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Ellison Makes Case For DNC Chair Rep. Keith Ellison calls for "3,007 County Strategy" for DNC. Chicago Tribune: "'We need a 3,007-county strategy. We need a town strategy. We need a precinct strategy," said Ellison, as [Sen. Bernie] Sanders and AFT President Randi...
As Trump Meets Tech CEOs, "Silicon Valley Rising" Calls For Resistance
The coalition warns "Trump’s policies present a dire threat to the lives and well-being of workers and contractors across the tech sector ... be they immigrants, women, workers or Muslim Americans."
Why Would Perez Challenge Ellison for Democratic Party Chair?
Keith Ellison is the perfect messenger and chief organizer for these times. Tom Perez was a great Labor Secretary but he represents continuity for the same White House operatives that have run the Democratic Party for the last eight years.
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Rates May Go Up Today Federal Reserve expected to raise interest rates today. Politico: "Expectations of more rapid growth, coupled with the threat of inflation, could bring more rate hikes, which could undermine Trump's plans to fire up the economy ... Trump and...
By Picking Tillerson and Perry, Trump’s Pretty Much Just Trolling Us Now
At this point Trump's staffing process has pretty much turned into an extended exercise in trolling, a test to see how much humiliation Americans will endure. It's also kleptocratic grift, of course.
Purging Career Civil Servants? That's The Conservative Playbook.
Years ago, I reported on how the Bush administration followed the counsel of a January 2001 Heritage Foundation memo, "Taking Charge of Federal Personnel." Now the Trump administration is dusting it off.
Dirty Energy Rules A Dark, Dirty Administration. We Must Resist This.
Radical changes coming, the will of We the People notwithstanding. We need to organize, protest, resist and most of all apply pressure to politicians. We can't let them get away with this.
The Catastrophic Oil Spill in Trump's Cabinet
With the nomination of Exxon-Mobil's CEO and an Energy Transfer Partners board member to Cabinet posts, Donald Trump has added to the swamp he pledged to clean two corporate alligators who will put the planet in peril.
False Hope Hurts More
President-elect Trump promised, “The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.” Working people across America who heard that and his jobs and trade promises believed him. Those hopes must not become false hopes.
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Big Oil Gets Bigger ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson named Secretary of State, faces tough confirmation. Bloomberg: "He would be the first oil executive to lead the State Department ... Tillerson would add to a cabinet increasingly full of millionaires and billionaires...
