Brexit Is About to Get Lit
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hey, remember last weekend’s geography lesson about England vs. Great Britain vs. the United Kingdom? It’s about to come in handy! As you’ll recall, Northern Ireland is part of the UK, which means that when Brexit is implemented it will be out of the EU…
Jeff Sessions Wants to Crack Down on Fentanyl Dealers. Here’s the Problem With That.
A lethal dose of fentanyl for most drug users, according to the Drug Enforcement AdministrationDEA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has a new plan: He vows to “systematically and relentlessly prosecute” anyone dealing synthetic opioids, regardless of the amount, in ten counties hit hard by the opioid…
Fossil Fuel Industries Outspend Clean Energy Advocates on Climate Lobbying by 10 to 1
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Fossil fuel producers, airlines and electrical utilities outspent environmental groups and the renewable energy industry 10 to 1 on lobbying related to climate change legislation between 2000 and 2016, according to a new analysis released Wednesday. The research, which will be published…
Hey Lefties, We Need to Step Up on Race — But Not the Way You Think
I turned on the TV for a few minutes to snap some pictures of commercials, and boy howdy did I see plenty of white men. Of course, some of them were like this guy, forced to take care of the baby because the femlibs have totally emasculated us. Plus, there were plenty of black men…
Inside the Surprisingly Difficult Fight for Reproductive Rights in One of the Bluest States
Education Images/UIG via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Edith Ajello, now a 13-term lawmaker in Rhode Island’s General Assembly, became pregnant in 1965, she was a college student in central Pennsylvania and abortion was illegal. It was eight years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in Roe v. Wade,…
Elizabeth Warren Tore Into Trump’s Consumer Watchdog Nominee Over Family Separations
Bill Clark/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) had harsh words on Thursday for Kathy Kraninger, Trump’s nominee to lead the primary federal agency tasked to be a watchdog for consumers against Wall Street excess. Ever since Warren proposed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and helped create that agency following…