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Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 9:56pm
Jon Queally, staff writer
Republican candidate in Montana took reporter "by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground"
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 7:12am
Jon Queally, staff writer
Republicans want to slash the nation's social safety net, but that's apparently okay by some top Republicans because "poverty" is just in the minds of the nation's poor.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 6:38am
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
The cruel and destructive bill known as Trumpcare would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 23 million, according to the revised Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score released Wednesday afternoon.
"What a disgrace." —Sen. Bernie Sanders
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 5:50am
John Nichols
Christine Pellegrino did not just declare victory after a remarkable special-election win that saw her flip a historically Republican New York state Assembly seat to the Democratic column on Tuesday. The elementary school teacher turned candidate announced that Long Island was sending a message that will resonate far beyond a legislative district that backed Donald Trump last fall but that has now will be represented by a bold progressive activist.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 5:29am
Mehdi Hasan
If you want to defeat ISIS, listen to former ISIS hostage Nicolas Henin. The group is “heartened by every sign of overreaction, of division, of fear, of racism, of xenophobia … [and] drawn to any examples of ugliness on social media,” the French journalist wrote in November 2015 in the wake of the Paris attacks.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 5:20am
Binta Baxter
The Trump Administration has officially unveiled its proposed budget to "Make America Great Again," and by all accounts it’s a total flop. Most news outlets are ignoring are the greater implications of what is proposed in the budget itself—the society America would become if the Trump budget became official.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 5:19am
The Center for Popular Democracy Action announced Tuesday the launch of an $80 million network that will harness the scale of its 48 community partners across 32 states in a coordinated effort to resist the politics of hate emanating from Washington and build independent political power in working class communities of color.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 5:10am
American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony D. Romero’s TED talk was published today. It issued a call to action for Americans to fight against the "bad government" of the Trump administration, as seen through the lens of a 14th century Italian painting by Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 5:08am
Bernie Sanders
The budget introduced this week by the Trump administration constitutes nothing less than a massive transfer of wealth from working families, the elderly, children, the sick and the poor to the top 1%.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 4:59am
Common Dreams staff
"Stop Trump. Save the planet."
That was a key message of the thousands, if not tens of thousands, who marched in the streets of Brussels on Wednesday as U.S. President Donald Trump arrived ahead of a NATO summit meeting.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 4:28am
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 4:11am
Paul Song
Yesterday the California State Senate Appropriations Committee released their fiscal analysis of SB562 sponsored by Senators Lara and Atkins. Opponents immediately screamed that #SB562 would cost $400 billion per year, more than three times California’s $124 Billion general fund budget for next year.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 3:48am
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
As lawmakers and the public awaited the Congressional Budget Office's score on the GOP's "horrific" Trumpcare bill, Congressional Democrats on Tuesday doubled-down on their call for a Medicare-for-All system to provide universal healthcare to all Americans.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 3:18am
Jon Queally, staff writer
Contradicting a version of events presented by the U.S. military and reported widely by the corporate press, a human rights group and a journalist in Yemen are citing witnesses who said a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs on Monday night killed multiple innocent civilians and not just "Al Qaeda militants" as the Pentagon claimed.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 2:37am
Nadia Prupis, staff writer
Two districts in New York and New Hampshire that voted for President Donald Trump on Tuesday elected Democrats to state seats, a promising signal that red areas are ready to be flipped as congressional special elections and midterms approach.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 1:38am
Less than 24 hours after thousands of McDonald’s cooks and cashiers surged through the rain-soaked streets of downtown Chicago, workers marched on the burger giant’s headquarters Wednesday morning, taking their demand for $15 an hour and union rights directly to the company’s shareholders.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 1:22am
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Ahead of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee today, Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement:
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 1:20am
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 1:08am
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
"Private companies should fund, build, and run more of the basic infrastructure of American life."
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 12:45am
Jeff Bryant
Betsy DeVos wants to give your tax dollars to private schools and businesses and tell you it’s an education “transformation.”
That’s the main theme of an address she gave this week to a conference held by the organization she helped found and lead, the American Federation for Children.
Declaring “the time has expired for ‘reform,'” she called instead for a “transformation… that will open up America’s closed and antiquated education system.” Her plan also opens your wallet to new moochers of taxpayer dollars.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 12:32am
Nadia Prupis, staff writer
President Donald Trump told Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte that he was "doing an amazing job" with his brutal drug war crackdown and informed him that the U.S. had two submarines off the Korean peninsula, according to a recently-released transcript of the two leaders' phone call last month.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 12:29am
Monique Morrissey
The president’s budget was released Tuesday and a House budget resolution will follow in June. Though the two plans will undoubtedly differ in certain areas—the president’s budget includes infrastructure and paid parental leave proposals that aren’t guaranteed to be taken up by the House—both will seek deep cuts to programs helping vulnerable citizens while calling for immense tax cuts for the wealthy.
Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 12:21am
Ronald Aronson
When President Donald Trump last week began a tweet with “we” and then deleted it, Trumpwatchers on Twitter seized on the opportunity to turn it back on him.