“Instead of voting for the DISCLOSE Act and cracking down on the dark money in our democracy, Republicans blocked it,” said Sen. Patty Murray. “Shameful.” Proponents of democracy responded with disgust Thursday after Senate Republicans filibustered the popular DISCLOSE Act, which seeks to expose the super-wealthy donors who are spending unlimited amounts of undisclosed money to ensure that […]
WASHINGTON — Two U.S. federal courts have issued temporary restraining orders against President Donald Trump’s second try at using an executive order to limit who is allowed to enter the country. A judge in Hawaii blocked both the order’s suspension of refugee admissions and its ban on issuing new visas to people from a group of […]
Sapurluni – Blocked Sapuraanga. – I am weathered in. (literally, “It blocked me.”) The Alutiiq verb sapuluku literally means, “to block it”: to physically obstruct something or someone. For example, you could use this word on your boat, when a very low tide kept you from traveling through a channel, or to indicate that locked […]