October 17th, 1918
Review of Trump Era CDC Guidance Confirms Political Manipulation of Agency’s Covid Response
“The Trump administration put politics over people’s lives.” A top-to-bottom review of Trump-era coronavirus guidance has identified public health recommendations issued under the banner of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that were “not primarily authored” by agency staff or backed by the best existing scientific evidence. Ordered by current CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, […]
Biden Names Garland as His Choice for Attorney General
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday publicly introduced Merrick Garland, a federal appellate court judge whom Republicans snubbed for a seat on the Supreme Court in 2016, as the attorney general to lead the country’s Justice Department in his new administration. Garland, 68, has served 23 years as an appeals court judge in Washington but […]
Openly Defying Federal Court Order, Wilbur Ross Moves to Shut Down Census Early
“Complying with a federal court’s order is not optional. The Trump administration is flouting the rule of law to undercount and erase our communities.” Just days after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the previous October 31 deadline for the 2020 census, the U.S. Census Bureau late Monday released a one-sentence statement announcing that Commerce Secretary […]
Dunleavy Administration Responds to Supreme Court Ruling on Oil and Gas Tax Credit Bonds
(Anchorage) – Friday the Alaska Supreme Court, in Forrer v. State of Alaska, struck down legislation enacted under the previous Walker administration in 2018 that authorized the issuance of “subject-to-appropriation” bonds to pay outstanding cashable oil and gas tax credits. According to the Department of Revenue, there is $743 million in outstanding tax credits […]
Civil Rights Groups Request Emergency Injuction to Stop Trump ‘Sabotage’ of 2020 Census
“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 […]
White House Defends Trump’s Concerns About Mail-In Voting
WASHINGTON – The White House is defending its efforts to protect the November presidential election from outside interference following a revelation that Russian “malign … actors” have been echoing President Donald Trump’s repeated warnings about potential election fraud. “We’re going to do everything we can to protect the sanctity of our election,” National Security […]
Statewide Alaska Poll Finds Republican Hunters and Fishers Support Roadless Rule
Alexandria, VA- Prominent conservative polling firm Baselice & Associates, Inc., which has previously polled for the Trump/Pence campaign, conducted a recent survey of voters in the state of Alaska, regarding the proposed lifting of the Roadless Rule throughout the currently protected Tongass National Forest. The poll was commissioned by Citizens for the Republic, the […]
‘Not Mere Misers, But Actively Cruel’: Trump’s GOP Denounced as Worse Than Scrooge on Christmas Eve
Tear gassing refugees at the U.S. border. Ripping kids out of the arms of their parents. Stripping food aid from the nation’s poor and most vulnerable. “Will we tolerate the insatiable greed and cruelty of the billionaire class, whose control over our political system lets them take food out of the mouths of hungry school kids? Or […]