Politics - Part 22
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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A former Republican candidate for Senate has determined that his one-time party is a lost cause that deserves to be demolished.In an interview with the New York Times, former Washington State Republican party chairman Chris Vance said that he's been watch ...[Read more]
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The New York Times recycled flimsy claims by a right-wing apocalyptic extremist to accuse China of “genocide,” in an op-ed by an American with 1/8th Uighur heritage who worked for Epoch Times, a far-right, pro-Trump outlet backed by cult Falun Gong. T ...[Read more]
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The main donor behind the Washintgon D.C. 'Stop the Steal' rally that sparked a riot on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has been revealed as the heiress to the Publix Super Markets Inc. chain.
Julie Jenkins Fancelli, a prominent Trump donor, pledged $300, ...[Read more]
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Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript ...[Read more]
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A MintPress News investigation reveals that the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol drew inspiration from the 2000 overthrow of Serbian president Slobodan Milošević and a conspiratorially-minded Serbian scientist who issued calls for violence. ...[Read more]
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President Joe Biden has placed immigration at the center of his ambitious agenda, signing several executive orders reversing Trump anti-immigrant policies and promising a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. ...[Read more]
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The ongoing civil war within the GOP had a deeply clarifying moment yesterday. If Tuesday’s events are the writing on the Republican wall, Donald Trump need not fear conviction in the Senate or loss of influence within the party. Even now — after losi ...[Read more]
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January has become the deadliest month of the pandemic in the United States, with at least 80,000 deaths from COVID-19 so far, and public health experts worry new, more contagious variants of the coronavirus could make things worse. President Joe Biden ha ...[Read more]
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Journalist Libby Watson started a newsletter to document the horrors of the US's profit-driven health system. She spoke to us about the insurance industry’s windfall COVID-19 profits, Joe Biden’s phantom public option proposal, and how growing up with ...[Read more]
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Fans of former WH resident Don Trump have a bone to pick with President Joe Biden. Supporters of former President Donald Trump this week filed an amended motion for a restraining order against President Joe Biden that left one veteran legal... ...[Read more]
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