Paul wants to add text to the bill to create an inspector general for oversight of the billions being sent to Ukraine. On Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blocked an effort in the Senate to hold a quick vote on the nearly $40 billion aid package for Ukraine that passed in the House on Tuesday. “My oath of office is to the US constitution not to any foreign nation and no matter how sympathetic the cause, my oath of office is to the national security of the United States of America,” Paul said on the Senate floor before blocking the vote. “We cannot save […]
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Above Photo: Amazon workers and labor supporters rallied in front the LDJ5 Staten Island warehouse ahead of a union vote, April 24, 2022. Ben Fractenberg / The City. Out of nearly 1,000 ballots cast at the LDJ5 warehouse, just 380 supported joining the Amazon Labor Union. ALU made history last month with a scrappy campaign that defeated the e-commerce giant at a neighboring warehouse. Amazon workers at a Staten Island distribution center who sought to join a union fell short of the needed votes — failing to repeat the history-making win of colleagues at a facility across the street, in a setback for […]
Above Photo: Indiana University graduate student Pat Wall leads chants Thursday, April 14, 2021, with the crowd gathered at the Sample Gates during a demonstration in support of the graduate student workers’ strike. Bloomington, Indiana – As the graduate worker strike at Indiana University extends into finals week, some faculty members and students plan to take bold measures against the administration to show their solidarity. On Tuesday, graduate students who are part of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition voted to extend the graduate student workers’ strike through May 3. The extension was supported by 867 votes, a 95.7% majority. Since the strike’s beginning on April 13, graduate […]
Above Photo: Pictured are members of the Fordham Graduate Student Workers Union. The Fordham administration will be hosting a union election on April 5 and 7. Fordham Graduate Student Workers Union. New York, New York – Graduate student workers at Fordham University in the Bronx have voted overwhelmingly to join the Fordham Graduate Student Workers union. “We did it!” one called out from a balcony in the student center’s atrium after the results were announced April 7, as a few dozen supporters gathered below. The vote was 229-15. The bargaining unit, part of Communications Workers of America Local 1104, will include about […]
Above Photo: The Amazon Labor Union projected a message on the wall of the warehouse. Reaching 8,000 co-workers to make the case for the union and counter Amazon’s union-busting messages is a tall order for the grassroots organizing committee. New York City (Staten Island), New York – As the country cheers on Starbucks workers organizing, the votes will be counted this week in two big union drives at Amazon warehouses—one in Alabama and one in New York. Voting concluded March 25 in Bessemer, Alabama, after mail-in ballots were sent in early February to more than 6,100 workers who are deciding whether […]
Above Photo: Mindy Schauer. (Orange County Register / SCNG). Tens of thousands of workers at grocery stores in Southern California have voted to authorize walkouts if their demands for higher wages are not met. Over 47,000 grocery store workers in Southern California have voted to Authorize Walkouts after contract negotiations have stalled. Despite reaping huge profits during the pandemic, the supermarket executives are refusing to meet workers’ demands for increased wages, higher minimum hours for part-time workers, and health and safety committees at stores. A strike would include workers at over 500 Krogers, Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons, and Pavilions supermarkets. These workers currently make […]
More than 100 retail workers at the national outdoor gear chain Recreational Equipment, Inc. will decide whether to form a union during an in-person vote on March 2, paving the way for what could become the company’s first unionized store. The workers are campaigning to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union in order to help workers address issues related to wages, paid-time off scheduling, training and workplace safety concerns, organizers said. Union organizers announced the vote Wednesday night and records from the National Labor Relations Board confirmed the election will be held throughout the day in the breakroom of […]
Above Photo: “Today I believe we as workers are more united than ever,” said Alejandra Morales, SINTTIA’s principal officer, who has worked at the plant for 11 years. “Not only in Silao, but in all of Mexico.” The independent union’s landslide victory at the plant is a major breakthrough for workers seeking to break the vice grip of the employer-friendly unions that have long dominated Mexico’s labor movement. (Casa Obrera del Bajio). In A Landslide Victory Auto workers at a General Motors plant in central Mexico delivered a landslide victory to an independent union in a vote held February 1-2. It’s […]
Above Photo: Electoral workers wait inside a school in Manhattan during early voting in the New York City mayoral election on October 23, 2021. Kena Betancur / AFP via Getty Images. “New York City must be seen as a shining example for other progressive cities to follow.” A New York City law granting more than 800,000 lawful permanent residents the right to vote in local elections took effect Sunday after the recently elected mayor, Democrat Eric Adams, declined to veto it. The New York City Council had voted 33-14—with two abstentions—for the measure to allow noncitizens who have resided in the city […]
Berlin’s housing referendum became possible after years of struggle to make housing in the city affordable and available to all again. To understand the issue and the movement that led to this vote, Peoples Dispatch spoke to Anisia Petcu. On 26 September, Berliners voted to expropriate housing from corporate landlords. This referendum became possible after years of struggle to make housing in the city affordable and available to all again. To understand the issue and the movement that led to this vote, Peoples Dispatch spoke to Anisia Petcu, an activist in the expropriation campaign. She works primarily in the working group […]
Above Photo: Warren General Hospital. Workers at Allegheny Health Network affiliate Warren General Hospital voted Saturday to strike, straining already fragile medical resources in rural northwest Pennsylvania. The 114 nurses and health care workers, who are members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, issued a 10-day strike notice at the 87-bed hospital — the only acute care facility in the county. The labor agreement with workers expired in September, and negotiations were scheduled to continue Monday, hospital CEO Rick Allen said. The hospital has offered pay increases of 4.2% to over 16%, plus enhanced contributions to employees’ […]
Above Photo: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo before casting their vote. (CCC / Jairo Cajina) On Sunday, November 7, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said that the general elections taking place in his country are a sign and a commitment by the vast majority of Nicaraguans to vote for peace and not for war or terrorism. After voting in Managua, the president addressed the nation from the House of the Peoples, expressing that this election does not call for paralyzing the economy and destroying families. He stressed that the people want peace and well-being, while the right-wing sows […]
Above Photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images UAW members at John Deere rejected the latest contract offer from the bosses, holding out for the wages and benefits they’ve been demanding from the beginning of their walkout. It’s time for the entire labor movement to rally in solidarity with this strike as it continues. Striking John Deere employees rejected a second contract offer on Tuesday. After decades of austerity contracts with cuts to pensions, healthcare, and wages, workers at the farm equipment manufacturer — members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) — are standing up and demanding more, just as the t-shirts they’ve […]
Above Photo: Richard Bensinger, who is advising unionization efforts, looks at Starbucks Union T-shirts inside the movement’s headquarters in Buffalo, N.Y. Workers at three Starbucks stores in Buffalo will hold union elections next month after winning a case before the National Labor Relations Board. AP/Carolyn Thompson. Labor board approves elections for Buffalo, N.Y., workers. Workers hoping to unionize Starbucks stores in the U.S. have won a preliminary victory before the National Labor Relations Board. The board said employees at three separate Starbucks stores in Buffalo, N.Y., can hold union elections in November in a new ruling. That means that workers need […]
Above Photo: SEPTA’s contract with Transport Workers Union Local 234 expires Oct. 31. If a new contract cannot be reached, a strike could begin Monday, Nov. 1 — stopping bus, trolley, subway and elevated train service in Philadelphia. (Thom Carroll / PHilly voice) The transportation authority’s current contract with its transit union expires Oct. 31 SEPTA’s transit union has taken another step towards a potential work stoppage, as workers voted unanimously Sunday to authorize a strike if a new contract can’t be agreed upon over the next week. More than 1,000 members of Transport Workers Union Local 234 gathered Sunday for […]
Above Photo: Barry Lewis/InPictures Via Getty Images With Little National Attention, A Connecticut Dollar General Store Could Soon Help Unions Crack A Vital Low-Wage Industry. In less than two weeks, a tiny group of a half dozen workers in Barkhamsted, Connecticut will vote on whether to become the only unionized Dollar General store employees in America. These six people in a small town about 20 miles northwest of Hartford now find themselves positioned to gain a historic toehold for organized labor inside a booming, low-wage industry. But it will not be easy. Few companies have prospered since the beginning of the pandemic as much as Dollar General. The company […]
Above Photo: Olivia Wreford joins the September 17 rally organized by Yes 4 Minneapolis in support of a ballot measure to overhaul the city’s police, up for a vote in November after a lawsuit briefly knocked it off the ballot. (Henry Pan) Will the city at the center of last summer’s racial justice protests decide to remake public safety? We’ll soon find out. It was a cool Friday in Minneapolis, made cooler by the shadows of the skyscrapers towering over People’s Plaza. In the brick-lined courtyard between the Hennepin County Government Center and Minneapolis City Hall on September 17, the Yes 4 Minneapolis campaign and its allies […]
Above Photo: Auto Workers (UAW) went on strike against GM and two-tier wages in 2019. Now members are voting for control over their union through an upcoming one-member, one-vote referendum. (Jim West / jimwestphoto.com) United Auto Workers members will soon vote in an unprecedented referendum to decide whether the union’s 400,000 working members and nearly 600,000 retirees will directly elect their top officers. Ballots hit the mail October 19 and are due back November 29. The UAW’s executive officers are currently elected to four-year terms by delegates at its convention. An “Administration Caucus” has dominated these positions for the past seven […]
Above Photo: Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen After years of rising rent forced many Berliners out of the city, activists have managed to force a vote on whether to allow the expropriation of housing owned by landlords with over 3,000 units on the Sept. 26 election ballot. Most international coverage of the German elections is focused on who will replace Angela Merkel after her 16-year term as chancellor ends, but for everyday Berliners, just having the resources to pay the rent is a bigger concern. Berlin’s efforts to lower the fast-rising rents in Germany’s capital city have led to a referendum […]
Above Photo: Though John Deere factory workers are divided politically, they have one thing in common, says UAW Local 74 member Chris Laursen: “Everybody’s sick of Deere and sick of the International and ready to stick it to them.” Charles & Hudson. Ten thousand production and warehouse workers for the farm equipment manufacturer John Deere will take a strike authorization vote September 12 across nine Auto Workers (UAW) locals in Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas. Strike authorizations at bargaining time are not unusual for John Deere workers, and they haven’t struck in 35 years, but there are reasons to watch this round […]
We Can’t Vote ‘Em Out By Lee Camp, Consortium News. December 1, 2020 We Can’t Vote ‘Em Out2020-12-012020-12-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/bidenharris-e1606852728579.jpg200px200px Above photo: Biden-Harris presidential drive-in rally at Broward College, Coconut Creek, Florida, Oct. 29, 2020. Adam Schultz, Biden for President. We can make all sorts of noise and even scare ’em, but the A-Holes are here to stay. It doesn’t matter when you read this, the assholes will still be in power. I know that because here in America we can’t vote out the assholes. We can trouble them, scare them, annoy them, and sometimes even pressure them into doing some small thing […]
Above photo: Empty plates on Stuart Anderson’s office in Chapel Ash. England – Around 20 plates with messages on were attached to the windows of Stuart Anderson’s office along with a poster which said: “Your MP voted no to feeding poor kids”. The plates were removed within hours of being put up but the word “scum” was then sprayed onto the office window. Mr Anderson said he and his family have also received death threats and said he had reported the intimidation and vandalism to the police. The Wolverhampton South West MP was one of 322 MPs who last week voted against a […]
MIAMI — For nearly an hour on Monday, Alan Herrera stood in a line to cast his early vote for Joe Biden in the heart of one of Donald Trump’s Latino strongholds. The 33-year-old Honduran American slowly inched closer to the entrance of the John F. Kennedy Library in Hialeah, a predominantly Cuban American city in the coveted swing state of Florida where the president and the former vice-president appear neck-and-neck in various polls. About a dozen people ahead of Herrera waited their turn to go inside the early voting precinct. Roughly three dozen more voters stood behind him, lining the […]
Rapper 50 Cent has become an unlikely supporter of Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, with the hip hop artist reacting in horror to Joe Biden’s tax plan, which hikes rates on high earners, and calling on fans to “vote for Trump.” The ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’ star threw his weight behind the president in an Instagram post on Monday, sharing a screencap from a news broadcast showing the top combined state and local tax rates under Biden’s proposal along with an outraged caption. “WHAT THE F**K! (VOTE for TRUMP) I’M OUT. F**K NEW YORK The KNICKS never win anyway,” he wrote, […]
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump says the Democrats will turn the country into “one giant sanctuary for criminals” by defunding police and instigating attacks on law enforcement officers. “If you give the power to Democrats, the radical left will defund, disband, disarm and dismantle police departments all across America. Asked if he [Biden] supports slashing police funding, he said ‘yes, yes, absolutely yes,’” Trump said at a Saturday campaign rally in Janesville, Wisconsin. Trump pointed to prolonged unrest that Democrat-run states, such as Chicago, New York and Oakland, have been suffering from amid Black Lives Matter protests. “This year […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has decided not to use a new computer system for vote counting in the upcoming presidential election, TSE head Salvador Romero has announced. “The Supreme Electoral Tribunal has been testing the preliminary results distribution system (DIREPRE) in recent weeks. And we want to inform the country that the test results do not allow us to ensure the security of full data distribution. That’s why … TSE has decided to withdraw the system for the current elections,” Romero told reporters on Saturday. He assured that vote counting will be carried out transparently and in […]
Look, I’m voting for Joe Biden. I get why white racists and millionaires—and people who stand at the intersection of those two groups—are all-in for Donald Trump, but for the rest of us, self-preservation dictates that Biden is the better choice. Thursday night’s dueling presidential town halls, which featured a belligerent Trump and a comparatively contemplative Biden, drove that all the way home. If I believed, at this late stage, that “undecided voters” were real, and not people with made-up minds in desperate need of attention, I cannot imagine how the contrast could have been any starker or the decision clearer. […]
Maine Senator Susan Collins says she will vote ‘no’ to confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, since it’s too close to the election, while refusing to say anything critical about how Barrett’s originalist judicial philosophy might imperil a woman’s right to choose. Collins is a Republican who supports abortion rights, a brand that has carried her to victory four times, but with Barrett’s confirmation all but certain, Collins’ longtime balancing act may have reached its tipping point. The GOP is getting closer to reaching its goal, the overturning of Roe v Wade, the now almost 50-year-old ruling that made […]
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg will donate another $100 million to aid election officials around the US after an initial $300 million grant – ruled lawful by a federal judge even while he warned the money could distort the vote. A lawsuit challenging the grant scheme in Wisconsin was struck down on Wednesday, with US District Judge William Griesbach stating that he found no legal reason to bar five major cities in the state from receiving $6.3 million from the donated funds. However, Griesbach nonetheless wrote in his decision that the private cash could influence the outcome of the election. The risk […]
Square’s recently announced $50 million investment in bitcoin (BTC) is a “strong vote of confidence for the future of bitcoin” and a signal the payments company sees “a lot of potential” for the cryptocurrency as an asset, JPMorgan analysts said in a report dated Tuesday. Source link
Famous rapper and musician Kanye West announced his 2020 United States presidential election campaign on Twitter on 4 July. President Trump said he would watch the run “very closely”. Kanye West is urged voters to support him as a write-in candidate in the musician’s first political ad as part of his presidential run. “We as a people will revive our nation’s commitment to faith”, the ‘ Yeezus’ star said in the clip released on Monday. “By turning to faith, we will be the kind of nation, the kind of people, God intends us to be”, the rapper said in front of […]
A game show that asks audiences whether or not to award someone U.S. citizenship sounds like a twisted kind of dystopia. But for the co-creators of American Dreams, an interactive production staging live online performances through Nov. 15, that unsettling premise is closer than it may seem to the truth. “Every time you vote, you’re choosing how this country operates,” said Tamilla Woodard, director and co-creator of American Dreams, which was originally conceived as an in-person performance and mounted at Cleveland Public Theatre in 2018. Woodard and American Dreams writer and co-creator Leila Buck adapted the show for a virtual run […]
More than 66.6 percent must vote against Bartomeu for him to be removed. If that happens, the club will then have to hold an election to elect a new president. A vote of no confidence against Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu is set to go ahead within the next few weeks after club members reached the required amount of signatures for the motion to go through. The move to replace Bartomeu comes after six-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi sent a burofax in August saying he wanted to leave the club. Messi has since changed his mind amid reported threats of legal action […]
When Scott Forman started a software-assisted letter-writing campaign to get out the vote in 2017, he had no idea it would become the perfect strategy for 2020’s global pandemic election. Today, his nonprofit, Vote Forward, has recruited volunteers to pen over 11.5 million letters and counting that will be sent later this month to unlikely voters across the nation. “It’s one of the biggest tactics in our unusual year where it’s no longer possible to knock on people’s doors,” Forman told The Daily Beast. Older volunteers at higher risk of severe COVID-19 complications are looking for a grassroots organizing method they […]
BERLIN (Sputnik) – The congress of Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU), during which its new leader is supposed to be chosen to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, is at risk of being postponed again due to the resurgence of coronavirus cases, German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung reported on Thursday, citing party sources. The party congress was initially supposed to take place on 25 April in Berlin but then postponed indefinitely in mid-March and eventually rescheduled for 4 December in Stuttgart. It was decided to rescind the congress from the normal three days to just one. The participants will be given special gadgets that […]
Without naming names, editors of the longest-running US medical journal have outright adopted the platform of Democratic candidate Joe Biden, urging Americans to vote out their “political leaders” over their Covid-19 response. Titled ‘Dying in a Leadership Vacuum,’ the editorial – dated October 8 but made public Wednesday – says the US leadership “failed” the Covid-19 test, turning a crisis into a tragedy. While it does not mention the names “Trump” or “Biden” once, its political implications are crystal clear. When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated […]
Asked in a recent interview how things were going as Election Day draws near, a state elections director paused, searching for the right words. “I feel like I’ve got democracy in a boat,” the director told The Daily Beast, “and my staff is bailing water out while people are drilling holes in it.” That official, who spoke anonymously to discuss the situation candidly, sums up how many election officials around the country are feeling right now. In normal times, they’re a group of professionals used to getting the job done with what meager funds they typically get—proud of it, even. Few, […]
The coalition between Netanyahu and Gantz has shown cracks since the moment of its inception, with gaps between the two leaders growing ever wider now, as they struggle to agree on everything from the way Israel should be handling the pandemic to the nation’s budget. For a month and a half Israel has been busy conducting peace talks with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain which has been stealing the headlines and pushing other topics to the sidelines. But now that the deals have been inked and the peace process is starting to yield results in the form of economic agreements, […]
“Get Your Booty To The Poll” is a voting PSA that invokes Atlanta’s strip club culture to appeal to voters, specifically Black men in Georgia often overlooked by the political establishment. Go Vote/screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle caption Go Vote/screenshot by NPR “Get Your Booty To The Poll” is a voting PSA that invokes Atlanta’s strip club culture to appeal to voters, specifically Black men in Georgia often overlooked by the political establishment. Go Vote/screenshot by NPR In an election season where get out the vote messaging is seemingly ceaseless, a 90-second video featuring more than a half dozen dancers […]
The putrid political opportunism and stinking dollops of hypocrisy from the likes of arch Tory unionist and principle-free Ruth Davidson will have convinced hundreds of thousands even more that the crucial Scottish Parliament election in seven months’ time will be a day of reckoning for these parliamentary imposters. They do nothing more and nothing less than talk Scotland down while picking up a hefty and over generous salary and expenses package from the Scottish Parliament. They sneak into the Parliament via the d’Hondt voting system back door because of the silly ‘two votes SNP’ policy but that access point is about […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107734/71/1077347187_0:142:1201:817_1200x675_80_0_0_5770615197adc78a931fd42a44c0f0c4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/viral/202010031080655819-bootyforbiden-youtuber-tana-mongeau-offers-nudes-to-those-whod-vote-trump-out/ In an update to her instagram post, Mongeau argued that people don’t need her “ass” to “know what’s right for America”. Prominent American YouTuber and social media celebrity Tana Mongeau has recently made a peculiar move related to the upcoming presidential election in the United States. According to the Daily Dot, Mongeau first made the announcement on Twitter, and when that tweet got deleted, she reposted “another account’s screenshot” on her Instagram, with the original message saying: “If you send me proof you voted for Biden I’ll send you a nude for […]
Seventeen Republican lawmakers declined on Friday to support a measure in the House of Representatives that condemned the pro-Trump QAnon movement as a “collection of unfounded conspiracy theories.” The resolution, which passed nearly unanimously, urged the FBI and intelligence agencies to focus on the threats from fringe conspiracy groups, which have grown in mass as the election has neared. All told, 371 members voted in favor of the resolution—including 225 Democrats and 146 Republicans—and 18 members voted against it. Of those 18, 17 were Republican and one was an independent: Rep. Justin Amash, a libertatrian from Michigan. The resolution, which doesn’t […]
HOUSTON – Texas Democrats are planning to take Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) to federal court over his controversial move on Thursday to shutter locations across the state where voters can drop off their mail-in ballots to be counted for the general election. “We’re in a big war right now with the state of Texas,” Gilberto Hinojosa, the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, told The Daily Beast. “We’re probably going to be filing suit on that in the next day or so.” Abbott announced Thursday that effective immediately until the Nov. 3 election, each county in Texas can only operate one […]
In late October 2004, South Park aired one of its most iconic episodes—a pre-election installment called “Douche and Turd,” which crystallized the show’s nihilism, political and otherwise. The douche and turd were an on-the-nose symbol for the idea that in any given election, both politicians tend to be equally unappealing. But on Wednesday night, the long-running animated show defied its central tenet—the one insisting that caring at all is the stupidest position to take in any argument. And it did so in a way that one might imagine could perplex its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, in their younger years. […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation had earlier launched a probe after several mail-in ballots cast for Donald Trump in the upcoming 2020 US presidential election were found discarded in the state of Pennsylvania. The FBI-probed incident regarding “a small number” of discarded mail-in ballots in the state of Pennsylvania appears to have been the result of an administrative error by a temporary contractor, according to the Luzerne County Manager C. David Pedri, reported ABC News. Pedri said in a statement issued on Friday that a temporary independent contractor, employed to sort mail at the elections bureau, had “incorrectly discarded into the […]
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson addresses the virtual Democratic National Convention on August 20. The convention, which was once expected to draw 50,000 people to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is now taking place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. Handout/DNCC via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Handout/DNCC via Getty Images Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson addresses the virtual Democratic National Convention on August 20. The convention, which was once expected to draw 50,000 people to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is now taking place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. Handout/DNCC via Getty Images Early voting via absentee ballot began in Michigan on […]
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen during Soyuz qualification exams on Wednesday at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center just outside Moscow. Rubins plans to cast her next vote from space – more than 200 miles above Earth.× Andrey Shelepin/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrey Shelepin/AP NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen during Soyuz qualification exams on Wednesday at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center just outside Moscow. Rubins plans to cast her next vote from space – more than 200 miles above Earth.× Andrey Shelepin/AP On Election Day, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will be more than 200 miles above her nearest polling […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. Celebrities Really Want Our Attention The celebrities, bless their hearts, are doing their best. They are armed with a powerful artillery of good intentions, paving, if not the road to hell, then to my last damn nerve with them. And so it’s not exactly fair to be mad as much as just exhausted, because we get it. We really do. Who doesn’t survey the world around […]
After narrowly winning a February 2014 Swiss referendum seeking immigration quotas to limit free movement from EU countries, the Swiss People’s party witnessed their demands being eventually watered down amid Bern’s lengthy talks with Brussels; the party has condemned the compromise which was struck with the EU as a “betrayal”. Switzerland will vote in a referendum on 27 September that is set to decide whether it will end its agreement with the EU on the free movement of people, reported The Guardian. The vote was called by the largest party in the Swiss parliament, the right-wing, anti-immigration Swiss People’s party (SVP), […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/18/1080564737_0:0:1325:747_1200x675_80_0_0_a7ba258446018cfdda62f34864cbfb11.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009241080565060-vote-him-out-trump-met-with-boos-while-paying-respects-to-ruth-bader-ginsburg—videos/ While paying respects to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the top of the US Supreme Court Building’s steps on Thursday, US President Donald Trump was met with booing and a chorus of “Vote him out” and “Honor her wish” chants by a nearby crowd. Trump, wearing a dark blue face covering while standing next to first lady Melania Trump, paid his respects to Ginsburg, whose body is lying in repose for the second day at the Supreme Court. While he was doing so, protesters standing across the street from the nation’s highest […]
A worker prepares absentee ballots for mailing at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, N.C., earlier this month. Gerry Broome/AP hide caption toggle caption Gerry Broome/AP A worker prepares absentee ballots for mailing at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, N.C., earlier this month. Gerry Broome/AP Voters in a number of swing states this November will have more leeway in getting their mail ballots back in time to count, should rule changes announced in the past week hold up to legal challenges. But the changes could delay the reporting of election results and possibly set up court […]
Later this week, President Donald Trump is expected to announce his choice for Supreme Court justice to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on 18 September due to cancer complications. Democrats insist that the new justice should be nominated after the 3 November presidential election. The American news website Axios has quoted finance experts as saying that US President Donald Trump’s resolve to nominate a new Supreme Court justice in the coming days may add to Wall Street’s concerns over market volatility before the 3 November election. Priya Misra, head of global rates strategy with the Canadian TD Securities investment bank, […]
Robert David Steele is the conceptualizer of integrated election reform (#UNRIG) and the integration of holistic analytics, true cost economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) such that we can achieve a prosperous world at peace at 10-20% the cost of the failed Western economic model burdened by banks and lawyers. A former US spy and co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, he is today the Chief Enabling Officer (CeO) of Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3 and now also CeO of Open Source Everything (OSE Inc.). He continues his education with non-fiction reading, posting over 2,000 reviews across 98 categories; […]
Billionaire ex-presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg has raised over $16 million to pay the fees keeping some felons out of Florida’s voting booths, touting the apparent votes-for-cash trade as a cost-effective route to victory. The money will go to pay off court fees, restitution costs, and other fines for 32,000 black and Hispanic Florida voters with felony convictions, clearing the way for their return to participatory democracy – and, the former NYC mayor hopes, guaranteeing a win for Democratic candidate Joe Biden in a critical swing state. While convicted felons who’ve served their sentences have been allowed to vote in Florida since […]
In June, Facebook announced the launch of a voting information campaign in the United States to boost voter registration, in a bid to stimulate electoral participation in the upcoming 3 November presidential election. The social media giant also vowed to monitor and remove misinformation and hate speech from its platform. As the United States prepares to celebrate National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, Facebook Inc. announced on Monday that it has helped 2.5 million American people register for the 2020 US presidential election via its Facebook, Instagram and Messenger platforms. The company said in a news release that the figure was […]
Built like MBS himself, wide and soft… By the Senior Editor Every 4 years Americans demonstrate their knowledge of leadership and the character of their own existence. Each year tens of millions of Americans demonstrate significant sub-human behaviors. Insectiods may well be among us, the Late Show may say it better than I can but blaming evil aliens pleases readership so “I am going to go there…girl”: America had several good leaders in the 20th century. Certainly FDR was exceptional, compassionate, strong, he saved America from starvation at the hands of the GOP/Rothschild financial cabal much as Barack Obama saved the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107607/63/1076076364_0:101:1920:1181_1200x675_80_0_0_96795bef8ba20eacff868cf817e816ba.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Evgeny Mikhaylov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009211080522156-f-police-f-trump-vote-jesus-man-arrested-in-new-jersey-for-slashing-police-car-tires/ A suspect left notes with profanities on the police vehicles, while also scratching “FU” on the hood of one of the cars. A New Jersey man carrying a kitchen knife was arrested on Friday for slashing police car tires and leaving a note saying “F*** Police, F*** Trump, Vote Jesus”. The suspect was later identified as 25-year-old Mazin Musbah, of Maywood. According to the official statement, during the arrest, Musbah claimed that “the message needed to be sent” and he “personally wanted to deliver the message”. Saddle Brook PD: Maywood Man Slashes […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/14/1080520192_0:114:3073:1842_1200x675_80_0_0_ed323b11b735b542ed2be388b263bca0.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009201080520169-pelosi-not-ruling-out-impeachment-effort-to-stop-senate-vote-on-supreme-court/ The US president earlier spoke against Democrats’ calls for postponing the vote until the November election, citing his constitutional authority to make a nomination to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not ruled out launching impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump in a bid to prevent the Senate from voting on the Supreme Court nominee. On ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday, host anchor George Stephanopoulos asked the House speaker if she considers impeachment a possible way of “stalling and preventing the Senate from acting on this nomination”. “Well, we have […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump says he does not agree with Senator Susan Collins’ call for waiting until after the November election to fill the Supreme Court vacancy after the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Trump said that he was going to nominate a new Supreme Court justice next week and that he did not agree with Collins’ stance on the issue. “I totally disagree with her, we have an obligation, we won, and we have an obligation as the winners to pick who we want. That’s not the next president”, Trump said, adding […]
Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to reporters about the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg upon arrival at New Castle County Airport in Delaware. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to reporters about the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg upon arrival at New Castle County Airport in Delaware. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Updated at 12:15 a.m. ET The Senate shouldn’t take up the vacancy on the Supreme Court opened by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg until […]
Germany’s money-hemorrhaging effort to build a sleek new airport for Berlin might have convinced one political party that a blockchain for megaproject transparency was in order, but on Thursday the center-right Free Democrats (FDP) proved unable to persuade anyone else. Source link
Miriam Robles, 24, says she envisions the day she becomes a U.S. citizen and gets to vote the way other people fantasize about their wedding day. Miriam Robles hide caption toggle caption Miriam Robles Miriam Robles, 24, says she envisions the day she becomes a U.S. citizen and gets to vote the way other people fantasize about their wedding day. Miriam Robles These days, Miriam Robles spends a lot of time on the phone. In between her day job as an environmental justice organizer at Mi Familia Vota, a Latino political advocacy group that opposes President Trump, Robles phone-banks to register […]
Most Mass Shootings In America Since Civil War. MAGA Virus Deaths 194,666. Donald Tunt's America… 👇 pic.twitter.com/IyV556gatw — RealDuckFrumpf (@RFrumpf) September 14, 2020 * Source link
Councillors on Scotland’s Shetland Islands archipelago have voted in favor of exploring “financial and political self-determination” amid growing public funding cuts under Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP government. The council voted 18 to two in favour of seeking increased independence against a backdrop of significant unease at the direction Scotland is taking in recent months, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Brexit deliberations. The motion, signed by council leader Steven Coutts, states that “more and more decision making [is] being centralised and public funding being consistently reduced … seriously threatening the prosperity, and even basic sustainability, of Shetland.” “The Shetland Islands […]
Republican Senator Ben Sasse is at the center of a national online discussion after his ideas to reform the US Senate according to the Founding Fathers’ supposed wishes were critiqued as both undemocratic and simply “weird.” Sasse’s Wall Street Journal opinion piece, published on Tuesday and titled “Make the Senate Great Again,” most notably made the case for repealing the 17th amendment of the constitution. This change would put an end to US senators being elected by statewide popular vote. The Nebraska legislator would like the country to go back to the pre-1912 amendment rule, where state legislatures voted on the […]
United States lawmakers are in a deadlock over the proposed fifth funding package to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic. With Republicans demanding a “skinny” bill of limited funding and Democrats wanting substantial support. Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on Tuesday that a vote will be forced on the GOP’s coronavirus relief package following weeks of closed-door negotiations between Republican senators and the White House. “Today, the Senate Republican majority is introducing a new targeted proposal, focused on some of the very most urgent healthcare, education, and economic issues. … I will be moving immediately today to set up a floor vote […]
Michael Cohen claims in his new book that Donald Trump repeatedly insulted minorities during his 2016 campaign and dismissed them as “not my people,” according to an excerpt of Cohen’s book published by The Washington Post late Saturday. Cohen’s Disloyal: A Memoir describes how Trump also said he’d “never get the Hispanic vote” because “like the Blacks, they’re too stupid to vote for Trump.” Trump’s “low opinion of all Black folks” focused most viciously on former President Barack Obama, according to Cohen, the president’s former personal lawyer who is serving a three-year prison sentence for campaign finance violations. The Commander in […]
The embattled leadership of the U.S. Postal Service warned its elections-integrity task force on Thursday about “issues in the supply chain,” particularly from printers, that risk voters not getting ballots and election mail, according to a recording of the inaugural meeting of the task force acquired by The Daily Beast. “With the dramatic increase of ballots compared to previous elections, in some cases a tenfold increase in the number of ballots in some states, there are some issues in the supply chain,” a senior USPS official informed the group, which consisted of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and other senior USPS officials. […]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson once again engaged in some thinly veiled dog-whistling on Thursday night, insisting that Democrats are trying to “get out the vote” by funding “race riots” or offering “mentally ill homeless” people “free cigarettes.” Carlson, whose racist rhetoric and fear-mongering over Black Lives Matter has caused internal strife at Fox, kicked off Thursday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight by saying the Democratic Party has always had problems turning out its voters. (Forty percent of the Democratic electorate is non-white, according to Pew Research.) “On average, Democratic voters are much less likely than Republicans to vote,” the conservative […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/03/1080361413_0:0:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_ad621a576a49bde88ae41c5558b215cb.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/cartoons/202009031080361443-vote-early-vote-often/ After months of complaining about alleged future election fraud by the Democrats against him, US President Donald Trump this week told North Carolinian voters to go ahead and try and vote twice. That’s illegal – each person can only vote once. Maybe it’s best not to take political advice from infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone! On Wednesday, during a campaign trail speech in Wilmington, North Carolina, Trump told his supporters to try and vote twice in the November presidential election, suggesting they go to the polls even after voting by mail to “make sure […]
Dissociated Press President Donald Trump is facing a storm of criticism after calling on dead people to vote for him “early and often.” Responding to critics, Trump explained that he was not urging dead people to cast “just ten or twenty” votes each, which would be illegal, and might not work anyway. Instead, he said, each corpse should cast “hundreds or thousands” of votes as a safeguard to make sure that at least one of them is counted. Trump explained that deceased people are routinely discriminated against in the voting process. “That’s one of the Democrats’ ways of rigging elections,” he […]
US President Donald Trump has proposed that voters in North Carolina cast their ballots twice to test the state’s mail-in voting system, prompting criticism that he promoted the same “fraud” his detractors insist was impossible. “Well, they’ll go out and they’ll vote, and they’re going to have to go check their vote by going to the poll and voting that way, because if it tabulates, then they won’t be able to do that,” the president told reporters during a visit to North Carolina on Wednesday when asked about his confidence in mail-in voting. Let them send it in and let them […]
Fed up with decades of two-party rule, hundreds of thousands of Americans tuned in for the People’s Convention, where they voted to form a new political alternative unbeholden to corporate power or the military-industrial complex. The event drew more than 400,000 viewers to its livestream on Sunday, organizers said. It continued to trend on Twitter through more than 5 hours of speeches that culminated in a vote to create a “major new corporate-free political party in America.” Among the speakers at the convention were several disgruntled Democrats, from Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2020 national co-chair Nina Turner to a candidate in this […]
Every four years, during the procedural announcement of delegate vote tallies at both parties’ nominating conventions, Americans are reminded of something I’m sure the vast majority of them forget all about in between conventions: the very existence of the five unincorporated United States territories–Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Territories that are under United States sovereignty, inhabited by about 3.5 million people who are United States citizens and nationals, but, inexplicably, will have no right to vote for the president come November. Ask any mainlander to find these five territories on a map […]
Dr. Chris Hoover (left) and Dr. Connie Liu (right) walk through their home with their children Taro, 3, and Hiro, 4 months, in Gallup, N.M. On a short reporting trip across the Southwest, NPR met very different families and asked them the same simple question: What’s been keeping you at night? Adria Malcolm for NPR hide caption toggle caption Adria Malcolm for NPR Dr. Chris Hoover (left) and Dr. Connie Liu (right) walk through their home with their children Taro, 3, and Hiro, 4 months, in Gallup, N.M. On a short reporting trip across the Southwest, NPR met very different families […]
The critical vote comes amid market chaos due to to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen numerous budget and international carriers face plummeting revenues and weak passenger volumes. Virgin Atlantic is now undergoing a crucial vote from trade creditors owed £50,000 or more on whether it will receive a £1.2bn restructuring plan, UK media reported on Tuesday. The vote comes as Crawley-based carrier warned it may run out of money at the end of September if voters failed to approve the restructuring plan. The news comes as the airline suffers from a lack of passengers amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, […]
Tennessee To Strip Right To Vote From Protesters August 24, 2020 Tennessee To Strip Right To Vote From Protesters2020-08-242020-08-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/black-lives-matter-protesters-at-tennessee-capitol-building.jpg200px200px Above photo: Black Lives Matter protesters are seen marching upon the Tennessee State Capitol building on June 04, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. George Floyd’s death set off days and nights of protests as its the most recent in a series of deaths of African Americans by the police. Jason Kempin/Getty Images. ‘If our votes didn’t matter they wouldn’t work so hard to silence us.’ Tennessee protesters will face harsh penalties, including losing the right to vote, as punishment for participating in protests under […]
On Night 1 of the 2020 Republican National Convention, acolyte after high-profile acolyte lined up to lavish praise on President Donald Trump for standing tall between the American people and a Marxist, politically correct hellscape. They just couldn’t seem to figure out why, exactly, he was so great. Trump was alternately touted as a true champion of the Black community—but also as the only person standing in the way of the death of the “suburbs” at the hands of “low-quality apartments” and radical Marxist mobs. He was cast as a visionary leader who has made and kept his promises of law […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Meghan Markle: “We can make the difference in this election” The Daily Beast reported last month that Meghan Markle was planning to be heavily involved in Get Out The Vote messaging, and this week Meghan made her strongest remarks yet about the need to vote in November’s presidential election. Her comments have provoked (yet another) debate about how politically outspoken she can be, even if she is no longer […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/12/1080201986_0:179:3072:1907_1200x675_80_0_0_0a6e3d9ad12ce2f72fd34a2a48c19f94.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008221080241989-white-house-advises-trump-to-veto-bill-to-fund-postal-service-ahead-of-saturday-vote/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The White House Office of Management and Budget in a letter said it will advise President Donald Trump to veto legislation to fund the US Postal Service. “If HR 8015 were presented to the President, his advisers would recommend that he veto the bill”, the agency said in the letter on Friday. The White House said it opposes the bill because it claims it would place counterproductive restrictions on the US Postal Service’s limited operational flexibilities and would do nothing to improve the agency. On Saturday, the House of Representatives will […]
Detroit Teachers Vote Overwhelmingly To Authorize Safety Strike By Detroit Federation of Teachers. August 20, 2020 Detroit Teachers Vote Overwhelmingly To Authorize Safety Strike2020-08-202020-08-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/detroit.jpg200px200px Above photo: Detroit Free Press. During an emergency special meeting Wednesday, members of the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) voted to authorize a potential safety strike aimed at pressing the Detroit Public Schools Community District to implement basic science-based safety protocols before schools reopen during the continuing coronavirus pandemic. The vote authorizes the DFT executive board to call a safety strike if the union and the school district do not reach an agreement. Members voted 91 percent […]
On September 11, 2017, Jemele Hill tweeted, “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounding himself w/ other white supremacists.” And, even though the 99-character pronouncement came a few weeks after Trump referred to a group of white nationalist protesters as “very fine people,” pearls were firmly clutched. A vocal faction of conservatives, including the president and his then-press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, called on ESPN to fire Hill. They publicly censured her instead, calling Hill’s actions “inappropriate” and strong-arming the SC6 co-host into issuing a half-hearted apology to the Worldwide Leader. Five months—and one tweet criticizing Cowboys’ owner […]
One hundred years to the day after women first won the right to vote in America, and the country is in a weird, dark place. There’s a kind of brutal symmetry between 1920, when the mass exodus of women from the home and into the workforce supercharged the movement, and 2020, as the pandemic forces working women back into the home. It’s all so retro. Even Kamala Harris, the first Black and South Asian woman on a major party’s presidential ticket, has to weather viciously misogynistic attacks while also pandering to 19th century notions of womanhood. Harris—who was 49 years old […]
When Michelle Obama’s stylist called Chari Cuthbert a few weeks ago to order a custom necklace with charms spelling out the word VOTE, the designer was overjoyed. “But we had no idea where she was going to wear it,” Cuthbert told The Daily Beast. “We just knew that she wanted it.” It wasn’t until Monday afternoon that Cuthbert learned that the former first lady was wearing the $430 ByChari gold chain—a literal statement necklace—for her Democratic National Convention speech. “There was a snippet from her DNC speech on CNN and my mom sent it to me,” Cuthbert said. “I couldn’t believe […]
In May we reported on our concerns with contact tracing and our loss of freedom as a result of this practice. We reported that contact tracers will track you and tell you what you can and cannot do. You will be a puppet of the state. You must do what they say for the greater good. Freedom will be lost forever. We reported that Democrat states were promoting the idea of “contact tracing” and when you realize what it is, you will think you are living in Orwell’s 1984. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot cheered the news that Chicago was hiring 600 […]
Protect The Vote And End Privatization Of The Postal Service By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. August 16, 2020 | Featured Campaign, Newsletter Protect The Vote And End Privatization Of The Postal Service2020-08-162020-08-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/photo_1-e1597607266401.jpg200px200px As we warned earlier in the year, the US Postal Service is failing due to a long term effort to weaken it plus the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic, recession and intentional efforts by the Trump administration to suppress the vote. Members of Congress and state leaders are starting to take notice because of the magnitude of the crisis and public outcry, particularly over valid concerns […]
Iran envoy to UN: Any return of sanctions will be met severely by Tehran by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: We knew the US was going to lose this vote along with everybody else. Pompeo was just going through the motions, as we can expect to US to announce sanctions on anyone doing any arms sales to Iran. I can’t image anyone doing that who was not already on the list except for some of the EU countries. China and Russia of course voted no, with eleven abstaining that included Britain, France, and Germany The […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Meghan: “Make all of our voices heard” Before Meghan Markle spoke to the 19th*’s Emily Ramshaw on Friday about online “toxicity,” racism, and fighting for change she told Marie Claire that voting was a “fundamental human right” that men and women had “put their lives on the line for.” Source link
United Nations Security Council members attend a meeting at UN headquarters in New York, December 18, 2018. (Reuters file photo) The United Nations Security Council has rejected a US resolution to extend an arms embargo on Iran that is due to expire in October, as Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a summit of world leaders to avoid “confrontation” over an American threat to trigger a return of all UN sanctions on the Islamic Republic. “The Security Council’s failure to act decisively in defense of international peace and security is inexcusable,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on […]
A voter inserts a ballot in a drive-up drop box last week in Renton, Wash., in that state’s primary. With more states expanding absentee voting due to the pandemic, the use of drop boxes is growing and leading to legal challenges from some Republicans. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images A voter inserts a ballot in a drive-up drop box last week in Renton, Wash., in that state’s primary. With more states expanding absentee voting due to the pandemic, the use of drop boxes is growing and leading to legal challenges from some […]
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best will be resigning on Wednesday morning, following the city council voting to defund the police amid massive unrest. The news of Best’s resignation came one day after dozens of businesses were looted once again. Brandi Kruse of Seattle’s Q13 tweeted, “Seattle Police Chief @CarmenBest is going to resign, two sources familiar with her decision confirm. The announcement is imminent, I’m told. There is an 11am presser scheduled for tomorrow with the Mayor. Unclear if announcement will take place then.” Q13 reports, “the council on Monday approved proposals that would reduce the police department by up to […]
Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Perry Pendley speaking at a conference for journalists in Fort Collins, Colo., last October. Matthew Brown/AP hide caption toggle caption Matthew Brown/AP Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Perry Pendley speaking at a conference for journalists in Fort Collins, Colo., last October. Matthew Brown/AP Republicans up for reelection in key western states could be facing an uncomfortable vote soon as President Trump’s controversial nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management is expected to come before the Senate for confirmation. Last week, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee received final documents and […]
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has secured a landslide election victory, according to preliminary results released by the Central Electoral Commission. The aftermath has been marred by anti-government protests. Lukashenko won re-election with 80 percent of the vote, while the main opposition candidate, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, received nearly 10 percent of the ballots cast. The preliminary results were released after massive protests broke out in Minsk and other cities during the night. Police used tear gas, water cannons, and other crowd control methods to disperse the demonstrators. Also on rt.com Violent clashes with riot police in Belarus as protesters rally over projected Lukashenko […]
Donald Trump has relished making mail-in voting a boogeyman during the coronavirus pandemic, denouncing the method routinely as part of his longstanding and evidence-free crusade over alleged voter fraud. But that was before he realized how much Republican voters had started to listen to him. Now, with his re-election chances on line, the president is embracing the practice in the crucial swing state of Florida. Within the senior ranks of Team Trump’s political and field operations, there have been significant concerns for weeks that the president and GOP’s crusade against voting-by-mail could actually backfire and result in a depression of absentee […]
A TGP reader Gusano sent this to us this morning. Gusano lives in Broward County Florida and he received a letter from a Democrat in Washington state encouraging him to ask local officials to vote by mail. The letter from “Judy” even includes instructions on how to apply for mail in ballots. Trump was right. TRENDING: Teen Activist Who Rallied to Defund Police and Remove Police from Schools Is Shot Dead in Chicago The left is pushing this all over the country because they know it is easier to cheat that way. “Judy” certainly has no interest in this person’s well-being. […]
Radical Democrat Governor Sisolak and Nevada Democrats called a special session this past weekend with no public present and inside of 24 hours they rammed through mail-in voting and ballot harvesting. Democrats did this during the special leglislative session. The Democrats are going to cheat at all costs to keep the state from going to Donald Trump! The new Democrat law allows people not related to or friends with elderly voters to fill out their ballots and turn them in to be counted! TRENDING: “Why Are You Going Out of State? I Can See It at the Airports!” -Ugh- Watch NM […]
This spring, I thrilled my newfound liberal readers by voting for Joe Biden in the Super Tuesday primary. Unfortunately, the honeymoon was short-lived. The praise ended almost immediately, when they read past the headline and discovered my plans to (again) abstain from voting in the general election. With less than 100 days left, it’s probably time to more fully explain my rationale. Why is it that I, an outspoken Never Trump conservative well versed in Trump’s failings, am unwilling to pull the lever for Uncle Joe? Two significant reasons have stayed my hand: one is seen, and one is unseen—but both […]
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on July 30. Yuri Gripas/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Yuri Gripas/Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on July 30. Yuri Gripas/Getty Images President Trump’s claims about why November’s election could be marred and illegitimate shifted again Thursday, after he walked back his desire to potentially delay voting. Trump falsely claimed that the U.S. is sending out “hundreds of millions of universal mail-in ballots” and also repeated a conspiracy theory about foreign countries counterfeiting ballots. “We are sending out hundreds of millions of universal mail-in ballots,” Trump said. “Where […]