TOP NEWS: Sanders-Warren Plan Would Tax the Rich to Increase Social Security by $2,400 a Year

February 13, 2023 Top News

Sanders-Warren Plan Would Tax the Rich to Increase Social Security by $2,400 a Year "The legislation that we are introducing today will expand Social Security benefits by $2,400 a year and will extend the solvency of Social Security for the next 75 years." Kenny Stancil Sanders Holds Town Hall to Elevate Crisis of Low Teacher Pay "I do not think we should accept it as 'normal' in our society that billionaires get massive tax breaks while teachers in this country have to work a second job just to make ends meet," said the senator. Julia Conley Study Shows How Corporations Are Deceiving the Public to 'Greenwash Their Brand' "At a time when corporations need to come clean about their climate impact and shrink their carbon footprint, many are exploiting vague and misleading 'net zero' pledges... while continuing with business as usual." Jake Johnson Surging Number of US Teen Girls Face Sexual Violence and Extreme Sadness: CDC "Young people in the U.S. are collectively experiencing a level of distress that calls on us to act," reads the study. Julia Conley Profits, Drilling Plans Prove UAE Oil Exec 'Unfit' to Chair UN Climate Summit: Amnesty "Sultan al-Jaber cannot be an honest broker for climate talks when the company he leads is planning to cause more climate damage." Kenny Stancil Mexican President Vows Global Push to End 'Inhumane' US Embargo of Cuba One peace group praised AMLO for "once again providing such an important voice against U.S. imperialism and bullying." Kenny Stancil 'I Don't Want to Take My Kids Back to That': Ohio Residents Fear Toxic Aftermath of Train Crash "None of us have the money to completely start over somewhere," said one resident. "We're not going to have a choice but to take our children back to that place, and it's not fair." Jake Johnson Anti-War Voices Accuse Super Bowl of 'Hijacking the Pat Tillman Story' One journalist reminded readers that the NFL star and Army Ranger "called the Iraq invasion and occupation 'fucking illegal' and was killed by friendly fire in an incident the military covered up and tried to hide from his family." Brett Wilkins VIEW ALL NEWS

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How Spin and Lies Fuel a Bloody War of Attrition in Ukraine The American people must demand that U.S. political and military leaders tell the truth about this horrific war and our country's role in it. And we must also demand that the media transmit the truth to the public. Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies Humanity Can No Longer Tolerate Corporations That Exist Almost Entirely to Make Money Society must make the necessary shift from a society that prioritizes wealth accumulation and economic growth to one that puts personal and societal well-being above profits. David Suzuki Tanks for Nothing: On What Can't Be Won on the Ukraine Battlefield Under the guise of turning the century around, we underwrite violence in faraway lands and thereby dodge the actual challenges of changing our own culture. Andrew Bacevich US Media 'Spy Balloon' Obsession a Gift to China Hawks Despite uncertainty about the purpose of the high-altitude balloon shot down by the U.S. military last week, American corporate media "overwhelmingly interpreted the Pentagon's conjecture as fact." Julianne Tveten VIEW ALL OPINION

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GOP House candidate calls for rape panels to judge survivors

 

It's Our Democracy!

Today’s Action: Protect abortion rights in Kentucky!

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Today's Top Stories:

GOP House candidate proposes new post-Dobbs rape panels
Ten years after the hysteria of "death panels" come terrifyingly real calls for rape panels, where anti-abortion zealots get to sit in judgement on a case-by-case basis to decide whether or not sexual assault victims will be granted access to abortion care. Proposed by Bo Hines, one of the next generation of slimy, dead-eyed and coal-hearted Republican radicals hoping to wield the levers of power in Congress, it's clear that dystopia is right around the corner unless we turn out in record numbers on Election Day.

Take Action: Call on prosecutors to charge Fox News for recklessly endangering the life of an abortion doctor!

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: BREAKING: Kellyanne Conway reveals major news on a Trump 2024 run
Strap in, folks. It's gonna be a weird next two years.

Take Action: Pass the Congressional stock trading ban!

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Michigan Democrats on verge of STUNNING development
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Whoa.

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Judge approves independent monitor to oversee Trump Organization financial reporting in win for New York AG
In a huge loss for the disgraced ex-president and his family, their shady company was just assigned an official babysitter as it faces a serious investigation for decades of fraud. The Trump clan won't be able to move assets out of the company or cook their books this time around!

Take Action: Call on President Biden to commit to phasing out fossil fuels!

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Arson attack on Tulsa donut shop hosting a drag event follows right-wing media campaign of fear
It was inevitable. After weeks and weeks of hysterical right-wing demonization campaigns against drag shows by Tucker Carlson, Jesse Watters, and the entire right-wing social mediasphere, a donut shop that hosted such a show was attacked with a Molotov cocktail and set alight in Oklahoma.

Take Action: Protect renters from unfair evictions!

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A GOP official is allegedly knocking on doors to tell people they can’t vote
Americans in Texas are facing an onslaught of voter intimidation tactics in the lead-up to the midterm elections next week — and in at least one instance the intimidation is allegedly being carried out by a prominent member of the local Republican Party.

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Ex-housekeeper for Jeff Bezos files discrimination lawsuit
A former housekeeper for Amazon oligarch Jeff Bezos says she and other employees suffered unsafe working conditions that included being forced to climb out a laundry room window to get to a bathroom anytime the Bezos family was home. Exactly the kind of behavior you'd expect from a sociopathic billionaire who forces his drivers to piss in bottles and runs his warehouses like a knock-off Mussolini.

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This could be our last election if we don't win
Wisconsin Democrats: GOP governor candidate Tim Michels promised Republicans “will never lose another election” if he wins next week. They will stop at nothing to dismantle our democracy and install a one-party rule, forcibly imposing their extremist agenda on an unwilling public. To stop him, the Marvel cast is hosting an exclusive livestream event! Will you be a superhero and chip in ANY amount to get access to this must-not-miss event?

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Realtor's lobby plows political cash into efforts to keep rents higher
Sky-high rents are the biggest driver of inflation in America, and a leech lobby of real estate investors is spending millions to make sure that a struggling American public gets no relief from their onerous tithing.

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CONTRIBUTIONS:

In addition to the $8.3 million it has spent on independent expenditures so far this cycle, supporting both Democratic and Republican congressional candidates, it donated $600,000 to the Kevin McCarthy-aligned super PAC Congressional Leadership Fund and $300,000 to a North Carolina PAC that supported Republican state Sen. Chuck Edwards over Rep. Madison Cawthorn in the primary. On the Democratic side, NAR sent $300,000 to the super PAC Our Hudson in New York, backing DCCC Chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney as he faced a challenge from progressive state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi.

Realtors also flex their muscle by funneling campaign contributions through the conduit service Votesane, which has a board composed of individuals with ties to the mortgage and real estate industries. In the 2022 cycle, nearly every Votesane donor is a realtor or real estate executive, according to FEC data. The top recipients of funds donated through Votesane in the 2022 cycle are the National Republican Congressional Committee ($277,500), Sen. Tim Scott ($263,209), Sen. Marco Rubio ($199,786), Sen. John Thune ($177,500), and the National Republican Senatorial Committee ($170,500). They’re followed by Sen. Joe Manchin ($160,765), an Appropriations Committee member; Rep. Van Taylor ($153,575), a Financial Services Committee member; Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto ($143,000); Rep. Peter Stauber ($133,025); and Sen. Jerry Moran ($133,000), who sits on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.

Realtor's lobby plows political cash into efforts to keep rents higher

Sky-high rents are the biggest driver of inflation in America, and a leech lobby of real estate investors is spending millions to make sure that a struggling American public gets no relief from their onerous tithing.

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The United Nations overwhelmingly votes to condemn the US embargo on Cuba for the 30th time
The inhumane, 62-year-old embargo of Cuba, which was installed deliberately to impose such severe hardship on Cubans to provoke revolt against the government, was once again condemned by nearly the entire world — except, of course, for the United States and Israel, which maintains its own brutal embargo of the Palestinian territories. Imagine seeing the whole world speak out against this and still think that Cubans are the "bad guys."

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Brooklyn Democratic Party failing to respond to Lee Zeldin threat
The local party apparatus of New York's bluest bastions appears frighteningly unconcerned about the threat posed by Trumper radical Lee Zeldin in a surprisingly close race for New York governor. Activists were befuddled when it was revealed the money from a bigwig fundraiser attended by current Governor Kathy Hochul herself would be going not to organizing but to paying salaries and "operating costs."

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Milwaukee election worker under investigation for ballot fraud
Wow, would you look at that! Yet another Republican was busted committing voter fraud! This time, fake military ballots were created online and sent to the home of a Republican state rep. Whatever could they have been for?

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Such a sad, sad, sad, sad state

US beauty pageant can exclude transgender contestants, court rules

House GOP to release 1,000-page road map for Biden FBI probe

Twitter staff locked out of work accounts as mass sackings begin

Florida flirting with an anti-vaccine apocalypse

LAPD captain ensnared in CBS exec's sex assault scandal

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world

Russia begins surprising retreat in key city of Kherson, raising eyebrows among Ukrainians

UN begs countries to please stop deporting Haitians as gang violence crisis grips the island

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan survives assassination attempt

Not again: Israel re-elects Netanyahu, propel virulently racist far-right extremists back into power

Aboriginal boy's murder puts spotlight on racism in Australia

French parliament halted as MP shouts "go back to Africa"

Hope...

Milky Way stars photobomb picturesque spiral galaxy in stunning Hubble photo

In the Amazon, indigenous communities and a giant fish help save the rainforest

Mexico succession puts scientist on path to be first woman president

Scientists discover huge "extragalactic structure" in hidden region of space

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Today’s Action: Protect abortion rights in Kentucky!

In all 50 states, crucial races up and down the ballot next Tuesday could turn the tide in the we-can’t-believe-we’re-still-having-to-fight-this-fight for abortion rights. The Supreme Court’s disastrous overturning of Roe v. Wade this summer placed the lives of pregnant women throughout the country at even greater risk, with those in red states subjected to extremist trigger laws designed to force them to carry unwanted and dangerous pregnancies to term without exception.

For us here at OD Action, that threat is deeply personal — Kentucky, a state deeply at risk for losing abortion care, is our home base. It’s a state where voters are historically disenfranchised and exploited, where communities suffer without proper support from negligent legislators, and conservative politicians who are completely unrepresentative of their constituents — we’re looking at you, Mitch McConnell — call the shots.

Protect Kentucky Access is hosting virtual phone banking EVERY DAY until Election Day to fight for reproductive healthcare and against a far-right amendment to ban abortion altogether in the state. Just an hour out of your day could mean reaching the voters necessary to secure reproductive healthcare for our commonwealth — national allyship could mean a world of difference for Kentuckians in this fight.

Find an hour you’re free before Election Day and commit to calling voters with Protect Kentucky Access from the comfort of your own home! You just need a computer, a phone, and a willingness to do good work.

PS — Please don't forget to sign the petition compel Marjorie Taylor Greene to testify before the January 6th committee, and be sure to follow OD Action on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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