. This […]
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Climate Groups Slam Biden for Prolonging Trump Coal Policy
A coalition of environmental Groups slammed Friday’s protest by President Joe Biden over his refusal to immediately restore the federal government moratorium The Trump administration has withdrawn coal leasing on public lands more than four years earlier. The U.S. Department of Interior, (DOI) says Although it is evaluating its coal lease program, the agency responsible […]
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Biden’s Grotesque Voting Speech
Vulgar. Disgusting. Repugnant. These are three of the more charitable adjectives that describe President Joe Biden’s execrable speechTuesday. He flew to Atlanta to promote so-called “voting rights” legislation that would nationalize state election laws and codify many of the dangerous measures that “temporarily” loosened ballot security in 2020, as COVID-19 terrorized America. Biden could have […]
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‘Fact-Checkers’ Fall Silent on Biden’s ‘Voting Rights’ Speech Smears
One of the most frustrating things about “fact-checkers” is how they leap on conservative rhetoric against Democrats as “false” or “missing context,” but give Democrats a pass to say the wildest, nastiest things about conservatives. For example, PolitiFact pounced on then-Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., as a “Pants on Fire” liar for calling his opponent, Democrat […]
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Oath Keepers Founder Arrested on January 6 Sedition Charge
Stewart Rhodes was the founder and leader the extremist far right militia Oath Keepers. He was arrested for his role in the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill. He is the first person to face seditious conspiracies in connection to the attack. Rhodes, a former lawyer and army veteran, founded the extremist militia back in […]
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Public Health Professionals Must Demand an End to the Use of Weaponized Drones
A family of three, including a husband and wife, ran from building to build in East Mosul (Iraq) on January 13, 2017. They were fleeing the fighting between ISIS (also known by Daesh), and U.S. backed forces that was swirling around them. The family was trapped in an abandoned school, surrounded by civilians, when a […]
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We Can’t Let Radical Hope Disappear Into the Abyss of Authoritarianism
On January 6, 2022, people marched past the U.S. Capitol building on the one-year anniversary of its attack.Scott Strazzante / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images This interview with Chuck Mertz on “This is Hell!” builds on my Truthout essay, “Amid Apocalyptic Cynicism, Let’s Embrace Radical Hope in the New Year.” It comments on the […]
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