Hundreds of Bans Off Our Bodies rallies were held across Pennsylvania and the United States last Saturday. The demonstrations brought out hundreds of thousands of people supporting access to abortion and reproductive healthcare.
The Senate Judiciary Committee releases a report saying we were much closer to a serious Constitutional crisis than we thought...and we already thought we were pretty close. And, of course, some PA regulars are in the cross hairs.
The House January 6 Commission says it will start issuing criminal subpoenas
The Pandora Papers dropped, exposing how world leaders, celebrities, and the uber rich are using U.S. tax havens and real estate to park their riches out of the reach of taxation and public scrutiny. As described in The Washington Post, “The investigation identified 206 U.S.-based trusts linked to 41 countries. Nearly 30 of the trusts held assets connected to people or companies accused of fraud, bribery or human rights abuses in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.”
Bernie Sanders is pretty much done with coddling Joe Manchin.
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus all go down the day after Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee turned whistleblower appeared on 60 Minutes and spilled the beans on Facebook ignoring its own research that its platform was causing real-world damage to democracy and well-being.
The American Prospect lays out - again - how Biden can use executive actions to take decisive action on climate. So, what’s it going to be, Biden? The climate or Joe Manchin’s Foo Foos.
And a great piece in In These Times, discusses a new report from Democratic Party consultants that shows evidence that the fate of the Democratic Party is intimately tied to the decline of union power. Pointing to the fact that the Democratic Party and the labor movement itself needs to throw everything it has into new organizing.
Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed 48 criminal charges against Energy Transfer Partners for environmental damage and contamination from the Mariner East Pipeline.
March on Harrisburg rained on Jake Corman’s fundraising golf outing at Toftrees resort near Penn State. Wealthy donors paid between $500 - $10,000 to bend Corman’s ear on the back 9. Activists lined the trail between the 10th and 11th hole, attempting to engage donors and holding signs that read “Senator Corman - Meet with Voters Not with Donors;” “Lawmaker Bribery: Par for the Course;” and “The Gift Ban Should be a Gimme.” Activists took this latest action after Senate Pro Tempore Jake Corman refused to bring Gift Ban legislation up for a vote.
School Board craziness continues.
I continue to dodge COVID.
Mikey Stacks is Back trying to get a hold of his old senate seat. Stack’s old senate seat went to John Sabatina - a Stack protege - when Mike Stack became Lt Gov. Senator Sabatina is leaving the Pennsylvania Senate for a Philadelphia court seat. Sabatina was picked as a replacement democratic nominee when the original nominee dropped out of the race. Philly politics at its finest.
Captain Kirk is going to get a shot to go to space...or a part of space at least. That’s right, William Shatner is getting a ride on the next Blue Origin scheduled for Tuesday, October 12. At 90 years old, he’ll be the oldest person to go to space.
Special shout out to Matthew Biniek for the nice cache of Half-Orc Pumpkin Ale, homebrewed by Biniek BioTech Brews.
And, Happy Birthday to my son who becomes a teenager this weekend! Love ya, Rowan!
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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
Friday Politics Roundup w/ Amy Knecht. Politics and Dragons and Middle Earth, oh my!
Out d’Coup LIVE | Fascists homeschoolers in OH, ”Hillsdale of the South,” Your thoughts | January 30, 2023
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