It’s impeachment week. House managers presented incredibly compelling and powerful arguments that Trump incited insurrection.
Montgomery County PA’s own, Bruce Castor, told stories of his childhood and made sure everyone knew that Nebraska was a very judicial thinking place, during what was an embarrassing ramble of an opening argument.
Amazon hired anti-union consultant to try to destroy unionizing efforts in a Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center. The consultant, Russell Brown, runs the anti-union firm RWP Labor which specializes in “maintaining a union free workplace.” Brown is also president of the Koch funded anti-union think tank, the Center for Independent Employees.
5,800 workers at the Alabama Amazon fulfillment center received mail-in ballots last Monday. If the majority of workers vote for the union, it would become the first unionized Amazon workplace in the country. The union, Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, RWDSU, also represents 12,000 poultry workers in Alabama. According to a report in Wired, reports of the safety protections won by the unionized RWDSU poultry workers led workers at Amazon to reach out to the union to help with their own organizing efforts.
House Democrats and the Congressional Progressive Caucus fought to include raising the $15 minimum wage in the COVID relief package.
PA Proud! Pennsylvania ranks number two in the country when it comes to the number of residents who have been arrested from the January 6th Insurrection.
Capital Region Stands Up and Pennsylvania Stands Up placed billboards around the Pennsylvania 10th Congressional District calling on Scott Perry to resign. Click on the link and look at the amazing design.
Lt Governor John Fetterman officially announced his 2022 campaign for the United States Senate. The first week was a little rocky as archived video of Fetterman’s time as Mayor of Braddock circulated on social media.
House and Senate Democrats continue their calls for an investigation into Senator Doug Mastriano’s role in the January 6th insurrection & for his expulsion from the Pennsylvania Senate.
Pennsylvania House Republicans continue their voter fraud hearings and undermine the 2020 election. Pennsylvania Spotlight published a report this week highlighting House State Government Committee Chair Seth Grove’s role to undermine the 2020 election. Representative Grove is a board member with the American Legislative Exchange Council and he’s been working with ALEC and Koch Operatives to undermine the 2020 election since August 2019.
Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta will be the Keynote speaker at today’s Gender and Sexual Minorities Conference at Kutztown University.
28 state legislators release a call to action for a People’s Budget. While praising much of Gov. Wolf’s new budget, the group writes that “as a Commonwealth, we need to reject austerity, wasteful spending and unstable revenue streams. We are guided by the urgent need to invest in people over big corporations. We believe any budget must focus on working people across the state and sthe systems and programs that can support workers to recuperate from this devastating pandemic that has touched all corners of our state.”
Omar Ray is preparing to launch his campaign for Lehigh Valley County Commissioner on February 18 @ 7:00 pm. As a community activist and progressive, Ray hopes to be party of the Lehigh Valley’s growing list of progressive elected officials.
PASSHE Chancellor Greenstein was back in the Capitol to update legislators about plans to consolidate several universities. Lots of spin and few specifics.
F!@# Tom Brady.
Free Will Brewing had to temporary limit access after an employee tested positive for COVID. They are back up and running in time for Valentines day and everyone there has tested negative for the virus. All this weekend Tre Locally Sourced will be parked out front on the main brewery in Perkasie with an scrumptious food menu.
Want to know what to try? Here’s some new/recent releases:
Blackberry Raspberry Mash - Sour Ale with Blackberry, Raspberry, Vanilla, and Milk Sugar. 7.5% ABV; 35 - American Double IPA brewed with a variety of our favorite hops from around the globe, a plentiful amount of oats, and a touch of honey malt for color and additional sweetness 8% ABV; and, Juice Money - Sour Ale with Plum, Black Currant, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Vanilla, and Milk Sugar. Ongoing collab with Imprint Beer Company.
Out d’Coup LIVE | Pennridge School District hires far-right Vermillion Education to rewrite social studies curriculum
Friday Politics Roundup for April 28, 2023
Out d’Coup LIVE | François Furstenburg on his article, ”Higher Ed’s Grim, Soulless, Ed-Techified Future”
Friday Politics Roundup | House GOP goes after the poor and climate; gun violence; Rutgers strike; Lower Merion restricts guns; satellite crashes; Starship goes boom
Out d’Coup LIVE | Chris Ullery, extremism and social justice reporter for the Bucks County Courier Times
Friday Politics Roundup | FL passes 6-week abortion ban; Air Force leaker arrested; Fort Lauderdale flooding; religious law firm infects PA schools; Temple ; DnD Movie, book recs; and, more!
Out d’Coup LIVE | ProPublica exposes Clarence Thomas; TN Republicans remove Black reps for gun reform protest; Catholic priest abuses; Ashley Ehasz announces; abortion pill ban coming; school boards
Out d’Coup LIVE | Karen Feridun, founder of Berks Gas Truth on the ”hydrogen economy” diversion and the PA Climate Convergence 2023
Friday Politics Roundup | Trump indicted; Waco speech; migrants killed in fire; 15m people set to lose Medicaid; no ”Rainbowland” for 1st graders; Martino’s PAC readys; Summer Lee; D&D movie!
Out d’Coup LIVE | Cyril Mychalejko, Editor-in-Chief of the Bucks County Beacon, extremism on school boards and supporting independent media
Friday Politics Roundup | IPCC alarming climate report; Biden OKs Willow Project; Iowa passes anti-trans bills; woke capitalism; Trump warns death and destruction
Out d’Coup LIVE | Alan Gratz on his latest book ”Two Degrees,” climate change, and controversy
Friday Politics Roundup | SCOTUS goes after student loan forgiveness; extremists in FL; Twitter Files; Pennridge SD faces lawsuit; Gov. Shapiro’s lukewarm budget; and, more!
Out d’Coup LIVE | Rohan Montgomery writing in In These Times on the epic victory of D&D community over corporate greed; and, voice actors organizing for fair wages & better working conditions.
Out d’Coup LIVE | Patricia Roberts-Miller, Prof. Emeritus Rhetoric & Writing U of Texas - Austin on Demagoguery and Democracy
Out d’Coup LIVE | Robyn Underwood from KOFEE (Kutztown Organized for Educational Excellence) on book bans and reclaiming our schools
Friday Politics Roundup | Majority of Republicans fans of Christian nationalism; state courts attack LGBTQ & abortion; student debt forgiveness threatened; Central Bucks; Temple grad strike; more!
Out d’Coup LIVE | Alyssa Bowen, Senior Researcher & Manager Editor for Truth North Research, on expanded right-wing strategy to dominate school boards
Friday Politics Roundup | 22K killed by earthquake in Tukey and Syria; SOTU; Fetterman health scare; Telford council meeting off the rails; The Good Liars in CBSD
Out d’Coup LIVE | Hannah Leffingwell on the need for fundamental change in higher education
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