Tag: Mitch McConnell
Bezos, McConnell, and Covid capitalism
The heinous resurgence of COVID makes clear that corporations need more – not fewer – incentives to protect their workers from the virus.
How Mitch McConnell’s do nothing Republicans are killing you
The writing is on the wall. Do your job, Mitch McConnell. Our lives depend on it.
How Mitch McConnell flouts the will of the American people
Right now, one person—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—stands in the way of America’s fight against COVID-19.
Progressive message to Joe Biden: Don’t you dare “cooperate” with Mitch...
If Joe Biden is willing to toss aside the progressive base of his own party in order to cooperate with the likes of Mitch McConnell, the new president will be starting a fierce civil war inside his own party.
For RBG it was all principle, for Mitch McConnell it’s all...
Over time, the unbridled pursuit of power wears down democratic institutions, erodes public trust, and breeds the sort of cynicism that invites despotism.
‘The corruption is bottomless’: Documents reveal chair of Postal Service Board...
"Can the GOP's takeover of USPS be any more blatant?"
Reactionaries in ragged retreat: A wingnut brew of bottom-dwellers
Trump politics are in shambles, whatever he and lackeys try boomerang, and why should anything change in the next five months?
While pushing for corporate legal immunity, McConnell vows to block extension...
“Cutting back federal assistance at the height of the crisis would mean self-inflicted disaster, devastation, and additional deaths. That must not happen.”
Enemies of the Constitution, dismantling our democracy: Trump, McConnell, Barr
Trump, Barr, and McConnell do their business as if the Constitution doesn’t even exist. They have no problem subverting the Rule of Law, it is no more than a hindrance to them. These three are, in fact, autocrats.
As workers get sick & die from COVID-19, McConnell demands corporate...
“He wants to protect their right to engage in egregious misconduct.”
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.