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This Is America: Here's the Smell of Blood Still
https://www.commondreams.org/further/this-is-america-here-s-the-smell-of-blood-still
Published: September 7, 2024 07:27
Again. Four people were murdered in a Georgia school shooting in a blood-soaked country that fixates on the unborn, spends $840 billion on defense, bans books despite zero mass reading deaths yet somehow can't protect their children from routine, rampant…
Met Police Back Down - Palestine March to Go Ahead As Planned
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/met-police-back-down-palestine-march-to-go-ahead-as-planned
Published: September 6, 2024 15:41
In a victory for the movement, the police have withdrawn all the major restrictions on tomorrow's march. The coalition that organise the national demonstrations for Palestine have released the following statement: With less than 24 hours to go, the…
Groundwork’s Lindsay Owens on August Jobs Report: “Chair Powell needs to get on with it”
Published: September 6, 2024 13:32
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the August jobs report which showed that the U.S. economy added 142,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.2%. Groundwork Collaborative’s Executive Director Lindsay Owens reacted with the…
Bavarian Nordic CFO Reacts to Call for Fair Price for Mpox Vaccine
Published: September 6, 2024 12:12
In an interview with Danish national public radio broadcast station DR, Bavarian Nordic CFO Henrik Juuel reacted to public calls for the company to lower the price of its mpox vaccine. In late August, Public Citizen sent a letter to CEO Paul Chaplin…
FCC Urged to Amend Regulation to Account for False AI Content
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/fcc-urged-to-amend-regulation-to-account-for-false-ai-content
Published: September 4, 2024 20:27
Today, Common Cause, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, United Church of Christ Media Justice Ministry, and a number of other concerned organizations, filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in a rulemaking urging…
Sanders Statement on Steward CEO, Dr. Ralph de la Torre, Refusing to Appear before Senate Committee Hearing
Published: September 4, 2024 20:23
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today issued the following statement after the CEO of Steward Health Care, Dr. Ralph de la Torre, refused to appear before the Committee despite…
As GOP AGs Target Title VI, 40+ Groups Rally to Defend Civil Rights
Published: September 4, 2024 15:22
Today, a coalition of over 45 groups, including environmental justice and civil rights organizations, along with community-based and grassroots groups, submitted a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), calling on the agency to reject a…
Gini Thomas Goes Off the Rails, Praises Right-Wing Efforts to Quash Commonsense Supreme Court Reforms
Published: September 4, 2024 15:00
Brett Edkins, Managing Director of Policy and Political Affairs for Stand Up America, issued the following statement in response to reports that Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote an email thanking a right-wing group for…
The Great Struggle For the Better Day Versus A Significance Wholly Repulsive
Published: September 3, 2024 17:28
This Labor Day, the usual suspects eloquently appeared - or predictably disappeared. Harris urged, "Thank unions!" Biden said, "Union workers built this economy - that's just a fact." Walz righteously retorted to critics saying he's "in the pocket of…
A Despicable Individual: On Using Graves As Billboards
https://www.commondreams.org/further/a-despicable-individual-on-using-graves-as-billboards
Published: August 30, 2024 20:02
Even by "seditionist crapsack standards," Trump's grotesque fuckery at Arlington Cemetery, where he and his henchmen used dead soldiers as a campaign prop, has been reviled as "repugnant," "nauseating," and "Too Damn Much," especially after news they…