President Biden went further than he has publicly before in firmly aligning himself with the effort to unionize Amazon.
“Amazon, here we come,” Biden told a cheering audience of North America’s Building Trades Unions members Wednesday.
The President’s remarks follow the Amazon Labor Union’s election victory at one of the company’s warehouses in State Island, New York last week.
Continue reading “Biden Cheers On Union Movement: ‘Amazon, Here We Come’”The past days have been filled with horrifying images of murdered and maimed Ukrainians, abused under Russia’s occupation.
Continue reading “Russia’s ‘Denazification’ Strategy Emerges, Including Specific Ukrainian Targets”Out of the blue the government of Naftali Bennett appears to be on the brink of collapse as one of the members of his own party, Idit Silman, has moved to the opposition. The development is part of the on-going splintering of Bennett’s own party, Yamina. But a catalyst or trigger appears to have been opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu offering her a ministry in a new Netanyahu-led right-wing government.
For now, the coalition government has lost its majority. But the Knesset isn’t currently in session. So there’s no immediate way for the opposition to topple it. And it would be difficult for Netanyahu to form a majority himself. So this likely means new elections.
Last month, staff lawyers in the Arizona legislature informed Republican lawmakers that a new proof-of-citizenship requirement to register to vote blatantly contradicted Supreme Court precedent — precedent made when another Arizona law was checked by the Court just a few years prior.
Continue reading “Arizona Is Daring SCOTUS To Revisit Proof Of Citizenship To Register To Vote”This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It originally appeared on The Conversation.
In February 2022, evangelical leader Franklin Graham called on his followers to pray for Vladimir Putin. His tweet acknowledged that it might seem a “strange request” given that Russia was clearly about to invade Ukraine. But Graham asked that believers “pray that God would work in his heart so that war could be avoided at all cost.”
The backlash was fast and direct. Graham had not solicited prayers for Ukraine, some observers commented. And he had rarely called on believers to pray for U.S. President Joe Biden.
Continue reading “Russia’s War Tests Evangelicals’ Longtime Support Of Putin As An Anti-LGBTQ World Leader”In the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine we saw what appeared to be almost universal global condemnation of Russia’s actions. There was that lopsided UN vote condemning the action in which only four other nations, all pariahs or under de facto Russian occupation, took Russia’s side. But over time, a somewhat different story has emerged. Russia has very, very few backers. But there’s a big chunk of the world, likely the majority of the world’s population, living in countries where the governments basically do not want to take sides.
Continue reading “US/EU vs Russia/China and Then Everyone Else”Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberals in a dissent Wednesday perhaps most striking for its final paragraph: a critique of the conservative majority’s frequent use of the shadow docket, in which Justice Elena Kagan writes for the group that “the Court goes astray.”
Continue reading “Roberts Joins Liberals In Opinion Criticizing Conservative Majority’s Use Of Shadow Docket”Disaster has struck in one of Georgia’s GOP primary races.
Continue reading “Gingrich Records Himself Flipping Endorsement To Trump-Backed Candidate, Then Insists He Didn’t Do That”A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Apparently not content with hurling accusations of being pro-pedophilia, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) found a new angle with which to smear Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson.
After accusing Republican senators of being pro-pedophilia for supporting Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson (here’s how that awful GOP talking point started), far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday shifted her disgusting rhetoric away from her own party to where the GOP actually wants it to go: Democrats.
Anyway, I’ll just leave this here:
The House Jan. 6 Committee held an interview with former White House adviser Ivanka Trump, the ex-president’s eldest daughter, for about eight hours on Tuesday after her husband and fellow White House adviser, Jared Kushner, was in the hot seat last week. They both testified voluntarily.
After a looooong court battle, the House Jan. 6 Committee has obtained a tranche of ex-Trump legal adviser John Eastman’s emails in which he allegedly discusses with fellow Trump cronies how to maneuver the courts to overturn the 2020 election.
Kelly Ruh, an alderperson from De Pere, Wisconsin who was on the slate of sham electors for Trump in the 2020 election and has been subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 Committee, lost her reelection bid on Tuesday.
Oklahoma’s Republican-controlled legislature on Tuesday approved a bill that would make it illegal to perform an abortion unless the pregnant person’s life is in danger. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) is expected to sign it into law.
“A Quarter of Africans Face Food-Security Crisis Partly Due to Ukraine War, Red Cross Says” – The Wall Street Journal
The White House will push back federal student loan payments from May 1 to Aug. 31.
The fetus-hoarding saga got even wilder yesterday, when the anti-abortion activists involved in the incident held a press conference giving an explanation (or what they claimed to be an explanation, anyway) of how five fetuses ended up in one of the activists’ apartment.
Ohio state Rep. Jean Schmidt (R) has introduced her version of Florida’s ban on classroom discussions on LGBTQ+ issues, but she didn’t seem very eager to discuss it publicly on Tuesday:
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin found himself in a heated clash with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) after the GOP congressman rehashed right-wing grievances accusing the military of being more focused on “wokeism” instead of defense during a House Armed Services hearing on Tuesday.
Continue reading “Defense Secretary Hits Back At Gaetz’s Accusation Of ‘Wokeism’ In The Military”
