Donald Trump’s address before a joint session of Congress Tuesday night showed it.
Trump’s executive order last month reversing the federal government’s move away from single-use plastics is great news for the petrochemical industry, but toxic news for the environment and public health.
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W.E.B. Du Bois’ observation that race prejudice “is a far more powerful social force than most Philadelphians realize” is still true today.
These nonprofits say there’s no way for them to do their work and comply with Trump’s executive orders.
“Pennsylvanians who want to buy cannabis are just driving across the border to one of our neighbors,” says Governor Josh Shapiro.
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The Democratic-majority court has played a big role in defusing election challenges. Now Republicans are mobilizing for a takeover.
Why isn’t the corporate media reporting about this more, or in many cases at all?
These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges extremist ideology with fitness and combat sports culture.
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
