Saturday, April 1, 2023

Tag: GOP

Why the repeal of anti-union laws in Michigan boosts workers nationwide

Michigan's victory represents the latest in a string of victories for workers mobilizing to build strength across the country.

‘They’re such cowards’: GOP pushes bill targeting food aid for the...

Anti-hunger campaigners are pushing Democrats to protect food benefits and fight for a permanent SNAP expansion during upcoming farm bill negotiations.

Progressives urge Senate dems to ditch tradition that’s allowing GOP to...

"Senate Democrats should eliminate every barrier possible" to confirm President Joe Biden's judicial nominees, said Indivisible.

‘Race to the bottom’: GOP has introduced 72 educational gag orders...

"They have outdone one another in a race to the bottom, finding new, more extreme, and more conspiratorial ways to impose censorious government dictates on teaching and learning."

White House says GOP bill would force ‘one of the biggest...

"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," said a White House spokesperson.

GOP readies ‘shameful’ vote to oust Omar from House Committee

"The GOP is riddled with white nationalists and antisemites. It is infuriating and absurd that they are trying to distract from the bigoted hatred in their own party by attacking a progressive woman of color."

Biden wielding DNC to guard against Progressive challenge

"Just 34 percent of Americans describe Biden as honest and trustworthy -- a new low for his presidency."

House GOP begins march toward nationwide abortion ban with two ‘absurd’...

"The GOP is using these dangerous lies to try to pass anti-choice bills that harm pregnant people and their families."

Comeuppance for the unindicted, domestic, rogue terrorist – and ex-president

“I disrupt foes like any warlord,/ Back me or face the next civil war.”

House GOP using omnibus fight as ‘trial run’ for ploy to...

"MAGA extremists in Congress are dusting off an old conservative playbook for when they seize power," said one progressive watchdog.

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Western monarch butterfly population reaches its highest number since 2000

“It is difficult to watch monarch butterflies and their extraordinary migration teeter on the edge of collapse, but there are signs of hope.”

Covering (up) antiwar protest in US media

The national press is a no show.

California passes law to fine oil companies over price gouging

The new law prohibiting fuel price gouging will go into effect June 26.

US auctions giant stretch of Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling

Coming on the heels of the Willow decision, this certainly feels like another step backwards in the fight against climate change, which this administration has said is an existential threat.”

To hell and back

It is time to set in motion policies that would uplift veterans instead of pouring yet more staggering sums into a military that’s only sent so many of us to hell and back in this century?