Daily Archives: September 19, 2020

Ocasio-Cortez buried under more than 1,000 media requests after primary win

The democratic socialist who won a June primary election to unseat the No. 4 Democrat in the House is apparently still working on responding to more than 1,000 media requests her campaign staff have received since her victory. A spokesman for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told the Daily Beast’s Gideon Resnick that the campaign is “over 1,000 emails deep” with press requests one week after […]

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GOP to hold 2020 convention in Charlotte

The Republican National Committee (RNC) announced on Friday that it will hold the party’s 2020 convention in Charlotte, N.C. The vote to hold the GOP convention in Charlotte had been fiercely opposed by some Charlotte residents because of opposition to Trump’s policies on immigrants detained at the border, his comments normalizing white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville, […]

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'Slap in the Face' to Progressive Outsiders as DNC Adopts Rule Forcing Presidential Candidates to Be Members of Democratic Party

“The DNC has learned nothing.” That was how the advocacy group People for Bernie reacted to reports late Friday that the rules and bylaws arm of the Democratic National Committee has moved ahead with a new resolution that, according to Yahoo News, would “force candidates in Democratic presidential primaries to state that they are Democrats” […]

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'This Is What Solidarity Looks Like': Mass Demonstrations at LaGuardia Airport as Kids Ripped From Parents Arrive in New York

If President Donald Trump thought his sham executive order would put an end to mass grassroots outrage over his unspeakably cruel anti-immigrant agenda, he was sorely mistaken. “They think it’s over, that we’ll pipe down and go away. It’s not over, it’s just getting started.” —Metro D.C. Democratic Socialist of America As hundreds of immigrant […]

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White House Reviewing Plan by 'Deregulatory Zealots' to Relax Child Labor Laws

As part of its broad and relentless effort to roll back longstanding workplace safety regulations that have drastically reduced on-the-job injuries and deaths over the past several decades, President Donald Trump’s Department of Labor (DOL) has officially sent the White House a proposal to allow teenagers to “spend full days operating chainsaws and meat slicers […]

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Demand Grows for Tech Giants Like Microsoft and Salesforce to Cancel Contracts With ICE and Border Patrol

Click:女性游戏 As American cities and corporations face mounting public pressure to cancel contracts with federal immigration agencies in light of the Trump administration’s brutal and inhumane border policies, grassroots groups are demanding major technology companies stop allowing the government to use their data technologies against vulnerable immigrant and refugee communities. “Tech companies contracting with ICE and […]

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Saying Trump EPA Made 'Mockery of the Statute,' Court Orders End to Illegal Delay of Chemical Disaster Rule

Chemical manufacturers must immediately comply with the Chemical Disaster Rule, a set of requirements aimed at keeping communities safe from toxic disasters, following a federal court ruling on Friday which called the Trump administration’s delay of the rule “arbitrary” and illegal. “This is a victory first and foremost for the neighborhoods most susceptible to dangerous […]

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