If Barack Obama and David Axelrod are really concerned about the climate crisis, they can fess up to their culpability — and demand change from Joe Biden. This summer has been the hottest ever recorded. Global fossil fuel consumption hit an all-time high last year, continuing to exacerbate the climate crisis. Against this backdrop, former President Barack Obama and his top White House strategist David Axelrod have been publicly lamenting climate inaction and warning of the imperative to fight climate change — pretending they are powerless bystanders who played no part in creating the...…If Barack Obama and David Axelrod are really concerned about the climate crisis, they can fess up to their culpability — and demand change from Joe Biden. This summer has been the hottest ever recorded. Global fossil fuel consumption hit an all-time high last year, continuing to exacerbate the climate crisis. Against this backdrop, former President Barack Obama and his top White House strategist David Axelrod have been publicly lamenting climate inaction and warning of the imperative to fight climate change — pretending they are powerless bystanders who played no part in creating the...WW…

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscSens. Carper and Coons killed a $15 federal minimum wage — now legislators in their state have advanced the same initiative and slammed their talking points.ShareThis report was written by Julia Rock and Andrew Perez.Less than two months after Delaware’s Democratic U.S. senators cast decisive votes to help Republicans kill a $15 minimum wage initiative, Democratic lawmakers in their own state just took a big step toward passing the same minimum wage legislation statewide. In the process, Delaware’ Democratic state lawmakers slammed the kind of...…NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscSens. Carper and Coons killed a $15 federal minimum wage — now legislators in their state have advanced the same initiative and slammed their talking points.ShareThis report was written by Julia Rock and Andrew Perez.Less than two months after Delaware’s Democratic U.S. senators cast decisive votes to help Republicans kill a $15 minimum wage initiative, Democratic lawmakers in their own state just took a big step toward passing the same minimum wage legislation statewide. In the process, Delaware’ Democratic state lawmakers slammed the kind of...WW…

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscThe good, the bad, and the ugly of the COVID-19 relief bill.ShareThis report was written by David Sirota, Julia Rock, and Andrew Perez.When Joe Biden signs the American Rescue Plan (ARP) he will prove that the Democratic Party is finally willing — at least for a moment — to turn on the money hose and for once aim it not at Wall Street moguls, but instead at the raging wildfire of poverty and desperation incinerating the poor and middle class.That’s the very good news. The bad news is that the party’s COVID-19 relief bill also indicates that Biden...…NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscThe good, the bad, and the ugly of the COVID-19 relief bill.ShareThis report was written by David Sirota, Julia Rock, and Andrew Perez.When Joe Biden signs the American Rescue Plan (ARP) he will prove that the Democratic Party is finally willing — at least for a moment — to turn on the money hose and for once aim it not at Wall Street moguls, but instead at the raging wildfire of poverty and desperation incinerating the poor and middle class.That’s the very good news. The bad news is that the party’s COVID-19 relief bill also indicates that Biden...WW…

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscIn a new letter, nearly two dozen House Dems are pressing Vice President Kamala Harris to ignore the Senate parliamentarian and fulfill her minimum wage promise.ShareThis report was written by Julia Rock and Andrew Perez.Progressive House lawmakers are demanding Vice President Kamala Harris use her power as presiding officer of the Senate to immediately advance the $15 minimum wage that she has long said she supports.“Eighty-one million people cast their ballots to elect you on a platform that called for a $15 minimum wage. We urge you to keep that...…NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscIn a new letter, nearly two dozen House Dems are pressing Vice President Kamala Harris to ignore the Senate parliamentarian and fulfill her minimum wage promise.ShareThis report was written by Julia Rock and Andrew Perez.Progressive House lawmakers are demanding Vice President Kamala Harris use her power as presiding officer of the Senate to immediately advance the $15 minimum wage that she has long said she supports.“Eighty-one million people cast their ballots to elect you on a platform that called for a $15 minimum wage. We urge you to keep that...WW…

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMisc20,000 nursing home residents died from 2004 to 2016 because they lived in nursing homes run by private equity firms, according to updated data.ShareThis report was written by Julia Rock and David Sirota.As governors in and face political crises over their handling of the pandemic, the scandals have spotlighted how a amount of COVID casualties have occurred in the nation’s nursing homes. The situation is a cautionary tale not only about political corruption, but about the consequences of a nursing home infrastructure being run by for-profit...…NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMisc20,000 nursing home residents died from 2004 to 2016 because they lived in nursing homes run by private equity firms, according to updated data.ShareThis report was written by Julia Rock and David Sirota.As governors in and face political crises over their handling of the pandemic, the scandals have spotlighted how a amount of COVID casualties have occurred in the nation’s nursing homes. The situation is a cautionary tale not only about political corruption, but about the consequences of a nursing home infrastructure being run by for-profit...WW…

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscBuried in the new 525-page stimulus bill is a provision granting military contractors benefits that are being denied to workers and small businesses across the country.ShareThis report was written by David Sirota and Julia RockEarlier this year, Republican senators the idea of spending money to pay Americans not to work during the pandemic. Only a few months later, a group of GOP senators has signed onto bipartisan stimulus legislation that would authorize the government to pay idle defense contractors to not work, even as those contractors’ during...…NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscBuried in the new 525-page stimulus bill is a provision granting military contractors benefits that are being denied to workers and small businesses across the country.ShareThis report was written by David Sirota and Julia RockEarlier this year, Republican senators the idea of spending money to pay Americans not to work during the pandemic. Only a few months later, a group of GOP senators has signed onto bipartisan stimulus legislation that would authorize the government to pay idle defense contractors to not work, even as those contractors’ during...WW…