Week in Review: 'Unhinged and Undemocratic' GOP Doing What Now?

 

Saturday, September 7, 2024 ■ The Week in Review 'Unhinged and Undemocratic': Florida Cops Question Abortion Petition Signers "This is what state-authorized election interference looks like," said the ACLU of Florida. By Jessica Corbett • Sep 6, 2024 ISRAEL MURDERED AYDENUR EYGI FOR PROTESTING ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS IN THE WEST BANK! Israeli Forces Reportedly Kill US Human Rights Activist With 'Deliberate Shot to the Head' "A soldier fired directly at the protestors, hitting the American activist in the head from behind," said one eyewitness. excerpt:  One journalist said that "devastating levels of impunity" were on display in the West Bank on Friday as Israeli forces reportedly shot a 26-year-old American human rights advocate, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, in the head, killing her as she protested the expansion of illegal settlements. By Julia Conley • Sep 6, 2024 After 100 Days of 100°F, Sanders Says 'Climate Emergency Demands a Massive-Scale Mobilization' "This is a moral imperative," said the senator as historic heat continued in Phoenix, Arizona. By Jessica Corbett • Sep 5, 2024 Maine's Largest City Becomes First on US East Coast to Back Israel Divestment "We urge everyone to join this effort in their own communities," said the Maine Coalition for Palestine. "Our tax money should not be spent killing women and children in Palestine." By Jake Johnson • Sep 5, 2024 'Baffling Capitulation to Wall Street': Harris Breaks With Biden on Capital Gains Tax "Harris seems to be making a policy choice based on the disproven, failed ideology of trickle-down economics, and giving petulant billionaires a gift in the process," said one progressive advocacy group. By Jake Johnson • Sep 5, 2024 MUST READ!  'Poster Child for...Corporate Greed': Sanders Slams Health Industry CEO's Subpoena Refusal "It is time for Dr. de la Torre to get off of his $40 million yacht and explain to the American people how much he has gained financially while bankrupting the hospitals he manages." By Brett Wilkins • Sep 4, 2024 'A Great Day': Workers at Second Southern Auto Industry Plant Join UAW "Battery workers are seizing their power!" said the United Auto Workers. By Julia Conley • Sep 4, 2024 Texas GOP Invents Corporate Courts Ready to Do Industry's Bidding "Why bother judge-shopping when you can just invent a new court?" asked one watchdog. By Jake Johnson • Sep 4, 2024 House GOP Budgets Paired With Project 2025 Would Create 'Harsher' Nation for Working Class "Behind these eye-popping budget numbers are millions of real people who will see health coverage, food assistance, and other forms of support taken away," said the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. By Jake Johnson • Sep 3, 2024 Dems Want to Know If Trump DOJ Covered Up Alleged $10 Million Egyptian Bribe "Surely you would agree that the American people deserve to know whether a former president—and a current candidate for president—took an illegal campaign contribution from a brutal foreign dictator." By Jessica Corbett • Sep 3, 2024 VIEW ALL NEWS JOIN THE MOVEMENT As a people-powered nonprofit news outlet, we cover the issues the corporate media never will. Your contribution supports this bold media model—free, independent, and dedicated to reporting the facts every day. Stand with us in the fight for economic equality, social justice, human rights, and a more sustainable future. JOIN WITH US TODAY ■ Opinion Knowledge Is Power. Gaza War Supporters Don’t Want Students to Have Either Silence is complicity, and that’s the way Israel’s allies like it. By Norman Solomon • Sep 5, 2024 If She Truly Holds the Rule of Law ‘Sacred,’ Harris Must Back an Arms Embargo on Israel No other policy step would have as much of an impact in generating a permanent cease-fire and advancing Palestinian freedom. By Josh Ruebner • Sep 5, 2024 Trump Has Delivered Unto Us a Nation of Fascist Bullies If we don’t take on bullies — particularly fascist bullies — they keep going further and further until either they win or you fight back and defeat them. So that's what we must do. By Thom Hartmann • Sep 4, 2024 Popular Israeli Podcasters Crave Button to Press That Would 'Erase Every Single Living Being in Gaza' “Forgive us if we don’t give a shit if everybody there dies. It’s just the way we feel. It’s just the way Israelis feel," said Two Nice Jewish Boys co-host Eytan Weinstein. By Katherine Hearst • Sep 4, 2024 Trump’s Visit to Howell, MI Turned a Dog Whistle Into a Bullhorn The former president spoke of sending outside police to Detroit to Intimidate voters in a place with a troubling history of white supremacist and far-right activity. By Hank Kennedy • Sep 4, 2024 We Should Listen to Rev Barber on White Poverty and Multracial Organizing The latest book by the Poor People's Campaign co-chair shows how racial division keeps both Black and white communities poor—and lays out a real vision to defeat it. By Lewis M. Steel • Sep 3, 2024 VIEW ALL OPINION Call 207.775.0488 to donate by phone or mail a check to: Common Dreams · PO Box 443 · Portland, ME 04112-0443 · USA Common Dreams is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your contribution is tax-deductible. EIN: 20-3368194