Poll Finds Most Young Americans Say US Democracy Is “In Trouble” or “Failed”
The U.S. faces a number of existential problems that are being perpetuated largely by establishment politicians, and the right wing. New developments are needed. polling released on Monday finds that a majority of young Americans believe that U.S. democracy is on the brink of failure — or that it has already failed. The poll was […]
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January 6 Commission Votes to Forward Contempt Charges for Trump DOJ Official
The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack has voted to forward contempt charges for Jeffrey Clark, a former Trump-era Department of Justice (DOJ) official who has refused to comply with the committee’s subpoena requests. Clark first appeared in November before the January 6 commission. he refused to answer questionsabout his role as […]
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Ocasio-Cortez Introduces Bill to Help Clear Marijuana Charges at State Level
A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the House that aims to assist local and state governments in expungement efforts of those charged at the sub-federal level with cannabis offenses. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), introduced the Harnessing Opportunity by Pursuing Expunction (HOPE) Act. It directs the Justice Department to establish a new […]
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For the First Time, Supreme Court Is Poised to Retract a Fundamental Right
The Supreme Court is poised for the first time ever in U.S. History to remove a fundamental rights from more than half the country’s citizens. The Supreme Court’s December 1 oral argumentsIn Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health OrganizationThis is what progressives feared after Trump’s addition of three radical right-wingers on the court. The six conservatives […]
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Biden Administration Rejects Calls for Ban on “Killer Robots”
The Biden administration on Thursday rejected demands for a binding international agreement banning or tightly regulating the use of so-called killer robots, autonomous weapons that campaigners fear will make war more deadly and entrench a global norm of “digital dehumanization.” During a meeting in Geneva, State Department official Josh Dorosin said the U.S. prefers “the […]
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An Obscure Agency Is Threatening to Hand Medicare Over to Wall Street
Within the face of large help for Medicare for All and the failure of the U.S.’s for-profit well being care system, the inevitable fall of the medical-industrial complicated might be predicted, if not with precision, with certainty. Everyone seems to be conscious of the approaching demise, none extra so than these in command of the […]
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Dark Money From the US Christian Right Fuels War on Abortion Rights Worldwide
Investigating the media outlet openDemocracyFriday revealed that the dark-money groups are behind the plot to take over the far-right assaultThe U.S. has also spent at least $28 millions in recent years to try and reduce the rights of LGBTQ+ people around the world. The new analysis shows that prominent anti-abortion groups including the Alliance Defending […]
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Haitian Asylum Seekers Held Under Bridge Now Face Inhumane ICE Jail Conditions
Images of Haitians on horseback being whipped by U.S. Border Patrol officers shocked the world. Numerous people are currently being held in an asylum facility. ICENew Mexico has a jail where inhumane conditions prevail and they are denied access to legal assistance. We spoke with a lawyer who described medical neglect, deteriorating mental health, and […]
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Marginalized Workers Facing Labor Market Discrimination See Largest Jobs Gains
Despite the addition of just 210,000 jobs, the unemployment rate dropped 0.4 percentage points in November. The drop in the unemployment rate went along with an increase in the employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) of 0.4 percentage points, corresponding to a rise in employment of more than 1.1 million in the household survey. The unemployment rate did […]
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Dems Hopeful Stacey Abrams Will Win Governor’s Seat After Georgia’s Blue Wave
Stacey Abrams is a voter rights advocate and has officially launched her campaign to run as Georgia’s governor. Brian Kemp, who led voter suppression projects in the state for the past year. Abrams, a prominent Democrat, is a leading candidate in this race. She previously served as the party’s minority leader in the Georgia House […]
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