New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham issued a stark warning that if Republicans in Congress and the Trump White House cut Medicaid, “People will die. Children will die.” She is joined by other Democrats who are raising the alarm about the planned cuts. Grisham was speaking from experience. When her …
Read More »Elon Musk's Regulatory Woes Are Conveniently Vanishing Under Trump
The Trump administration has been a boon for Elon Musk‘s companies’ regulatory issues. The billionaire who has run the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) responsible for gutting certain federal agencies is now enjoying less scrutiny over his businesses since Donald Trump took office, NBC News reported. An NBC News …
Read More »AOC Warns Republicans Are 'Robbing People' to Pay for Billionaire Tax Cuts
As Republicans and Democrats prepare to face off about Medicaid cuts in next week’s Energy and Commerce Committee meetings at the House of Representatives, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is vehemently speaking out against threats to Medicaid. “They’re robbing people in order to hand it over to the rich,” the progressive New …
Read More »U.K. Activists Stage Mock Funeral for 1.5°C Climate Target
As President Donald Trump continues to bow down at the altar of the fossil fuel industry and decimates federal commitments to confront the worsening climate crisis, activist groups in the United Kingdom took to the streets to grieve over losses and organize for renewed action. Today, Extinction Rebellion Cambridge and …
Read More »Trump Takes Credit for India, Pakistan Cease-Fire as Fighting Continues
President Donald Trump took credit for a cease-fire between India and Pakistan that immediately fell apart Saturday. Fighting took place across the border between the two countries soon after leaders agreed to the cease-fire, The New York Times reports. Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio …
Read More »Trump Admin Accuses Dem of 'Assaulting an ICE Agent' at Newark Detention Center
The Trump administration is investigating and considering arresting Democratic members of Congress involved in a scrum at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in New Jersey on Friday, according to a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security. Democratic New Jersey Reps. LaMonica McIver, Bonnie Watson Coleman, and Rob Menendez …
Read More »Trump Continues Poaching From Fox, Taps Host Jeanine Pirro as D.C. Prosecutor
President Donald Trump tapped Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to serve as the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. Trump announced the news after dropping his previous nomination for the position, Ed Martin. The president lauded Pirro as “a powerful crusader for victims …
Read More »Trump Says Republicans Should 'Probably Not' Tax the Rich
President Donald Trump can’t decide if taxing the ultra rich is worth it. In a Friday morning Truth Social post, the president wrote that “Republicans should probably not do it, but I’m OK if they do!!!” “The problem with even a ‘TINY’ tax increase for the RICH, which I and …
Read More »'There Is No Evidence': Judge Orders Release of Tufts Student Detained Over Op-Ed
Rümeysa Öztürk — the Tufts University PhD student who was arrested by masked federal authorities on the streets near Boston and jailed for six weeks in Louisiana after writing a pro-Palestine op-ed — has been ordered immediately released on her own recognizance by a federal judge in Vermont. “The court …
Read More »Voice of America Will Be Fed OAN's Far-Right Coverage, Says Trump Admin
Voice of America (VOA), which began broadcasting in 1942 to fight Nazi propaganda during World War II, will be fed coverage from right-wing cable network One America News (OAN), announced Kari Lake on Tuesday. Lake, the failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate who serves as thesenior adviserat the U.S. Agency for Global …
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