“Millions of Americans depend on the mail every day,” said Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. "One political appointee does not get to decide the fate of the Postal Service."
An expanded Garzweiler lignite operation, she warns, "means people's cultures will be destroyed, people's traditions, people's histories of this place."
Fair maps are the only hope for a sane Republican Party and a functioning democracy.
"Efforts like this to undermine faith in our democracy are no longer just about overturning the 2020 election," said one Democratic leader in the state, "they’re about eroding trust and laying the groundwork to overturn the next election."
Packed with Trump appointees, the 5th Circuit's ruling was denounced as "unconscionable" by reproductive rights advocates.
The outage of Facebook platforms brought some of us back to what life used to be before social media.
We face a classical Thucydides Trap between rising and declining powers that too many times in history has climaxed in catastrophic wars. But now the stakes are existential.
"Nobody in Congress can be counted on to stand with what the people need as opposed to caving to the demands of party leadership," warns veteran single-payer activist Amy Scheetz.
The Taliban's cruelties are horrendous, but withholding international support and maintaining blanket sanctions will only hurt the long-suffering Afghan people.
A Sunrise Movement leader said the Arizona Democrat's reported proposal for the Build Back Better package is "not surprising since she's been meeting nonstop with corporate executives."
"Rich countries must accept their responsibility to pay for the loss and damage already caused."
"It's not too late for the administration to take the moral high ground here and put a stop to ICE's cruel, costly, and unnecessary detention expansion."