Month: September 2020

Critics were quick to point out that President Donald Trump has once again put himself on the wrong side of efforts to combat racism and address white supremacy when he defended “beautiful” Confederate monuments in a Thursday morning tweet. Trump tripled down on his failure to condemn last weekend’s white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia …

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At a town hall Wednesday night in Oakland, California, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) announced that she will co-sponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) Medicare for All legislation, which is reportedly set to be introduced mid-September.  “Thank you Kamala Harris for your support. Let’s make healthcare a right, not a privilege.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders”I’ll break some news: …

Read more “'The Right Thing to Do': Kamala Harris to Co-Sponsor Bernie's Medicare for All Bill”

A close look at the finances of 31 members of the Senate Democratic caucus who have yet to publicly back Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All bill shows they have received significantly more financial contributions from the health insurance industry than those who did sign on as co-sponsors ahead of its introduction on Wednesday. An analysis …

Read more “Dems Not Backing Medicare for All Get Twice as Much Industry Cash as Co-Sponsors”

Lance Stroll’s bid to make the Q3 cut on Saturday in Sochi was thwarted by an engine overheating issue brought about by the Racing Point driver’s lengthy immobilization in the pit lane. Click Here: Putters Stroll was queuing up in the final minutes of Q2 waiting for the session to resume after a red flag …

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel warned attendees at a major conservative conference Friday not to be complacent ahead of the 2018 elections, although she conceded that Republicans face surging Democratic enthusiasm.  “As quickly as we just gained this in this one-year turnaround, we can lose it. Complacency is our worst enemy going into …

Read more “RNC chair: We need to match Dem energy to win in midterms”

A former spokesman for Sen. Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote The Hill’s Morning Report – Trump’s public standing sags after Floyd protests GOP senators introduce resolution opposing calls to defund the police MORE says the conservative Republican is a moderate by the standards of his home state of Texas. …

Read more “Ex-spokesman says for Texas, Ted Cruz is a moderate”

In President Donald Trump’s sales pitch for his newly-unveiled tax plan on Wednesday, he told a crowd in Indianapolis that the proposal includes “historic tax relief” for middle-income Americans. But a key tenet of the plan is the repeal of the estate tax, which would only offer a tax break to the wealthiest Americans. A …

Read more “A Gift to Rich Families Like His, Trump's Push to Repeal Estate Tax Denounced as 'Shameful'”

After being shown an image charting the steadily falling size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal since the height of the Cold War during a meeting with top national security officials in July, President Donald Trump reportedly expressed support for a tenfold expansion of America’s stockpile of nukes—a move critics said would spark a “global arms …

Read more “Tillerson 'Moron' Comment Followed Trump's Call for Massive Nuclear Buildup: Report”

If you haven’t yet seen them, a variety of journalists have been getting an up-close look of the prototypes that have been proposed for President Donald Trump’s border wall—a project that was a centerpiece of his xenophobic presidential campaign but derided by critics with a adjectives that have ranged from “dumb” and “stupid” to “ridiculous” …

Read more “Have You Seen These Prototypes for Trump's "Ridiculous" Border Wall?”

Climate justice groups and local pipeline opponents in Nebraska are condemning an announcement by the state’s Public Service Commission (PSC) which indicated late Friday that a massive underground spill of the existing Keystone pipeline in South Dakota this week will have no bearing on a pivotal approval decision to build the Keystone XL pipeline scheduled …

Read more “Opponents "Incensed" Nebraska Panel Won't Consider This Week's Spill in Keystone XL Decision”