Progressive Dems Balk at “Trust Manchin” After Frantic Push by Biden and Pelosi
As of this writing the President Biden is currently in Europe, with no legislative clarity. This despite a full court press on Thursday that included Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker. The framework he proposed for the Build Back Better ActIt has not been explicitly supported by Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Silena, which means that it doesn’t […]
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Calls for Greene’s Expulsion Grow After She Compares Jan. 6 to Declaration
In an appearance on a far-right news channel this week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) minimized the gravity of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building — by suggesting the actions taken by a mob of loyalists to former President Donald Trump were somehow justified because of her skewed interpretation of the Declaration […]
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Ocasio-Cortez Backs Social Security Expansion, Says the Wealthy Need to Chip In
On Tuesday, Democrats reintroduced Social Security legislation. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a cosponsor (D-New York), shared her personal experience with it, emphasizing the need for wealthy people to contribute more. Social Security 2100 introduced by Social Security Subcommittee Chair Rep. John Larson(D-Connecticut), expand social security benefitsThe depletion date will be extended by three years to 2038. After […]
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Big Pharma Delivered Campaign Cash to Key Lawmakers With Surgical Precision
Congress and the Biden administration are locked in high-stakes negotiations about which priorities will be included on the ever-shrinking Social Spending Bill. The pharmaceutical industry has a single agenda: It wants to stop Medicare drug price negotiations, which it considers a threat to its business model. Democrats were able to win power thanks to the […]
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COP26 Pledges Will Fail Unless Pushed by Mass Organizing
The twenty sixth session of the Convention of the Events (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC), which takes place in Glasgow from October 31-November 12, will carry collectively greater than 120 world leaders for 12 days of talks geared toward forming an settlement on sort out the local weather […]
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Nurses Sound Off About Trauma, Solidarity and Why They’re Ready to Strike
On September 28, nearly 800 people rallied in front of Kaiser’s corporate office in Portland, with union members joined by dozens of organizations and hundreds of supporters.Shane Burley “We can’t survive doing the work that we’re asked to do, the way that we’re being asked to do it with the lack of support we’re being […]
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Ilhan Omar Says “Follow the Money” in Rebuke to Conservative Democrats
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar offered what she termed “an honest accounting” late Wednesday night of the “ever-evolving negotiations” to do with the Democratic effort in Congress to pass the once sweeping, but now hobbling ‘Build Back Better’ bill that has been ransacked by a small handful of corporate-backed members of the party. “First,” stated the Minnesota […]
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Rich Nations Have Received 16 Times More Vaccine Doses Per Person Than Poor
Rich nations have acquired over 16 instances extra COVID-19 vaccines per particular person than poorer nations depending on the COVAX program backed by the Phrase Well being Group, in accordance with a brand new Monetary Occasions evaluation. COVAX, which was arrange to make sure world equitable entry to vaccines, has delivered solely 400 million doses […]
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Reporters Blast Wall Street Journal for Publishing Misleading Trump Op-Ed
Many journalists have condemned the actions of these people. The Wall Street Journal for publishing an op-ed by former President Donald Trump peddling lies about the veracity of the 2020 presidential election — including some journalists at the newspaper itself, who have worked diligently to fact-check the former president in their own work. Trump’s letter, […]
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Biden White House Holds Largest Meeting With Intersex Advocates
Original publication by The 19th. White House officials met virtually with nearly 20 intersex advocates Tuesday in the Biden administration’s second formal talk with organizers on how to advance intersex rights domestically, and the largest meeting of its kind within the Biden administration. Intersex advocates who attended the meeting tell The 19th that they appreciate […]
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