Yearly Archives: 2021
“This is voter suppression”: 198,000 Georgia residents were illegally purged from voter rolls
“I think it’s quite interesting and coincidental … that many of them on that list are African American voters.”
“Nobody” hurt, “just a perp,” say officers after NYPD shot and killed man in...
The comments were captured in body-worn camera footage the NYPD recently disclosed, 20 months after Kawaski Trawick was shot in his apartment while holding a bread knife.
Giving up the game, DOJ argues in court filing that Trump lost 2020 election
“The official position of the lawyers representing the people of the United States is that there will be a new president on January 20,” said one government watchdog.
2020 was a terrible year for climate disasters, but there are reasons for hope...
With 2020 left behind, there is hope in facing the climate crisis, for movement toward a just transition to an equitable low-carbon world.
UK judge rejects us extradition request for Wikileaks’ Julian Assange
U.S. prison system seen as a death threat...
‘Victory for Julian”: UK blocks WikiLeaks founder Assange extradition to US on espionage charges
While the decision is a “very significant victory” for Assange, the judge has largely sided with the U.S. prosecution.
The good
They all saw beyond the illusions created by this current 'Everyone for themselves Capitalism on Steroids'. They did and they do good for the sake of, well, doing good!
Bernie releases statement on GOP blocking $2,000 stimulus checks
“At a time when so many Americans are facing economic desperation, it is tragic that the Republican leadership has turned their backs on the working families of this country."
Will Trump’s mania to slice and dice the right help or hurt the progressive...
Whatever the Georgia results, progressives still need more non-stop, grassroots consciousness-raising and many more elected lawmakers everywhere.
Midnight rush: 6 ways Trump trashed the environment during the holidays
Trump’s team continued its unprecedented onslaught on environmental regulations, with nearly a dozen new rollbacks or threats to public health, wildlife, clean air, public lands and the climate.