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Voters Don't Trust Trump or RFK Jr. to Handle a Public Health Crisis
A hantavirus outbreak has intensified scrutiny of the Trump administration’s capacity to respond to infectious disease threats, particularly due to President Donald Trump’s deep cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and his decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization, as well as the controversial leadership of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.A new Data for Progress…Read More
5/12/2026 — What You Can Do This Week
JOIN OUR LIST Every week, People’s Action shares actions you can take online and with our member groups They are trying to rig the maps so they can win. Because Trump’s approvals have hit record lows, and even Fox News polls are showing people trust Democrats more than Republicans on the economy. They know they can’t win fair and square. So while…Read More
RSVP Now for Thursday: More Good News on Our Campaign to Victory Call
RSVP Now for Thursday: More Good News on Our Campaign to Victory Call RSVP Now for Our Campaign to Victory Call Thursday, May 14, 9pm ET/6pm PT Join us for good news and inspiration about recent wins and more on the horizon on our Campaign to Victory call. We’ll debrief the results of the primaries today, lay out how we…Read More
A Complete Inversion
By David Glenn Cox It is by any stretch of the imagination a complete inversion of the truth. The headline read: President Trump to meet with Xi to pressure the Chinese on Iran War. Kudos! George Orwell would be so proud and award them the Winston Smith Award for journalistic excellence. Take the story like the Chicago River, take it…Read More
Misusing the Congressional Review Act as a Tool for Land Management Policy
It is tempting to think that the threat of the current Congress abusing the Congressional Review Act (CRA) is over, now that the deadline to revisit rules implemented during the previous Congress’s session—provided by the CRA’s unique “lookback provision”—has formally passed. But that would be a mistake, as conservative lawmakers have found novel ways to target agency actions from previous…Read More
Progressive Maryland Weekly Memo for Monday, May 11, 2026
The Memo will be posted here after the email version has been sent. Source link www.progressivemaryland.orgRead More
Why Iowa won’t join the gerrymandering stampede
President Donald Trump got the ball rolling when he demanded that Texas adopt a new map creating five more Republican-held U.S. House seats. The U.S. Supreme Court escalated the redistricting “arms race” by blowing up what remains of the Voting Rights Act. Since the summer of 2025, nine GOP-controlled states and two states with Democratic trifectas have either adopted new…Read More
I told you Netanyahu conned Trump into an illegal Iranian War that could create a famine that kills millions
Netanyahu has been claiming that Iran was mere months away from developing. nuclear bomb and the West needed to invade… Source link thedailyblog.co.nzRead More
May 10, 2026
There were two very different celebrations in Russia and in Hungary yesterday.Russia celebrated Victory Day, the anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. Most of the Allies honor Victory in Europe Day, or V-E Day, on May 8, the day in 1945 that jubilant celebrations broke out as news spread of the Nazis’ unconditional…Read More
Democrats In Iowa, Alaska And Georgia Eye Governor's Mansions (And Just May Win)
In Iowa, Republicans face a potential bruising that could leave the red state looking pretty purple after November.Once a bellwether, Iowa has jagged to the right recently. In 2024, Donald Trump won it by over 13 percentage points, making for the state’s largest margin of victory in a presidential election since 1972. And two years before that, in 2022, it…Read More