Covax is reportedly out of money. This could lead to a potential disaster for low-income countries that have come to depend on the United Nations-backed initiative for access to covid-19 vaccinations. Billionaire Mark Cuban launched an online pharmacy aimed at lowering generic drug prices. Hosts: Ana Kasparian Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Earlier this week, the FBI raided the Laredo, Texas, home of Rep. Henry Cuellar. According to ABC News, the raid was made in connection with an ongoing investigation linked to Azerbaijan. The tense conflict over Ukraine shifted further into full crisis mode with NATO moving more military equipment into Eastern Europe and Russia continuing to build up massed forces along the border with Ukraine. A 12-year-old wrote his governor to oppose a gun law. A stray bullet killed him on Christmas. New Jers...
Senate Democrats made the case for legislation to counter an onslaught of new voting restrictions around the country, but they failed to overcome a Republican blockade or unite their own members behind a change in filibuster rules to pass it. Texas' GOP attorney general told Steve Bannon on his podcast “we're done if anybody can vote” after a recent court ruling. President Joe Biden doesn't believe public opinion polls that show his popularity waning among voters who identify as politically inde...
The real cause of the crisis in our hospitals is greed. Congressional Democrats are joining Republicans in a last-ditch effort to undermine the newly implemented No Surprises Act, which bans surprise medical bills. The New York State attorney general accused Donald J. Trump’s family business of repeatedly misrepresenting the value of its assets to bolster its bottom line. Beginning this month, online business owners who sell their goods and services through sites like Venmo, Etsy, and Airbnb wil...
The rabbi of a Texas synagogue where a gunman took hostages during live-streamed services said Monday that he threw a chair at his captor before escaping with two others after the hours-long standoff. The long-simmering tensions between former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) are reaching a boiling point ahead of a potential 2024 primary clash. Paul Begala said Democrats’ problem is "not that they have bad leaders. They have bad followers." Congressional Democrats are joining Re...
Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said she would not support undermining the Senate filibuster to enact new voting rights laws, presenting a major obstacle for President Biden’s drive to push the protections through Congress. CNN featured an explosive showdown between former Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) surrogate Nina Turner and Jonathan Kott, former senior adviser to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV). Bernie Sanders and two of his Senate colleagues on Friday demanded that the Wall Street behemoth BlackRock...
The Supreme Court has blocked President Biden’s workplace vaccine rules but it allowed the requirement for healthcare workers. Fed Chair Jay Powell grudgingly acknowledged that corporate profiteering and market concentration are helping drive up inflation. Kim Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather have been sued over an alleged crypto scam. The Democratic Governor of Maine torpedoed a worker’s rights bill. Almost 10,000 Kroger’s workers go on strike in Denver. A judge in western Illinois who found an ...
As the head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that he was ordering a review of a planned 15% hike in the Medicare Part B premium for 2022, healthcare reform advocates stressed the need for Congress to pass a Build Back Better bill with a provision allowing the federal government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. Corbevax is targeting low-income countries to stop new COVID variants from emerging. Scientists say rich countries are still refusing to fu...
President Biden will endorse changing the Senate filibuster for voting rights legislation. Many politicians traded stocks more than ever before, beat the S&P 500 by a lot, and made numerous unusually timed trades, resulting in huge gains. Larry Kudlow approvingly quoted Jacobin magazine on Fox News. Months after the pipeline company Enbridge announced it had finished its Line 3 pipeline, hundreds of the project’s opponents have pending court cases for arrests made at protests during last yea...
Several Democratic candidates are moving away from anything that identifies them as “moderate” or "progressive." Joe Manchin reportedly no longer supports his own Build Back Better counteroffer. The War on Terror has failed. Terrorist groups have more than doubled since 2001. The Omicron variant has overwhelmed hospitals in early hit cities across the U.S. A fire that destroyed a Tennessee planned parenthood has been ruled arson. A right-wing Indiana state senator has backtracked on his shocking...
MAGA rally goers at West Palm Beach waited for Trump, but he never showed up. Three in four voters support banning lawmakers from trading stocks. The president of Kazakhstan gave a shoot-to-kill order against protesters. A conservative media critic published a column on Friday despicably accusing Rep. Jamie Raskin of “milking” his son’s suicide. From his hospital bed, Steve Bannon’s ‘Real America Voice’ field correspondent Ben Bergquam blames Biden for not holding China accountable for the “Chin...
President Joe Biden taunted former President Donald Trump with a litany of defeats that were dealt after the election, and after the failure of the January 6th coup attempt. Moments after Biden addressed the nation from the Capitol rotunda on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, Fox News anchor Dana Perino criticized the speech as “political” and “divisive.” A new report says Boeing and Pfizer are among the companies and trade groups to have donated $8 million to Republicans who voted against cer...
Big drug companies raised the prices on hundreds of medications on Jan. 1, with most prices up 5% to 6% on average. America’s nearly 750 billionaires collectively got $1 trillion richer in 2021, a tax-free 25% gain, according to calculations by Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) based on Forbes data. In a new Brazilian presidential poll, Lula is leading the judge who locked him up. Dana Perino says the I-95 traffic jam happened because the left won't let cops have ""military-grade equipment"". A F...
Just as Democrats are hitting pause on Biden's climate & social spending package, a huge increase in child poverty could happen as a result of letting the expanded Child Tax Credit expire. A groping charge against former New York Gov. Cuomo has been dropped by a prosecutor. Joe Rogan encourages moving to a new social media app after Twitter bans GOP lawmakers. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders rebuked former President Donald Trump Monday after the frequent admirer of dictators endorsed the reelection...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has opposed vaccine mandates, is now asking for federal help with COVID-19 testing and treatment. A federal lawsuit filed by a prominent civil rights attorney alleges that police officers in Fairfax County protected a sex trafficking ring in northern Virginia in exchange for free sex from the trafficked women. The Pentagon is projected to give $407 Billion to private military contractors this year. Hillary Clinton has urged the Democratic Party to be “clear-eyed” abou...
Alan Dershowitz reacts to the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict. Just a casual conversation among a couple of anti-vaxxers at an anti-vaxx rally. A federal ban on surprise medical bills takes effect on Jan. 1. People without COVID are dying because hospitals are full of unvaxxed patients. A border town in Southern China caught 4 people that were breaking COVID restrictions, so they paraded them thru the streets in a public shaming display. Hosts: Cenk Uygur & Francesca Fiorentini Hosted on Acast. Se...
Denver Police have launched a "large-scale" investigation into what authorities have described as a "killing spree" on Monday that left six people dead and three others, including a police officer, injured. Rep. Dan Crenshaw said anyone who opposes endless wars is a ‘friggin’ idiot.’ Candace Owens fat-shamed Meghan McCain on Twitter over the COVID-19 vaccine. Peter Navarro appeared to complain that Capitol rioters on January 6 ruined his and Steve Bannon’s plans to overturn the 2020 general elec...
The man who recently gained widespread media coverage for using a veiled conservative expletive when speaking to President Joe Biden has surprised virtually no one by revealing that he falsely believes Donald Trump is his president, despite initially trying to convince the public otherwise. An 'unruly' passenger was taken into FBI custody after a mask dispute on Delta flight. Ben Shapiro used Ilhan Omar’s response to Joe Manchin to attack her. 'The View' Is reportedly struggling to find a conser...
Kimberly Potter has been convicted on two charges of manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright. Joe Biden says a rematch against Donald Trump would “increase the prospect” of him running again. Texas Senator Ted Cruz is hinting at another presidential campaign in 2024, saying that his 2016 run was an incredibly fun experience. A Fox News reporter asked Jen Psaki if there was ‘retribution’ against the staffer who offended Joe Manchin. Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...
First-time homebuyers used to live on this block then global investors bought in. How a drugmaker gamed the system to keep generic competition away. Sen. Joe Manchin’s political action committee saw a surge in corporate contributions this fall, ahead of his decision to oppose – and apparently kill – President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion social safety net and climate-change bill. President Biden extended the federal student loan payment pause through May 1st. The Food and Drug Administration has j...
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), which represents West Virginia coal miners, urged Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday to revisit his opposition to President Biden's Build Back Better plan. Nate Silver's data journalism blog, FiveThirtyEight, is a political website with no politics — or rather, no politics beyond a mute approval of the status quo. Former President Donald Trump just announced that he will be holding a press conference on the one-year anniversary of the January 6th Capi...
"Betrayed" progressives in the House of Representatives erupt over Joe Manchin announcing he will not vote for the Build Back Better legislation. Manchin reportedly told colleagues that parents will use the expanded child tax credit to buy drugs. Bernie Sanders continues to tear into Joe Manchin for killing the Build Back Better bill. Kamala Harris got testy with Charlamagne tha God when he asked her if Biden or Manchin was President. Texts from an Amazon driver reveal the chaos as tornados bore...
Mitch McConnell is subtly showing his support for the January 6th Committee. Given the weak slate of potential Democratic primary candidates in 2024, could Hillary Clinton run again? Bernie Sanders torches Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema for 'arrogance' and 'acting like Republicans.' Tucker Carlson said, "Yes, COVID has killed a lot of people. So has prostate cancer. Imagine telling people about your prostate every day for the next two years." Hosts: John Iadarola, Cenk Uygur, Farron Cousins Host...
Congress and top Capitol Hill staff have violated the STOCK Act hundreds of times, but the consequences are minimal, inconsistent, and not recorded publicly. Sen. Joe Manchin vented his anger with the media in the wake of a report that he wanted to drop the child tax credit from President Biden’s expansive climate and social spending package. With the Supreme Court now considering Mississippi’s abortion after 15 weeks, and apparently open to rolling back half a century of reproductive rights, co...
Senate Democrats are pushing Biden’s Build Back Better to the back burner and are ‘aggressively’ pursuing voting rights legislation. The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol released new text messages obtained from former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that were sent to him in the days leading up to the insurrection and while the Capitol was under siege. Laura Ingraham responded to Rep. Liz Cheney reading aloud a text the Fox News host sent t...
According to multiple officials, a single top secret American strike cell launched tens of thousands of bombs and missiles against the Islamic State in Syria, but in the process of attacking the enemy, the shadowy force sidestepped safeguards and repeatedly killed civilians. At least five workers said supervisors warned employees that they would be fired if they left their shifts early during the catastrophic tornadoes in Kentucky. Screenshots of a system used by Scripps Memorial Hospital show m...
The southern midwest region of the U.S. was plagued by severe storms and once-in-a-century tornadoes that ravaged communities, homes, and businesses. So far there are dozens confirmed dead and even more still missing. Six workers in an Amazon warehouse died after a tornado leveled the building. The retail giant is being criticized for not allowing workers to carry their mobile phones on the warehouse floor, preventing them from receiving weather warnings. Education in the U.S. is so underfunded ...
President Biden and the Democratic Congress are set to preside over the strongest two-year performance on growth, jobs, and income in decades—so long as the current cycle of inflation eases, and the Omicron variant does not trigger another round of shutdowns. Kellogg's says it will permanently replace striking workers after their offer of 3% annual raises was rejected. A divided Supreme Court refused to block the Texas law that has banned most abortions but narrowly opened the door for abortion ...
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Conservatives have a new bogeyman: critical energy theory. Inside ALEC’s new campaign to push anti-climate legislation across the country. Big Oil raked in $174 Billion in 2021 profits amid rising gas prices. Despite candidate Biden’s vow to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” following Khashoggi’s murder, the White House says it “strongly opposes” Congress’ attempt to block the $650 million missile sale to Saudi. Just days after receiving a $750 million cash infusion, a tech startup valued at $7 billi...
