Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Tag: Orlando shooting

Florida Governor Wants To Monitor Refugees In The Wake Of Orlando...

"The Second Amendment didn't kill anybody."

John McCain: Obama Is ‘Directly Responsible’ for Orlando Shooting

He didn't mention guns. Then he tried to backtrack his statements.

Donald Trump’s Hate Mongering Aids And Abets Terrorists

Donald Trump represents the terrorists’ ultimate hope: a leader who will lead us into “deeper darkness.”

Time for a Nonviolent Assault on Our Blood-Stained Congress

“It is time to end this experiment with transmogrifying the entire US into Tombstone Territory with everyone armed to the teeth prepared to either be a bad guy or take out a bad guy. It is not working.”

The Most Powerful Medical Association In The U.S. Gears Up To...

With one of the largest political lobbying budgets of any organization in the U.S., the AMA could finally dismantle the 20-year-old ban.

Omar Mateen and Right-Wing Homophobia: Was Florida Massacre a Hate Crime...

If it was about gay marriage, well, there is a lot of political opposition to that on the Republican Right, and violence against gays has been a feature of the American far right.

Scott Brown Says Orlando Shooting Did Not Primarily Target Gay People

“I don’t identify the people who were murdered as from a particular class of people.”

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Constitution Center at 400 7th Street SW in Washington, which houses the headquarters of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Photo by Tim1965 / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bank regulator clears a Trump family crypto venture to open a national trust bank

The OCC's own decision letter records four commenters raising conflict-of-interest objections involving the president and his family, and the agency placing most of those questions outside the scope of its review.
A Renaissance fresco of the biblical flood with the ark afloat

‘My religion’s better than yours’ – so there!

To fix all truths on realms invisible Strikes skeptics as inadmissible.
Abdul El-Sayed talking with voters at a campaign meet-and-greet

“Moderates” Support Extreme Injustice

The label goes to candidates who back endless war and block Medicare for All, while a CNN poll now finds a third of Democrats calling themselves socialists. Scolding them as interlopers plays well with donors and nowhere else.
The Lorain County Administration Building in Elyria, Ohio, where the county commissioners meet and striking Job and Family Services workers have picketed. Photo by WeaponizingArchitecture / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Lorain County caseworkers reach day 180 of a strike over a dollar an hour

Union officials told the bargaining chair the walkout may be the longest in Ohio public sector history, a claim the county's newspaper could not confirm. Commissioners point to an $11 million deficit.
The Bears Ears National Monument landscape in southeastern Utah. Photo by Mike McGlew - Mcglewm / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Mining executives bought stock in their own firm days before Trump shrank Bears Ears

House Democrats have opened an investigation for insider trading.