Politics

Earlier this month, Erdogan won a referendum that will move Turkey further toward becoming an authoritarian state under his rule. The vote was close and the results were disputed. Trump, ever the champion of democracy, called to congratulate Erdogan. Perhaps he thought this would help in the effort to get his …

Freedom Rider Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was arrested on June 8, 1961 About the film: “An Ordinary Hero” is the amazing true story of one woman’s courage to help change the world. By the time she was 19 years old, legendary civil rights activist  Joan Trumpauer Mulholland participated in over three …

Bernie Sanders and Mark Jacobson teamed up for a Climate March message. According to a study published Monday by the National Academy of Science, climate change is already causing severe weather events like prolonged droughts, record-high temperatures, and rising sea levels because of melting Artic sea ice. And while everyone …

Friday Apr 28, 2017 · 11:37 AM PDT 2017/04/28 · 11:37 Senator Elizabeth Warren Senator Elizabeth Warren x Trump looks to 2020, suggesting Warren could be Democratic nominee: “it may be Pocahontas and she is not big for the NRA.” — Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) April 28, 2017 x Imagine if …

Ryan and Trump. Out of their element. Campaign Action After seven years of dithering around and using every trick in the book to find ways to repeal and defund Obamacare, Republicans got caught with their pants around their ankles when it came time to do that other thing they promised—replacing …

Saturday Apr 29, 2017 · 2:30 PM PDT 2017/04/29 · 14:30 As of yet there’s few crowd estimates from today’s marches, but the Washington, D.C. march al one has been estimated at about 150,000. Some images from across the country: {{backgroundUrl avatar_large}} Joined: {{created_at}} Story Count: {{n_stories}} Comment Count: {{n_comments}} Popular Tags: …

Saturday Apr 29, 2017 · 8:00 PM PDT 2017/04/29 · 20:00 A new study finds that the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the Earth—and that as a result, past predictions of sea level rise during this century may need to be revised substantially upwards. The findings …

When scientists began frantically copying climate data against the possibility that an EPA website would no longer provide access, it seemed a bit ridiculous. Even for a regime stocked with climate change deniers, removing the site seemed just too blatant, too mustache-twirling stock villainous, to be real. And in fact, just …

New York construction workers rally for safer working conditions In 2015, 4,836 workers were killed on the job and another 50,000 to 60,000 workers died from work-related illnesses, according to the AFL-CIO’s Death on the Job report, released this week in observance of Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28. That …

Spoiler alert: Money. Another day, another grift. The EPA’s Energy Star program has been, for consumers, a raging success. A label, right there on each of the displayed home appliances in a store, tells you flat-out how much electricity your latest purchase is going to use and what it’s going …