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Undetonated mines lie in wait for generations, indiscriminate in their destruction, unable to tell friend from foe, child from adult. They simply kill.
Making America dumber every day. Ignorance and hate are not virtues except for today's Republicans.
The little-known Genealogy Program administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services allows genealogists, family historians and other researchers to obtain citizenship and alien registration files, visa applications and other records documenting the lives of deceased immigrants who arrived in the United States between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries.
Trump has instructed his Republican Agriculture Secretary to exempt Alaska's 16,700,000 acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions. This could potentially open up more than half of Tongass—the world's largest intact temperate rain forest—to logging, mining and energy projects.
Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska’s 16.7-million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago.
CALL TO ACTION: A SPECIAL REPORT FROM SMART DISSENT ABOUT PUBLIC COMMENTS ON PROPOSED ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS
Scott Pruitt has called for the dissolution of much of the EPA, yet now runs the Environmental Protection Agency. He is a seasoned legal opponent of the agency and is incredibly effective tool for Trump and Republican efforts to dismantle regulations on climate change and clean water and "get rid" of the agency. Pruitt and the White House are waging a war against science, safety, and common sense in order to benefit their favored corporate interests.
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Ajit Pai, the FCC Chairman who is owned by the telecom and cable industry, followed through on their orders Thursday.
Another person who fundamentally hates the mission of the department they are picked to lead is about to be chosen by Trump. In this case it's Thomas Brunell, a Texas professor with no government experience likely to lead the Census Bureau.
Brunell, a political science professor, has testified more than half a dozen times on behalf of Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts, and is the author of a 2008 book titled “Redistricting and Representation: Why Competitive Elections Are Bad for America.”
This past June marked the one year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando that left 49 dead and the second anniversary of the chuch shooting in Charleston where nine were murdered during Bible study. It was also back in June that House Republicans began work on something known as the "Hearing Protection Act."
You are not alone if you had no idea what this is about until now. With this Act, House Republicans are seeking to relax restrictions on firearm silencers making it easier for shooters to shoot without being noticed.
In our August 15th post below, we provided a primer that explained what DACA is and why it exists after President Obama's 2010 DREAM legislation was filibustered by Republicans in Senate to prevent a vote. We said that by September 5th, DACA was at grave risk of being shut down and nearly a million individuals brought here as children would be deported to countries of birth that have no memory of or connection to.
