Having said that, I advise you not to get too excited. The first of these labor bills, introduced by Representative Jared Golden, Democrat of Maine, would restore collective-bargaining rights to all federal workers; like the defense authorization amendment, the Protect America’s Workforce Act would reverse a couple of union-busting executive orders (here and here) from […]
Read MoreSource: Win McNamee / Getty In a country where white nationalists are essentially dominating all three branches of government, and making white nationalism the law of the land again, we need more public officials, especially Black public officials, to publicly regard white supremacy as exactly what it is, and talk to it as such. So, […]
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Source: Graeme Sloan / Getty It’s bad enough that the Republican Party is hanging on for dear life to a razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives that most political experts believe will dissolve come the midterm elections, but it turns out it might be even worse than that for the MAGA-fied GOP, because House […]
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Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty Last week, it looked like the monthlong shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was set to end after the Senate passed a spending bill that funded every agency within the department except ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). House Republicans rejected that bill and instead passed one […]
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As a result, TSA workers still won’t be paid even as Americans travel for Easter this weekend, meaning that long security lines will continue at airports. On Wednesday, Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune released a joint statement saying that the House would support the Senate’s plan to fund DHS without more money for […]
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A memo from one private investigator, William Riley, to Epstein’s criminal attorney Roy Black detailed the list of “items of potential evidentiary value” that had been removed just 11 days before law enforcement raided Epstein’s home in 2005. That list included three desktop computers, dozens of telephone directories, photographs of naked women, sex toys, and […]
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Hegseth had been pushing Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll to remove the four officers for months, but given their years of exemplary service, Driscoll refused, military officials told the Times. Hegseth finally removed their names himself, likely without the legal authority to do so. As per military policy, the defense secretary is technically only supposed to […]
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Source: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers / Getty The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been shut down for nearly a month after congressional Democrats refused to approve funding for the agency. While the shutdown was caused by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) reckless mass-deportation campaign, the downstream effects have led to hours-long wait times at Transportation […]
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Source: Heather Diehl / Getty In today’s episode of Everybody Haaaaaates Kristi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has spent the last couple of days defending herself and President Donald Trump’s aggressive, chaotic, often violent and demonstrably xenophobic immigration crackdown before lawmakers in both chambers of Congress. To be fair, House Republicans were a little more […]
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