With the Trump administration moving ahead Monday with punishing new sanctions against Iran with the goal of completely halting the country’s oil exports, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly joked about a secret White House plot to overthrow the Iranian government during a private meeting with Iranian-American “community leaders.” According to Axios, when asked last […]
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday indicted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for a “computer hacking conspiracy,” a charge some corporate talking heads and reporters immediately touted as evidence that journalism is not under threat. “Indictment of Assange charges him with hacking, not publishing, a crucial difference for First Amendment concerns,” tweeted David Lauter, Washington bureau […]
Republicans may be overplaying their hand with unflinching opposition to the Green New Deal and losing the younger generation of voters. That’s according to reporting from Politico, which found that some GOP strategists worry that the short term gain of using the public’s confusion over the policy and wariness of the cost of restructuring the economy may […]
In an unprecedented move that journalists and press freedom defenders denounced as “the most significant and terrifying threat to the First Amendment in the 21st century,” the Trump Justice Department announced Thursday that a federal grand jury charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 new counts of violating the Espionage Act. “This is no longer […]
Click:chinese lantern film prop Senate Republicans expanded their 51-seat majority on Tuesday, overcoming historic political headwinds that cost their party the House. The results in key battleground races mark a major victory for the caucus and Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote GOP senator to try to […]
GOP Florida Gov. Rick Scott is traveling to Washington, D.C., this week to participate in freshman orientation and vote in Senate Republican leadership elections, his campaign said Monday. ADVERTISEMENTThe move will have Scott in Washington participating in events as a senator-elect before he has been declared the winner of the Florida Senate race, where he is […]
Activists reiterated demands for “accountability and justice” for the people of Flint, Michigan following reports Monday that the authorities investigating the city’s water crisis executed search warrants for the state-owned cell phones of former Gov. Rick Snyder and 65 other current and former officials. “The people of Flint deserve answers,” Mary Grant, public water for […]
In a demonstration of what the Bernie Sanders campaign says makes its operation unique—”not just a campaign, but a movement”—its email list, social media team, and volunteer network was mobilized to galvanize support for a series of strikes by fast food workers taking place nationwide on Thursday. As McDonald’s held its annual shareholders meeting, workers […]
Over a dozen USDA employees stood and turned their backs on Sonny Perdue Thursday as the U.S. agriculture secretary detailed the relocation of two of the federal agency’s key research offices out of Washington, D.C. Purdue was speaking at an “all hands meeting” of employees of the two agencies in question: the Economic Research Service […]
Progressives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, continued to hammer former Vice President Joe Biden on his record and electability as the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primary prepares to take the debate stage for the first time Thursday. Ocasio-Cortez, the popular freshman congresswoman from The Bronx, said in an interview with Vogue published Wednesday that the popular view […]