Following a 16-year bet Republicans laid down in 2006 to block Postal EVs, DeJoy just told Biden to go screw himself: he’s going to buy fossil-fuel vehicles for 90% of the fleet instead of electric.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Once again the pharma industry has proven that it regulates Congress, not the other way around. How long will America allow rampant drug price gouging?
The rules for conducting elections aren’t the only thing being debated in Republican-dominated state legislatures. Some want more control over the entire process. The resulting bills reflect a growing loss of trust in democratic systems.
Amazon saved a ton of money on taxes in 2021 using perfectly legal—thanks to Congressionally provided loopholes—maneuvers to bring their tab down from $7.3 billion which would be the statutory rate.
The staggering sums being paid by Americans for healthcare are so far out of whack from literally all other modern countries as to be laughable—or would be if they wasn’t so sick.
We must now conclude that the Republican National Committee now considers violence, the destruction of public and government property, rioting, the smearing of excrement in the Capitol and manslaughter as "legitimate political discourse."
On average, COVID is killing an estimated 2,600 people every day in the U.S., a staggering figure that experts fear is becoming “normalized” among the country’s political establishment and population.
Donors like billionaire investor Ken Langone are "always there to reach across the aisle to make sure to support politicians who take from the poor and give to the rich."
There is something profoundly wrong in America when pharma companies can raise the price of generic drugs by 500 percent or more.
From the "not much of a surprise" department, analysis finds that America's 661 billionaires pumped $1,200,000,000 into the 2020 elections.
Economies that run entirely on fossil fuels can now be likened to zombies trudging along one lumbering dead step after another.
Both former gubernatorial candidate David Perdue and Florida Governor DeSantis are proposing an election police force to bolster the Big Lie from Trump that the 2020 election was stolen. Maybe these police should be called the "Election Outcome Enforcement Bureau."
Always remember that criminals accuse others of their own crimes. Trump, his family and his cronies are falsely accusing others of fraudulently voting. But meanwhile they've engaged in a wholesale attempt to steal an election with blatant election fraud.
It goes hand in hand that where you find corruption you will also find obstruction. Mitch McConnell has been showing the country this for more than a decade. Now Manchin and Simena are following his example.
An updated documentary about the Jan 6th insurrection from ProPublica, FRONTLINE and Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program tracks the migration of fringe election conspiracies into the mainstream.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is trying to push blame for rising COVID numbers on President Biden despite the fact that DeSantis has enacted legislation preventing local and regional authorities from enacting masking and social distancing measures to prevent infections.