People w/ Electric Cars aren’t trapped in Miami Beach with no Gasoline
Some people in South Florida are finding it difficult to flee Irma because they cannot fill their tanks up with gasoline. Many gas stations are shuttered.
Category Archives: Liberal Political News
Sessions, Not Trump, Announces End of DACA
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the Trump administration has terminated the Obama-era program that offered temporary legal status to young unauthorized immigrants, saying it was the "compassionate" thing to do. "We are a people of compassion and we are a people of law," Sessions said.
Public Health: Dream of Obamacare Replacement Fades to Bipartisan Patch Job
This week, the Senate will do something it hasn't done in seven years: hold bipartisan hearings on the future of the Affordable Care Act. Serious and creative ideas will be presented.
Gaza: Over 1 million children in ‘unlivable’ circumstances
Over a million children in Gaza are living in impoverished circumstances due to electricity shortages, causing problems for public health and education, warned Save the Children on Tuesday. The international NGO says Israel's ongoing land, air and sea blockade of Gaza, which has been in place since 2007, is the primary cause of the electricity shortages.
David Brooks Blames Al Gore For GOP Climate Change Denial
How can America's Most Ubiquitous Conservative Public Intellectual possibly explain how his Republican Party's position on climate change went from this -- Was it perhaps due to the concerted effort and billions of dollars spent by the moguls of oil and coal to set up a vast web of climate denial front groups and think tanks? To buy political campaigns? To underwrite right wing hacks on radio and teevee? DAVID BROOKS: Climate change, in the way it wasn't 20 years ago, it's a total partisan issue now. DAVID BROOKS: I happen to think he had some positive effects with the movement.
The Union Was the Only Friend He Had
So many offenses against human decency, so little time. Just in time for Labor Day, we note the "death by a thousand cuts" that are curbs, stalls, rollbacks and " staggering " assaults on workers' rights and protections - many engineered by so-called labor officials who turn out to be racists, oligarchs or brazenly anti-union crusaders whose credentials come from conservative Christian correspondence courses, so we know just how good they are.
Tomi Lahren Offers To ‘Wrap’ The Clinton Email Scandal In…
On her first day as a Fox News contributor, Tomi Lahren made a complete fool of herself. Within minutes of insisting that it's an important public interest to get FBI files on Hillary Clinton's emails, Lahren offered to ditch the whole "scandal" in exchange for others dropping Russia coverage.
Pretty Clearly All About Supporting the Troops
Cleveland's police union will not be holding the American flag for a pregame ceremony for the Brown's first game Sept. 10, Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Steve Loomis said late Friday.
Let’s Politicize Everything
If there's one thing NASA needs, it's the agency's first politician to lead it, a guy who wants to privatize space travel and doesn't seem to believe in climate change. Yep, that will work out well.
Trump To Respond With Fire And Fury Against North Korea’s Next Threat – REALLY This Time
Three weeks ago, Donald Trump issued a frightening warning that, if North Korea issued just one more threat against the United States or its allies, he would launch a vicious military attack, and then North Korea would be sorry. Trump's words were: "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States.
ABC News Ignores Ted Cruz’s Behavior During Sandy Relief To Ask About His Feelings On Harvey
Martha Raddatz, host of ABC's This Week , spent most of her interview time in Houston with Texas senator Ted Cruz deliberating on North Korea's bomb test, but when it came time to discuss Hurricane Harvey, she only asked about his feelings . Raddatz asked, "We are getting to a huge segment on Houston and the flooding.
Walter Becker RIP
I've gained more appreciation for Steely Dan over the years, especially the Aja album, which my wife and I started listening to when we read about how local legend Steve Gadd plays on it. Walter Becker RIP .
Trump Simulates Empathy In Photo Op Trip To Houston
President Trump helps distribute meals and takes pictures with storm victims at a hurricane relief center in Houston https://t.co/qRUgeO1g0H AP: Houston ultra-polluted Superfund sites are flooded, raising concerns about toxins. But the EPA is not on scene.
Firefighter Prophet: Illuminati Is Changing Our DNA To Make Us Hate Trump
This explains so much --it's the Illuminati and the Freemasons, up to their old tricks! Via Right Wing Watch , this important interview "firefighter prophet" and right-wing conspiracy theorist Mark Taylor, author of "The Trump Prophecies," on Sheila Zilinsky's radio program: "I believe what happened on November 8 is the enemy has literally sent out a frequency," Taylor said, "and it agitated and took control, basically, of those who have their DNA that was turned over to the enemy. That's what's happening.
Trump Jr.’s $100,000 speaking gig bankrolled by corporate tax lobbyists
Donald Trump Jr. will be paid $100,000 to for a 30-minute speech at the University of North Texas. The contract, signed as his father launches an aggressive effort to remake the tax code, was brokered and bankrolled by a firm that specializes in helping major corporations avoid paying taxes.
Beyond Charlottesville: Can we End Structural Violence against People of Color?
The importance of opposing the resurgence of emboldened KKK, Neo-Nazis and other hate-filled white supremacists that were on display in Charlottesville cannot be easily underestimated. Equally, if not more urgent, however, is the need to take advantage of the national disgust of hate groups by pivoting the public's outrage toward our system of structural violence that harms many, many more people of color than do the hate groups.
Arabs, Thomas Friedman and the “iron fist”
Writing about conflicts in the Middle East for the New York Times yesterday, columnist Thomas Friedman talked of "the power that is lost to a society like Syria or Iraq that needs an iron fist to make its many into one, and when that fist is removed, how the society fractures into small shards". Once every few months, Tom Friedman writes a racist screed about how Arabs need an "iron fist" or "big stick" or some other phallic object pic.twitter.com/HkctofothZ Greenwald does have a point.
Mike Pence Laughingly Says Trump Will Deal With DACA Issue With His ‘Big Heart’
Commenting on the news that Trump plans to end President Obama's DACA program, VP Pence gave ABC News his usual mealy mouthed defense of Trump, saying, "he'll make it with, as he likes to say, big heart." "They shouldn't be very worried.
Must Watch: Satellite ‘Full Track’ Of Harvey Shows A Wicked Triple Storm
Watching the time-lapsed satellite feed from 7 PM August 24 through 4:30 PM August 31....is an education. Many local communities around the country are doing fundraisers for victims of this terrible storm, often sponsored by local newspapers, radio stations, and other media.
Late Night Adventure Tales: “I Was a Mercenary. Trust Me: Erik…
Is there a rationale for having contractors play this role instead of U.S. troops other than "Erik Prince runs a contracting company"? pic.twitter.com/aPyVmw0IpD For the past year, Erik Prince has been peddling an idea that should alarm anyone who has followed his career: We should replace U.S. troops in Afghanistan with mercenaries, preferably his The generals laughed at Prince, and thankfully the president went with the non-mercenary option. But Prince refuses to disappear, excoriating the generals in a recent op-ed for The New York Times , and pushing again for mercenaries, suggesting "it is not too late to alter the course."