Progressive search for action

13+ min ago (379+ words) Pro-MAGA host Gina Loudon suggested Jesus might be the answer after President Donald Trump was unable to pardon election denier Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colorado. Loudon became frustrated after a federal judge refused to release Peters from state prison this week. President Donald Trump presumably can't pardon her because the state charged her with crimes related to attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. "She was sentenced to nine years!" Loudon exclaimed during a Real America's Voice segment on Wednesday. "Nine years for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines!" "What can we do?" the host asked conservative journalist Apollo Pappas. For his part, Pappas called the federal judge "exceptionally cowardly" for refusing to release Peters from prison. "Now we have really the pardon, which that letter has been sent to President Trump publicly, and of course, her…...

17+ min ago (452+ words) The social democratic countries in Europe and other countries, including Canada, have long had much broader social safety nets that go far beyond what you have proposed. Regarding your self-description as a democratic socialist, that doesn't pass the laugh test. What the oligarchy and large corporations really do not like about you is that you are projecting a consistent and wide-ranging voice for the people, the workers, the poor, and the powerless in the corridors of political power of City Hall. They have had long-game statism, or a corporate state, at the local, state, and federal levels, with little opposition by the two-party duopoly. Regarding your self-description as a democratic socialist, that doesn't pass the laugh test. You are not arguing for nationalization of banks and insurance companies, utilities, not even, to our knowledge have you called for a "public…...

28+ min ago (223+ words) CNN's Jake Tapper pressed Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) over whether she believes Hispanic voters supportive of President Donald Trump have a "slave mentality" on Tuesday. Crockett, who is now running for a Senate seat, joined Tapper on CNN's The Lead where Tapper at one point brought up a quote from Crockett on Hispanic Trump voters that received backlash last year. In a December 2024 Vanity Fair interview, Crockett compared Latino Trump voters to slaves who "hate" themselves while trying to explain support for Trump's deportation initiatives. "Now around the time that was published last year, around a million Latino voters in Texas were voting for Trump," Tapper noted on Tuesday. "Do they all have slave mentality?" Crockett pushed back on the framing of what she said. "No, and that's not what that said at all, to be clear. It did not…...

31+ min ago (155+ words) A third federal judge has cleared the way for the release of additional files related to Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman issued a four-page ruling Wednesday to order the unsealing of grand jury materials, investigative records, documents and communications gathered in a 2019 investigation into the convicted sex offender by the Department of Justice, reported CBS News. The Justice Department moved to unseal grand jury materials in cases against Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, but those initial requests were denied because of federal rules requiring grand jury proceedings and evidence to remain secret. However, the Justice Department argued the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed by Congress last month should override grand jury secrecy rules. The Justice Department has a Dec. 19 deadline to issue certain evidentiary files under the recently passed law. ALSO READ: 'We get blamed for everything': GOP…...

31+ min ago (107+ words) ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks in Washington, DC, August 26th, 2023. FBI Director James Comey speaks to the ADL National Leadership Summit in Washington, DC, May 8th, 2017. "The retreat from the broader civil rights work that the ADL has done for generations diluted coalitional strength and has seemingly isolated the'organization." "My entire portfolio was focused on white supremacists and violent extremists. After October 7th, it was exclusively'pro-Palestine." By the end of October, the ADL had entirely removed a "Protect Civil Rights" section from the "What We Do" page of its'website. Mari Cohen is the associate editor of'Jewish Currents. Alex Kane'is the senior reporter at'Jewish Currents....

32+ min ago (195+ words) Economist Paul Krugman at FIDES 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 25, 2023 (A.PAES/Shutterstock.com) President Donald Trump is angrily lashing out at Democrats for their heavy focus on inflation, insisting that "affordability" is a Democratic "hoax." Trump is also saying that voters should be thanking him because of how much he has improved the economy. Krugman adds, "At this point, I could bombard you with a lot of data showing that the economy is not, in fact, A+++++. But it isn't a disaster area, at least not yet. So why are Americans feeling so down? The main culprit is Trump himself." The economist and former New York Times columnist notes that Trump aggressively campaigned on lowering prices in 2024 " only to chastise voters for being worried about inflation now. Krugman continues, "Many swing voters, I believe, supported Trump out of…...

34+ min ago (313+ words) President Donald Trump joked with reporters about the possibility of not seeing them again during a "rough flight" aboard Air Force One en route to Pennsylvania Tuesday. Trump has been'fighting a battle'over "affordability" since the Election Day bloodbath, insisting concerns over prices'are a'con job," and repeatedly claiming he's already solved the issue. After a raft of'new polls'showed Trump'getting clobbered'on the economy, he decided to take to the road to spread his message. The president's first stop was beautiful Mount Airy Casino Resort on Tuesday night, but first he had to survive what he described as a "rough" ride when he came into the press cabin to answer questions for several minutes. First, Trump was hit in the back with the bathroom door as someone tried to emerge during the gaggle " the culprit turned out to be White House press secretary…...

37+ min ago (360+ words) On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly, meeting in Paris, proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This declaration, which emerged after more than 100 million deaths in the two world wars, separated by a mere 20 years, appeared to be an attempt to establish new parameters for a future of peace and understanding among the different peoples of this planet. In 2025, the UN recognizes 120 active armed conflicts and more than 2 billion people affected by them. This is therefore a moment for reflection, rather than naively accepting a simple date for celebration. On the contrary, it would be more appropriate to critically examine and reflect on the scope and implementation of the Declaration made 77 years ago. Furthermore, using human rights violations as a pretext, they employ violence to invade territories and impose an economic and power system disguised as peace and justice....

38+ min ago (513+ words) As you know by now, I don't like raising big problems without offering big potential solutions. The big problem I want to talk about today is that CEO pay has become utterly untethered from reality. When I was a young man in the 1960s and '70s, CEOs typically made 20 to 30 times the pay of their workers. That was enough to reward leadership, but not so much as to distort the entire economy and alienate workers who could still aspire to the American Dream. Today, the gap between CEO pay and the pay of average workers has exploded. The average CEO at a major corporation now takes home nearly 300 times what their employees earn. In some cases, the disparity is so grotesque it defies belief. For example: The problem isn't just these ridiculous sums. It's also what's happening to ordinary workers. Undervaluing their…...

40+ min ago (420+ words) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s affinity for public exercise was once again on display this week, with the 71-year-old health secretary and his transportation counterpart, the former reality star Sean Duffy, staging a pull-up contest inside Ronald Reagan National Airport to promote Make Travel Family Friendly Again, an offshoot of the departments larger push to bring "civility" back to American travel. "Yes, sir!" spectators cheered on, impressed by the performance of brawn before them. "Hes coming for you!" Were these actual pull-ups? Was the government lying to me? I was in no position to sound the alarm. So I reached out to Casey Johnston of the newsletter, Shes a Beast. My heart stopped. My theory that something was off was starting to prove correct. Thats when Johnston reflected my horror back to me: Crucially, this also must be done without any…...