AIPAC Is Secretly Funneling Money Into a Congressional Race, Sources Say. Here Are the Details. On Friday, a brand new PAC, ridiculously called “Voters For Responsive Government,” launched two new attack ads at Jayapal, putting close to a million dollars behind them. One of the ads literally ... 05/4/2024 - 8:35 am | View Link
Ahead of Oregon’s highest profile race for Congress, Oregon lawmaker, longtime civil servant vie to take on 1st term Republican Skinner, 56, and Janelle Bynum, 49, are vying for the Democratic nomination in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District. 05/4/2024 - 2:01 am | View Link
Verstappen wins pole for the Sprint race, F1’s appetizer before the Miami Grand Prix As he has for each of the grands prix this season, Max Verstappen drove his Red Bull to the pole position for the noon race with a lap of 1:28.595. Verstappen won the first Sprint race, at F1’s last ... 05/3/2024 - 3:58 pm | View Link
Our revised race standards still fall short for Indigenous Americans Because the ill-fitting paradigm of “race” is forced onto Indigenous people, the current system can lead to three-quarters or more of American Indians and Alaska Natives being classified as a ... 05/3/2024 - 7:00 am | View Link
Illinois’s Plan to Fund Public Universities on the Basis of Race Schools with abysmal graduation rates would get more money simply for enrolling minorities. 05/3/2024 - 6:27 am | View Link
Ukraine estimates that over half of all Russian casualties are due to small, cheap FPV drones are just modified consumer items. Last year, Russian radio jammers often brought them down, to the point that Ukraine was losing upwards of 10,000 a month. Since then, the technology has advanced and their jammers don't work anymore.
Rumours have been swirling about Cuellar for over two years, ever since the FBI raided his home in January 2022.
Cuellar maintains his and his wife's innocence and vows to fight the charges. Since he had no challengers, Cuellar will be on the ballot in November for the Democrats in TX-28.
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away Rudy Giuliani was not only respected, but revered as "America's Mayor." The hero of 9/11 (which he'd tell you every other sentence). He never deserved any of it, of course.
He was always a nasty piece of work, a philanderer, racist and, frankly, an asshole who couldn't get along with anyone.
Progressive policy experts took aim at corporate greed and profiteering during a Thursday U. S. Senate hearing on "shrinkflation," the process of reducing the size or quantity of a product while selling it at the same price.
At the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
hearing—entitled "Higher Prices: How Shrinkflation and Technology Can Impact Consumers' Finances"—Chair Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) began by acknowledging that "prices today are far too high, and families are having a harder time finding a fair price, seeing more of their paycheck vanish into thin air."
"All of this is happening while corporate profits hit record highs," the senator continued.
MSNBC's Katy Tur and Axios' Jim VandeHei managed to have a very long conversation about the effects of right wing propaganda without ever mentioning the words right wing propaganda. I guess I should quit being astounded by stuff like this, but it continues to amaze me how people in our corporate news media dance around naming just who exactly is responsible for turning most Republicans' brains into mush.
Here's the transcript of the beginning of their exchange from her show this Thursday, and notice the words that aren't used here.
Donald Trump's TIME interview will shock you. It is a long piece, but every American needs to read it. This country must wake up and realize what we face in the 2024 election: it's all hands on deck. TIME reporter Eric Cortellessa explains:read more