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Sunday, October 1, 2023

WEEK IN REVIEW: Feinstein Dies While Congress Battles Over Budget

The Week in Review

September 30, 2023

'We Held the Line and Won': House Approves Stop-Gap Spending Bill With No Budget Cuts

Speaker Kevin McCarthy had previously said that bringing a clean spending bill to the floor would count as surrender.

September 29, 2023

Sen. Dianne Feinstein Dies at 90

California's longest-serving senator suffered a string of health crises in recent months, sparking concerns about her fitness for office and calls for her resignation.

September 28, 2023

'Top Tier Trolling': Fetterman Gifts House GOP Case of Bud Light Over Biden Impeachment Hearing

The Democrat "directed his staff to deliver a gift to the House Oversight Committee to congratulate and salute Rep. Comer and his Team America™ squad as they embark on their historic impeachment journey."

September 27, 2023

Supreme Court Could Trigger Hundreds of Billions in Corporate Tax Cuts 'With the Stroke of Pen'

A new report warns that huge tax gifts for corporations and "a $340 billion hole in the federal budget" are among the potential consequences of a case SCOTUS is set to hear in December.

September 27, 2023

'Unbelievably Cruel': GOP Pushes Astronomical Cuts to Education, Housing, and Food Aid

"The same party who provided $2 trillion tax giveaways to the wealthy wants to slash funding for WIC, devastating women and children," said Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore.

September 27, 2023

Writers' Strike Ends After Nearly Five Months as WGA Unveils Tentative Deal

"The WGA appears to have won more than analysts initially believed possible."

September 25, 2023

Senate Dems Want to Cancel All Student Lunch Debt—A 'Term So Absurd That It Shouldn't Even Exist'

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman said the aim of the bill is to "stop humiliating kids and penalizing hunger."

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Opinion

We Should Organize for a 20-Hour Work Week

The UAW demanding a 32-hour workweek, a reasonable demand that has the potential to help meet part of our current crises, and we should all be asking for more.

Alex Han

The Direct Action Wing of the US Climate Movement Is Evolving―and That’s a Good Thing

“Are you fucking serious?” one banker asked me, before trying to shoulder his way past us again. When he realized that we were, in fact, serious, he left to try and find another way into work.

Alec Connon

These Supreme Court Justices Have Personal Investments in Companies That Could Reap Billions in Upcoming Ruling

Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito stand to benefit personally from the Court's ruling in Moore vs. United States because they own stock in companies that could enjoy billions of dollars in tax cuts as a direct consequence of the decision.

Matthew Gardner

When Taking On Google’s Monopoly, Don’t Settle For Less

A trial in the Google Play monopoly case could be an opportunity to compel Google to stop its anticompetitive practices through court order.

Maria Langholz,Kate Oh

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Friday, December 30, 2022

Fugitive sex-trafficker busted after trolling Greta

OD Action is now atAdvocacy!

Trump’s tax returns to be released today after yearslong fight

Daily Dose of Democracy:

Andrew Tate arrested after his "clapback" video to Greta Thunberg gave away his location
Right-wing "manosphere" influencer Andrew Tate, a truly vile person who peddles virulent dehumanizing misogyny and "pick-up artist" manipulation tutorials online, made the mistake of getting into a spat with climate activist Greta Thunberg on Twitter yesterday. Her clapback infuriated him so much that he posted a video that accidentally exposed his location, leading to his arrest for sex trafficking and rape. It's been a huge year for self-owns by the worst people on the planet, but this one might take the cake. Rot in jail, scumbag.

Take Action: Demand the firing of the oil company execs who joked about sexually assaulting Greta Thunberg

VIDEO OF THE DAY: BREAKING: Jamie Raskin issues serious announcement
Our hearts are with Rep. Raskin in this tough time. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery!

Take Action: Tell Congress to break up Big Tech's monopolies!

Jamie Raskin issues bad news for Trump
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: About time.

US Virgin Islands sues JPMorgan Chase over Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking
Finally, the dam begins to break. Serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking network did not operate in a vacuum; his payments to recruiters and victims traveled through legitimate financial institutions like JPMorgan Chase, which curiously chose to turn a blind eye to the ultrawealthy predator's depraved activities. “JPMorgan knowingly, negligently, and unlawfully provided and pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid and was indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise,” states the lawsuit filed by the Virgin Islands. Epstein and his prominent unindicted associates used the Virgin Island of Little Saint James for sex trafficking and countless acts of sexual abuse. While the monster himself may be rotting in hell right now, all those who participated in and enabled the wide-ranging trafficking operation still walk free — and it's long past time law enforcement began holding them accountable.

Take Action: Investigate Republicans who could be constitutionally disqualified from holding office!

President Biden signs $1.7 trillion government spending bill, ensuring funding for most of 2023
The looming standoff between the White House and the feral miscreants in the GOP House majority over funding the government has been successfully punted to next September. The bill contains $773 billion for non-defense discretionary spending and $858 billion for defense spending, an outrageous disparity that should provoke outrage in any American who is tired of seeing our tax dollars funneled into the pockets of private military contractors and blood profiteers.

Take Action: Tell Congress to hold corporations accountable for price-gouging!

Recount confirms Democrat Kris Mayes won Arizona attorney general race
Mayes has emerged victorious (again) after holding a terrifyingly slim 280-vote lead, ensuring that Democrats will control one of the most important offices in the critical battleground state that also just so happens to be a hotbed of pro-Trump election denialism.

Republicans rage over White House plans to slow investigations
The Biden administration has correctly begun treating the House GOP's demands for probes into their favorite conspiracies with the contempt they deserve, announcing plans to ignore the long list of investigative requests already sent and forcing the GOP to refile all their nonsense over again. The incoming chairs for the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, Rep. James Comer and Rep. Jim Jordan, respectively, are reportedly furious — but let 'em stew.

Prosecutors, cops are using junk "911 call analysis" science to wrongfully convict
A ProPublica investigation has uncovered a bullshit, pseudo-scientific, miracle method to determine when 911 callers are guilty of the crimes they are reporting is being used in courtrooms across the country despite having absolutely no basis in reality. The tactic, which basically relies on a listener "analyzing" the cadence and word choice used in the calls, is helping prosecutors send people to jail, despite widespread agreement among researchers and actual experts who say the practice should not be used at all. The 911 call analysis method was invented by an Ohio deputy police chief with no homicide experience or scientific background, but somehow has been embraced around the country with little fanfare or announcement. Just one more mark on the black ink-soaked page of the American justice system.

Netanyahu seals comeback as he is sworn in as Israel's prime minister for the SIXTH time
Against the odds, the wildly corrupt and oppressive Binyamin Netanyahu has returned to power AGAIN like some kind of conservative herpes sore. He is presiding over a far-right wing coalition of religious extremists and unabashed racists with an agenda of escalating the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the West Bank, funneling massive subsidies to Israel's ultraorthodox faction, and reforming the judicial system in order to dismantle the country's democratic institutions — all conveniently aided and empowered by billions of dollars of US military aid.

Brazilian soccer legend Pelé dead at 82
The world mourns as the greatest soccer player to ever step onto the pitch moves on to win championships in the afterlife. Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, won his first World Cup at 17 in 1958 and would go on to win two more. A true global icon and humanitarian who helped popularize the beautiful game in the United States, he will be greatly missed.

Wall Street lobbyists are trying to stop a federal proposal designed to punish criminal banks
Amid a financial crime spree and spate of corporate convictions, federal regulators recently floated a proposed fix: strengthening an existing rule designed to bar criminal banks from managing — and profiting off — trillions of dollars of retirement funds. This, of course, prompted a freak-out on Wall Street, which dispatched its armies of lobbyists to Capitol Hill in order to keep it from facing any consequences for running retirement fund scams.