House Speaker Paul Ryan snubbed his Wisconsin constituents during the President’s Day congressional recess, refusing to hold even a single town hall. Local activists appeared at his office in Racine to demand a meeting. Others placed a tongue-in-cheek missing person advertisement on… Read More ›
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New York Times Promises Truth and Diversity, Then Hires Climate-Denying Anti-Arab White Guy
Following Donald Trump’s election, The New York Times promised its readers that it would aggressively pursue truth and challenge power in the days and months ahead. Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and executive editor Dean Baquet wrote an open letter to readers… Read More ›
“Mother of All Bombs” Never Used Before Due to Civilian Casualty Concerns
Fulfilling Donald Trump’s campaign promise to “bomb the shit” out of ISIS, the Pentagon dropped the “mother of all bombs” — one of its largest non-nuclear munitions — for the first time on Thursday, in Afghanistan. The 21,600 pound weapon… Read More ›
Trump 90 Days Ago: “My People Will Have a Full Report on Hacking Within 90 Days!”
Exactly 90 days ago — on Friday, January 13 — Donald Trump, then president-elect, issued a series of tweets attacking the claims in former British MI6 officer Christopher Steele’s “dossier” that the Russian government had long been “cultivating, supporting and assisting” Trump. Trump… Read More ›
Lawmakers Who Championed Repeal of Web Browsing Privacy Protections Raked in Telecom Campaign Cash
The two lawmakers most responsible for rolling back landmark internet browsing privacy protections were richly rewarded by telecommunication giants. Congress voted last month to repeal privacy rules written by the Obama administration to prevent internet service providers from harvesting and selling users’… Read More ›
Some Populist! Trump Caves to Big Business in Epic “Bank of Boeing” Flip-Flop.
The Export-Import Bank is a big corporate welfare program that likes to keep a low profile. But in the past few years, the anti-establishment Republicans of the House Freedom Caucus and a handful of progressive Democrats including Bernie Sanders turned it into… Read More ›
Contractor Whose Business Model Is Price Gouging the Pentagon Has Powerful Wall St. Backers
On March 21, first-term Congressman Ro Khanna sent a letter asking the Pentagon’s inspector general to investigate TransDigm, an aerospace supplier he accused of cornering the market on proprietary parts for military aircraft and then jacking up the prices. The… Read More ›
A Federal Reserve Bank Ignored Insider Trading Investigation When Re-Appointing Its President
New documents obtained by a Federal Reserve watchdog group suggest that the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’s board of directors may have known that its president was under federal investigation when the board re-appointed him to a new term. That… Read More ›
Terrorism Smear Campaign Against Democratic Contender for Congress Run By Saudi Lobbyist
A Republican Super PAC has paid for a television ad attacking Democrat Jon Ossoff — one of the leading candidates in an April 18 special election to fill the House seat for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District — for producing video content for Al Jazeera…. Read More ›
Minnesota is Trying to Crush Black Lives Movement Highway Protests, A Tactic Activists Have Used for Decades
Minnesota’s House of Representatives voted on Monday to stiffen penalties for protesters who block traffic on highways and other roadways. The move was seen as a response to recent highway blockades in the state utilized by Black Lives movement demonstrators to protest the police… Read More ›