Month: October 2020

In the wake of Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando, LGBTQ advocates and allies are demanding the violence—a targeted attack on a club that was a safe space for LGBTQ people—be called out as a hate crime. “This isn’t about LGBT people taking ownership of the pain and anguish,” Guardian columnist Owen Jones wrote on Monday….

Bernie Sanders is reportedly poised to endorse Hillary Clinton for president at their first joint campaign appearance on Tuesday. Both teams confirmed Monday that the Vermont senator would join the former secretary of state during a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where they would “discuss their commitment to building an America that is stronger together…

After several rounds of voting Saturday afternoon, an effort by progressive Democrats to abolish what they see as the anti-democratic superdelegate process was defeated. The amendment, co-sponsored by 52 members of the Democratic Party Rules Committee, was defeated when 108 members voted against and just 58 voted in favor.  Though a stinging defeat for those…

Bernie Sanders has again urged his supporters to back Hillary Clinton, writing Friday that “Donald Trump would be a disaster and an embarrassment for our country if he were elected president.” In an op-ed published at the Los Angeles Times, Sanders contrasts the two leading candidates on everything from tax policy to climate change to…

Setting a chilling precedent for human rights defenders worldwide, a British activist on Tuesday was convicted of criminal defamation and cyber crimes by a Thai court for his work exposing the abuse of migrant workers at a pineapple processing plant. Andy Hall, with the Migrant Worker Rights Network, had contributed to the 2013 report Cheap…

Two moderate House Republicans announced surprise retirements this week, quickening the pulse of Republicans waiting to see if a wave of retirements will jeopardize the party’s path to holding the House majority in 2018.  As President Trump fuels uncertainty in Washington and his low approval rating raises question about whether the GOP can hold the…

Tuesday marks judgment day in Alabama, where Sen. Luther StrangeLuther Johnson StrangeThe biggest political upsets of the decade State ‘certificate of need’ laws need to go GOP frets over nightmare scenario for Senate primaries MORE and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore are locked in a tough primary runoff. The winner of Tuesday’s…

State champion Coltan Laganiere of Kasson-Mantorville will be heading to South Dakota State University following his upcoming senior season. Laganiere is a two-time state placewinner. He won the 138 pound Class AA state championship as a junior. He placed fourth at 125 pounds as a freshman. Laganiere is projected to wrestle at 141 or 149…

The U.S. Commission on Presidential Debates on Monday released the polls it will use to determine which candidates will take to the stage in September for their first presidential debate—and shut out third-party candidates in the process. The Hill reports: As of Monday, neither Libertarian Gary Johnson nor the Green Party’s Jill Stein had enough…

New reporting this week further exposes how Investor State Dispute Settlement, or ISDS—a legal system enshrined in thousands of global treaties and pacts, including the pending Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)—empowers corporations and rich investors at the expense of citizens and democracy. Under the ISDS framework, as Common Dreams has reported, multinationals are granted a parallel…