Arizona Republicans celebrated Wednesday after swatting down Democrats' fourth attempt in two weeks to repeal the state's near-total abortion ban, which the state Supreme Court upheld last week. read more
Things got physical when a group of climate protesters clashed with other event-goers at a gala hosted by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on Thursday. Several activists were pushed off stage and fell on top of one another while resisting attempts by the event attendees to remove them.
Dan Kennedy: I want to return one more time to NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner's long essay in The Free Press about what he regards as his employer's move to the fringe left. Mainly he seems to be worked up about diversity workshops and a change in NPR's audience from one that was more or less balanced ideologically to one that is overwhelmingly liberal and progressive -- which, as I wrote earlier this week, is more a consequence of the great national sorting-out than of anything NPR itself has done. But there were also three factual assertions he made. One is flat-out false; one is devoid of crucial context; and one is questionable.
Workers staged sit-in protests this week at the company's offices in Seattle, New York and Sunnyvale, California over Project Nimbus, a joint contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud and artificial intelligence services.
Conservative influencers were briefed about House Speaker Mike Johnson's latest election integrity bill well before it was publicly announced. read more
Hmm, I'd call it a little more than a scuffle and isn't Murkowski an independent now?
Background info:
These Climate Activists Make People Uncomfortable " And It's Workingwww.rollingstone.com
Last week, guerilla activists at Climate Defiance recounted the powerful people they've made uncomfortable, and used that power to raise real money
Activists and donors, young and old, packed into a luxury co-op on the Upper West Side last Wednesday to celebrate the one-year birthday of Climate Defiance, a disruptive climate action group that is quite good at making powerful politicians, government officials, and corporate executives uncomfortable " with the goal of trying to end our reliance on fossil fuels.
Climate Defiance Executive Director Michael Greenberg put this power on full display at the event, as he gave supporters an excruciatingly hard sell, for what felt like an eternity, asking them to fund the organization's in-your-face climate activism " and help take it national.
Background to MTG's amendment:
Hungary far-right would lay claim to neighbouring region if Ukraine loses warwww.reuters.com
BUDAPEST, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Hungary's far-right Our Homeland party would lay claim to a western region of Ukraine that is home to about 150,000 ethnic Hungarians if Ukraine loses its statehood due to Russia's invasion, the party's leader said late on Saturday.
Our Homeland leader Laszlo Toroczkai made the remarks at a conference where the party, which has six lawmakers in the 199-strong Hungarian parliament, hosted far-right leaders from Germany's AfD and the Dutch Forum for Democracy, among others.
"Regarding the war in Ukraine, our message is very simple: immediate ceasefire, peace and a resolution through talks," Toroczkai said in a video posted on his party's website, calling for autonomy for ethnic Hungarians in western Ukraine.
"If this war ends up with Ukraine losing its statehood, because this is also on the cards, then as the only Hungarian party taking this position, let me signal that we lay claim to Transcarpathia," he said, drawing applause from the crowd.
"it is because he wears a hard plastic girdle and he doesn't have the freedom of movement. It's why you see him turn his body from the waist so strangely when standing."
That would also explain the stilted way he dances.