Новости за 29.03.2023

On Wednesday, President Biden kicked off his “Summit for Democracy” with a panel of explicitly undemocratic world leaders. Panel members included India’s Narendra Modi, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni.

Without being a fly on the wall in congressional offices or overpriced D.C. steakhouses, one can only imagine the precise wish list the oil and gas industry has been circulating among the politicians it funds on Capitol Hill. Based on what these corporate execs have been saying in public recently, though, Republicans’ giant new energy package, H.R. 1, would seem to check off lots of items: What the GOP has titled the “Lower Energy Costs Act” is, in fact, a giveaway to the companies profiting the... Читать дальше...

Kentucky’s Republican-led legislature on Wednesday overrode a gubernatorial veto of a massive bill targeting transgender rights, one of the most extreme anti-trans measures in the country.

Tennessee Representative Andy Ogles is learning the hard way that the internet has a long memory, as people called him out for an old Instagram post showing his infant son holding a gun.

Oklahoma Republican Markwayne Mullin seems to think Bernie Sanders is a hypocrite for attacking Starbucks because he wrote a bestselling book that made some money.

Howard Schultz (net worth of $3.7 billion) is not happy with you calling him a billionaire.

On Wednesday, the Senate voted 66–30 to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force, or AUMFs, against Iraq.

Howard Schultz admitted Starbucks violated labor law during a Wednesday hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Hundreds of people, primarily teenagers, gathered outside the Kentucky state Capitol Wednesday to protest against one of the most extreme anti-transgender rights bills in the country, which the Senate is expected to vote into law.

On Wednesday, as Howard Schultz testified in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the former Starbucks CEO couldn’t definitively say he did not threaten workers for unionizing.

Bill Lee doesn’t have plans to change Tennessee’s gun laws anytime soon, despite the fact that earlier this week, a shooter killed three children and three adults, including some of the governor’s family friends.

To appreciate the complicated links between water, energy, and food, consider the many possible careers for a single water droplet. Humans could choose to burn coal in a power plant to heat the water into steam and spin a generator. Or we could take the water from a reservoir or underground aquifer and dump it on thirsty crops, which we then feed to ourselves, or our livestock—or turn into biofuels. We could inject the water deep into the earth to cause cracks in shale rock, allowing natural gas to escape to the surface... Читать дальше...

Take practically any Democratic policy of recent years, and you can find conservatives sounding the same tune. Marco Rubio condemned Biden’s Build Back Better legislation as “Build Back Socialist,” while Glenn Beck deemed his student loan relief program “a socialist failure.” Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz called Biden’s stimulus plan “a Trojan horse for socialism,” while the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the same thing about the Green New Deal. As the historian David Austin Walsh noted a few years ago... Читать дальше...

Chris Christie thinks he knows the secret to defeating Donald Trump. Speaking in New Hampshire on Monday, the former New Jersey Governor made his best case that all it takes to bring the former president to his knees in primary combat is to be just as big a jerk as he is. Boom: It’s all straightforward from here.

The U.S. government wants to ban TikTok. President Joe Biden and his administration are pressuring lawmakers on Capitol Hill to give him the legislative authority to do so. But Congress hardly needs all the cajoling: It has already proposed three bills that would wipe out the popular Chinese-owned video app. Lawmakers have also had their opportunities to demonstrate their ferocity on this issue, with TikTok CEO Shou Chew taking the brunt of a hostile committee’s brickbats during a hearing earlier... Читать дальше...

Republican Representative Byron Donalds—the far-right’s momentary preferred House speaker choice, and one-time candidate for GOP conference chair—believes discussing gun control after yet another mass shooting is getting too “into emotion.”

Tennessee lawmakers failed two years ago to pass a red flag gun law that could have stopped the shooter who attacked a grade school in Nashville.

In the spring of 2021, Congress passed a bill to support hate crime victims and better prevent and investigate hate crimes. It passed the Senate 94-1; Josh Hawley was the only senator to vote no. Now, he wants to investigate the Nashville mass shooting as a hate crime.