Conservative Supreme Court Justices Seem To Be Itching To Steal The Election For Trump
Republican appointees Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas are willing to throw out some ballots after the election....
read moreHere’s what the Supreme Court’s threat to mail-in ballots really means
The conservative justices’ statements open up a potential post-Election Day avenue for Republicans to disqualify some volume of...
read moreTo Stop Trump Stealing the Election, Democrats Must Do These 3 Things
There’s little that Democratic elected officials can do to stop Trump from trying to steal the election. But if he succeeds, they’ll...
read moreTrump Openly Voices Hope That Courts Will Intervene in Ballot Count
The Supreme Court has already left open the possibility of invalidating late-arriving Pennsylvania ballots. Source: Trump Openly...
read moreDisinformation Can Function as Voter Suppression. Organizers Are Fighting Back.
Disinformation can dissuade otherwise eligible voters from exercising their right to vote. Source: Disinformation Can Function as...
read more‘Signs of a coming conflict are everywhere’: Why a 2nd Civil War would be quite different from the 1st
Gault explains, “According to several experts I spoke with, a new civil conflict will look nothing like the first American...
read moreSupreme Court issues flurry of last-minute election orders
Justice Amy Coney Barrett has not taken part in any of these last-minute orders, but could participate going forward. Source: Supreme...
read moreWhy Trump’s collapsing poll numbers could scuttle plan to take vote count to court: legal experts
For 2020, there’s uncertainty about the Electoral College outcome, but very little uncertainty that the popular vote spread...
read moreDocuments Reveal WH Officials Tried to Use $250 Million in Taxpayer Money on Covid Ad Campaign to Boost Trump Reelection
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee accused HHS officials of engaging in a “cover-up to conceal the Trump...
read moreThe Push To Allow Guns At Polling Places Is Straightforward Voter Intimidation
There is no reason for open carry of guns at the polls except to intimidate voters, which is a federal crime. Source: The Push To...
read moreHospitals Are Reeling Under a 46 Percent Spike in Covid-19 Patients
The number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus has climbed significantly from a month ago, straining cities that have fewer...
read moreFacebook is subverting democracy again — and it’s doing it on purpose
As the US presidential election polling day draws close, it’s worth recapping what we know about how Facebook has been used to...
read moreAs GDP Data Shows Economy Still in a Deep Hole, Trump Denounced for ‘Trying to Mislead the Public by Claiming an Economic Miracle’
“Americans can believe what he says or they can believe their own eyes. Millions are unemployed—they know the economy is...
read moreTrump’s Covid-19 Testing Czar Warns of ‘Draconian Measures’ to Come If Americans Don’t Mask Up
As cases surge just before Election Day, studies show universal mask-wearing prevents outbreaks and could save tens of thousands of...
read moreDemocrats Have Proven They Can Compete on Small-Dollar Donations Alone
So why does Joe Biden keep doing big-money fundraisers? Source: Democrats Have Proven They Can Compete on Small-Dollar Donations...
read moreSouth Korea expresses ‘serious concern’ over any Japanese radioactive water dump
South Korea expressed alarm on Thursday about the possibility that Japan will dump more than one million tonnes of contaminated water...
read moreWar Wasn’t a Campaign Issue. What Does That Mean for the Next Presidency?
It is an indication that the U.S. war industry has flourished regardless of who occupies the White House. Source: War Wasn’t a...
read moreTropical Storm Zeta cuts power to 2.5 million, races through Mid-Atlantic
The storm, which unleashed winds to 110 mph along the coast, hit New Orleans and Atlanta particularly hard. Source: Tropical Storm...
read moreThe Purging of Jeremy Corbyn – The Truth
instead of finding instances of anti-semitism amongst Corbyn supporters, the report found instances of sabotage, leaks, and betrayal...
read moreMass release of U.S. inmates sets up test of ‘decarceration’ movement
America’s inmate population fell by 170,000 amid COVID. Some see a chance to undo mass incarceration Source: Mass release of U.S....
read moreStability Amid Strategic Deregulation: Managing the End of Nuclear Arms Control
Bilateral nuclear arms control is being succeeded in a polycentric nuclear world by deregulation. Rather than mourn arms control, we...
read moreWhat We Call Freedom Has Never Been About Being Free
Annelien de Dijn’s new book looks at how the modern conception of freedom emerged as an antidemocratic reaction by elites who wanted...
read moreAmerica’s Protest Crackdown: Five Months After George Floyd, Hundreds Face Trials and Prison
Some protesters face stacked charges and threats of deportation; others have been charged with police assault with no reports of...
read moreSan Francisco Cops Will No Longer Be Called 1st For Nonviolent Crisis
In what will be among the largest and boldest urban police reform experiment in decades San Francisco is creating and preparing to...
read moreHouse Democrats Urge OPM to Halt Implementation of Order Politicizing Civil Service
House Oversight and Reform Committee leaders want to investigate the development and analysis of the effort to strip wide swaths of...
read moreMore Than 8 Million Have Been Forced Into Poverty Since COVID Relief Ended in US
The massive $2 trillion CARES Act — which sent households one-time payments and boosted unemployment checks with an additional...
read moreThis City Stopped Sending Police to Every 911 Call
Riding along with the civilian “crisis responders” of Olympia, Washington. Source: This City Stopped Sending Police to Every 911 Call...
read moreNew York Times: Tax records show Trump had over $270 million in debt forgiven after failing to repay lenders
An analysis of his tax records by the Times shows that after the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago encountered...
read moreAlert: Trump fights in court to block pandemic food aid for lowest-income Americans
The Trump administration is fighting in federal court to block states from giving billions of dollars in emergency food stamps to the...
read moreAs Covid-19 Soars Ahead of Election, Tapes Reveal Kushner Bragging About How Trump Wrestled Response ‘Back From the Doctors’
“We know their handling of the pandemic was dictated by politics, and that’s a big part of the reason it was such an...
read moreSenator’s Report Finds Google and Facebook Have ‘Hijacked’ Local News and Undermined Journalism
“These trillion-dollar companies scrape local news content and data for their own sites and leverage their market dominance to...
read moreSocial media’s erasure of Palestinians is a grim warning for our future
The treatment of Palestinians online serves as a warning that it would be foolish indeed to regard these globe-spanning corporations...
read morePrisons’ Pandemic Response: Throw the Infected Into the Hole
Advocates worry that the increased use of solitary confinement will be difficult to reverse. Source: Prisons’ Pandemic Response:...
read moreThe Supreme Court Has Never Been on the Side of Working People
If Democrats could acknowledge it’s a political institution, they’d have a chance to harness its power. Source: The Supreme Court Has...
read moreEnding Regime Change – in Bolivia and the World
Bolivia’s triumph over U.S.-backed regime change is an affirmation of the emerging people-power of our new multipolar world,...
read moreFood Sovereignty Prize Awardees Tackle Hunger and Injustice During Covid
Twelfth Annual Food Sovereignty Prize honors the Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine and the All Nepal Peasants’ Federation...
read moreBlack Lives Matter in the Arab world too
Once again, Tunisia has been at the vanguard in the region. At the beginning of June, hundreds of people gathered in the centre of...
read moreWarren Rips USPS Board Members for ‘Acting as Accomplices’ to DeJoy as He Sabotages Mail Delivery—and the Election
“Once again, I call on the Board members to release their financial disclosure forms, remove DeJoy, and do their jobs by...
read moreRepublicans ask the Supreme Court to hand Trump this election
Clearly Republicans are looking to a new 5-4 radical majority, joined by Barrett to do what Donald Trump demanded in nominating...
read morePA SOS: Barrett should recuse herself in mail-in ballot case
Newly sworn-in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday was asked by Pennsylvania’s secretary of state to recuse...
read morePublic Health Expert’s Warning: U.S. On Course To Hit 100,000 Daily COVID-19 Infections
Dr. Ashish Jha said the grim landmark figure could be avoided but there’s not enough “policy impetus to act as we need to.” Source:...
read moreWarning of the ‘Many Trumps… in Waiting,’ Ocasio-Cortez Says Democrats ‘Have to Be Better’
“We’re not good enough right now,” the New York Democrat says of her party, and unless the material lives of...
read moreTop FEC Official’s Undisclosed Ties to Trump Raise Concerns Over Agency Neutrality
A top Federal Election Commission official, whose division regulates campaign cash, has shown support for President Trump and has...
read moreTrump’s Ballot-Counting Demand Would Disenfranchise Overseas Troops
States allow ballots from military personnel and diplomats to be counted as late as two weeks after Nov. 3, but Trump is insisting...
read moreMichigan Judge Accused of Jeopardizing Safety and Democracy With Reversal of Open Carry Ban at Polling Places
Citing her “sworn duty to protect every voter and their right to cast the ballot free from intimidation and harassment,”...
read moreTrump goes all-in on the ‘nightmare scenario’ as he openly attacks counting ballots
Repeating his desire for a winner to be declared on the night of November 3, President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he...
read moreThe White House Gave Up On The Key To Economic Recovery
We need more stimulus to deal with COVID-19, but until the public health crisis is contained don’t expect miracles. Source: The White...
read moreTexas Supreme Court Upholds ‘Shameful, Naked Voter Suppression’ With Ruling Allowing State to Limit Counties to One Ballot Drop Box
“Texas continues to be openly hostile to voting rights.” Source: Texas Supreme Court Upholds ‘Shameful, Naked Voter...
read moreBrett Kavanaugh’s Wisconsin Ruling Lays the Groundwork to Hand Trump the Election
The growing conservative majority on the Supreme Court shows its clearest sign yet that in the event of a close election,...
read moreDPIC Analysis: Use or Threat of Death Penalty Implicated in 19 Exoneration Cases in 2019
Prosecutors or police used or threatened to use the death penalty as a coercive tool that led to or extended the wrongful convictions...
read moreAlert: Trump is pocketing money from Republican donors, from GOP functions, and from your taxes
The ways in which Donald Trump has found to skim funds from the government—in other words, to enrich himself by stealing money...
read moreNumber Alleging ICE Doctor Misconduct Nearly Triples
Advocates briefed senators on allegations that a doctor working with an ICE detention center performed unnecessary or overly...
read moreJournalists Pick Sides When They Call Adding Justices ‘Court Packing’
By accepting “court packing” as “the term for” expanding the court, journalists lend a hand to those...
read more“Anonymous” senior Trump official revealed as ex-DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor
Taylor was the chief of staff to an agency that oversaw the Trump administration’s controversial family separation policy....
read moreAmerican War Crime: Trump’s Child Separation at the Border violates the Rome Statute, Majorly
the forced separation of children from parents on our southern border, with no prospect of near-term reunification, and more recently...
read more‘Bankrolling Extinction’: Report Shows Big Banks Lent Over $2.6 Trillion to Fund Global Biodiversity Destruction in 2019
“Imagine a world in which projects can only raise capital when they have demonstrated that they will contribute meaningfully...
read more7 Criminal Justice Ballot Initiatives to Watch on Election Day
After months of protests over police violence, these ballot proposals could be a litmus test for voters. Source: 7 Criminal Justice...
read moreProtests & Provocateurs: Infiltrators are Disrupting BLM Protests
Reports of agents provocateurs, outside agitators and police infiltration of protests are appearing throughout the country and...
read moreDoing nothing about Climate Emergency could cost more than all the Wealth in the World
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — A study in Nature Communications has found that if you add in variability to calculations of the...
read more10 Years After Iraq War Logs, It’s Impunity for War Criminals, War on Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning have both paid a tremendous price for revealing U.S. and allied...
read moreBad News: Trump strips Alaska’s Tongass National Forest of roadless rule protections
Trump administration to open up ALL of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to logging and other forms of development, stripping...
read moreSpecial Report: U.S. jails are outsourcing medical care — and the death toll is rising
By Jason Szep, Ned Parker, Linda So, Peter Eisler and Grant Smith Source: Special Report: U.S. jails are outsourcing medical care —...
read moreAnti-protest laws across America are only created to criminalize and disenfranchise
Tennessee’s anti-protest law follows behind many states that seek to suppress disenfranchise thousands of citizens who act on...
read moreFears of crackdown on US journalism as Trump ally removes editorial ‘firewall’
Outrage as USAGM chief Michael Pack rescinds rule that insulates journalists from editorial direction of politically appointed bosses...
read moreKamala Harris bursts out laughing when asked if she’ll push for ‘progressive’ policies, igniting rage of the left (VIDEO)
Kamala Harris has stirred up some bipartisan outrage after having another laughing fit, this time when asked if she would push for...
read moreShould You Have Kids Despite Climate Change?
In January 2020, 11,000 scientists signed onto a study that warned about the unfolding climate emergency. The authors prescribe steps...
read moreGrand Jurors In Breonna Taylor Case Call Police Actions ‘Negligent’ And ‘Criminal’
Two anonymous jurors spoke to CBS’s Gayle King about the hurdles in deliberating the case over the Louisville police killing of the...
read moreBad News: EXTENDING US-ISRAEL AGREEMENTS TO SETTLEMENTS IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY, TRUMP ADMIN HANDS ANOTHER OUTRAGEOUS GIFT TO ISRAELI RIGHT
By signing an agreement at Ariel University today that removed an explicit restriction that had prevented US-Israel scientific...
read moreJustice Anthony Kennedy’s son helped Trump get Deutsche Bank loans: report
those who viewed Kennedy as being too quick to side with big business are likely to have similar views on his son, Justin Kennedy,...
read moreAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Declines to Promise Support for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker
“I am committed to making sure that we have the most progressive candidate there. But, if Speaker Pelosi is that most progressive...
read moreThe $1.1 billion rabbit hole: Here’s a staggering list of Trump debts — and who he owes money to
The 2020 election may be President Donald Trump’s last attempt to dodge the consequences he could face for the staggering...
read moreInmate Sues Prison Over Lack Of COVID19 Precautions
An inmate at New Jersey’s only prison for women has filed a lawsuit alleging the state Department of Corrections is failing to take...
read more‘He Needed Social Supports, Not Bullets’: Mass Protests Engulf Philly Streets for Second Straight Night Over Police Killing of Walter Wallace
“This killing must be thoroughly investigated, and the officers responsible for Wallace’s death must be held accountable...
read moreLouisiana under hurricane warning as Zeta leaves Mexico’s Yucatán
Tropical Storm Zeta moving north-west on path that could see it hit New Orleans on Wednesday night Source: Louisiana under hurricane...
read moreElon Musk warns the world about AI Digital SuperIntelligence
Elon Musk has warned about the dangers of AI in many occasions.He is one among many public thinkers who have expressed concerned...
read moreUtah Legislator: If You Don’t Want to Be Attacked by Police Dogs, ‘Stay Home’ – Reason.com
The state legislature is considering reforms in response to the use of dogs against cooperative suspects. Source: Utah Legislator: If...
read more‘What Killed Michael Brown?’ is the new must-see documentary
A new film streaming on Amazon uses the tragedy of Michael Brown’s death in 2014 to insightfully reveal the manipulations and...
read moreAmerica Is Not a Democracy, But We Must Become One
The Electoral College has given us five presidents who lost the popular vote, two of them in the past 20 years. The Senate gives...
read moreWhy Amy Coney Barrett Must Recuse Herself From Election-Related Cases
The choice is simple: She must recuse, and welcome Trump’s scorn. Source: Why Amy Coney Barrett Must Recuse Herself From...
read moreAlert: While We Focus on COVID-19, Trump’s EPA Is Quietly Killing Us
And yet as mass media runs daily tallies of COVID-related cases and deaths, a more sinister threat to public health looms as the...
read moreAs Trump Says ‘Must Have Vote Total’ on Nov. 3, Nearly 400 ‘Protect the Results’ Rallies Planned to Fight Election Night Theft
“We think the likelihood of activation is high,” the Protect the Results coalition says. Source: As Trump Says...
read moreInternational Study Finds US Republican Party Heading Towards Becoming One of World’s Most Authoritarian Factions
“Disrespect of political opponents, the encouragement of violence, and also the violation of minority rights… they have...
read more62 Million and Counting: Americans Are Breaking Early Voting Records
That’s some 15 million more pre-election votes than were cast in the 2016 election, according to the U.S. Elections Project, a...
read moreHow Police, National Guard and the Military Are Preparing for Election Day Tensions
Given this year’s tensions, and the fact that the police themselves are a major issue in the election, the question of their...
read moreTrump Attempts One More Preelection Power Grab
An executive order establishing new hiring and firing practices will, if he is reelected, give him extraordinary control over almost...
read moreThe Supreme Court has already had its thumb on the scales to try to fix a Trump ‘win’
The Supreme Court has already puts its thumb on the scales for Donald Trump and Republicans in this election through unsigned orders...
read moreAfter Supreme Court Guts Expansion of Mail-In Voting in Wisconsin, Fears Grow of Similar Rulings in Pennsylvania and North Carolina
Republicans and the Trump campaign are hoping the Supreme Court will reject efforts to extend the deadline for receiving absentee...
read more‘Expand the Court’: Ocasio-Cortez Leads Charge With 3-Word Democratic Strategy After Barrett Sworn In
“Republicans do this because they don’t believe Dems have the stones to play hardball like they do,” said the New...
read more“He’s Down to Steal This Thing”: Kavanaugh Parrots Trump Mail-In Ballot Lies as Supreme Court Bars Extension of Wisconsin Deadline
“Kavanaugh is announcing to the world that if it will help Trump win he will join a decision to not count votes.” Source:...
read moreDaily Kos Elections Senate Forecast: The big movers this week are 2 previously little-noticed races
Democratic candidates still have leads in the Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Maine, and North Carolina races, which is adequate to take...
read moreJustice Kagan Says Supreme Court ‘Failed’ To Protect Voters Amid Pandemic
The liberal justices dissented as the Supreme Court ruled against extending Wisconsin’s deadline to count mailed-in ballots received...
read moreTrump Needs Accomplices At Every Level Of Government To Pull Off A Coup
Voting is absolutely critical for democracy. But at the end of the day, stopping a coup attempt will depend on far more than the...
read more10 things you need to know to stop a coup
While keeping people focused on a strong, robust election process is a must, we also need to prepare for a coup. Source: 10 things...
read more“I Don’t Believe That’s By Our Laws,” Trump Says of Counting All the Votes in an Election
“He wants to throw out legal votes. That’s what he’s saying here.” Source: “I Don’t Believe...
read moreHow to Reverse This Craven GOP Power Grab
The most ambitious structural reform would be to rebalance the Senate itself, as well as the Electoral College. Source: How to...
read moreAmy Coney Barrett’s First Votes Could Throw the Election to Trump
A sinister argument from Bush v. Gore returns with a vengeance. Source: Amy Coney Barrett, SCOTUS, and Trump: the first cases coming...
read moreAs Historic Nuclear Ban Enters into Force, It’s Time for the US to Help Put an End to the Nuclear Age
The only nation to use a nuclear weapon in an act of war can and should take steps to end the nuclear threat for good. Source: As...
read moreMinority rule is here, and this is what it feels like.
The powerlessness is the point. Source: Minority rule is here, and this is what it feels like.
read moreTrump Sues To Stop Ballot Counting In Nevada County
The suit alleges that election officials in Clark County are restricting Republican election observers’ ability to...
read moreAlert: Almost half of South Dakota’s inmates have tested positive for COVID-19
Cases of COVID-19 more than doubled over the weekend among two South Dakota prisons, and a fourth facility reached more than 100...
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