Month: September 2020

SAN DIEGO — Sen. Dianne FeinsteinDianne Emiel FeinsteinHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election “Feinstein and challenger battle for coveted California Dems endorsement”

Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account is the subject of a lawsuit filed on Tuesday by several users of the platform, including seven people whose accounts “Citing Free Speech, Dissenters Sue Trump for Blocking Them on Twitter”

House Republicans are under fire for their new 10-year budget blueprint, released Tuesday, that proposes increasing military spending by $72.4 billion while slashing more than “GOP's Deja Vu Budget Slashes Social Programs to Fund Tax Cuts for Rich”

Ten out of 11 samples of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream tested positive for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, the nonprofit Organic “Scary Dairy: You Scream, I Scream… Monsanto Roundup Ice Cream”

The Trump administration has already taken aim at a number of Obama-era environmental rules that protect the public water supply and safeguard children from dangerous “Trump Bulldozes Environmental Laws to Pave Way for 'Xenophobic' Border Wall”

In a report released Thursday, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) found that President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ recent actions on healthcare legislation will likely “Analysis Shows Trump/GOP Sabotage to Blame for Coming Insurance Premium Hikes”

The walls appear to be closing in on President Donald Trump this week—following his outrageous equivocation on white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia—as public support for “Trump on the Brink? Impeachment Support Grows Amid Speculation He'll Resign”

Texas is bracing for potentially “catastrophic” flooding as Hurricane Harvey is set to make landfall Friday, and many are raising concerns that given the state’s “With Trump in Charge, Heightened Fears of a Hurricane Harvey Petrochemical Nightmare”

Disturbed by the use of their city’s name in an anti-LGBTQ document signed by more than 180 conservative Christian leaders, hundreds of Nashville residents have “'Accurate Nashville Statement' Embraces LGBTQ With Love to Counter Bigoted Hate”

“Many more innocent people stand to lose their lives if this program continues unchecked by Congress or the courts.” —Reprieve U.S. President Donald Trump is “New Project Highlights 'Brutality' of Trump's Overseas Assassination Campaign”