Jake Johnson, staff writer
Jake Johnson is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @johnsonjakep
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News Thursday, March 25, 2021 'Extraordinarily Dangerous': Georgia House Passes Bill to Give GOP Lawmakers Control of Election Board Update: The Georgia state Senate on Thursday passed S.B. 202, a sweeping voter suppression bill, just hours after it won House approval. The measure now heads to the desk of Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who has not said whether he intends to sign it. Earlier: Georgia's Republican-controlled House of... Read more |
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News Thursday, March 25, 2021 Trump Holdovers Accused of 'Sabotaging' Effort to Get Checks to 30 Million Social Security Recipients House Democrats and progressive activists are accusing the leadership of the Social Security Administration—currently headed by Trump holdover Andrew Saul—of slow-walking the Biden administration's effort to distribute direct coronavirus relief payments to tens of millions of seniors and people... Read more |
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News Thursday, March 25, 2021 'Focus on Structural Power': Lawmakers Told to Press Big Tech CEOs on 'Toxic' Business Model With the CEOs of Twitter, Google, and Facebook set to testify Thursday on the role social media plays in promoting the kinds of misinformation and far-right extremism that sparked the deadly Capitol attack, anti-monopoly experts are urging members of Congress not to allow the executives to divert... Read more |
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News Thursday, March 25, 2021 Taking Aim at 'Rigged' System, New Sanders Bills Would Reverse Trump's Corporate Tax Cut, End Offshoring Aiming to reorient a tax system he describes as fundamentally "rigged," Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday unveiled a pair of bills that would restore the corporate tax rate to 35%, eliminate rules that allow U.S. companies to skirt their obligations by moving profits overseas, and impose new taxes on... Read more |
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News Thursday, March 25, 2021 Applause as Biden USDA Scraps Trump Bid to Take Food Benefits From More Than a Million People The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday announced the official end of a Trump-era policy that could have stripped federal food benefits from more than a million people during the coronavirus pandemic by imposing more draconian work requirements on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program... Read more |
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News Wednesday, March 24, 2021 Fending Off Antitrust Push, Tech Giants Now Biggest Spenders on DC Lobbying With Facebook and Amazon leading the charge, Big Tech has surpassed Big Oil and Big Tobacco to become the largest lobbying spender in the U.S. as the increasingly powerful and consolidated industry attempts to use its wealth to fend off growing support for antitrust action among lawmakers and the... Read more |
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News Wednesday, March 24, 2021 60 Largest Banks Have Dumped $3.8 Trillion Into Fossil Fuels Since 2015, Report Shows A detailed new report released Wednesday morning by a coalition of environmental groups shows that the 60 largest banks in the world have poured more than $3.8 trillion into the fossil fuel industry since the Paris climate accord was adopted in 2015, providing key financing for destructive projects... Read more |
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News Wednesday, March 24, 2021 Tlaib Unveils Bill to Provide Monthly Payments to Everyone in US—Funded by Minting Trillion-Dollar Coins Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Pramila Jayapal on Tuesday introduced legislation that would provide everyone in the U.S. with $2,000 monthly payments during the coronavirus crisis and $1,000 per month for a year after the emergency ends in an effort to guarantee sustained relief for millions... Read more |
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News Wednesday, March 24, 2021 'Strom Thurmond Disagrees': Historians Refute McConnell Claim That Filibuster Has 'No Racial History' Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday made the sweeping claim that the legislative filibuster has "no racial history at all" and further insisted that historians don't dispute his view—an assertion that historians immediately disputed. "Strom Thurmond disagrees," tweeted... Read more |
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News Tuesday, March 23, 2021 Democrats Warn DeJoy's New 10-Year Plan Guarantees 'Death Spiral' for US Postal Service Congressional Democrats gravely warned Tuesday that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's new 10-year strategic plan would ensure that the U.S. Postal Service remains in a " death spiral " by further degrading the agency's performance, slashing Post Office hours across the country, and raising postage... Read more |