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The Death Penalty Is Getting Crueler
For years, most of the U.S. has been changing death penalty laws in the direction of phasing it out, or at least applying it in a more humane way. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that people with intellectual disabilities cannot be executed. In 2005, another ruling...
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Dems Demand Trump's Tax Returns House Democrat demands six years of Trump tax returns from I.R.S.. NYT: "The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, using a little-known provision in the federal tax code, formally requested on Wednesday that the I.R.S. hand...
The #PeoplesWave Is Rising
The #PeoplesWave of grassroots champions rising up to reclaim our government has just begun. After taking back the U.S. House in November with an unprecedented number of women and people of color, we scored important wins in Chicago’s municipal elections in February....
Black Gay Woman, Lori Lightfoot, Is Chicago's New Mayor Lori Lightfoot elected Chicago mayor, will be 1st black woman and 1st openly gay person to hold post. NBC: "Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot defeated Toni Preckwinkle in a runoff for Chicago mayor...
A 'Buyback' for Our Future?
The dollars top corporate execs are plowing into "buybacks" of their own stock could, if invested elsewhere, help significantly share the wealth the modern American economy creates. Imagine how much brighter our future would be now if the over $5 trillion that S&P 500 corporations have spent on buybacks since 2007 had gone instead to paying higher wages or training workers in new skills or making corporate operations more eco-friendly.
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Chicago Chooses Black Woman As Next Mayor The rising Black Left movement behind Chicago’s historic elections. The Nation: "Tuesday, the people of Chicago will go to the polls for a special runoff election to decide who will lead their city for the next four years....
Trump Hates Farmers
Have you noticed how often Donald Trump prefaces his comments and tweets with phrases like “frankly,” “to tell the truth,” and “believe me”? More than a verbal tic, these qualifiers subliminally admit that being frank, truthful, and believable are not normal for him....
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Trump Threatens To Close Southern Border Trump White House presses threat to close U.S.-Mexico border this week. WaPo: "The White House doubled down Sunday on President Trump’s threat to close the U.S. border with Mexico, despite warnings that the move would inflict...
Republicans on Health Care: Do Vast Harm
U.S. Attorney General William Barr, a Republican, told an appeals court that his predecessor, Jeff Sessions, didn't go far enough when he asked a federal judge to kill the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions - that...
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AG Stonewalls Release Of Mueller Report The Mueller report is more than 300 pages long. We've seen 101 words. CNN: "When people can't see things, conspiracy theories fester. That goes double for President Donald Trump's tax returns, which he's made clear he'll be...
