Jon Queally, staff writer

Jon Queally is managing editor for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @jonqueally
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News Wednesday, January 13, 2021 Demanding Immediate Action Over 'Empty Promises,' Youth Climate Movement Announces Next Global Strikes Fridays for Future, the youth-led global group inspired by Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg, announced Wednesday that its next international day of climate strikes will occur on March 19 of this year with a demand for "immediate, concrete, and ambitious action" directed at world leaders who have... Read more |
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News Tuesday, January 12, 2021 With Deep Fossil Fuel Ties, Justice Barrett Called to Recuse Herself From Pending Climate Case Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett—confirmed just ahead of President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss in November—is being called to recuse herself from an upcoming decision regarding a potentially landmark climate case now pending. "Given Justice Barrett's deep family connections to Shell... Read more |
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News Tuesday, January 12, 2021 These 63 Billionaires Who Bankrolled Trump All the Way to Insurrection Have 'No Right to Feel Shocked' "Will there be any accountability for these recent billionaire enablers of Donald Trump, who saw what damage he caused and still stood by him?" "Among the most steadfast enablers of this insurrection: Billionaires." —Institute for Policy Studies That's the question asked Tuesday by Chuck Collins,... Read more |
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News Thursday, January 07, 2021 Carrying Death Sentence If Convicted, Iraq Issues Arrest Warrant for Trump on Murder Charges Under penalty of death if ultimately tried and convicted, an Iraqi court Thursday issued an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump for ordering the assassination by drone strike at the Baghdad International Airport of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi military commander Abu Mahdi al-... Read more |
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News Wednesday, January 06, 2021 Bernie Sanders Says Trump 'Directly Responsible' for Insurrection Effort Amid urgent calls for President Donald Trump's immediate arrest , removal from office under the 25th Amendment, and impeachment following Wednesday's violent storming of the U.S. Capitol building by a right-wing mob intent on interrupting the certification by Congress of the 2020 election results,... Read more |
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News Tuesday, January 05, 2021 Giving Up the Game, DOJ Argues in Court Filing That Trump Lost 2020 Election In a court filing submitted in late December as part of a lawsuit contesting the status of Trump administration officials serving unconfirmed in "temporary" positions, lawyers with the U.S. Justice Department argued the case should be tossed out because the issue would soon "be moot" given that... Read more |
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News Friday, December 04, 2020 The Pandemic Is Raging Out of Control, So Pompeo Invited 900 People to an Indoor Holiday Party? News Friday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was asked by a Democratic Senator to call off scheduled holiday parties—including one with a 900-person invite list for an indoor gathering—left critics wondering: Wait, an indoor holiday party with 900 people during a raging pandemic? After it was... Read more |
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News Thursday, November 19, 2020 'The Real Looting in America Is the Walton Family': GAO Report Details How Taxpayers Subsidize Cruel Low Wages of Corporate Giants Pinpointing a reality denounced as " morally obscene " by Sen. Bernie Sanders, a new government study shows how some of the nation's largest and most profitable corporations—including Walmart, McDonald's, Dollar General, and Amazon—feast upon taxpayer money by paying their employees such low wages... Read more |
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News Wednesday, November 18, 2020 'Who Wants to Break the News to Him?' Trump Silent After GOP Effort to Block Election Certification in Michigan Thwarted Despite later reversing their decision, two Republican members of Michigan's Wayne County Board of Canvassers were told their woeful legacies had already been sealed after they attempted Tuesday to block the certification of the county's 2020 election results, including an effort during the process... Read more |
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News Tuesday, November 17, 2020 "I'd Like to Report Some Voter Fraud": Lindsey Graham Under Fire for Allegations He Urged Legal Ballots Be Tossed in Georgia Demands for an investigation and calls for Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to step down from his powerful position as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee erupted late Monday night after Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Graham, in a private conversation,... Read more |