Monthly Archives: September 2020

'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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Midterms likely to be most expensive ever as TV ads pass billion-dollar mark

Campaigns, political parties and outside groups have booked or aired more than $1 billion in television advertising, months before voters head to the polls in November in what is likely to become the most expensive midterm election campaign in U.S. history. In the fight for control of the U.S. Senate, where Republicans hold a narrow two-seat […]

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Trump endorses Ted Yoho ahead of Florida primaries

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE on Thursday endorsed Rep. Ted YohoTheodore (Ted) Scott YohoGOP lawmaker cites ‘herd immunity’ when asked why he’s without […]

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GOP Senate candidate doubles down on Robert E. Lee despite Twitter poll

A Republican Senate candidate doubled down on his claims that Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was an American hero after he conducted a Twitter poll in which the vast majority of respondents disagreed with the statement. Chris McDaniel, a GOP state senator in Mississippi, on Friday tweeted a quote by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt […]

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Trump's SEC Closes Probe of Exxon's Knowledge of Climate Crisis in Latest 'Gift for the Fossil Fuel Industry'

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said Friday that she would continue her probe into Exxon Mobil’s knowledge of the climate crisis following the Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) decision to drop its own two-year investigation without recommending any action be taken against the oil giant. “Our investigation remains ongoing,” Amy Spitalnick, Underwood’s communication director, […]

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Stalling Trump's 'Illegal Rubber-Stamp' of Keystone XL, Federal Court Orders Full Environmental Review

Rejecting what critics have called the Trump administration’s “illegal rubber-stamp” of the Keystone XL pipeline, a federal court in Great Falls, Montana has sided with opponents of the project and mandated a full environmental impact review for the proposed route. “The court saw through the sham fast-track environmental review that TransCanada and the State Department […]

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#WhipTheVote: Progressives Launch Campaign to Pressure 24 Democrats Who Still Haven't Vowed to Oppose Kavanaugh

Click:cnc turning Just 24 hours after thousands of Americans took to the streets nationwide to protest Brett Kavanaugh—President Donald Trump’s far-right Supreme Court pick—a coalition of progressive groups on Monday launched a campaign aimed at pressuring the two dozen Democrats who still haven’t committed to voting against the anti-environment, anti-reproductive rights judge. “Democratic senators should […]

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