Politics - Part 18

Universal Health Care is a Popular Idea in America, So Why Does Biden Seem Intent on Enriching Private Insurance Companies? – CounterPunch.org
A new poll by Morning Consult and Politico finds that a majority of Americans—55 percent—support Medicare for All. Strangely, the pollsters headlined their results by saying, “Medicare for All Remains Polarizing.” Nearly 80 percent of all Democrat ...[Read more]
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Ammon Bundy has amassed an army of over 50,000 as he looks for his next battle in a religious war
Ammon Bundy, right-wing malcontent behind the 2016 armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur Wildlife Refuge and now a western anti-mask movement, believes he's doing God's work.Coming from a long line of religiously inspired men who have been "called" to defend ...[Read more]
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‘Heresy!’ Franklin Graham’s followers revolt after the evangelical leader says Jesus would get the COVID vaccine
Evangelical leader Franklin Graham, the son of the late evangelist Billy Graham, took to Facebook this Wednesday and endorsed the COVID-19 vaccine, saying that if Jesus were alive today he'd definitely take it -- a bit of speculation that invoked an angry ...[Read more]
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Trump Team, Including Giuliani, May Face Charges for False Statements in Georgia
Prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump and his legal team’s attempts to upend election results in Georgia using false allegations of fraud are likely planning to utilize a little-used law in the state that makes it a crime to knowingly ...[Read more]
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Yes, Blame Christian Fundamentalism for the Atlanta Murders
WHY DID Robert Aaron Long kill six Asian women, in three Atlanta-area massage parlors, as well as two other people who happened to be on the premises? Many have answered: Because they were Asian women. And in the Western imaginary — in films, jokes, por ...[Read more]
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These Trump supporters received $227,000 in PPP funds then vandalized the Capitol
A mob of angry Trump supporters stormed the U.S Capitol on January 6 with a litany of grievances against the U.S. government. But those grievances didn't stop many from benefiting from government-run loan programs designed to help businesses during the CO ...[Read more]
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Some right-wing pundits and politicians who cry censorship are actually ‘thriving’: conservative
During the Biden era, pundits at Fox News and other right-wing media outlets have had a lot to say about "cancel culture" — claiming that conservatives who speak their minds are facing censorship from the left. Never Trump conservative Tim Miller tac ...[Read more]
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Prison Laborers Are Paid Pennies to Maintain the Prisons They are Incarcerated In
More than 4,000 private corporations in the U.S. have a financial stake in the expansion of the public prison system. ...[Read more]
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‘A toxic cycle of blame, sycophancy and political pressure’: New book to detail Trump’s ‘nightmare’ handling of COVID crisis
Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta are preparing for the release of their forthcoming book, "Nightmare Scenario," which aims to highlight former President Donald Trump's disastrous COVID-19 response since the onset of the pand ...[Read more]
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With First Native Interior Secretary, Deb Haaland, Hope Grows U.S. Will Confront Toxic Uranium Legacy
Deb Haaland, a tribal citizen of the Laguna Pueblo, is being sworn in as secretary of the interior and will be the first Native American ever to serve in a U.S. presidential cabinet. Just four Republicans joined Democrats in voting to confirm Haaland, who ...[Read more]
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Georgia GOP Jams 91 New Pages Into Voter Suppression Bill an Hour Before Meeting
The additions also included some new proposals, aimed mostly at making it harder to vote — notably, one proposal would make it so that Georgians can file an unlimited number of challenges to “the qualifications of any person applying to register to vo ...[Read more]
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