‘Outrageous. Unacceptable.’: Indiana Teachers Shot ‘Execution-Style’ With Pellets in School Shooting Drill
As state and federal lawmakers fail to take meaningful action to confront America's gun violence epidemic, Indiana elementary school teachers were reportedly shot "execution-style" with plastic pellets in an active shooter drill led by...
The Courts will now tell us whether we can keep our Republic–or not
The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 were held in strict secrecy, so the curious townsfolk in Philadelphia gathered outside the doors of Independence Hall and peppered the delegates with questions as they exited the...
Kale, Strawberries, and Spinach Top List as Report Shows Nearly 70% of US Produce...
The majority of conventionally-grown fruits and vegetables contain pesticide residues that are not eliminated even after washing and peeling the food, scientists revealed Wednesday.
The findings came in an annual report from the Environmental Working...
Trump sent the military to build new border fence. Thieves are now making off...
Even before Donald Trump declared a "national emergency" at the southern border (because refugees were trying to cross and Trump's toxic base doesn't like that), the xenophobe-in-chief had ordered active U.S. troops to the...
Another Guilty Verdict for Monsanto as Jury Finds Roundup Was ‘Substantial Factor’ in Causing...
In a landmark verdict against Monsanto that could have far-reaching implications, a federal jury on Tuesday found that the weed-killer Roundup was "a substantial factor" in causing a 70-year-old plaintiff's cancer.
"The day of reckoning...
‘Terrible News’: US Supreme Court Rules for Indefinite Detention of Immigrants
A Supreme Court ruling Tuesday stating undocumented immigrants with criminal records can be detained indefinitely by U.S. authorities at any time after an initial arrest—even years later—generated outrage and disappointment from advocacy groups around...
Sorry, Trump: Coal is going down, renewables are headed up
Here’s more evidence that Donald Trump’s 2016 promises to bring back coal jobs were a sham: A new report from the Trump administration predicts that the amount of coal production in the U.S. will...
AOC is heckled, makes it a teaching moment on how funding cuts are...
AOC was hosting a town hall in her district and was talking about public schools. She talked about her dad getting into Brooklyn Tech (one of the selective NYC high schools). AOC then asks...
Chuck Todd calls out Trump: We need a white nationalism extremism database
Chuck Todd called out President Trump's response to the white supremacist murderous spree in New Zealand on Meet the Press a few earlier today. Imagine if Trump was held to account before his misdeeds...
Republicans are escalating efforts to bar or water down climate change education
The Washington Post notes a new escalation in the number of anti-climate science education bills being brought up in multiple state legislatures. Already there have been more than a dozen, ranging from demands to repeal...
