Kansas Saves Kansas From Brownback
Lawmakers rolled back Gov. Sam Brownback's signature tax policy over his objections Tuesday night, forcing into law tax increases to fix a budget shortfall and provide more money for schools.
Category Archives: Liberal Political News
The Clinton Rules, A Story In Three Tweets
This is actually worse than false equivalence, because the Times story on Clinton and Russia was a big nothingburger - Clinton didn't make the deal, she didn't have the authority to veto the deal, and there's no evidence she intervened with the president to get him to approve the deal In addition to the Clinton Rules, Lipton presumably is also downplaying the major Forbes story because he's pissy that he got scooped. The reaction of the reporter who spent the 2016 campaign eating the NYT's lunch is instructive: Such an incredible story by @forbes , deconstructing how the @EricTrumpFdn was apparently used to funnel $ back to the Trump org.
Trump’s Saudi ‘Arms Deal’ Was ‘Fake News’ – He Piggybacked On Obama Again
This story, however, is about how the so-called president lied and profited from doing what he does best, re-branding something other people did with his name. Bruce Reidel at Brookings: Last month, President Trump visited Saudi Arabia and his administration announced that he had concluded a $110 billion arms deal with the kingdom.
NRATV uses London attack to push for more guns, all but ignores Orlando mass shooting
The National Rifle Association's news outlet NRATV used Saturday night's terror attack in London to push a variety of conservative and pro-Second Amendment talking points, including calling for surveilling mosques and arming British citizens. Seven people were killed in London on June 3 , after three assailants used a vehicle to run into pedestrians on the London Bridge and then got out of the van to attack other victims with knives in nearby Borough Market.
Seeds of Fascism Sprout Anew in Trump’s America
"It got me thinking that nations, like people, can be changed very quickly according to how they are led," writes Greenway. Watching Donald Trump on TV whipping up his base of supporters at a rally in Harrisburg, Pa., I had a sudden feeling I had seen this all before.
Yet another study shows that – surprise! – ‘abstinence-only’ sex education just doesn’t work
Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But... High teen pregnancy rates are usually associated with lower levels of education and poverty.
UK Prof On Trump’s London Attack Tweets: ‘Were You Genetically Engineered To Be Stupid?’
A professor in the United Kingdom suggested on Sunday that President Donald Trump had been "genetically engineered" to be "stupid". In a tweet early Sunday morning, Trump linked a Saturday terrorist attack in London to the gun safety debate in the United States.
EPA chief exaggerates growth of coal jobs by tens of thousands
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to the media at the White House on June 2, 2017, about President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate agreement. CREDIT: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt made the Sunday morning talk show rounds in an effort to defend President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate accord.
The Supreme Court just made it easier to get away with gerrymandering
The Supreme Court handed down a brief order on Monday affirming a lower court's ruling that North Carolina's state legislative maps were an illegal racial gerrymander . That sounds like good news for advocates who oppose the maps drawn by the Republican-controlled legislaturea S-a Sbut the decision could actually encourage state lawmakers to attempt more gerrymandered maps in the future.
Trump undermines White House messaging, labels Muslim ban a ban
President Donald Trump, joined by first lady Melania Trump, pauses as he speaks during the Ford's Theatre Annual Gala at the Ford's Theatre in Washington, Sunday, June 4, 2017.
Trump Follows Previous U.S. Presidents Who Have Undermined Climate Action
President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement follows the path of previous presidents who have undermined international climate agreements. We disagree with Trump but it is important to understand his actions in the context of the history of the United States regarding previous climate agreements.
How Trump Would Have Responded to the London Attacks If He Were Normal
I was devastated to learn that so many people were killed or wounded on London Bridge Saturday night. The special relationship between my country and the United Kingdom is such that your pain is our pain.
Resist the Duopoly: Because Judas’s Party Can’t Defeat Trump’s
Author's Note: This is the second and final part of my call-to-arms series "The REAL Trump Resistance: An Anti-Duopoly Occupy." Given the importance I attach to its message, it's written to be understood on its own.
The Most Overrated Traitor in Defense of Slavery
The strangest part about the continued personality cult of Robert E. Lee is how few of the qualities his admirers profess to see in him he actually possessed. Memorial Day has the tendency to conjure up old arguments about the Civil War.
my white privileged poetry
He was born and raised in The Bronx, and now makes his home in the South Carolina Low-country with his wife and nine children.
Naked
Take us people, tear us asunder, tell us you're making us great. Build up your walls, your legacy of hate.
A Time to Seek
There will not always be happiness in life, and despite what any yogi, guru, or spiritual master might profess, there will be times of stress, suffering, sadness, and sorrow; so it goes. But there can be cultivated a place of perfect peace in the inward spaces of the heart, mind, and spirit; and so, no matter how the sky may storm or the waters rage, there will remain a safe haven of shelter to offer solace.
Arcanum XII: after Osip Mandelstam
Stefanie Bennett has published several books of poetry, a libretto, and a novel, and has poems appear in Shot Glass Journal, Poetic Diversity, The Fib Review, The Galway Review + others. She has tutored at The Institute of Modern Languages [Cook University] and worked with Arts Action For Peace.
Assemblage of Deception
The infernal congregation melts as a raven lands upon the steeple. Midnight madness mocks the pious hooded ones dance an eerie shuffle.
When I Grow Upa
When I grow up I wanna be bear hugs and hundred watt smiles for family, comrades and friends- Easy to figure out: come correct- Or, not at all When I grow up I wanna be like the keystone state son of a Fighting Miner, in major-music theory- teaching poly-rhythmic Resistance, asking: "How do you keep the music playing, How do you make it last?" When I grow up I wanna be like the Quaker State son of a Fighting Miner, in major-allowing Resistance and the Organizer in my DNA to Lead the waya When I grow up I wanna be like the Warrior jousting windmills in front of the War House, Picketing for the Love of his Life-rain, sleet, or snow- Or sauna; showing, Not telling, the rulers, "Let my Peoples' Lawyer go!" Ain't that lovin' you, baby? When I grow up I wanna be like the cat not above crashing in airports, to Visit his Valentine shackled to the 17th century, deep in the heart of a Texas ... (more)