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Month: February 2020
From State of the Union Shreds to Pipeline Protests
Falsehood and Fascism in State of the Union — Contradictions, fascist politics, and lies riddled President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. Since Trump entered office in 2016, the economy has begun to crawl, not boom. Millions live in poverty and...
A Seven-Mile Gas Pipeline Outside Albany Has Activists up in Arms
For 40 years, Mary Dugan has watched her hometown of East Greenbush, New York, transform from a sleepy rural community into a bustling Albany suburb, its once solitary forests now peppered with stripmalls and daily traffic jams. It's a transition Dugan hasn't minded....
Gray seals clap back (and forth): surprising footage reveals gray seals talking through claps
It turns out pinnipeds know how to clap back. In fact, clapping back — and forward — between each other is how they communicate. Marine mammals, like whales, were known to use clicks to communicate to each other; now, according to new research, wild gray seals...
Civil Rights Attorney’s Complaint Pushes Prada to Address Blackface Scandal
In December 2018, Chinyere Ezie, blasted Prada’s New York City store in a Facebook post for its “Pradamalia” line, which included items that clearly used Blackface imagery. The civil rights attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) then filed a...
Colin Absolam, an Immigrant Facing Deportation, Pardoned by Gov. Cuomo
Colin Absolam, who was facing imminent deportation to Jamaica after being released on parole from prison, was pardoned on Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He was pardoned after lawyers petitioned the governor's office, noting that he had already served 25 years for...
Federal Immigration Check Program Quietly Moving Through Congress
During the last Democratic presidential primary debate, a far-right group called NumbersUSA sponsored a slew of ads advocating for a long-sought-after xenophobic immigration policy: E-Verify. According to the website Broadcasting+Cable, NumbersUSA was the second...
America: Land of Make-Believe
If what happens in courtrooms across the country to poor people of color is justice, what is happening in the Senate is a trial. If the blood-drenched debacles and endless quagmires in the Middle East are victories in the war on terror, our military is the greatest on...
TurboTax and Others Charged at Least 14 Million Americans for Tax Prep That Should Have Been Free, Audit Finds
More than 14 million taxpayers paid for tax prep software last year that they could have gotten for free, according to a scathing audit released Wednesday by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. That amounts to roughly a billion dollars in revenue...
Developer of Faulty Iowa Caucus App Was Entrenched in Democratic Establishment
The final results of Monday’s Democratic Iowa caucuses remain unknown, with 71% of precincts reporting the final tallies of the first 2020 presidential contest. Senator Bernie Sanders is leading in the popular vote, while former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has a...