The suspicious circumstances of Sessions’ second meeting with the Russian ambassador. Forget Trump TV. Bernie Sanders has struck gold with his new Facebook Live show - Salon.com. EPA removes half of scientific board, seeking industry-aligned replacements. A Catholic Nun on What It Really Means to Be Pro-Life. The Spirit of Standing Rock on the Move. Where to next?
The Standing Rock model of resistance, its Native-led, youth-driven expertise, is moving outward to help other communities protect their land and resources. Daily Action - BONUS ACTION: Today's Daily Action will go... Gerrymandering: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) BBC World Service - Newsday, Can nations unite to tackle illegal fishing? Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook. At 10 am on a Tuesday morning in September, Babatunde Adeleye, a 33-year-old naturalized US citizen from Nigeria, arrived at the Bexar County Elections Department in San Antonio.
KING: The next Dem primary must be a robust cast of candidates. I sincerely believe Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump began long before her head-to-head matchup with him.
The Democratic primary was broken. She was so strongly viewed as the heir apparent to the nomination, and so much of the machine of the Democratic Party formed behind her early in the race, that no serious mainstream candidates from within the party felt comfortable challenging her. Political. .@BernieSanders was interviewed by @nbcbayarea tonight just after @NBCNews called the race for Clinton. 2016 Presidential Election Quiz. Trump camp concedes it's low on money. Sanders camp blasts media for 'suppressing voter turnout' Bernie Sanders' campaign manager laid into the media on Tuesday for allegedly suppressing voter turnout, ripping into news outlets' calls projecting Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee while reiterating that his candidate would pursue the nomination all the way until next month's convention.
"Let those people vote and decide before the media tells them that the race is over," Jeff Weaver told CNN. "What's the point of suppressing voter turnout in six states across the country to have a quick news hit that could easily have been done tonight? " Sanders has said that he would do well in California and five other states voting Tuesday if there is a large turnout.
.@BernieSanders camp blasts media for 'suppressing voter turnout'
GOP. Glenn Greenwald: Why the Obama Administration's Persecution of Bradley Manning Should Terrify Us All. Bradley Manning is escorted from a hearing, on January 8, 2013 in Fort Meade, Maryland.
Manning has told a military tribunal that he leaked incident logs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks in order to start a "public debate". March 5, 2013 | TomDispatch. Media Matters with Bob McChesney. Media Matters Journalist John Nichols.
Full List - Famous Republicans. Energy & Environment. An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web. The inventor of the world wide web believes an online "Magna Carta" is needed to protect and enshrine the independence of the medium he created and the rights of its users worldwide.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the Guardian the web had come under increasing attack from governments and corporate influence and that new rules were needed to protect the "open, neutral" system. Speaking exactly 25 years after he wrote the first draft of the first proposal for what would become the world wide web, the computer scientist said: "We need a global constitution – a bill of rights. " Berners-Lee's Magna Carta plan is to be taken up as part of an initiative called "the web we want", which calls on people to generate a digital bill of rights in each country – a statement of principles he hopes will be supported by public institutions, government officials and corporations.
GOP May Reap Rewards of Obama's Unpopularity in Midterms, Poll Finds. President Barack Obama and his Democratic Party are facing difficult political headwinds less than eight months before November's midterm elections, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Obama’s job-approval rating has dropped to a low point of 41 percent, never a good position for the party controlling the White House;By a 33 percent to 24 percent margin, Americans say their vote will be to signal opposition to the president rather than to signal support, though 41 percent say their vote will have nothing to do about Obama;Forty-eight percent of voters say they’re less likely to vote for a candidate who’s a solid supporter of the Obama administration, versus 26 percent who say they’re more likely to vote for that candidate;And Republicans hold a one-point edge over Democrats on which party registered voters prefer to control Congress, 44 percent to 43 percent.
“The president is being taken off the field as a Democratic positive. The loophole that allowed Dylann Roof to illegally buy a gun still hasn't been closed. Charleston Shooter Dylann Roof Bought a Gun Illegally, and He Still Could. Two months before Dylann Roof gunned down nine people at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, he went to buy a .45-caliber Glock pistol at a gun store in a rundown strip mall.
The 21-year-old should have been barred from purchasing the gun due to an earlier drug arrest. But the sale went through because of a loophole in the National Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, the FBI later said. Roof was able to buy the weapon after the investigator assigned to complete his background check wasn’t able to find his police record, which contained a confession for drug possession. Under federal law, NICS has three business days to finish vetting a gun buyer, or the sale can proceed. Here are the GOP senators who voted AGAINST treating anti-LGBT attacks as hate crimes. (via @jeisrael) Gun violence in America, in 17 maps and charts.
Since the August 9, 2014, police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, police have killed at least 1,493 people, as this map (click to view the interactive version) shows.
Fatal Encounters, a nonprofit, has tracked these killings by collecting reports from the media, public, and law enforcement and verifying them through news reports. Some of the data is incomplete, with details about a victim’s race, age, and other factors sometimes missing. It also includes killings that were potentially legally justified, and is likely missing some killings entirely. .@POTUS: "This massacre is ... a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon" Gunman in Orlando had an AR-15 assault rifle and a handgun. We need to change this ! #Orlando #guncontrol #tcot #UniteBlue #GOP #DumpTrump @JohnFugelsang.
Tulsi Gabbard launches petition to end Democratic Party superdelegate process. The Democratic presidential primary process may be ending next Tuesday, but the fight among Bernie Sanders supporters to rid the party of superdelegates and install new leadership at the Democratic National Committee is not. Hawaii Rep. How gerrymandering can change election outcomes, in one chart. How Bernie Sanders Exposed the Democrats’ Racial Rift. Donald Trump is on the verge of locking in a racial deficit within the Republican Party that GOP officials won’t overcome for at least a generation, as he systematically alienates Latinos, African-Americans and anyone worried about the powerful undercurrent of white anger on display at his rallies.
But as his racial gaffes have claimed the spotlight, far less appreciated is what has been happening in the opposing party. Democrats face their own racial split that could haunt the party well into the future if it isn’t handled properly now. Story Continued Below Though it might offend his uber-progressive supporters to hear this, the Sanders insurgency is largely a white revolution. Money For Nothing: Senate Republicans Get Paid But Work The Fewest Days In 60 Years. Elizabeth Warren 2016 American Constitution Society Speech. @JohnFugelsang @SMShow You deserve the credit see you @ Chicago Sexy Liberal. Krugman: Trump support in the primaries was strongly correlated with racial resentment. Truth and Trumpism. How will the news media handle the battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump?
Buffett calls health bill a giveaway to wealthy. MICHAEL J. de la MERCED New York Times News Service, Advocacy - Stand up for net neutrality. Newrepublic. Trump 'planning smear campaign' against Sally Yates while she testifies against administration in Russia probe. Donald Trump's administration reportedly planned to smear former deputy attorney general Sally Yates ahead of her testimony before a Senate subcommittee on his presidential campaign’s ties to Russia. In-depth news, politics, business, technology & culture. How Trump Can Show Us Whether He Was Spied On. White House Says It Didn't Interfere, But Will Russia Hearings Ever Get Going? Schumer says he has votes to filibuster Gorsuch, but at least 13 Dem senators remain on the fence. Ex-Colorado GOP head charged with voter fraud.
Helping the New Gerrymandering Standard Survive in the Supreme Court. Neil Gorsuch Is No Originalist: The Founders Loathed Corporate Power, He Favors It. Gorsuch nomination creates important test for Senate Democrats. It’s Official: Trump Wants to Kill PBS and the NEA. Trump’s Latest Cabinet Appointee Spells Doom for Medicare - Talk Poverty. Politicians aiming to cut Social Security and Medicare use weasel words to hide their plans. Let's call them on it. Poll: 4 in 10 support impeaching Trump. Trump to order regulatory rollback Friday for finance industry starting with Dodd-Frank. Trump EPA to delay 30 regulations as part of transition freeze. Thousands flood Senate phone lines seeking to halt confirmation of DeVos. Scientists' March on Washington. The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned. Government Scientists at U.S. Climate Conference Terrified to Speak with the Press. Trump White House Appears To Kill Obama's Ethics Rule: Appointees May Not Be Signing Required Ethics Pledges.
This is what Trump voters said when asked to compare his inauguration crowd with Obama’s. GOP Congress seeks to axe pollution controls for oil and gas companies. House Republicans vote to expand gun access for mentally impaired.