After more than a decade of grassroots organizing, agitation, and tireless opposition by the international climate movement, the final nail was slammed into the Keystone XL’s coffin Wednesday afternoon when the company behind the transnational tar sands pipeline officially pulled the plug on its plans. Following consultation with Canadian officials and regulators—including “its partner, the Government of Alberta”—TC Energy confirmed […]
“The world will be a better place when the NRA is finally destroyed. Looks like that day is closer.” “Thoughts and prayers.” That is what many opponents of the National Rifle Association wryly stated in response to news that the pro-gun lobby group had officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday in the United States. In […]
“Trump will go down in history as the worst and most dangerous president in history.” Amid urgent calls for President Donald Trump’s immediate arrest, removal from office under the 25th Amendment, and impeachment following Wednesday’s violent storming of the U.S. Capitol building by a right-wing mob intent on interrupting the certification by Congress of the 2020 […]
News Friday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was asked by a Democratic Senator to call off scheduled holiday parties—including one with a 900-person invite list for an indoor gathering—left critics wondering: Wait, an indoor holiday party with 900 people during a raging pandemic? After it was reported earlier this week by the Washington Post that such plans were […]
“Under the guise of rooting out election fraud, it looks like Graham is suggesting committing it.” Demands for an investigation and calls for Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to step down from his powerful position as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee erupted late Monday night after Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said […]
The national chorus of those calling to make Indigenous Peoples’ Day an official federal holiday to replace Columbus Day once and for all continued to grow Monday as Native Americans and their allies called out for a permanent and annual recognition for what has been taken from native people and communities as well as […]
“Fighting a pandemic is already a high hurdle to clear in obtaining an accurate count. It’s outrageous that we must also fight against an administration seeking to skew our population numbers.” Civil rights organizations and local governments in California late Friday filed a request in a San Jose federal court for an emergency nationwide […]
Holy hell. Jared Kushner reportedly abandoned a national testing plan because it was *politically advantageous* to sit back and let blue states be eviscerated by the virus In the wake of devastating new reporting by Vanity Fair, a chorus of voices Friday called for the immediate resignation of Jared Kushner, a top White House advisor and the son-in-law of […]
“When every single country in the world is able to work with the WHO, except for one whose president advocates treating coronavirus with bleach and UV light, who do you think is at fault?” President Donald Trump at a White House press conference on Friday announced he was “terminating” ties to the World Health […]
