By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s looking more and more like the American people will never be told the whole truth about Trump’s insurrection and attempted coup d’état on January 6, 2021. The political news site Politico broke a story Friday afternoon based on an anonymous, “scathing” whistleblower letter to high ranking members…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — For millions of people around the world, Facebook is simply another toy on the internet. Many people simply log in now and then and scan what’s on the home page news feed on their smart phones, maybe hit like on a post or video, and don’t engage on…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American people can utter a brief sigh of relief this weekend as President Joe Biden signed a spending bill Thursday night that prevents a shutdown of the federal government, extending funding through early December. The bad news is we will all have to live through this threat…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Capitol Weather Gang is calling Monday a 10 out of 10 kind of day. I have to agree with them. The high here will be 79, with the humidity hovering around 34 percent and an expected low of around 50. It’s camping weather and time to get…
Mark Meadows, Daniel Scavino, Kashyap Patel and Stephen Bannon Targeted – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued a new round of subpoenas on Thursday seeking documents and testimony from four individuals with close ties to the former president who were working…
By Glynn Wilson – The Biden administration issued a final regulation Thursday aimed at cutting emissions that lead to global warming and climate change by announcing the establishment of a program to cap and phase down the production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons in the United States by 85 percent over the next 15 years, according…
There is little doubt this is caused by political rhetoric and media coverage – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If there are any communications scholars out there still trying to figure out how to accurately measure political and media influence on public opinion, look no further than a new survey out from the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Buried under the sad news on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on America on Saturday, and an inconclusive declassified report on the role of Saudi Arabia in the attacks, the U.S. Capitol Police quietly published a short report on the role some officers played…
Sierra Club’s Michael Brune Resigns Amid Accusations of Racism by John Muir – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Buried under the avalanche of disaster news of late — hurricanes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Covid surge — there are a few important developments in the headlines that most news…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Back in the 1980s, into the 1990s and as recently as this year, scientists, science writers and environmental activists warned people and governments that human industrial activity fueled a catastrophic greenhouse effect that was warming the planet and changing the climate. The United Nations led the early warning…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the risk of giving Georgia’s nut job Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene more of the kind of press and attention she craves, and her followers more reason to double down and give her money like they do former White House con man Donald Trump, let’s just say Green…
By Glynn Wilson – CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — This city was not a pivotal location during the Civil War from 1861-65, but the often violent and deadly battle over removing the statue of Robert E. Lee in 2017 put Thomas Jefferson’s home town front and center in the national war on Confederate monuments and how today’s…
By Lydia DePillis – ProPublica – Late last summer, after churning along through the pandemic with only a two-week pause, managers at FreightCar America called hundreds of workers into the break area at the company’s factory near Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to tell them that the plant was closing for good. For some employees, the news…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It will come as no surprise to college educated Democrats, liberal college professors and experienced journalists that American conservative Republicans who supported Donald Trump are subject to right-wing propaganda, political manipulation and suffer from authoritarian tendencies in the name of a mixed up anti-government philosophy based on a…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the state of Georgia on Friday accusing the Republican controlled legislature of intentional discrimination for passing a voting law with strict constraints on ballot drop boxes that would bar election officials from sending absentee ballot applications to voters,…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Democrats launched a series of legislative efforts this week to try tackling the monopoly power of Big Tech. But are they asking the right questions? And will the efforts simply fail because Republicans won’t go along? Led by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from…
By Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel – ProPublica – In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration suspended oil and gas drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska on Tuesday, reversing another pro-big business, anti-environment move by former President Donald Trump and delivering on a promise by presidential candidate Joe Biden to protect the amazing and critical ecosystem from…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON — The Biden-Harris administration submitted the President’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2022 to Congress on Friday, and it calls for a new investment of $3.5 billion in the National Park Service to help modernize the parks and park infrastructure. It calls for new investments in conservation efforts, expanding visitor access…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee had their first shot this week at questioning Trump’s acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller about his role in botching the military response to the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6., along with the questionable advance intelligence handling of…
