Thursday, March 16, 2017 We can stop the Republicans and save our health care, if we raise our voices in unprecedented ways. That’s why constituents are gathering outside the district offices of nine Republican Senators and 23 Republican Representatives who hold the decisive votes for peaceful “” from (and Friday, March 17) when members of Congress […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday set about aggressively dismantling Obama-era climate policies with an executive order decried as “sheer reckless folly,” which will increase U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate the climate crisis. “Aside from provoking a large-scale nuclear war, it is hard to imagine an American president taking an action more harmful to the […]
Wielding an image of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell during his infamous “weapons of mass destruction” speech that helped make the case for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in2003, Sacha Llorenti, the Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations, blasted the United States for its unilateral military action against Syria saying it is “vital […]
Click:Active Optical Cable On Saturday, people around the world will mark Earth Day with a March for Science to protest the Trump administration’s crackdown on climate action and medical research. #ScienceMarch Tweets The marches come as President Donald Trump proposes slashing $5.8 billion in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pay for […]
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said Wednesday that the defeat of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore in Alabama on Tuesday night was a sign that President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After […]
A super PAC run by former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will spend $1 million on an ad buy for Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson, according to a statement from the group. In a press release Wednesday, Bolton cited Nicholson’s service in Iraq and Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine as a […]
The city of Flint, where the pipes have still not been fixed and the water crisis is ongoing, is threatening to place tax liens on people’s homes for non-payment of water bills, according to a local news source. NBC affiliate 25News reported Tuesday that more than 8,000 people have received notice from the city that […]
Rarely do the public comments made on a federal agency website garner so many headlines, but the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) plan to gut net neutrality protections has sparked an all-out war between Open Internet advocates and a pro-corporate bot—with a few additional bad apples sprinkled in. The FCC website crashed last week after HBO […]
Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt has been described as an “ally,” “puppet,” and “tool and minion” of the fossil fuel industry. Newly obtained documents reinforce that portrayal. Exhibit A: emails newly obtained by the Associated Press that show “dozens of meetings between Pruitt, members of his staff, and executives and lobbyists from the coal, […]
As of mid-Monday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to respond, via his prolific Twitter account or by any other means, since a man slammed his car into a crowd of Muslim worshipers just after midnight. In an attack British law enforcement are treating as “terrorism,” a 48-year-old white man in London plowed his […]