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With no clear front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, several prospective candidates are beginning to stir. The process of touching donors and activists has begun, and a Democratic Party message that is beyond simply being anti-Trump is becoming increasingly clear.
MSNBC's Joy Reid guest-hosted The Rachel Maddow Show August 31 where she essentially called President Trump a hypocrite for wanting to end DACA because he's " married to an immigran t." Lest Reid forget, DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and applies to illegal immigrant children and young adults who were under 31 in June of 2012, when the act was implemented by President Obama.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein was booed by some constituents Tuesday night when she said President Donald Trump could be a good president if he changed his approach to the job and brought the nation together. "I just hope he has the ability to learn and change, and if he can, he can be a good president," she said at a Commonwealth Club forum at the historic Herbst Theater, surprising San Franciscans used to hearing their politicians decry Trump in far more heated language.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani recently made the bold threat that Iran could restart its nuclear program in a matter of "hours" if it chose to. The remarks are the latest iteration of the Iranian regime's good cop, bad cop routine.
In what could be the first massive protest march against a court decision, more than 22,000 people rallied from Wan Chai to the Court of Final Appeal yesterday, calling for the release of the 16 jailed pro-democracy protesters.Pan-democrats and localists showed up in a united front.Led by Lester Shum Ngo-fai, a former deputy secretary general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, the march was... In what could be the first massive protest march against a court decision, more than 22,000 people rallied from Wan Chai to the Court of Final Appeal yesterday, calling for the release of the 16 jailed pro-democracy protesters.
Al Gore's advice to Trump...'resign': Former vice president tells US leader to quit over Paris climate agreement as he warns - for the second time - that humanity's greatest threat is global warming The environmental activist has long been critical of Trump, particularly for his position on climate change and his decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement Gore addressed the president while promoting his new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, a follow up to his 2006 Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The environmental activist has long been critical of Trump, particularly for his position on climate change and his decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement earlier this year.
ACLU Will No Longer Defend Hate Groups Protesting With Firearms - Executive director says violence and guns at Charlottesville rally spurred new stance - The American Civil Liberties Union, taking a tougher stance on armed protests, will no longer defend hate groups seeking to march with firearms
Benjamin Louis Cardin Federal anti-BDS legislation - Common sense and constitutional Top Dem: Privatizing Afghanistan War would be 'affront' to US troops Open record laws should apply to private prisons, too MORE Rob Portman The fight to protect the Affordable Care Act isn't over GOP senators rally to McConnell's defense amid Trump attacks Sex trafficking bill would make the internet a wasteland MORE of Ohio introduced a bill in the Senate, the " Israel Anti-Boycott Act ." A similar bill was placed before the House of Representatives.
" The Latest on a lawsuit that says teenagers accused of gang affiliations are being illegally detained : A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice is defending the detention of immigrant teenagers over allegations of gang affiliation. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Friday claiming some teens who entered the United States under the unaccompanied-children program are being illegally detained.
Officials at the Department of Agriculture are telling employees at the agency to use terms such as "weather extremes" when referring to "climate change," The Guardian reported Monday. Bianca Moebius-Clune, a director of foil health at the Natural Resources Conservation Service , told employees at the USDA to replace terms referring to global warming with more vanilla terms such as "weather extremes," according to a series of emails the outlet obtained.
It was in the early 1970s at Tuscaloosa's Holiday Inn. As Drake, a young civil rights attorney, walked into the governor's hotel room, it became clear to him that Wallace had seen his face before, though the two had never met.
Gore's 'Inconvenient Sequel' is all about Al Former veep returns to climate-change debate a decade after his Oscar-winning original Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/2w9evXy "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's global-warming polemic from 2006, may have won an Academy Award, but it was hardly the best documentary of that year. When I reviewed it, I called it "a three-star movie about a five-star slide show."
A court ruling that forbids police officers in Massachusetts from holding a person based solely on a federal immigration detainer request is prompting calls for action from across the political spectrum on Beacon Hill. A closer look at the ruling, which the American Civil Liberties Union said was the first of its kind in the U.S., and what might happen next: The original case focused on Sreynuon Lunn, 32, who was born in a Thai refugee camp to Cambodian parents fleeing the Khmer Rouge and brought to the United States as a 7-month-old.
There is a Senate bill, along with a companion bill in the House, working its way through Congress with strong bipartisan support, that poses a significant danger to free speech. One would think this bill would be a big deal but, surprisingly, the bill has not received much coverage in the mainstream media.
This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Al Gore in "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power." This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Al Gore in "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power."
Both sides in the abortion fight raging in Kentucky agree on one thing: The stakes are as high as ever in a state that could become the first in the nation without an abortion clinic. Political pressure has intensified since the Kentucky GOP took control of state government and moved quickly to pass new restrictions on abortions.
Donald Trump is one of a new breed of leaders around the world who seek to use their democratic mandate to undermine the rule of law, the head of a legal and human rights watchdog said on Wednesday. Branding the U.S. president an "authoritarian populist", Saman Zia-Zarifi, secretary-general of the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists , compared him to the leaders of Turkey, the Philippines, Hungary and Venezuela.
Editor's note: Tikkun's media ally TomDispatch.com has produced another valuable analysis, this time in the form of a dystopian forecast of what might be coming by 2050. Below is how its editor Tom Engelhardt introduces this scary yet sadly realistic vision.
The special election in June 2017 for Georgia's 6th congressional district made national headlines. The Democratic establishment poured over $23 million into Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff's campaign to try to flip the traditionally Republican district.