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If you were either viewing or attending the second day of the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, and decided to skip out on the traditional hour-long state-by-state roll call to grab some dinner between the speeches of private pension bailout advocate Kenneth Stribling and professional anti-Trump Republican Ana Navarro, you missed one entertaining and potentially even meaningful spectacle. Roll calls are, in the best and worst case, the county fairs of national nominating conventions, with thematically dressed state delegations (cheese-heads for Wisconsinites, star-spangled cowboy h...
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Susan Sarandon has been dropped by top Hollywood agency UTA amid her ‘anti-Semitism’ storm. The 77-year-old ‘Dead Man Walking’ actress has stunned her industry and fans by spending the past few weeks raging against Israel and is now under fire for her latest outburst in the wake of the October 7 massacre by Hamas, after saying Jews are “getting a taste of how it feels to be Muslim in America”. Page Six has now reported she has been dropped from UTA as “several staffers were extremely hurt” by her comments. A UTA spokesperson told the outlet the agency is no longer representing the star, who ha...
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2020 Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson has signaled a potential primary challenge to President Joe Biden. She said in a statement: “As America gears up for the 2024 presidential election, I’m preparing an important announcement on March 4th in Washington D.C.” WATCH MARIANNE WILLIAMSON’s uPOLITICS INTERVIEW Williamson, an author, spiritual leader and political activist, has been rumored for months to announce her candidacy. Right before the 2020 Iowa caucus, Williamson dropped out of the race and endorsed Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont). When asked about her decision-making proc...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is considering the possibility of running for president in 2024, which would be his third White House bid. “That’s a big — I haven’t made that decision,” Sanders said on CBS Morning on Tuesday, when asked if he planned to run again. He said his priority is traveling the country and helping young progressives to be elected. Sanders ran for president for the first time in 2016, when he lost the Democratic primaries to Hillary Clinton —who ultimately lost the elections to Donald Trump. In 2020, he tried to get the nomination again but lost to now-President Joe Bide...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) called out centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) over the weekend after Manchin said last week that he was unable to support climate and tax provisions in the Democrats’ economic package citing concerns over high inflation. “He has sabotaged the president’s agenda,” Sanders said during an appearance on ABC’s This Week. “If you check the record, six months ago, I made it clear that you have people like Manchin, Sinema to a lesser degree, who are intentionally sabotaging the president’s agenda, what the American people want, what a majority of us in the Demo...
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United States Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vermont) on Monday announced that he is running to replace Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), who late last week revealed that he will not seek reelection in 2022. “I’m running for the United States Senate to work for you, for Vermont, for our country, and for our imperiled democracy,” Welch tweeted along with a campaign video. In the video, Welch touts his progressive record and excoriates Republican lawmakers for hampering progress: Here in Vermont, we listen more than we talk. I got into politics as a community organizer after I saw what housing discrimination...
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U.S. Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), the longest-serving lawmaker in the upper congressional chamber, announced on Monday that he will be retiring at the end of his current term – his eighth – which ends on January 3, 2023. As president pro tempore, Leahy is third in the presidential line of succession behind the vice president and Speaker of the House of Representatives. He is also the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “It is time to put down the gavel. It is time to pass the torch to the next Vermonter, who will carry on this work for our great state. I...
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Raising taxes on billionaires was among the many proposals President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats made ahead of the 2020 election, which a majority of voters decided was a winning message. But actually getting it done has faced some serious headwinds. Last week, United States Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) cited Tesla founder Elon Musk‘s massive wealth gains during the Covid-19 pandemic as an example of why the richest Americans should pay more in taxes. “Nearly half of Americans do not earn enough to afford to rent a one-bedroom apartment. Half our people continue to live paycheck t...
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The internal party conflict between Democrats over President Joe Biden‘s $ 3.5 trillion tax-and-spending package boiled over as progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) got into a public feud this weekend. Sanders wrote an attack aimed at Manchin in an op-ed for the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Manchin’s home state’s main newspaper. Sanders said that those who oppose the bill support the status quo “in which the very rich get richer while ordinary Americans continue to struggle to make ends meet.” Manchin responded to Sanders with this tweet. The ...
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Senate Democrats approved a $3.5 trillion budget plan bolstering family services, health care, job training and environment programs early on Wednesday morning. The vote, 50-49, with no Republican support, passed the Senate just hours after the bipartisan infrastructure deal. The bill couldn’t reach the 60 vote threshold to avoid the filibuster, so it was passed via the Senate’s budget reconciliation mechanism. While Republicans are strongly opposing the Democrats’ budget, just hours before, the chamber passed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal. Progressive Democrats in Congress like...
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