During a CNN interview on Wednesday, Florida Rep. Matt Caldwell (R) couldn’t explain why Florida Republicans refused to even discuss implementing an assault weapons ban on Tuesday — the same day the state’s Republican-controlled House declared pornography to be a public health crisis. “Representative Caldwell, why is pornography a bigger health risk than semi-automatic weapons […]
The evidence is now overwhelming that natural gas is not part of the climate solution, it is part of the problem. A new study finds that the methane escaping from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industry “causes the same near-term climate pollution as 11 coal-fired power plants.” And that is “five times higher than what oil and gas companies report” to […]
Unions representing tens of thousands of workers at Disney World filed a federal unfair labor complaint against the company Monday, alleging that it withheld $1,000 bonuses from unionized workers during contract negotiations to convince employees to take lower wages. In January, the Walt Disney Company announced it would provide 125,000 employees with a cash bonus of […]
For the past 1,040 days, Amy Brown has gotten up, gone to work, come home, and cooked dinner with bottled water. She has used bottled water to brush her teeth, to wash her dishes, to give to her two young children to drink. In 2015, Brown and hundreds of other families across North Carolina received […]
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the scene of a deadly school shooting last week that left 17 dead, met with Florida lawmakers this week to lobby for tighter gun laws. At the same time, thousands of their peers began staging school walkouts in solidarity, saying they no longer feel safe in their classrooms. […]
South Carolina law enforcement officials have opened an investigation into emails that were sent to state lawmakers in support of a mega-merger between Dominion Energy and utility company SCANA Corp. Many of these emails — all based on the same template — used the names and addresses of people without their knowledge. The industry group […]
The website advertising an NRA-branded Visa credit card issued by First National Bank of Omaha disappeared on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after ThinkProgress reported the bank’s support of the gun lobby. The bank is one of 22 companies that the NRA uses to promote its membership by touting discounts and special offers. On Tuesday, […]
The website advertising an NRA-branded Visa credit card issued by First National Bank of Omaha disappeared on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after ThinkProgress reported the bank’s relationship of the gun lobby. The bank is one of 22 companies that the NRA uses to promote its membership by touting discounts and special offers. On Tuesday, […]
In the wake of last week’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, scores of students began rallying in support of stricter gun control measures, many of them citing the tragic deaths of their classmates as motivation for them to speak out. Now, those same survivors are being forced to push back against claims by […]
In the wake of last week’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, scores of students began rallying in support of stricter gun control measures, many of them citing the tragic deaths of their classmates as motivation for them to speak out. Now, those same survivors are being forced to push back against claims by […]
A New York congressman this week proposed a bill to allow the federal government to revoke the citizenship of naturalized U.S. citizens within ten years if they are involved in gang activity. The bill, “Protecting our Communities from Gang Violence Act of 2018,” would strip citizenship from people affiliated with a criminal gang either ten […]
A Bahraini human rights activist has been sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday for tweeting critical statements about Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes on Yemen and saying that Bahrain tortures prisoners. Reuters reports that Nabeel Rajab, who has been in and out of prison in the Gulf Arab Kingdom for years now, was convicted on […]
Poor families in Wisconsin will soon get kicked off of food stamps and evicted from their public housing under a package of laws passed Tuesday by the state Senate. Gov. Scott Walker (R) pushed state lawmakers to double down on his previous tweaks to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and other safety net systems. […]
CNN will host a town hall on gun violence Wednesday night featuring students, parents, and community members impacted by the school shooting in Parkland, Florida last week — as well as National Rifle Association spokesperson Dana Loesch. An unusual change in tactics for the NRA, which generally remains fairly quiet in the weeks after a […]
The unifying principle of the right-wing smear campaign against the student survivors of the Parkland massacre is that they are puppets of larger, nefarious forces. The attacks first gained prominence on Monday on the pro-Trump blog Gateway Pundit which claimed, without any evidence, that student David Hogg was a pawn of the FBI and was “merely […]
Pennsylvania state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R), who chairs the House State Government Committee, attacked the survivors of last week’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida for speaking out against gun violence, questioning whether they are really students and dismissing their attempts to influence policy. In Facebook and Twitter posts on Wednesday morning Metcalfe noted that he enlisted at […]
While hawking upward of $1 billion in luxury condos in India, Donald Trump Jr. complimented poor people living in the country for their smiles, saying there’s “something unique” about them. Speaking during an event hosted by CNBC’s India affiliate, Trump Jr. said, “I think there is something about the spirit of the Indian people that is […]
Third-party debt collectors are using the threat of jail to scrape cash out of millions of people, in flagrant violation of the Constitution and numerous laws banning the use of debtors’ prisons, a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union shows. Worse, the companies are getting a huge assist from both judges and prosecutors […]
Political hopeful and candidate for the Ohio state legislature Rachel Crooks, who has accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, called on Trump to release video footage from the day the alleged incident occurred outside an office at Trump Tower in New York City. Crooks called Trump’s bluff Tuesday after the president claimed in a […]
Conspiracy theories claiming that the students who survived the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida last week are “crisis actors” have spread like wildfire across social media platforms — despite the repeated promises of Big Tech to crack down on fake news. The baseless theories — one of which has gotten more than 110,000 shares on […]
Over the past 20 years, dozens of housing authorities across the country have been allowed to skirt federal regulations and were given extra discretion in how they spend millions in federal funds through an experimental low-income housing program. Under the watchful eye of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 39 housing authorities created […]
Not even a week has passed since Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was the site of one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, but lawmakers in Florida have already demonstrated their complete unwillingness to tackle the issue of gun control. On Tuesday afternoon, the state House of Representatives voted down a measure to […]
It’s been five months since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, and as of Monday, some 400,000 people on the island are still without power. The blackout is considered the longest in U.S. history. Now, recovery efforts are faced with a new hurdle as Puerto Rico’s power company struggles to find the money to keep operating. […]
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders began the question-and-answer part of Tuesday’s press briefing by claiming that President Trump does now in fact acknowledge that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Minutes later, however, Sanders backtracked and criticized the FBI for wasting time and resources investigating a “hoax.” The first question Sanders faced was about […]
It was the warmest December on record in the Arctic, and 2018 has already set a string of records for lowest Arctic sea ice. Unfortunately for America and the rest of the planet, the best science makes clear that what happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. “We long ago anticipated that warming […]
