Religious and civil rights leaders are apparently unhappy that certain people are allowed to vote
Religious, civil rights leaders urge Congress to take actions to combat domestic terrorism
Representatives from religious and civil rights organizations outlined several specific steps at a Senate hearing Tuesday that members of Congress should take to combat domestic terrorism and violent extremism, including passing legislation to expand and protect voting rights.
“Congress must pass the For the People Act,†Wade Henderson, CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, told members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
Enacting the sweeping elections and ethics bill is necessary to “push back against the great white supremacist lie that encouraged the Jan. 6 insurrection and has given rise to†several state vote-restriction measures, Henderson said, referring to the false claims promoted by Donald Trump and other Republican officials that he lost the 2020 election due to widespread voter fraud. Democratic lawmakers from across the country are rallying in support of the For the People Act in Washington this week, urging the Senate to pass the legislation before leaving town for summer recess.
These people are Fascists. They have zero problem with all the violence from the BLM/Antifa folks, who literally firebombed federal buildings and destroyed/looted lots and lots of businesses. Instead, they want to pass a law that creates one party rule and destroys the 1st Amendment.
“In the last few years, our nation has witnessed horrific acts of violence, such as the massacres at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and a shopping center in El Paso that targeted Black, Jewish and Latino Americans,†Democratic Sen. Gary Peters, the committee’s chairman, said in his opening remarks.
Peters said he fears that these deadly attacks, along with more recent acts of violence targeting the Asian American community as well as the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, “are a signal of something worse to come.â€
Almost all the attacks on Asians occurred in cities run by Democrats, and a goodly chunk of them were committed by blacks, not really known for voting Republican.
“If the federal government does not take swift action to address this festering threat, I fear we will see more tragic attacks and lose more lives to domestic violent extremism,†he said.
Yes, you should be disturbed by members of Congress deeming all who oppose the Democrats agenda as domestic terrorists, utterly amping up the rhetoric.
Read: We Could Defeat Domestic Terrorism With The “For The People Act” Or Something »
Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the planet’s main potential tipping points.
California today issued the first order in the nation that requires COVID-19 vaccinations for health care workers, allowing only for religious or rare medical exemptions.
We are standing in an extinction event. Many of us started noticing it when the insects began to vanish in large numbers right after the turn of the century.
Scientists keep underestimating the coronavirus. In the beginning of the pandemic, they said mutated versions of the virus wouldn’t be much of a problem—until the more-infectious Alpha caused a spike in cases last fall. Then Beta made young people sicker and Gamma reinfected those who’d already recovered from COVID-19. Still, by March, as the winter surge in the U.S. receded, some epidemiologists were cautiously optimistic that the rapid vaccine rollout would soon tame the variants and cause the pandemic to wind down. (snip)
President Biden will sign an executive order on Thursday calling for half of all U.S. car sales to be zero-emission vehicles by 2030.
President Joe Biden 
As overwhelming and omnipresent as the climate crisis is, it is not the core issue. The core issue is capitalism. Capitalism’s unfettered pursuit of economic growth is what caused climate change, and capitalism’s inability to reckon with externalities – the economic term for a cost that falls onto third parties – is what is preventing us from solving climate change. Indeed, climate change itself is the ultimate negative externality: fossil-fuel companies and assorted polluting corporations and their investors get all the benefits, and the rest of the world pays the price. Now the entire globe finds itself trapped in the gruesome logic of capitalism, where it is perfectly rational for the rich to continue doing something that is destroying the earth, as long as the profits they reap will allow them to insulate themselves from the consequences.
