At Least 269 Workers in US Meatpacking Industry Died in First Year of Pandemic
At least 59,000 workers at the nation’s five largest meatpackers were infected with COVID-19 and at least 269 died during the first year of the pandemic, a new investigationAccording to the House Select Subcommittee of the Coronavirus Crisis, this is what they found. That’s almost three times the number of both infections and deaths known […]
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Bannon Indicted for Contempt of Congress for Ignoring January 6 Subpoena
The U.S. Justice Department announced Friday that Steve Bannon was indicted on two counts of contempt for Congress by a federal grand jury. He was accused of failing to comply with a subpoena from the House panel investigating the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6. Noah Bookbinder, president and CEO of Citizens for Responsibility […]
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Loopholes in Clean Air Act Are Letting a Texas Refinery Get Away With Pollution
Billionaire William Koch’s industrial plant in Port Arthur, Texas, is small compared to the three sprawling oil refineries that surround it — just 112 acres compared with the 10,000 acres occupied by Motiva, Valero and Total. But Koch’s Oxbow facility towers over its neighbors in one respect. It produces 10x as much lung-damaging SO2 as […]
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Death of Disability Advocate Puts Spotlight on Systemic Ableism in Air Travel
United Airlines has been criticized for being unfriendly to customers in recent years. In 2017, United Airlines was the number one airline in the world. infamously used physical forceTo remove a passenger from an airplane after it was overbooked. This injured the man. The company was eventually dissolved. hot water for the death of a […]
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New Jersey Democracy Died in Darkness?
The Washington Post is the only place where Democrats are unceremoniously thrown out of office. It can only be one thing: Democracy has died in darkness. Take Stephen Sweeney (the powerful Democrat leader of New Jersey’s state Senate). He was not expected to lose to a Republican who was a trucker with a small campaign […]
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This Is Not Your Father’s Normal Democratic Party
The Democratic Party’s so-called “moderates” have had it with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and other members of the “squad.” These “centrists” are laboring to separate themselves semantically from these neo-Marxists, although their differences end there. These “middle-of-the road” Democrats call themselves “normal.” If they keep parroting that word, their […]
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History Will Grind Out the Truth
“History will figure that out on its own.” That is what Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., recently replied to Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci slammed the idea that the COVID-19 epidemic was caused by a dangerous virus that was released in the Chinese Wuhan lab of virology.—Fauci […]
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After COP26, Biden Administration to Auction Off Gulf Mexico for Offshore Drilli
The Biden administration is getting ready to public sale off greater than 80 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico to grease and fuel drilling corporations lower than every week after the United Nations COP26 local weather convention in Glasgow, Scotland, the place international negotiations over plans to cut back fossil gasoline emissions confronted an […]
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Rittenhouse Judge Makes Racist Comment Against Asians in the Courtroom
Decide Bruce Schroeder, who’s overseeing the proceedings for the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, made a blatantly racist remark about Asians on Thursday. Schroeder, who’s the longest-serving active judge in Wisconsin trial courts, made a racist joke forward of the courtroom’s lunchtime recess. “I hope the Asian meals isn’t coming… isn’t on a kind of boats from […]
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Democrats File to Censure Gosar Over Video Showing Him Killing Ocasio-Cortez
On Friday, Democrats filed a decision to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) over a video he tweeted this week depicting an anime sequence of him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) and attacking President Joe Biden. The decision condemns the video for its “hateful and false” depiction of asylum seekers on the southern border and […]
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