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Report reveals how Trump’s team conspired to protect his interests as COVID-19 ransacked the US
Former President Donald Trump's administration is under fire for hindering the government's pandemic response and rolling back Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) coronavirus mitigation guidelines in an effort to protect his interests. Accor ...[Read more]
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AOC Is Right to Get Personal About the Capitol Riot
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been criticized for her Instagram video last week recounting the Capitol riot. But AOC showed exactly how a left-wing politician should act: courageous, genuine, and refusing to back down in the face of right-wing threats. ...[Read more]
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‘Downright Scary’: In 2021 Alone, GOP Introduces 100+ Voter Suppression Bills in 28 States
"Democrats have a clear choice. They can get rid of the filibuster to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For the People Act to stop GOP voter suppression, or they can allow the GOP to undermine democracy for the next decade." ...[Read more]
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U.S. is worst among developed nations for worker benefits
Americans have it worse than all other developed nations when it comes to benefits for workers, according to a new ranking. The U.S. places last relative to its national policies around healthcare, unemployment, retirement, parental leave, and paid vacati ...[Read more]
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‘Just spray her’: 9-year-old Black girl shrieks for dad and New York cops respond with pepper spray
Body camera footage released Sunday shows Rochester, New York, police officers handcuffing and pepper-spraying a 9-year-old Black girl who refused to sit in one of the officer’s cars. “You’re acting like a child,” one of the officers told the gir ...[Read more]
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Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2019: Protesters should ‘flood the Capitol’
In a video posted to social media months before announcing her congressional candidacy, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene called on supporters to "flood the Capitol Building" in a protest against "tyrannical" leaders, telling them that Democratic ...[Read more]
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Capitol riot suspect asks court’s permission to vacation in Mexico
A woman accused of participating in the riot Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol asked a federal judge for permission to leave the country on vacation this month. In a court filing Monday, lawyers for Jenny Louise Cudd requested the court's blessing to travel to M ...[Read more]
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Business groups prepare for lobbying push against $15 minimum wage
Business groups are preparing for a lobbying fight after Democrats in both chambers reintroduced a bill Tuesday to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025. The Raise the Wage Act, spearheaded by incoming Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sand ...[Read more]
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Trump was a symptom of US societal breakdown – not the disease
The death spiral of the American Empire will not be halted with civility. It will not be halted with the 42 executive orders signed by Joe Biden, however welcome many are, especially since they can, with a new chief executive, be immediately revoked. It w ...[Read more]
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Stop Trying to Make This About Unity. There is no uniting with fascists
Calls for unity with Republicans do not make sense in the light of the downward extremist spiral of GOP. ...[Read more]
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All 10 GOP senators behind skimpy COVID relief offer happily voted for $740 billion military budget
Each of the 10 Republican senators who threw their support behind a widely criticized $600 billion coronavirus relief proposal on Sunday recently approved a whopping $740 billion military budget, a vote progressive lawmakers are highlighting as further ev ...[Read more]
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