Month: September 2020

As communities most impacted by the climate crisis ramp up demands for urgent global action, atmospheric concentrations of the top three greenhouse gases driving global warming have hit record high levels, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) out Thursday. “Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gases, climate change will have increasingly destructive…

Self-professed neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. was convicted of first-degree murder on Friday for killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer when he intentionally drove his car into a group of counterprotesters at last year’s violent Unite the Right rally that brought scores of white supremacists to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia. The 21-year-old with ties to the…

In a Wednesday night interview with CNN‘s Chris Cuomo, President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani claimed he’s never said there wasn’t collusion between the president’s campaign and Russia—only that Trump himself did not collude—sparking an immediate public discussion of both his and Trump’s past public remarks to the contrary. “I never said there was no…

 A firestorm over comments critical of Israel by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) continued to engulf the Democratic Party and American politics over the weekend.  Omar continues to stand firm in her assertion that criticism of the Israeli occupation does not constitute anti-Semitism. And the blowback she’s received from Republicans and Democrats alike sheds light on…

More than 70 Democratic House hopefuls outraised Republican incumbents in the third quarter of 2018, according to an analysis by The Hill of newly filed fundraising reports, giving them a sharp financial edge in the final stretch of the midterms. The filings for the July to September quarter showed Democrats continued their aggressive fundraising in…

Democrat Andrew Gillum leads Republican Ron DeSantisRonald Dion DeSantisGOP tentatively decides on Jacksonville for site of convention DeSantis pushing to host Republican National Convention in Florida Florida bars and theaters to reopen starting Friday, DeSantis says MORE by 1 point in the Florida gubernatorial race, a statistically insignificant advantage, according to a new poll from St. Pete…

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has quietly reserved more than $30 million in television advertising for Democratic candidates in swing districts in the two weeks before next month’s midterm elections. The advertising spending, described by several sources watching the television marketplace, comes through Bloomberg’s Independence USA PAC. Bloomberg pledged to spend at least $80 million…

In the face of widespread and impassioned opposition from local politicians, progressive members of Congress, and ordinary New Yorkers, Amazon is reportedly having second thoughts about its plan to locate a second headquarters site in Long Island City. “Can everyday people come together and effectively organize against creeping overreach of one of the world’s biggest…

Warning that U.S. military intervention could lead to a Vietnam War-style conflict, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said that while he’s willing to open talks with opposition leaders he will not bow to the demands of foreign “imperialists” and accused the U.S. government and other right-wing forces—like was done in Iraq and elsewhere—of trying to…

Progressive voices opposed to war, meddling in the complex political conflicts of foreign nations, and concerned about the very likely negative results of yet another U.S. foreign intervention are siding with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) after he drew fire from pro-interventionist forces within the Democratic Party for his stance against regime change in Venezuela. In…