Month: September 2020

In Washington, D.C. and more than two dozen states across the country on Monday, supporters of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival gathered to kick off 40 days of “moral action” to highlight “the human impact of policies which promote systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, and environmental devastation.” Led by…

Republicans have now lost 35 legislative seats since President Donald Trump’s inauguration just over a year ago, following Democrat Mike Revis’s victory Tuesday in a special election for Missouri’s state House of Representatives. The 27-year-old beat Republican David Linton by 3 percentage points in the race to represent the state’s 97th district in Jefferson County,…

The press freedom advocacy group Free Press expressed confidence on Thursday in its challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) repeal of net neutrality protections as it filed a federal suit against the agency-approved rule change that would end one of the founding principles of the Internet. “Free Press has a rock-solid legal argument against…

Among those involved with a shadowy campaign group that brought together mega-rich donors with a vehicle that allowed them to anonymously provide extremely large checks to the Donald Trump campaign during the 2016 election, were just eleven individuals who gave more than $1 million at a time, including gifts from just four people that totaled…

Fallout continues from revelations that EPA head Scott Pruitt has been taking first class flights on the taxpayers’ dime—because “We live in a very toxic environment politically,” in his words—with the agency saying Sunday that he’s canceled a trip to Israel and an environmental organization saying the pricey travel bolsters calls for his ouster. The…

With survivors of last week’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting watching from the gallery, the GOP-controlled Florida House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly against a motion to consider legislation that would “ban assault rifles and large capacity magazines”—a move critics quickly denounced as “cowardly” and further evidence that Republican lawmakers are beholden to the interests…

Democrats had the power to stop a massive big bank giveaway from passing the Senate Wednesday night, but instead they decided—with a “green light” from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y)—to hand the GOP more than enough votes to ram the deregulatory bill through instead, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis by…

The #GOPTaxScam is living up to the moniker it earned from critics last year, according to a new poll that shows the majority of Americans are not seeing paycheck increases from the plan that Republicans forced through Congress in December. “This was entirely predictable—despite Republican claims to the contrary last year.”—Helaine Olen, Washington Post A new…

When pitching a proposal to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight of the southern coast of Australia in 2016, according to newly revealed documents, oil giant BP attempted to allay regulators’ concerns by claiming that any future oil spill would actually be a ‘welcome boost’ to the local economy. In documents Climate Home…

Watchdog groups sounded alarms on Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the proposed mega-merger of Bayer and Monsanto has cleared its final regulatory hurdle in the United States.  The reported approval from the Justice Department came “after the companies pledged to sell off additional assets,” the Journal reported, and despite concerns raised by…