Progressive search for action

13+ min ago (819+ words) Your Vox Membership goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership, we'll give one to someone who can't afford access. It's a simple way for you to support Vox's journalism and share it with someone who needs it. The GOP justices are about to hand Trump a victory that they have been dreaming about since he was married to Ivana. The outcome in Trump v. Slaughter, which the Supreme Court will hear on Monday, December 8, could not be more preordained. Slaughter involves a struggle over presidential power that has animated many prominent Republican lawyers and judges since the 1980s. And this peculiar faction of right-wing lawyers and judges now controls the Court itself. The Court, in other words, is engaged in a wholesale rethinking of the separation of powers. Some parts of this project seek to transfer power away…...

13+ min ago (1816+ words) Your Vox Membership goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership, we'll give one to someone who can't afford access. It's a simple way for you to support Vox's journalism and share it with someone who needs it. Here's everything you wanted to know about blood donation Donating money isn't the only way you can help people. You can also give your blood. Of the approximately 62 percent of Americans eligible to donate blood, only 3 percent do so each year. But someone needs blood every few seconds in the US. While the average red blood cell transfusion is about three units, a single car accident victim can need up to 100 units of blood. "We know everybody's schedules get really busy," Diane Calmus, the vice president of government affairs at America's Blood Centers, told me. But people "continue to…...

40+ min ago (216+ words) The unions have heard the message sent today by the world of labor. It is evident that the success of the three strike days forces them to reflect, in the coming days, on how to follow up with the social movement. On November 25, strikes spread to the postal service, schools and day care centers, trash collection, and public hospitals, which delayed consultations scheduled for that day. The general strike poses directly the question of the conquest of power by the proletariat. The CGT has turned and is turning its back on this task (the leaders of the CGT turn their faces towards the bourgeois power). " And what about the general strike of February 12, 1934? It was only a brief and peaceful demonstration imposed upon the CGT by the Socialist and Communist workers. Jouhaux and his colleagues themselves took over the nominal…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago (360+ words) Let it all go. Your pull for the week is the Eight of Wands, which represents movement, progress, change, and the need to make speedy decisions. If you've been feeling stuck or bored, then this card is great news. As you head into December, it won't feel like you're living the same dull day over and over again. Instead, something will spark " either internally or externally " and send you off in a new direction. It could be an exciting work project, a new match on your dating apps, or a little surge of excitement that bubbles up in your stomach and says, "You know what? I'm going to do something different today." Just like that, you'll be inspired to have fun again. In a tarot reading, the Eight of Wands suggests life will unfold in your favor, a lot like…...

1+ hour, 13+ min ago (1705+ words) Once every 10 years, ranchers must renew the permits that allow their cattle, sheep and other livestock to graze on the West's public domain. These renewals are the government's best opportunity to address how those livestock are harming the environment. The Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service, the federal agencies that manage the majority of public lands, are required by law to review each permit before deciding whether to place additional conditions on it or " in rare cases " to deny its renewal." But in 2014, Congress mandated that the agencies automatically renew permits for another decade if they are unable to complete the reviews. This exemption has dramatically reduced scrutiny of grazing's impact on public lands. In 2013, the BLM approved grazing on 47% of its land open to livestock without an environmental review, a ProPublica and High Country News analysis of agency…...

1+ hour, 13+ min ago (891+ words) An aid agreement template would require countries to share vast amounts of health data, including on abortion, to receive funds to combat HIV and other infectious diseases. The Trump administration plans to condition global health assistance on foreign countries sharing significant amounts of health data with the United States, including on abortion, according to a template for an aid agreement obtained by The Intercept. The template agreement, which references the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR " but also applies funding to fight malaria, tuberculosis, and other pathogens " would require countries that receive global health assistance to share a broad range of health care and pathogen data for the next 25 years. The model document would also require foreign governments to provide the United States with "any data access or information needed to monitor compliance" with the Helms Amendment, which…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago (373+ words) Donald Trump will not be judged "kindly" should he continue with his proposed peace plan between Russia and Ukraine. The president's team is pushing to end the war in Ukraine but their plan to "reintegrate" Russia into the global economy has become a cause for concern. Documents shared by Politico show the US will "enter into a long-term economic cooperation agreement" with Russia should peace in Ukraine be founded. The document reads, "The United States will enter into a long-term economic cooperation agreement for mutual development in the areas of energy, natural resources, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, data centers, rare earth metal extraction projects in the Arctic, and other mutually beneficial corporate opportunities." It's a deal which Michael McGrath, the European commissioner for justice and democracy, has denounced. He said, "I don't think history will judge kindly any effort to wipe…...

2+ hour, 20+ min ago (372+ words) Tim Walz has hit back at Donald Trump, whose Truth Social post on Thanksgiving was described as "hurtful" by the Governor of Minnesota. The president would call Walz "seriously retarded" in a Truth Social rant, and Walz has since described the comment as "hurtful" to communities that had worked hard to eradicate the word from society. Speaking to NBC's Meet the Press, Walz shared that it was not only horrible behavior from Trump, but that it highlighted the president is "just not a good human". He said, "I think we all know using that term is just so damaging. It's hurtful. We have fought three decades to get this out of our schools, and kids know better than to use it." "But this is what Donald Trump has done, he's normalized this type of hateful behavior" at first I think…...

3+ hour, 24+ min ago (409+ words) Donald Trump says a convicted drug trafficker will receive the presidential pardon, doubling down on a statement made two days ago. The president made it clear he would issue a "full and complete pardon" to former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted of drug trafficking last year. He was sentenced to 45 years in U.S. federal prison for helping move massive quantities of cocaine into the United States. Trump announced the plan to pardon Hernandez on Friday, and speaking with reporters on Air Force One on Sunday, confirmed the plan to pardon the former president would go ahead. Trump even referred to the arrest and subsequent charge of Hernandez as "a Biden setup", The Daily Beast reported. He said, "Well, I was told'I was asked by Honduras, many of the people of Honduras, they said it was a Biden setup....

6+ hour, 17+ min ago (730+ words) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff Andriy Yermak was forced to resign on Friday just hours after investigators from Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) raided Yermak's apartment as part of a $100 million scheme case known as "Operation Midas" that has shaken the crisis-ridden Zelensky government. Yermak, Ukraine's most powerful political figure next to Zelensky, served as both Zelensky's top aide and lead negotiator in the ongoing United States-backed plan to end the ongoing NATO-backed proxy war against Russia. In a joint statement, the NABU and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office stated the raids were officially "authorised" and linked to an unspecified investigation, which was unspecified but it certainly related to the $100 million embezzlement scandal first exposed by NABU earlier in November. According to the allegations, several leading members of the Ukrainian government and a close business associate…...