On Monday, the Supreme Court turned away an effort to reinstate Pennsylvania’s gerrymandered congressional maps. Although this is not the first time the Court refused to bail out the GOP’s partisan gerrymander in this state, it is the first time it turned away this case since Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation gave Republicans a solid majority on […]
I publicly came out as transgender while living as an immigrant in Washington, D.C. — less than a week before Donald Trump was elected president. I was allowed four whole days of excitement before election night turned that feeling into fear and anger. Still, I somehow felt I could count on a sense of hope […]
President Donald Trump called Brazil’s far-right president-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Monday, congratulating him on his victory and vowing, on Twitter, that the United States and Brazil would “work closely together on Trade, Military and everything else!” Had a very good conversation with the newly elected President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who won his race by a […]
President Donald Trump resumed tweeting baseless conspiracy theories about a migrant caravan that is traveling north from Central America on Monday morning, less than 48 hours after an anti-Semite who reportedly promoted similar conspiracy theories on social media murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue. Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed […]
The costliest House race in the nation — so far — will end with the election of either a Republican who welcomes President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement or a Democrat who believes the United States has a responsibility to the world to reduce its carbon emissions. It’s not unusual for a […]
The costliest House race in the nation — so far — will end with the election of either a Republican who welcomes President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement or a Democrat who believes the United States has a responsibility to the world to reduce its carbon emissions. It’s not unusual for a […]
Several weeks back, the Pennsylvania press uncovered the fact that Marty Nothstein, the Republican nominee for the open Pennsylvania 7th Congressional District seat, was placed on unpaid leave by a former employer after he was accused of sexual misconduct. Now, slightly behind in polling, he has launched a vicious smear ad suggesting his Democratic opponent […]
On Sunday the world’s fourth-largest democracy decided to elect a neo-fascist. Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain, cruised to victory in Brazil’s elections with 55.54 percent of the votes, compared to just 44.46% from his leftist rival Fernando Haddad. Bolsonaro has called for a cleansing of leftist criminals from Brazil, publicly praised the country’s former military […]
It’s Halloween week, so it’s time for another scary story about how the popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin will destroy the world through its energy usage. “Bitcoin mining on track to consume all of the world’s energy by 2020,” a frightening Newsweek headline claimed a year ago. Now it’s the journal Nature Climate Change, with a brand-new […]
Environmental advocates and human rights supporters reacted to the victory of far-right Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro with outrage and concern on Sunday night, even as they vowed to continue their activism. With a decisive 55 percent of the vote, Bolsonaro, a congressman and former army captain, sailed to victory in South America’s largest country, […]
Tawuan Townes may or may not have been sentenced to die in violation of the Constitution. The answer to that question can be found in an audio recording of Townes’ murder trial. Yet this audio recording “no longer exists,” according to the trial court that presided over Townes’ conviction and death sentence. And the Supreme […]
More than 20,000 people have now signed an open letter declaring that President Trump is not welcome in the city of Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism and reverses his policies targeting minorities and immigrants. Organized by the progressive Jewish group Bend the Arc, the letter follows Saturday’s deadly shooting that killed 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s […]
A far-right mob brutally beating counter-protesters while yelling “faggot.” A series of pipe bombs mailed to the prominent liberals who are most featured in right-wing conspiracies. A white supremacist murder of two black senior citizens in a Kentucky grocery store. The mass shooting of eleven worshipers at a synagogue in what is described as the […]
“In just six days,” according to a study published in the Columbia Journalism Review, “the New York Times ran as many cover stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails as they did about all the policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election.” Two years after the Times helped place Donald Trump in […]
MIAMI, FLORIDA — Nicole Visas can’t vote, but that isn’t stopping her from knocking on dozens of doors every week so that 1.4 million Floridians can. Visas is a third year nursing student at Nova Southeastern University and beneficiary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program created by President Barack Obama to give […]
Kellyanne Conway appeared on CNN on Monday morning and denounced the politicization of tragedy by everyone except her boss, President Donald Trump. Much of Trump’s political rise and presidential rhetoric has been thanks to one thing: exploiting tragedy to divide America. From fear-mongering about Muslims in order to push a religious test for travelers to […]
Since a gunman who expressed his hatred for Jewish people on social media shot and killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is under renewed scrutiny for his ties to neo–Nazi groups. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that during a trip to Europe that was funded by a Holocaust […]
ORLANDO, FLORIDA — Marquis McKenzie lost his right to vote before he’d even earned it. Late one evening more than a decade ago, he held up a stranger at gunpoint. It was a crime that McKenzie, who was just 14 at the time, admits in retrospect didn’t make much sense. “Only thing I got from […]
Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right candidate who has been compared to President Donald Trump, is the winner of Brazil’s presidential election, ushering in what one political observer called “a dramatic swing to the right in the world’s fourth-largest democracy.” “We cannot continue flirting with communism,” said the 63-year-old member of the far-right Social Liberal Party during […]
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE — Several protesters were forcibly removed from a rally Sunday for Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), the Republican Senate nominee in Tennessee. The protests began before Blackburn took the stage, as one woman yelled something about the “extremist Republican party” before being drowned out by chants of “USA!” The woman wrapped herself around a […]