Month: September 2020

In response to a recent move by the Republican-controlled FCC to roll back net neutrality, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order on Wednesday to make New York the second state this week to ensure the consumer protections. Paired with action taken by Montana on Monday, the orders to preserve net neutrality are being…

A day after French President Manuel Macron claimed that western governments have “proof” that a chemical weapon was used in the Syrian city of Douma last week and that it was deployed by the Syrian government of President Bashar Al-Assad, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday claimed his government possesses “irrefutable data” that the…

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Democrats in New York flipped a New York Assembly seat on Tuesday, winning a seat that has been in GOP hands for nearly four decades. Click Here: cheap sydney roosters jersey Democrat Steve Stern, a former Suffolk County legislator, beat out Republican Janet Smitelli in the 10th Assembly District, a Long Island seat, with 59 percent…

Businessman Mike Braun has won the Indiana GOP primary, vanquishing two sitting congressmen in what became one of the nastiest primaries in the country. Braun’s victory over GOP Reps. Todd RokitaTheodore (Todd) Edward RokitaBottom Line Lobbying world Female Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations MORE and Luke MesserAllen (Luke) Lucas MesserK Street giants scoop up…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE on Thursday expressed optimism about the Republican Party’s poll numbers as the GOP erases deficits in a number of…

Months after his party failed to pass deeply unpopular legislation that would have taken healthcare from tens of millions of Americans, President Donald Trump on Monday launched an attack on “universal healthcare” that misleadingly attempted to use ongoing protests in the United Kingdom as proof that publicly-funded systems don’t work. In reality, thousands marched in…

Despite opposition from much of his entire cabinet and warnings that imposing strict tariffs on steel imports would likely harm many American workers while sparking a trade war, President Donald Trump on Thursday decided to go ahead with the punishing import restrictions anyway—just days after the steel industry launched a massive ad blitz aired on…

A group of 13 youths just filed a lawsuit against the State of Washington’s for breaching its constitutional and Public Trust obligations. Why? Failure to act on climate change. “I feel hopeful because of this lawsuit, like grass tips emerging from thawing snow.”In their suit (pdf), filed Friday in King County Superior Court, the plaintiffs,…

Trump has tapped CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to replace outgoing CIA Director Mike Pompeo, after Pompeo was named to succeed Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. Haspel was directly involved in the CIA’s torture program under George W. Bush. She was responsible for running a secret CIA black site in Thailand in 2002 where…