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Beverly Gologorsky, Not in Our NameJust in case you missed it, former President George W. Bush (“Mission Accomplished“) had a howler the other day. He was talking about Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the Russian autocratic system when, in a speech at his presidential […]

"Texas state bar files professional misconduct lawsuit against Ken Paxton for attempt to overturn 2020 presidential elections" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, […]

Criminalizing women’s health care is likely to harm and impoverish women. The GOP’s opposition to reproductive health care is consistent with its class war on working class and poor people. Pushing kids into poverty is a feature of abortion policy, not a bug. Earlier this month, a […]

A CNN host recently asked a Texas Republican lawmaker a compelling question as she challenged his stance on protecting children.Following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, CNN's Alisyn Camerota wondered why Texas Republicans do not have the same tenacity to protect living […]

Barely days after 19 elementary school children and two teachers were shot to death by an 18-year old with two AR-15 style assault rifles, questions are swirling about the actions of local law enforcement, supported by video and photos apparently taken by those who were outside Robb Elementary […]

Fox News' Tucker Carlson has a new, disturbing conspiracy theory he's circulating in an attempt to explain the so-called real reason for the mass shooting that took place in Uvalde, Texas.On Wednesday, May 25, the conservative news host attempted to create some form of connection between the Texas […]

A mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, May 24 — which left at least 19 students and two teachers dead — has been receiving extensive media coverage not only in the United States, but in other countries as well. Journalists in Europe, following the Uvalde massacre, have been […]

In 2022, the United States has been plagued by a variety of gun violence, from shootings on the New York City subway to a White nationalist terrorist attack in Buffalo on May 14 to a horrific massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, May 24 that left at least 19 children and […]

Less than two weeks after a gunman fatally shot ten people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, the United States suffered yet another mass shooting when, on Tuesday, May 24, a gunman killed at least 21 people in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas — including 19 children. And hours after […]

In February 2021, Texans were literally freezing to death in their homes when the state suffered widespread blackouts during weather that was unusually cold for the Lone Star State. Texas’ power grid, which is operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), had not been […]

U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), one of two major roadblocks to Democrats passing President Joe Biden’s top agenda items including gun control, just one day after an 18-year old gunman massacred 21 people in Texas including 19 elementary school children, offered to be open to discussion […]

Josh Duggar, the former “19 Kids and Counting” reality TV star who was found guilty on horrific child pornography charges in December was sentenced by a federal judge Wednesday to serve 151 months – more than 12 years – in prison.“Duggar has a deep-seated, pervasive, […]

Parents in DeVos’s backyard tell right-wing radicals, “No thank you to divisive, partisan agendas in schools.”Culture war issues dressed as serious K-12 classroom concerns, such as trumped-up battles over critical race theory and gender identity, have become useful campaign fodder […]

The Massachusetts high court on Tuesday rejected ExxonMobil's attempt to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the state, meaning the biggest oil giant in the U.S. must stand trial for allegations that it lied to the public about the climate emergency and the fossil fuel industry's role in driving it.The […]

Details are still being pieced together about what led to Tuesday's massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas as well as what transpired during the attack that killed 19 students and two teachers and injured 17 others.According to law enforcement officials, the first 911 calls reporting […]

U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) is being criticized after falsely identifying the Uvalde, Texas shooter who massacred 19 children and two adults at an elementary school as being a “leftist,” undocumented, and LGBTQ.Last year Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) called Gosar an “avowed […]

Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is seeking a second term this November as a springboard to run for president in 2024, is backed financially by some of the wealthiest private donors in the United States. According to an analysis published by correspondent Zac Anderson in Wednesday's […]

During an interview with CNN this Wednesday, Texas GOP Rep. James White was asked what the state legislature should do in the wake the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school this Tuesday, which left 19 students and two teachers dead."We should allow the law enforcement and investigators to do […]

Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke was escorted out of a press conference by police on Wednesday after he confronted incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott over Tuesday's mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde that left 19 students and two teachers dead. The former […]

During the January 6 insurrection as rioters were hunting down the Vice President and chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” with a gallows outside the Capitol building, the President of the United States said maybe they should, his chief of staff Mark Meadows told colleagues in the White […]

Friends grew increasingly concerned about the behavior of an 18-year-old who gunned down at least 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school, but they were still shocked to learn of his brutal actions.Salvador Rolando Ramos shot and critically wounded his grandmother before going on […]

An 18-year-old gunman shot his grandmother in the face, sending her to the hospital, on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, a Hispanic town 85 miles west of San Antonio, before going to a local elementary school. He found a teacher and 19 fourth-graders in a classroom. He locked the door behind him. He shot […]

The United States suffered yet another horrific mass shooting on Tuesday, May 24, when an 18-year-old gunman attacked Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — killing at least 19 children along with two adults, one of whom was 4th Grade teacher Eva Mireles. And Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona […]

Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, was among those who refused to hide his fury at the right-wing lawmakers whose allegiance to the powerful gun lobby has allowed mass killings like the one in Uvalde, […]

Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke was escorted out of a press conference by police on Wednesday after he confronted incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott over Tuesday's mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde that left 19 students and two teachers dead.New York […]

In the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left at least 19 students and two teachers dead, one Florida lawmaker took to Twitter and sent a veiled threat to President Joe Biden, should he take action on guns."I have news for the embarrassment that claims to be our President — […]

On Friday, May 19, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of the San Francisco archdiocese announced that 82-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — a lifelong Catholic — would be denied communion because of her vocal support of abortion rights. And Pelosi is pushing back, arguing that […]

In the decades following Sept. 11, the growth of the surveillance state has whittled down to their bones the American values of freedom and liberty for the purpose of ensuring security, safety and protection. It’s long been argued that the US Department for Homeland Security has morphed into […]

The word “stagflation” has a worst-of-both-worlds connotation — as in painful inflation combined with painful economic stagnation. It’s a word that conjures up thoughts of prices going through the roof while wages, promotions and job opportunities are in decline. In 2022, […]

When Fox News and other right-wing media outlets cover acts of terrorism committed by jihadist extremists like al-Qaeda, ISIS (Islamic State, Iraq and Syria) and Boko Haram, their message is: Be afraid, be very afraid. But Fox News’ overall tone is much more matter-of-fact and nowhere near as […]