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Category Archives: Liberal Political News
Today in Bullshit
On Thursday, Tucker Carlson's horseshit chronicle and carnival sideshow hosted a Stoneman-Douglas student, Colton Haab, who claimed that his question for the CNN town hall was re-written by CNN. His father produced emails supposedly documenting this fact.
Software company cuts ties with the NRA
A software company that previously advertised a free trial to National Rifle Association members told ThinkProgress it has asked the NRA to remove the offer from its website. Teresa Zimmerman, director of marketing for Personify Corp, Wild Apricot's parent organization, said late Friday that she has asked the NRA to remove Wild Apricot from the gun lobby's website.
Why the Common Good Disappeared
Friends, Now, more than ever, independent journalism has become the last firewall against government and corporate lies. Yet, with frightening regularity, independent media sources are losing funding, closing down or being blacked out by Google and Facebook.
A Wave of Corporate Propaganda Is Boosting Trump’s Tax Cuts
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New Study on Air Pollution Shows How Environmental Injustice Runs Rampant Across the Nation
Friends, Now, more than ever, independent journalism has become the last firewall against government and corporate lies. Yet, with frightening regularity, independent media sources are losing funding, closing down or being blacked out by Google and Facebook.
Neil Gorsuch is about to pay back the people who got him a sweet job in Washington
Two years ago, many public sector unions were on a collision course with the Angel of Death. All five Republicans on the Supreme Court appeared ready to cut off a major source of union funding and encourage public employees to become free-riders who enjoy all the benefits of unionization without paying for it.
Renewables, not natural gas, were main driver behind drop in U.S. power sector emissions in 2017
The growth of clean energy in 2017 was one for the record books: Last year was the first time a reduction in U.S. power sector carbon emissions could be attributed more to renewable energy and energy conservation than the nation switching from coal to natural gas to generate electricity. Carbon emissions from the power sector dropped 4.2 percent in 2017, this time on the back of declining load and greater renewable generation, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance .
Global human rights are under siege in the Trump era
An era of hate-filled rhetoric and global insecurity has endangered human rights around the world, spurring an extraordinary wave of social activism. Those are the underlying findings of Amnesty International's annual State of the World's Human Rights report, released for the first time on Thursday.
Republicans AND Democrats Are Gutting the Rules on Wall Street
While millions of hard-working people lost their jobs, their homes, and their life savings, the big banks got a $700 billion no-strings-attached bailout from the American taxpayers. A bailout and nobody went to jail for causing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Billy Graham and the Gospel of Fear
"We are selling the greatest product on earth. Why shouldn't we promote it as effectively as we promote a bar of soap?" Billy Graham was a preacher man equally intent on saving souls and soliciting financial support for his ministry.
The Unwavering Principles of Mitt Romney, Man of Integritude
Willard "Mitt" Romney was able to capture the Republican nomination in 2012 in part bu running to the furthest right of the major candidates on immigration. He proudly accepted the endorsement of Donald J. Trump, the New York City real estate grifter and reality TV star who became a major figure in the Republican Party by popularizing a racist conspiracy theory about Barack Obama.
There Is No Time Left
Imagine a scenario with no temperature difference between the equator and the North Pole. That was 12 million years ago when there was no ice at either pole.
Mole Troll: ‘Hundreds’ of Russians Should Be Indicted
When Lyudmila Savchuk read the U.S. federal grand jury indictment of 13 Russians accused of interfering in the the 2016 U.S. elections and other crimes, including bank fraud and identity theft, she was disappointed. All of those named by Special Counsel Robert Mueller were connected to the Internet Research Agency, also known by its infamous sobriquet the Troll Factory.
“Commonsense Solutions”
Really one of my numerous pet peeve phrases. What should we do? Enact commonsense solutions! What are they? Well the commonsense ones! What are they? The ones I support! Because everything I support is common sense, of course, not like things those clowns to the left and those jokers to the right support! Incremental! Cautious! Commonsense! Faux-centrism will destroy us all.
Where Does #MeToo Start?
Friends, Now, more than ever, independent journalism has become the last firewall against government and corporate lies. Yet, with frightening regularity, independent media sources are losing funding, closing down or being blacked out by Google and Facebook.
The Iraq War: Fifteen Years Later
Friends, Now, more than ever, independent journalism has become the last firewall against government and corporate lies. Yet, with frightening regularity, independent media sources are losing funding, closing down or being blacked out by Google and Facebook.
Ending America’s Disastrous Role in Syria
Friends, Now, more than ever, independent journalism has become the last firewall against government and corporate lies. Yet, with frightening regularity, independent media sources are losing funding, closing down or being blacked out by Google and Facebook.
Media Fails: Not Just For Politics Anymore
Yesterday, the Czech athlete Ester Ledecka pulled off one of the most remarkable upsets in Olympic history , winning a gold medal racing in her second-best sport on skis borrowed from the great American skier Mikaela Shiffrin: As she crossed the finish line for the Olympic super-G Saturday afternoon, Ester Ledecka from the Czech Republic looked to the scoreboard, saw a massive green No. 1 next to her name and didn't believe it.
Today in the Sixth Extinction
In 1997, I was traveling in Sumatra and I ended up at this camp where they did orangutan rehabilitation for released into the wild. You could watch the morning feeding, where they left a bunch of fruit out and orangutans came from all over the place to eat it.