Since President Trump’s inauguration, the GOP has repeatedly decried the supposedly “unhinged” tactics of the left. After being mocked at the White House Correspondents’ dinner in April, for instance, conservative activist Matt Schlapp and his wife Mercedes walked out. The National Review compared those who protested Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a “mob”, while Senate Majority […]
Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler traveled to California on Thursday to appear at a roundtable event with Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA), who is facing a tough reelection bid in his 10th congressional district, located in California’s Central Valley. The event was described as a way for Wheeler to learn about an upcoming […]
Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), co-founder of the Climate Solutions Caucus, adopted the language of climate deniers in a tweet Thursday night that labeled people who want to discuss the connection between Hurricane Michael and climate change as “alarmists.” In the tweet, Curbelo said, “Florida has had hurricanes for centuries” and that “there’s no time to […]
Conservatives in Texas have filed three lawsuits seeking to overturn LGBTQ protections in the name of “religious freedom.” As the Texas state legislature gears up for its 2019 session, the litigation suggests a bold and renewed effort to undermine civil rights for LGBTQ people, seemingly at every turn. The three suits in question were filed […]
The Justice Department has appealed a federal judge’s decision to halt the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 300,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan. The unsurprising move comes one week after U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco blocked the Trump administration from scrapping the TPS designations, which protect immigrants from […]
Facebook downplayed the seriousness of a recent security breach Friday, announcing that though it initially said 50 million people were affected, that number was actually closer to 30 million. Facebook first spoke publicly about the attack two weeks ago, but in a release Friday, they detailed for the first time just how much information attackers […]
Donald Trump does not like to be criticized. When he is attacked — or even when he thinks he might have been attacked — he tends to fire back in the same way each time: with smears and vague aspersions. On Thursday, his former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn was the latest recipient of his apparent […]
Foreign companies and investors are distancing themselves from Saudi Arabia since news of the disappearance and possible murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist critical of the government. Several companies and individuals have withdrawn from the Saudi Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Riyadh later this month. The conference, which is now in its second year, has been […]
Two years after first taking a knee on the sidelines of a preseason NFL game during the national anthem in an act of protest against police brutality and institutionalized racism, Colin Kaepernick stood on stage at Harvard University to accept a 2018 W. E. B. Du Bois medal. The award is administered by the Hutchins […]
House Democrats are calling on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to stand down from plans to reign in the use of confidential data when crafting agency policies, a controversial move that follows similar efforts to limit the use of science at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In a letter sent Thursday, House Natural Resources ranking member Raúl Grijalva […]
With two more conservatives recently placed on the U.S. Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade is in great jeopardy of being overturned. And as that threat grows, crisis pregnancy centers — or as reproductive rights advocates call them, fake clinics — continue to proliferate. The reproductive justice organization Reproaction released a data set on Friday that […]
Two voting rights groups filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R) of unlawfully blocking 53,000 voter registrations ahead of the November election. Kemp is currently in a tightly-contested race against Democrat Stacey Abrams, who would be the first black woman governor in the United States. Using an “exact match” voter […]
Major pollution caused by industrial farming captured the attention of environmental groups after Hurricane Florence caused animal waste lagoons in North Carolina to overflow yet again, contaminating water in surrounding communities. In the meat production supply chain, though, the water pollution doesn’t end at the factory farms. After animals are transported from farms to meat […]
The Justice Department secured the first conviction this week in its hunt for the millions of non-citizens President Donald Trump has claimed voted illegally in 2016. Italian citizen Alessandro Cannizzaro, 47 of North Carolina, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of voting by an alien. U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle sentence Cannizzaro to a $200 fine. Cannizzaro, […]
New revelations about a citizenship question the Trump administration added to the 2020 census raise the possibility it was motivated by a desire to undercut immigrants’ political power. In a court filing Thursday, the Justice Department admitted that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross consulted former White House adviser Stephen Bannon and Kansas Secretary of State Kris […]
According to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, worker wages have been essentially flat since the GOP tax bill was passed in December. The average hourly wage for production and nonsupervisory employees crept up from $9.25 in August 2018 to $9.27 in September. However, the July figure matches numbers from the same month […]
Nearly three years after Ammon Bundy helped lead an armed standoff against authorities in southeastern Oregon, the anti-government extremist hasn’t slowed his efforts. He has kept himself in the news by flirting with running for office and suggesting there may be future standoffs to come, along with continuing to court fellow far-right and notoriously anti-Native American activists, […]