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Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa
Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times (free link here), In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home…Read More
Democrats Are Field-Testing New Ways to Talk About the Epstein Scandal
The post Democrats Are Field-Testing New Ways to Talk About the Epstein Scandal appeared first on Demand Progress. Source link demandprogress.orgRead More
MAGA Outgrows Isolationism
A mere 15 years ago, during an epoch that now seems as distant as the Paleozoic era, an American president attempted to use military power to prevent a dictator from slaughtering his own citizens. Barack Obama billed the action in Libya as a humanitarian intervention, citing the new U.N. doctrine of “responsibility to protect” (R2P). The president hoped to avert…Read More
How Clarence Thomas Bamboozled His Way Onto the Supreme Court
Thirty-six years ago, the NAACP had an opportunity to block Clarence Thomas’ path to the Supreme Court. But after a secret meeting between the Black Republican rising star and Althea Simmons, the civil rights organization’s Washington Bureau director, the NAACP blinked. Now, as the nation awaits the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, a voting rights case that threatens…Read More
Education Reform: Another way is possible
Written By Gene Bergman, City Councilor (Ward-2), Burlington, VermontThe Governor is demanding that we implement Act 73 quickly, especially the school district closure/consolidation provisions, in order to make education affordable. But as more than 5,000 Vermonters who weighed in last year overwhelmingly made clear, the Governor is wrong. Extreme consolidation will not lower taxes or improve education. We need another…Read More
Donald Trump Is Kneecapping Corporate Oversight
President Donald Trump has been carrying out a frenzied deregulation of financial markets. Recently, the administration stacked the US’s top watchdog of corporate auditors with Trump loyalists and former executives of the companies they will now oversee.On January 30, Trump’s US Securities and Exchange Commission chair, Paul Atkins, a “deregulation zealot,” announced a suite of new officials to the Public…Read More
We Have Work To Do On Immigration
Nicholas Johnson reads from his book Columns of Democracy at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City March 30, 2019. photo: Trish Nelson The Constitution’s 14th Amendment requirements of “due process” and “equal protection of the laws” apply to “any person,” not just citizens. For those fleeing persecution, and can prove it, international and U.S. law provide they are entitled to…Read More
Legislature passes bill to give $90 million to Planned Parenthood, women's health
California lawmakers on Monday approved a one-time infusion of $90 million for Planned Parenthood and other women’s health clinics, a direct respond to the Trump administration’s cuts to reproductive healthcare and access to abortion providers. planned parenthood,california lawmaker,woman,state,health,abortion provider,bill,cut,healthcare,trump,last year,legislation,hospital,legislature,version Source link www.latimes.comRead More
Ossoff Running Hard on GOP Indifference to Health Care Crisis
The issue that Democrats last year thought might boost them this year has not gone away. One key Senate candidate understands, as I noted at New York: Enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies benefiting over 20 million Americans expired at the end of last year. It was such a big deal that the need to address it became the principal Democratic rationale for triggering…Read More
Why Delia Ramirez thinks DHS needs to be dismantled
House of Representative, Office of Delia RamirezIn solidarity with Minnesota communities being hurt by DHS’s ongoing occupation of the Twin Cities, we’re donating all new revenue from today’s edition of the newsletter to The Energy CENTS Coalition, a St. Paul-based nonprofit that helps struggling folks pay their utility bills. If you aren’t already a paid subscriber and would like to…Read More