Last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would greatly expand warrantless surveillance. Critics worry the legislation could empower the government to spy on journalists and compromise their confidential sources with ease — a concerning prospect that could feel far more troublesome if Donald Trump gets elected president again.
The legislation, which would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, includes a provision that would broaden the types of businesses that agencies can compel to help the government spy without a warrant. A Biden administration fact sheet says...
The legislation, which would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, includes a provision that would broaden the types of businesses that agencies can compel to help the government spy without a warrant. A Biden administration fact sheet says...
- 4/16/2024
- by Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng
- Rollingstone.com
On Tuesday night, the United States Senate tabled a resolution that would have required the State Department to report to Congress on Israeli human rights violations committed in Gaza involving the use of U.S. arms and equipment.
Only 11 senators voted in favor of the resolution: nine Democrats [Sens. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.), Martin Heinrich (D-n.M.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Ben Ray Luján (D-n.M.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.)], one Republican [Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)], and one Independent [Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.
Only 11 senators voted in favor of the resolution: nine Democrats [Sens. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.), Martin Heinrich (D-n.M.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Ben Ray Luján (D-n.M.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.)], one Republican [Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)], and one Independent [Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.
- 1/17/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Lawyers who’ve defended clients before Tanya S. Chutkan, the judge assigned to Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 election conspiracy case, have some advice for the former president and his attorneys: buckle up.
Far from the more indulgent Aileen Cannon, the judge overseeing Trump’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, attorneys tell Rolling Stone that Chutkan is perhaps the toughest judge he could’ve gotten in the Washington, D.C., district court.
“It’s probably the worst draw for Trump. She’s the worst judge he could’ve gotten handed,” one attorney...
Far from the more indulgent Aileen Cannon, the judge overseeing Trump’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, attorneys tell Rolling Stone that Chutkan is perhaps the toughest judge he could’ve gotten in the Washington, D.C., district court.
“It’s probably the worst draw for Trump. She’s the worst judge he could’ve gotten handed,” one attorney...
- 8/3/2023
- by Adam Rawnsley
- Rollingstone.com
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unconstitutional. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-n.Y.), a former public school teacher and principal, calls the decision “infuriating, exhausting, and another body blow to our continued fight for justice and equality in America.”
“The Supreme Court just upheld white supremacy,” Bowman says.
The ruling was 6-3, with every Republican-appointed justice voting to reject affirmative action. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote separate dissents, with the former writing “the devastating impact...
“The Supreme Court just upheld white supremacy,” Bowman says.
The ruling was 6-3, with every Republican-appointed justice voting to reject affirmative action. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote separate dissents, with the former writing “the devastating impact...
- 6/29/2023
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
Democratic lawmakers are condemning the Biden administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ massive Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope. The decision represents a clear reversal of Biden’s 2020 campaign promise to end the approval of new oil and gas permits on federal lands and waters.
In a joint statement released through the House Natural Resources Committee, several Democratic lawmakers — including Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), committee ranking member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-n.Y.), and Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) said the decision “ignores the voices of the people of Nuiqsut,...
In a joint statement released through the House Natural Resources Committee, several Democratic lawmakers — including Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), committee ranking member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-n.Y.), and Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) said the decision “ignores the voices of the people of Nuiqsut,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
For decades, a major restaurant lobby has devoted millions of dollars to stomping out bills that would improve the lives of the industry’s workers — including attempts to raise state and federal minimum wages to 15 per hour. As it turns out, the workers who stood to gain from those legislative efforts had unwittingly funded the restaurant lobby’s war on them. Now, a group of Democratic senators are demanding answers to find out how workers came to fund a fight against their own interests.
The demands come in a letter,...
The demands come in a letter,...
- 2/6/2023
- by Kara Voght
- Rollingstone.com
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For the first time in nearly three years, Jane Fonda returned to Washington, D.C., to rally, sounding the alarm on the growing climate crisis.
The Academy Award-winning actress launched “Fire Drill Fridays” in October 2019 as a weekly rally in the nation’s capital. The goal was to demand action from the nation’s leaders to address climate change. But due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the movement transitioned online, amassing more than 11 million views across social media platforms.
Since the start of the protests, other climate change activists and celebrities have joined Fonda. That was no different on Friday when actress Taylor Schilling joined her during the return of the in-person climate change event.
“Our time is running out,” Fonda said in a statement. “Scientists are telling us we are in our ‘last decade of action.’ What we do or fail to do...
For the first time in nearly three years, Jane Fonda returned to Washington, D.C., to rally, sounding the alarm on the growing climate crisis.
The Academy Award-winning actress launched “Fire Drill Fridays” in October 2019 as a weekly rally in the nation’s capital. The goal was to demand action from the nation’s leaders to address climate change. But due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the movement transitioned online, amassing more than 11 million views across social media platforms.
Since the start of the protests, other climate change activists and celebrities have joined Fonda. That was no different on Friday when actress Taylor Schilling joined her during the return of the in-person climate change event.
“Our time is running out,” Fonda said in a statement. “Scientists are telling us we are in our ‘last decade of action.’ What we do or fail to do...
- 12/3/2022
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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After spending much of the pandemic holding virtual rallies urging political action on climate change, Jane Fonda plans to return to Washington D.C. on Friday for her first in-person climate change event in the nation’s capital since the pandemic began.
In fall 2019, Fonda began participating in weekly “Fire Drill Friday” protests in D.C., alongside other climate change activists and celebrity friends. The protests, as well as Fonda’s arrests, generated headlines, as the actress marched around the capital and outlined a number of priorities aimed at decreasing the United States’ reliance on fossil fuels. The in-person rallies were curtailed by the pandemic and Fonda took her activism online for the past several years.
Now, Fonda said she’s decided to return to D.C. to address where climate change advocacy should be directed after this year’s midterm elections. The...
After spending much of the pandemic holding virtual rallies urging political action on climate change, Jane Fonda plans to return to Washington D.C. on Friday for her first in-person climate change event in the nation’s capital since the pandemic began.
In fall 2019, Fonda began participating in weekly “Fire Drill Friday” protests in D.C., alongside other climate change activists and celebrity friends. The protests, as well as Fonda’s arrests, generated headlines, as the actress marched around the capital and outlined a number of priorities aimed at decreasing the United States’ reliance on fossil fuels. The in-person rallies were curtailed by the pandemic and Fonda took her activism online for the past several years.
Now, Fonda said she’s decided to return to D.C. to address where climate change advocacy should be directed after this year’s midterm elections. The...
- 12/1/2022
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nearly 160 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the order that freed slaves in states rebelling against the Union during the Civil War, Louisiana voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have abolished the use of involuntary labor as a form of punishment. Similar amendments were proposed in four other states, passing in Alabama, Tennessee, and Vermont, and with results still too close to call in Oregon.
Breaking: Slavery has officially been banned as punishment in Tennessee. https://t.co/AadakHWGdh pic.twitter.com/T4HzSGHlkU
— FOX13 Memphis (@FOX13Memphis) November 9, 2022
The...
Breaking: Slavery has officially been banned as punishment in Tennessee. https://t.co/AadakHWGdh pic.twitter.com/T4HzSGHlkU
— FOX13 Memphis (@FOX13Memphis) November 9, 2022
The...
- 11/9/2022
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday buzzed over the sightings in Senate hallways of Paris Hilton, the reality star who met with lawmakers to advocate for protections for youth in congregate care facilities.
At a press conference just outside the Capitol, Hilton said, “Today I come here not as Paris, but as a survivor.”
“For 20 years I couldn’t sleep at night, as memories of physical violence, feeling of loneliness, the loss of years rushed through my mind when I shut my eyes.”
“This was not just insomnia. It was trauma,” she said.
Hilton said that when she was a teenager, “I woke up to two large men in my bedroom,” asking her if she “wanted to go the easy way or the hard way.”
She said that she thought she was being kidnapped, but she was physically dragged out of her house and being sent to a residential care facility,...
At a press conference just outside the Capitol, Hilton said, “Today I come here not as Paris, but as a survivor.”
“For 20 years I couldn’t sleep at night, as memories of physical violence, feeling of loneliness, the loss of years rushed through my mind when I shut my eyes.”
“This was not just insomnia. It was trauma,” she said.
Hilton said that when she was a teenager, “I woke up to two large men in my bedroom,” asking her if she “wanted to go the easy way or the hard way.”
She said that she thought she was being kidnapped, but she was physically dragged out of her house and being sent to a residential care facility,...
- 10/20/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
More than 100 Democrats in the House and Senate and independent Bernie Sanders have signed a letter urging the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to negotiate a fair contract with IATSE, saying, “We are united in our belief in the importance of livable wages, sustainable benefits, and reasonable rest periods between shifts and during the workday” – three of the union’s core demands.
The letter was signed by 31 senators and 87 representatives and sent to AMPTP president Carol Lombardini.
The union’s members begin voting on strike authorization Friday in advance of what could be the last round of bargaining before a strike that would shut down film and TV productions across the country.
The politicians also reminded Lombardini that industry workers “risked their health and safety” during the pandemic, and that “the entertainment you jointly produce is helping to heal our nation.”
Here is their letter:
Dear Ms. Lombardini:...
The letter was signed by 31 senators and 87 representatives and sent to AMPTP president Carol Lombardini.
The union’s members begin voting on strike authorization Friday in advance of what could be the last round of bargaining before a strike that would shut down film and TV productions across the country.
The politicians also reminded Lombardini that industry workers “risked their health and safety” during the pandemic, and that “the entertainment you jointly produce is helping to heal our nation.”
Here is their letter:
Dear Ms. Lombardini:...
- 10/1/2021
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Last month, to fete the 100th anniversary of the ruling Communist Party, China broadcast a propaganda megashow convened at Beijing National Stadium, which was built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Throughout the massive two-hour spectacle, Olympic themes intertwined with political imagery to depict the party as a benevolent, beloved world leader. In one number, women plucking traditional instruments accompanied hundreds of dancers dressed in Olympic colors, who held hands to form dozens of spinning rings as a digital display blared a retrospective of President Xi Jinping’s diplomatic milestones.
In another key scene, hundreds of performers in Beijing 2008 jerseys held aloft Olympic torches and ran in unison to militant music below videos of Chinese athletes receiving gold medals. A screen overhead showed an animation depicting the blastoff of the nation’s first space mission.
Politicians and rights groups around the world have called for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics...
Throughout the massive two-hour spectacle, Olympic themes intertwined with political imagery to depict the party as a benevolent, beloved world leader. In one number, women plucking traditional instruments accompanied hundreds of dancers dressed in Olympic colors, who held hands to form dozens of spinning rings as a digital display blared a retrospective of President Xi Jinping’s diplomatic milestones.
In another key scene, hundreds of performers in Beijing 2008 jerseys held aloft Olympic torches and ran in unison to militant music below videos of Chinese athletes receiving gold medals. A screen overhead showed an animation depicting the blastoff of the nation’s first space mission.
Politicians and rights groups around the world have called for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics...
- 8/5/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Washington — In the last week of May, Senate Democrats arrived at a cavernous room in the Hart office building and settled in for a presentation from Marc Elias, one of the leading election lawyers for the Democratic Party. Elias had spent the last year locked in legal combat with Donald Trump’s campaign and various allies of the former president’s who had sued to change voting laws and tighten ballot access before the 2020 election. The lawyering showed no sign of slowing down in 2021, as Elias filed more suits across...
- 6/11/2021
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
A little less than two months ago, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott held a hastily called press conference outside an emergency shelter in San Antonio, where he delivered a blistering indictment of the federal government’s failure to properly care for the migrant children held there. “This facility,” Abbott said, “is a health and safety nightmare.” He called for the Freeman Coliseum shelter to be shut down immediately, and for the children housed inside to be moved to other federally operated facilities, presumably those run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement,...
- 6/2/2021
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
Washington — Barbara Boxer will be the first to tell you how much she loved the filibuster. Boxer, a California Democrat, won her first election to the U.S. Senate in 1992. Two years later, the so-called Republican Revolution swept into Washington, D.C. Soon, Boxer and her fellow Senate Democrats found themselves beating back one retrograde bill after another, sent their way from the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and its new speaker, Newt Gingrich.
Boxer remembers one deregulatory bill that would have undermined standards for mammograms. Women’s health was a priority for her,...
Boxer remembers one deregulatory bill that would have undermined standards for mammograms. Women’s health was a priority for her,...
- 5/14/2021
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
Gordon Smith said on Wednesday that he is stepping down as president and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters at the end of the year. He’ll be succeeded by the trade association’s chief operating officer, Curtis LeGeyt.
Smith, who has led Nab since 2009, will continue in an advisory and advocacy role through Dec. 31, 2024.
The role is one of the most prominent lobbying posts in Washington, even with changes in technology and consumer habits, as Nab member stations are fanned out throughout lawmakers’ districts across the country.
“It has been my great honor to give the lion’s roar for broadcasters – those who run into the storm, those who stand firm in chaos to hear the voice of the people, those who hold to account the powerful – and to stand with those of the fourth estate who have the hearts of public servants,” Smith said in a video message to members.
Smith, who has led Nab since 2009, will continue in an advisory and advocacy role through Dec. 31, 2024.
The role is one of the most prominent lobbying posts in Washington, even with changes in technology and consumer habits, as Nab member stations are fanned out throughout lawmakers’ districts across the country.
“It has been my great honor to give the lion’s roar for broadcasters – those who run into the storm, those who stand firm in chaos to hear the voice of the people, those who hold to account the powerful – and to stand with those of the fourth estate who have the hearts of public servants,” Smith said in a video message to members.
- 4/7/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The state of Oregon is suing the Trump administration in federal court to halt what it likens to the “kidnap and false arrest” of protesters in downtown Portland, alleging that the administration’s secret-police tactics are violating core constitutional rights.
In a harrowing new tactic, reminiscent of fascist regimes, armed federal officers without agency badges have begun grabbing protesters off the street, throwing them into unmarked cars and jailing them without formally arresting them, according to court records. The state of Oregon is seeking a permanent injunction to prevent what...
In a harrowing new tactic, reminiscent of fascist regimes, armed federal officers without agency badges have begun grabbing protesters off the street, throwing them into unmarked cars and jailing them without formally arresting them, according to court records. The state of Oregon is seeking a permanent injunction to prevent what...
- 7/21/2020
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
With declines in advertising revenue devastating news organizations across the country because of the coronavirus pandemic, 14 U.S. Senators have signed a letter urging Senate leaders to specifically “include payroll support for digital-native news professionals in the next Covid-19-related legislation.”
The letter is endorsed by the Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO, and the WGA East, which represents staffers at online news outlets such as HuffPost, Salon, Slate, Vox Media and Vice Media.
“The Covid-19 pandemic’s economic devastation has rippled out to the news industry,” the senators wrote today in a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Charles Schumer. “Initial reporting estimated a 51% decline in spending on advertisements over March and April. When Americans stopped shopping, retailers stopped advertising. When Americans quit traveling, airlines and hotels quit advertising.
“This pause in advertising has hurt digital-native news outlets in particular. These organizations rely primarily on advertising revenue to pay the bills.
The letter is endorsed by the Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO, and the WGA East, which represents staffers at online news outlets such as HuffPost, Salon, Slate, Vox Media and Vice Media.
“The Covid-19 pandemic’s economic devastation has rippled out to the news industry,” the senators wrote today in a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Charles Schumer. “Initial reporting estimated a 51% decline in spending on advertisements over March and April. When Americans stopped shopping, retailers stopped advertising. When Americans quit traveling, airlines and hotels quit advertising.
“This pause in advertising has hurt digital-native news outlets in particular. These organizations rely primarily on advertising revenue to pay the bills.
- 6/9/2020
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Back in January, when she was still just an insurance agent in Albany, Oregon, Jo Rae Perkins — as an outspoken adherent of the QAnon conspiracy theory — assessed her chances of winning the Republican nomination for Senate the way, well, an insurance agent would.
“It’s a very, highly calculated risk that I’m taking. Most people play it a lot safer than I do,” Perkins told Right Wing Watch back in January. “It’s either pure genius or pure insanity. It’s one of the two. The voters are going...
“It’s a very, highly calculated risk that I’m taking. Most people play it a lot safer than I do,” Perkins told Right Wing Watch back in January. “It’s either pure genius or pure insanity. It’s one of the two. The voters are going...
- 5/21/2020
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
It was the rarest of sightings: Last week, a bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives approved a resolution to restrict the president’s ability to go to war with Iran. The vote happened one week after the Trump administration assassinated via drone strike Iran’s top general. Government officials have offered only the flimsiest of evidence to justify the attack while putting the country on the path toward yet another conflict in the Middle East.
What’s so striking about the House’s symbolic rebuke of Trump is that...
What’s so striking about the House’s symbolic rebuke of Trump is that...
- 1/13/2020
- by Andy Kroll and Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
The New York Times tweet was triumphant, music to #Resistance ears:
Breaking News: The Senate, in a stinging bipartisan rebuke to President Trump, advanced a measure opposing his moves to withdraw troops in Syria and Afghanistan. https://t.co/nVRmQidkIY
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 31, 2019
On the surface, it was a truly bipartisan defeat of Trump. A full 22 of those 68 yeas were Democrats.
But every Senate Democrat who’s even rumored to be running for president voted nay. The list included Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren,...
Breaking News: The Senate, in a stinging bipartisan rebuke to President Trump, advanced a measure opposing his moves to withdraw troops in Syria and Afghanistan. https://t.co/nVRmQidkIY
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 31, 2019
On the surface, it was a truly bipartisan defeat of Trump. A full 22 of those 68 yeas were Democrats.
But every Senate Democrat who’s even rumored to be running for president voted nay. The list included Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren,...
- 2/1/2019
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court battle has turned into one of the most contentious nominations in our nation’s history. President Trump’s nominee has been accused of past sexual assaults and of being dishonest before the Senate.
Despite testimony by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote on September 28th. Following an unaccountably incomplete investigation by the FBI, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared a key procedural hurdle, setting up a final vote this weekend.
On Friday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-me) delivered...
Despite testimony by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote on September 28th. Following an unaccountably incomplete investigation by the FBI, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared a key procedural hurdle, setting up a final vote this weekend.
On Friday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-me) delivered...
- 10/5/2018
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Democratic lawmakers are planning to bring Dreamers to President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, an effort to urge him to find a solution for the undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.
Trump announced in September that he would end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), an Obama-era program that shielded undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. Daca recipients, who are often called Dreamers, have spent months facing uncertainty as lawmakers struggle to negotiate a deal for the program. An immigration plan proposed by Trump last week...
Trump announced in September that he would end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), an Obama-era program that shielded undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. Daca recipients, who are often called Dreamers, have spent months facing uncertainty as lawmakers struggle to negotiate a deal for the program. An immigration plan proposed by Trump last week...
- 1/29/2018
- by Katie Reilly
- PEOPLE.com
There is a saying that a picture is worth 1,000 words. So without saying much more, here are photos of Donald Trump with some of the women who have accused him of sexual harassment or assault. The images surfaced against the backdrop of Trump’s tweet on Tuesday complaining about “the false accusations and fabricated stories of women who I don’t know and/or have never met.”
People earlier revealed on Tuesday a photo of Trump standing alongside former People staff writer Natasha Stoynoff at Mar-a-Lago, the same day she says he pushed her against the wall and forced a kiss on her mouth.
People earlier revealed on Tuesday a photo of Trump standing alongside former People staff writer Natasha Stoynoff at Mar-a-Lago, the same day she says he pushed her against the wall and forced a kiss on her mouth.
- 12/13/2017
- by Diane Herbst
- PEOPLE.com
The U.S. Senate confirmed Christopher Wray as the new director of the FBI in a 92-5 vote on Tuesday. The five senators to oppose Wray were Democrats Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, Ed Markey and Jeff Merkley. His confirmation comes after appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month. The former Justice Department official represented New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during the investigation into the George Washington Bridge lane-closing “Bridgegate” case. He also worked in the Justice Department under George W. Bush. Also Read: Gizmodo Sues the FBI for Roger Ailes' File When he nominated Wray back in June,...
- 8/1/2017
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
“Nevertheless, She Persisted.” That’s the title of the season 2 finale of Supergirl, says executive producer Andrew Kreisberg, and it’s due to air on May 22nd on The CW. It’s a title that sets quite a tone, too. The show has continued to go from strength to strength, following its move from CBS, and has introduced a range of new characters over the course of its 22 episode second season. But the title of the season 2 finale brings with it such connotations that we can surely expect something both resonant and remarkable.
The phrase, “nevertheless, she persisted,” became a rallying cry for feminists and civil rights activists on February 7th, 2017, after Senator Elizabeth Warren was subject to a silencing vote for her remarks during the debate regarding the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions as U.S Attorney General. Warren vehemently opposed his confirmation, and made this plain during a...
The phrase, “nevertheless, she persisted,” became a rallying cry for feminists and civil rights activists on February 7th, 2017, after Senator Elizabeth Warren was subject to a silencing vote for her remarks during the debate regarding the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions as U.S Attorney General. Warren vehemently opposed his confirmation, and made this plain during a...
- 5/2/2017
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor on Wednesday to recite the Coretta Scott King letter his colleague Sen. Elizabeth Warren was banned from reading.
Calling it “an outrage” that Republican senators voted to silence Warren Tuesday night after she quoted Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow in a speech opposing attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, Sanders said, “We need to hear all points of view. The idea that … a letter that wrote could not be presented and spoken about here on the Senate floor is to me incomprehensible.”
Sanders then read aloud on the Senate floor...
Calling it “an outrage” that Republican senators voted to silence Warren Tuesday night after she quoted Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow in a speech opposing attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, Sanders said, “We need to hear all points of view. The idea that … a letter that wrote could not be presented and spoken about here on the Senate floor is to me incomprehensible.”
Sanders then read aloud on the Senate floor...
- 2/8/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
An Iranian baby has arrived in the U.S. in time for her life-saving heart surgery.
Four-month-old Fatemeh Reshad was admitted to a hospital in Portland, Oregon with her family on Tuesday, after the government made an exception for her after her tourist visa was canceled last week due to President Donald Trump‘s executive order temporarily banning travel to the U.S. by people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Iran.
“Fatemeh looks well,” said Dr. Laurie Armsby, interim head of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Ohsu Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, according to the Associated Press. “Our tests...
Four-month-old Fatemeh Reshad was admitted to a hospital in Portland, Oregon with her family on Tuesday, after the government made an exception for her after her tourist visa was canceled last week due to President Donald Trump‘s executive order temporarily banning travel to the U.S. by people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Iran.
“Fatemeh looks well,” said Dr. Laurie Armsby, interim head of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Ohsu Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, according to the Associated Press. “Our tests...
- 2/8/2017
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
President Trump on Tuesday night announced Neil M. Gorsuch as his pick for the U.S. Supreme Court.
“I am a man of my word, I will do as I say, something that the American people have been asking for from Washington for a very long time,” Trump said in a nationally televised, prime-time announcement from the White House.
“The most important thing the President of the United States can make is the appointment of a Supreme Court Justice, I took the task of this nomination very seriously,” Trump said, adding that Gorsuch “closely defines what we’re looking for.”
Gorsuch...
“I am a man of my word, I will do as I say, something that the American people have been asking for from Washington for a very long time,” Trump said in a nationally televised, prime-time announcement from the White House.
“The most important thing the President of the United States can make is the appointment of a Supreme Court Justice, I took the task of this nomination very seriously,” Trump said, adding that Gorsuch “closely defines what we’re looking for.”
Gorsuch...
- 2/1/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
They're all with her. Hillary Clinton made history on Tuesday when she was officially named the first female major party nominee for president at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia. Following the roll-call vote, where each state was called - in alphabetical order - to allocate their votes, Clinton formally secured her place on the party ticket. "She is one of the most qualified candidates to ever run for president," said Georgia Rep. John Lewis in his nomination speech. He added, "She will fight for us all with her heart, her soul, her mind." State by state, delegation leaders read off their votes with loud,...
- 7/26/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
They're all with her. Hillary Clinton made history on Tuesday when she was officially named the first female major party nominee for president at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia. Following the roll-call vote, where each state was called - in alphabetical order - to allocate their votes, Clinton formally secured her place on the party ticket. "She is one of the most qualified candidates to ever run for president," said Georgia Rep. John Lewis in his nomination speech. He added, "She will fight for us all with her heart, her soul, her mind." State by state, delegation leaders read off their votes with loud,...
- 7/26/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
'The Ultimate Dream Ticket' for 2016? Hillary Clinton Huddles with Elizabeth Warren, Fueling VP Talk
For about an hour, somewhere behind Hillary Clinton's firmly shut front door, the Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. Elizabeth Warren talked late Friday morning about God-knows-what. While they did, most of Washington and the political press talked about one thing: the possibility that Warren - the progressive firebrand from Massachusetts - a favorite of Bernie Sanders supporters - would be Clinton's pick for vice president. "The ultimate dream ticket," veteran Democratic strategist Donna Brazile told People of Warren - a former Harvard Law School professor who specializes in bankruptcy law and has a history of fighting big banks. "Elizabeth Warren...
- 6/10/2016
- by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, @sswestfall
- PEOPLE.com
'The Ultimate Dream Ticket' for 2016? Hillary Clinton Huddles with Elizabeth Warren, Fueling VP Talk
For about an hour, somewhere behind Hillary Clinton's firmly shut front door, the Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. Elizabeth Warren talked late Friday morning about God-knows-what. While they did, most of Washington and the political press talked about one thing: the possibility that Warren - the progressive firebrand from Massachusetts - a favorite of Bernie Sanders supporters - would be Clinton's pick for vice president. "The ultimate dream ticket," veteran Democratic strategist Donna Brazile told People of Warren - a former Harvard Law School professor who specializes in bankruptcy law and has a history of fighting big banks. "Elizabeth Warren...
- 6/10/2016
- by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, @sswestfall
- PEOPLE.com
Lindsay Lohan compares her sex life to Harry Styles, Sia announces she’s not dating Robert Pattinson in the best way, James Deen was fine kissing a guy in The Canyons
Matthew Mitcham, one of the first out Olympic athletes spoke out about the gay propaganda laws in Russia and their impact on athletes. “It’s really sad. The way they are persecuting people in Russia is quite horrific. The Olympics is the best experience you will ever have as an athlete,” he said. “Their whole memory and experience is going to be marred by this stuff. They are going to be made to feel unacceptable, inappropriate, and it is a really awful, awful feeling. The Olympics are supposed to be somewhere where they can go to be relieved of that feeling. A place where you can compete and feel that gender and sexuality is not an issue.”
As did Greg Louganis,...
Matthew Mitcham, one of the first out Olympic athletes spoke out about the gay propaganda laws in Russia and their impact on athletes. “It’s really sad. The way they are persecuting people in Russia is quite horrific. The Olympics is the best experience you will ever have as an athlete,” he said. “Their whole memory and experience is going to be marred by this stuff. They are going to be made to feel unacceptable, inappropriate, and it is a really awful, awful feeling. The Olympics are supposed to be somewhere where they can go to be relieved of that feeling. A place where you can compete and feel that gender and sexuality is not an issue.”
As did Greg Louganis,...
- 8/4/2013
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Last week, after President Barack Obama addressed the breaking revelations regarding the National Security Agency’s sweeping monitoring of Americans’ communications and said that all members of Congress had been briefed on those programs, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-co) contradicted that claim. On Friday, former White House advisor David Axelrod said that it turns out Merkley was too busy doing another MSNBC interview to attend the Nsa briefing.
- 6/14/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Appearing on MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-or) said that he was never briefed on the National Security Agency’s sweeping Prism program which databases electronic communications data. Merkley said that he had no idea about the program and he suspects that a small number of members of the congressional intelligence committees were the only individuals informed of the program.
- 6/7/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Battlestar Galactica's James Callis has joined Arrow. He'll be playing The Dodger, a jewel thief who forces innocent people to steal for him.
Spencer Cox, AIDS activist, Act Up member, and a founder of the Treatment Action Group has passed away at the age of 44. Larry Kramer remembers him. "As someone who was in a room in the same hospital as Spencer and at the same time, and who is having his own awful and painful heath problems, it is hard to fall into denial about what we still dont know and have yet to find out, to save our own lives, the lives of Spencer, and yes, Larry too. With sweet Spencer's death went an enormous body of instinct that far surpassed many of the 'educated' doctors he had to deal with."
The final version of the Defense Budget does not have the ban on same-sex weddings on...
Spencer Cox, AIDS activist, Act Up member, and a founder of the Treatment Action Group has passed away at the age of 44. Larry Kramer remembers him. "As someone who was in a room in the same hospital as Spencer and at the same time, and who is having his own awful and painful heath problems, it is hard to fall into denial about what we still dont know and have yet to find out, to save our own lives, the lives of Spencer, and yes, Larry too. With sweet Spencer's death went an enormous body of instinct that far surpassed many of the 'educated' doctors he had to deal with."
The final version of the Defense Budget does not have the ban on same-sex weddings on...
- 12/19/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
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