SHARE        Sunday, June 2, 2019
NY Is Now The First State To Ban ICE From Courthouses Donald Trump's home state of New York is doing something to rein in the president's deportation force, aka Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE is now no longer permitted to arrest immigrants inside New York courthouses without producing federal judicial warrants or orders.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 29, 2019
My Volte-Face On Julian Assange We must not be so shortsighted as to accept Assange's fate as an aberration. If Trump can get away with coming for him, any leader can get away with prosecuting anyone who speaks out against his or her government's abuses. Once that happens, it's all over.

SHARE        Friday, May 24, 2019
How The GOP Tax Scam Treats Students Like Trust-Fund Kids Thanks to an inconspicuous provision in the tax law, nearly 1.4 million low-income and middle-class college students and their families, and 15,000 graduate students, are now being taxed like trust-fund children, owing more on scholarship funds specifically intended for expenses like room and board.

SHARE        Monday, May 20, 2019
The GOP's Mad Dash to Reverse Roe vs. Wade Has Begun Although reproductive rights have always been a political football since Roe v. Wade's signing, and there have been prognosticators that have predicted its demise before, we are hard-pressed to think of a time in recent memory when the religious right has been so emboldened and women's rights so threatened. What country do they want America to be? They want to "end" abortions (except for mostly white women of means).

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Potomac Electric Kills Power At The Venezuelan Embassy Amid Protests Despite the bills being paid and the Venezuelan government's invitation, PEPCO worked with the US Secret Service to cut off power on peaceful protesters.

SHARE        Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Fla. GOP Is Trying To Reverse Voters' Decision On Felon Voting Rights Last week, the Republican-controlled Florida state senate voted along party lines on reform bill SB 7066 which would prohibit felons with restitution, fees, and fines from voting should the new Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, sign it. This is yet another Jim Crow era-like tactic, akin to Reconstruction poll taxes, the GOP is hoping will siphon off possible Democratic votes.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 3, 2019
If He Doesn't Release His Taxes, Trump Might Not Be On The Ballot One way to prevent Donald Trump from getting re-elected is to ensure he isn't on the ballot. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), 25 states are considering legislation requiring presidential and vice-presidential candidates release their tax returns in order to appear on primary or general election ballots.

SHARE        Monday, April 29, 2019
Trump Admin. Torpedos UN Resolution Designed To Help Rape Victims Rape survivors in war-torn countries will no longer receive reproductive health care. And the United States is partly to blame. On Tuesday, the United Nations Security Council was forced to vote against a resolution that would assist rape victims after the U.S. threatened to veto any resolution that included references to reproductive health.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 27, 2019
The Lasting Damage The 2020 Census Citizenship Question Could Do "Is this person a citizen of the United States?" How will you answer this question when it's time to complete the 2020 census form? How do you feel about being asked? The United States Supreme Court is poised to provide responses to this seemingly innocuous question in a major case that could alter the country's political landscape for decades.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 26, 2019
Kentucky Aluminum Plant Linked to Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska Russia is conducting business as we speak right in Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's state of Kentucky. Aluminum manufacturer Braidy Industries is planning to build a $1.7-billion taxpayer-funded mill near Ashland, Ky. The aluminum needed--and a $200 million investment--will stem from Russian aluminum giant Rusal, which recently faced U.S. sanctions due to connections to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Leader Of Vigilante Group That Detained Asylum Seekers Arrested, Attacked in Jail Last week the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) accused Hopkins' United Constitutional Patriots of being a fascist, white nationalist militia illegally detaining and kidnapping Central American asylum seekers. On Tuesday, Larry Hopkins was attacked at the Dona Ana County Detention Center in Las Cruces, NM.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 20, 2019
How Do We Pay For Tax Cuts For The Rich? Cutting Education, Of Course A recent analysis from the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF) indicates Betsy DeVos herself made enough from the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act"--between $46.8 million and $109 million--to personally defray the programs she decided to eliminate.

SHARE        Wednesday, April 17, 2019
NY Vet Is Walking Across The Country For Fellow Veterans Twenty-two. That's how many veterans on average commit suicide in the United States every day. It's also the number of miles Navy veteran Thomas Zurhellen plans to walk each day on a trek across the country from Portland, Ore. to Poughkeepsie, NY to raise awareness of veteran suicides and homelessness.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 15, 2019
Refusing To Release His Tax Returns, Trump Violates Federal Law No one has ever defied this explicit law before. Trump obviously does not want us to see"what? That he isn't as rich as he says he is? That he's still deeply in debt? That he owes money to entities with whom no honest person would even consider doing business? All three? Maybe more. His intransigence could be his underlings'--and his--undoing, ultimately.

(10 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 14, 2019
High-Profile Firings Indicate Trump's Purge Has Begun Donald Trump is firing anyone refusing to fulfill his sadistic agenda. The purge has begun. What can we expect from a hack who lifted his re-election slogan "Keep America Great" from the 2016 film The Purge: Election Year?

SHARE        Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Healthcare Helped Dems Win In 2018--Trump Is Helping Them Do It Again If Trump wants this fight again, he will have it. Vowing to imperil millions of Americans destroyed Republicans in November. It will destroy them next year as well.

SHARE        Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Refugees Under A Bridge--Our Latest National Shame This week, we learn U.S. immigration officials are penning in hundreds behind chain-link razor wire fencing and forcing them to sleep on the ground in a temporary outdoor detention camp beneath the Paso Del Norte International Bridge linking Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas.

(16 comments) SHARE        Saturday, March 30, 2019
Historic Mid-West Flooding Is A Harbinger Of Things To Come As long as there is a profit motive, there will never be sufficient action to curb carbon emissions. A complete transition away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy is the only practical strategy. We need to mobilize as we did when we confronted fascism during World War Two. We must and we can upgrade buildings for energy efficiency, achieve zero carbon emissions within 10 years, and union green energy jobs.

(6 comments) SHARE        Monday, March 25, 2019
Here's Why The Mueller Report Is Not A 'Total And Complete Exoneration' According to the attorney general himself, the White House's declaration Mueller's findings are a "total and complete exoneration" is a total and complete lie.

SHARE        Friday, March 22, 2019
Rep. Steve King Posts Meme Threatening 'Civil War' Donald Trump is not the the only Republican fomenting domestic terrorism. Iowa Rep. Steve King's Facebook meme threatening civil war is right in line with Trump's comment last week: "I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump-I have the tough people, but they don't play it tough-until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad."