The National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund raised $2.4 million from March 1 to March 31, the group's first full month of political fundraising since the nation's deadliest high school shooting on Valentine's Day, according to filings submitted to the Federal Elections Commission. The total is $1.5 million more than the organization raised during the same time period in 2017, when it took in $884,000 in donations, and $1.6 million more than it raised in February 2018.
Sex workers learned Senator Bernie Sanders voted in favor of FOSTA-SESTA, two laws signed by President Trump last week to curb sex trafficking -- and then praised Cardi B, a rapper who first attracted attention for being open about her career as a stripper on social media -- and now they are upset. Both bills -- the House version known as FOSTA, which stands for Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, and its Senate companion, Stop Enabling Sex-Trafficking Act (SESTA) -- were met with bipartisan support in Congress. On February 27, the House passed FOSTA with a final vote of 388-25. The Senate followed by passing SESTA by an overwhelming 97-2 margin. In spite of the bipartisan support, the anti-trafficking legislation has received strong pushback from sex workers, whom advocates of the bill purport to be protecting, for its destabilizing and demoralizing effect.
"The Democratic Party is a champion of labor rights, except where its own laborers are concerned," reads the sign-on letter for the Campaign Workers Guild. "We sacrifice our health, financial security, and leisure time to support candidates and movements that we hope will make our society more prosperous, equitable, and inclusive. It's time for our employers to live up to the values they publicly espouse." While the CWG declined to say how many campaigns they've tried to unionize or discuss ongoing efforts, they acknowledged encountering resistance from progressive candidates and organizations. read more
The proportion of state and local tax revenues dedicated to Medicaid and public pensions is the highest since the 1960s. As state and local officials prepare their next budgets, many are finding that spending decisions have already been made for them by two must-fund line items that barely mattered when baby harder to quantify, add to that burden and have cumulatively cost states more than $100 billion since 2008, according to government financial disclosures compiled by Merritt Research Services.
Democratic leaders are backing off of their demand that "Dreamer" protections be a part of the 2018 budget negotiations. While House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democratic leaders had hinged their support for last month's budget caps deal on a commitment from Republicans to consider legislation salvaging the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, they've signaled they won't hold a similar line heading into next week's expected vote on an omnibus spending bill. read more
The author of this opinion piece pretends that either Trump or Ryan said that the $4000 raise would be happening this year. In other words, you likely won't be getting that extra money until several years from now.
The Council of Economic Advisers report cautions that "these are the long-run, recurring values measured in 2016 dollars; households would receive these benefits each year once the changes in the corporate tax have been fully absorbed by the economy."
Dishonest reporting is dishonest.
What, like a Black girl at a Trump rally? - #1 | Posted by oldwhiskeysour at 2018-04-23 03:52 PM
I think you meant 'Whatabout a Black girl at a Trump rally?'. Whataboutism isn't a defense, OWS.
No one forced the nancy to leave. - #21 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2018-04-24 12:02 PM Flagged newsworthy by 726, newsworthy by PunchyPossum
Oh look, the tolerant left whips out a gay slur. How completely unexpected. /s
But at least 726 and PunchyPossum called out IndianaJones on his homophobia! Oh...they newsworthy'ed it? Well, there's 3 more avowed left wing homophobic bigots.
Nice left wing echo chamber being a left wing echo chamber.
Salon: moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage liberal causes.
Unfortunately 'suggests' and 'indicate' do not equate to prove, and people not wildly partisan actually want to see evidence before calling people traitors.
Commendable action and definite outside-the-box thinking. I applaud the actions of all who worked to save a life.
An amercian cop is just itching to for an excuse to unload his clip. - #14 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2018-04-24 11:08 AM
"Sh---"
***BANG***
*club*club*club*handcuff*kick*kick*kick*
Call for an ambulance after 9 minutes.
- US Policing.
#16 | Posted by 726 at 2018-04-24 12:47 PM
Do you two ever get tired of being so consistently wrong?
This will be the first fine for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since Trump took office I think. - #19 | Posted by Sycophant at 2018-04-20 12:22 PM
Do you not do any research at all before making statements like that? This is like the 34th fine since he took office.
www.consumerfinance.gov
You have access to the world's greatest information tool at your fingers and you can't spend 1 minute educating yourself before making untrue comments?
A rather blurry finish line, yes? - #18 | Posted by Danforth at 2018-04-25 12:11 PM
Which is why pretending that they'll be this year is dishonest.