Illinois passes record $53.1B budget, largest in history The new budget also includes $10 million for a new program to pay off the medical debt of low-income ... The budget also contains $500 million to boost quantum computing as part of an initiative to ... 05/29/2024 - 2:13 am | View Link
Illinois’ new $53.1B budget passes Senate: eliminates grocery tax, adds child tax credit, migrant funding The Democrat-run Illinois Senate approved Gov. JB Pritzker’s proposed 2025 Fiscal Year budget with a vote of 38-21 on Sunday. The new budget will cost Illinois ... 05/27/2024 - 4:54 am | View Link
California Climate Programs Could Lose Billions in Funding Because of Budget Deficit Gavin Newsom to support a bond measure to help pay for billions of dollars in climate programs endangered by the state’s record deficit and deepening budget cuts. The lobbying comes as an array of ... 05/25/2024 - 7:30 pm | View Link
Noncitizen voting, already illegal in federal elections, becomes a centerpiece of 2024 GOP messaging Republicans are introducing legislation and fall ballot measures, ensuring the issue will remain in voters' minds in the months ahead. 05/21/2024 - 12:30 am | View Link
The Latest | Judge is sorting out the final stretch of Trump's hush money trial Judge Juan Merchan says it is challenging to manage the trial schedule with myriad upcoming off days. There’s no court Friday so Trump can attend his son’s high school graduation, ... 05/16/2024 - 9:37 am | View Link
CNN's Erin Burnett talks to Michael Cohen, former Trump attorney and a key witness in Trump's hush money trial, about the guilty verdict in the criminal case.
“Look at me, I’m MTG. Lousy with stupidity,” he sings. “Trashy as hell, I can’t math, read or spell, oh well! I’m MTG!”
Source: The Wrap
After going eight months between parody songs, Randy Rainbow is back just 10 days after his last one with a new tune, this time targeting Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Instead of starting his video as an anchor for “Fake News Channel,” Rainbow instead appears as an anchor for “60 MAGATS,” joking that Greene was told he’s actually Leslie Stahl in order to get the “interview.”
“It’s rare for a member of the House of Representatives to become nationally well-known,” he says seriously.
There is speculation that the UK Conservative Party will be wiped out in Wales after the upcoming general election, losing all their seats. That would be a good thing.
Source: Wales Online
The general election is happening on July 4, 2024, and after all the results are counted, Wales will have 32 MPs.
On Friday evening, dozens of student activists at Columbia University started another tent encampment on the campus, in an effort to disrupt the university’s upcoming alumni weekend.
As Israel’s ground invasion of Rafah continues, the protesters say a new tent village—like the one that garnered national headlines before police brutally cleared it away—is necessary to call attention to the role of the United States in Israel’s war on Gaza and what the students see as the university’s complicity in Israeli abuses.
Colorado’s Front Range Passenger Rail board on Friday decided to delay their pursuit of billions in funding from voters for two years, acknowledging they haven’t completed plans for train service linking cities from Fort Collins to Pueblo.
Board members voted 13-0 to continue planning instead of bringing a ballot measure this year.
Train frequency, speed, and whether to add “secondary stations” hasn’t been determined.
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“We’re going to be taking a breather,” Front Range Passenger Rail District manager Andy Karsian said ahead of the vote.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s conviction yesterday, far-right influencers have taken to Twitter to express their dismay—and desire for revenge. While some have simply urged Trump supporters to show their support at the ballot box in November, others have gone full apocalypse, urging retribution through thinly disguised calls for violence.