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George Bush brought out the ugly in America (overall true, though I actually do/did give give him credit for sometimes minimizing it, too). No rose colored memories of those days, but they're going to look like summer at Happy Hippie Camp compared to the next few years.
Pink pussycat hats, sparkly signs, color-coordinated street theater - all of it is gleefully in the works for the upcoming Women's March on Washington on Jan. 21. And that scares me a little. Because all of this well-intentioned, she-power frippery can make this thing more Lilith Fair than Lilly Ledbetter.
After debating seven hours through the night, the Senate voted early Thursday to take the first real step toward repealing Obamacare -- a top goal of congressional Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump. Senators voted 51-48 to approve a budget resolution that Republicans will use as a vehicle to speed through repeal of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
Team owner Dean Spanos has announced that the NFL's Chargers are moving from San Diego to Los Angeles, becoming the second franchise in a city that had none for decades. Spanos had until Jan. 17 to exercise an option to move.
Unfortunately, Jacobin is increasing the number of articles it publishes that effectively take right-wing cultural critiques of liberals and apply them from the nominal left. First we had the evils of Meryl Streep .
In his first news conference as president-elect, Donald Trump dismissed reports alleging collusion between his team and Russia and announced how he will distance himself from his businesses.
This week's confirmation hearings have provided a platform for Democrats to attack President-elect Trump's more controversial statements and push Cabinet nominees to disagree with him on key points.
It's about time America has a president who will stand up to those greed-headed corporate executives who keep hauling our middle-class jobs out of country. Bring those jobs back home, Donald Trump bellowed, or I'll slap you with a huuuge tariff when you try to sell your foreign-made products here.
In one of the futile demonstrations that marked the run-up to the Iraq war, I saw a woman with a sign that read "How Did Our Oil End Up Under Their Sand?" In nine words she managed to sum up a great deal of American foreign policy, back at least as far as the 1953 coup that overthrew Mossadegh in Iran and helped toss the Middle East into its still-boiling cauldron. If the Senate approves Rex Tillerson after his testimony on Wednesday, they'll be continuing in that inglorious tradition - in fact, they'll be taking it to a new height, and cutting out the diplomats who have traditionally played the middleman role.
A man and eight justices of the Supreme Court walk into a bar that sells $1 beer . But that's the price only if the man uses a credit card; if he pays cash, it's 95 cents.
Sen. Jeff Sessions speaks before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on Jan. 10. The Select Committee on Benghazi has closed up shop. The FBI has found no new emails to change its conclusion that there was not a winnable case against Hillary Clinton over her use of a private server.
I will hopefully have something longer about this soon, but the conflicts within the Republican Senate conference identified by Chait and Kliff are worthy of immediate discussion. The battle to preserve the most important elements of the ACA is far from over and will require a lot of work.
"He who desires or proposes to change the form of government in a state . . . must needs retain at least the shadow of its ancient customs, so that institutions may not appear to its people to have been changed, though in point of fact the new institutions may be radically different from the old ones.
As Breitbart.com prepares to export its brand of anti-establishment xenophobia to Germany, the website has come under fire for a false report suggesting that a "mob" of 1,000 Muslims tried to burn down a German church. Breitbart London's editor-in-chief has now responded to critics with a 2,300-word rant that does not meet the laugh test.
The Department of Justice, which represents the Corps, filed a similar motion. After initially supporting the Army Corps against the Tribe's earlier litigation about the pipeline, DAPL shifted its position to sue the Corps in November of 2016, arguing that it had all the permissions it required in order to complete the pipeline across Lake Oahe.
Statements of Public Citizen Experts on Elizabeth Warren's Legislation to Combat the President-Elect and Vice President-Elect's Financial Conflicts of Interest Note: Today, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced the ''Prevention of Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act of 2017.' ' The legislation seeks to require the president to sell all assets that would create a financial conflict of interest.
On Tuesday, January 10, at a public stakeholder meeting convened by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration , registered nurse members of National Nurses United -from states around the country-will demand that OSHA promptly pass regulations to prevent workplace violence in healthcare settings. "Registered nurses urge OSHA to act immediately to help protect nurses and all healthcare workers, as well as patients and families, from violence in healthcare settings-a serious problem for far too long," said Jean Ross, a Minnesota registered nurse and co-president of National Nurses United.
Reprieve's London office can be contacted on: communications [at] reprieve.org.uk / +44 207 553 8140. Reprieve US , based in New York City, can be contacted on Katherine [dot] oshea [at] reprieve.org International human rights organization Reprieve, which represents detainees at Guantanamo Bay, has urged President Obama to take steps to close the prison ahead of the 15th anniversary of its opening .
After Meryl Streep gave her speech at the 2017 Golden Globes on Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump called her a "Hillary lover" in an interview with The New York Times. Remember last year's hashtag-fueled protest - #OscarsSoWhite - decrying the lack of diversity at Hollywood's most hyped awards show? On Sunday night, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association showed up the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by rewarding a wider range of talent at the 2017 Golden Globes.
The Resistance Against Trumpism Begins; Why a Mild-Mannered College Prof Is Considering Civil Disobedience It's our first show since the holidays, and we want to wish everyone a happy New Year! Hopefully 2017 will suck less than last year. This week, we'll be joined by progressive organizer extraordinaire Billy Wimsatt to talk about the emerging resistance to the Trump regime, and the white nationalist movement that put it into office.