Senator Al Franken (D-MN) blasted the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision on the Senate floor on Tuesday, calling it the “worst” ruling in the history of the court. “Citizens United was one of the worst decisions in the history of the Supreme Court,” Franken said. “It was a disaster.” Sign Al Franken’s Petition, Today! PUT […]
Tuesday, August 27, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington D.C. for the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” or “The Great March on Washington” as it was later referred to in audio recordings of the event. The next day, Wednesday, August 28th, standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King, […]
TED, the Technology Entertainment and Design nonprofit behind the TED Talks, whose slogan is “ideas worth spreading” recently decided that some ideas are better left alone. In March 2012 Nick Hanauer, millionaire tech investor and entrepreneur gave a talk at a TED conference. In his talk, Hanauer argued that the rich aren’t responsible for the […]
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) took to the Senate floor on Thursday, blocking a resolution that “would have acknowledged the reality of climate change.” The resolution required a unanimous vote in order to pass, but Inhofe wanted no part of if because 9,000 so-called scientists had signed a petition expressing doubt that greenhouse gases cause global […]
Elizabeth Warren says she is not running for president in 2016 but as The Nation reported earlier this week, “when the senator from Massachusetts took the stage at this year’s Netroots Nation conference… Warren came to Detroit with the platform on which Democrats should be running in 2016. And in 2014.” What Elizabeth Warren brought […]