Thursday, April 25, 2024

‘Our movement didn’t just win. We earned mandate for change,’ says Ilhan Omar after...

“In Minnesota, we know that organized people will always beat organized money. Despite outside efforts to defeat us, we once again broke turnout records. Despite the attacks, our support has only grown.”

With Harris pick, Biden reaches out to young Black Americans

Harris joining up with Biden may have made the Democratic ticket more attractive to younger Black Americans, who now comprise what we define as a critical set of swing voters.

On right-wing violence in Texas, media’s silence sends message

Is this sending a message to would-be future attackers that there will be no consequences for their actions?
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Millions facing eviction and joblessness get no immediate help from Trump’s new executive orders

Under Trump’s order, unemployed workers would continue receiving an additional $400 a week, but only once states put up a quarter of the money and set up a new system to distribute the payments.

New legislation to ban toxic pesticides helps protect children’s health

“The federal pesticide policy is in urgent need of reform.”

Racism and discrimination in the oil and gas industry

The reality of the oil and gas business is that it has a well-documented history of systemic racism and sexism that it has failed to address.

New analysis exposes pandemic profiteers

“Taxing excess profits during a crisis is an old idea whose time has come again.”

Supreme Court declines to overturn lower court decision that bars Floridians with felony convictions...

Voting rights advocacy groups called the Supreme Court's decision "deeply disappointing."

Trump administration buys up nearly all the world’s supply of coronavirus drug remdesivir

Remdesivir was the first drug to be approved by U.S. licensing authorities to treat the new coronavirus.