Update to Mark Your Calendar For The Latest Apocalyptic Prediction, And Prepare To Have A Good Laugh (excerpt): We have a date certain. Mark your calendar to be totally disappointed, you MAGA/QAnon cult freaks. This is next Friday, by the way. Zachary Petrizzo got a little bit ahead of himself at Salon. So, hey, it’s … Read more
Democratic lawmakers, including more than 100 state legislators, rallied Tuesday outside the U.S. Capitol to urge the Senate to delay its summer recess until passing the For the People Act. The Washington Post reports, Democratic lawmakers rally in D.C. to demand the passage of voting rights legislation: The state lawmakers at Tuesday’s rally traveled from … Read more
Prominent civil rights leaders, the Revs. Jesse L. Jackson and Bishop William J. Barber II, were among about 200 people arrested outside the U.S. Capitol on Monday while protesting for Congress to end the filibuster, protect voting rights and raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. The Washington Post reports, Jesse Jackson among … Read more
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said she may yet jump back into politics, teasing the possibility of a Senate run in 2022 against incumbent Lisa Murkowski, Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post reports. Said Palin: “If God wants me to do it I will.”
Saturday was the fourth and final day of the Poor Peoples Campaign’s Georgetown-to-Austin Moral March For Democracy. Hundreds of marchers made their way to Austin, TX, on Saturday as thousands more joined them at a protest for voting rights. At Saturday’s rally, country music legend Willie Nelson led more than a thousand spectators in singing “vote … Read more