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Barring Plastic Bag Bans, another ALEC Law Takes Aim at Local Democracy
By Jessica Mason and Calvin Sloan The pay-to-play model of government advanced by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) scored another victory this week. On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Senate voted along party lines to approve a bill that would prohibit local communities from issuing their own rules on plastic bags and other containers. This is part of an emerging national trend.
The Koch Brothers Are Watching You -- And New Documents Reveal Just How Much They Know
The Koch Brothers Are Watching You -- And New Documents Reveal Just How Much They Know Billionaire brothers have built personality profiles of most Americans, and use them to push right-wing propaganda New documents uncovered by the Center for Media and Democracy show that the billionaire Koch brothers have developed detailed personality profiles on 89 percent of the U.S. population; and are using those profiles to launch an unprecedented private propaganda offensive to advance Republican...
Koch brothers are watching you: And new documents reveal just how much they know
New documents uncovered by the Center for Media and Democracy show that the billionaire Koch brothers have developed detailed personality profiles on 89 percent of the U.S. population; and are using those profiles to launch an unprecedented private propaganda offensive to advance Republican candidates in the 2018 midterms.
Exposed: Tucker Carlson, His 'Charity' and the Trump Campaign Cash He Didn’t Tell Fox Viewers About
Exposed: Tucker Carlson, His 'Charity' and the Trump Campaign Cash He Didn’t Tell Fox Viewers About The Trump campaign paid an estimated six figure sum to Carlson's The Daily Caller. Tucker Carlson, FOX News’ new primetime anchor, received a six-figure sum from the Donald Trump campaign for president through his Daily Caller operation–which rented out its email list to Trump–according to Center for Media and Democracy’s newest investigation.
Exposed: Tucker Carlson, His "Charity," and the Trump Campaign Cash He Didn't Tell FOX Viewers About
› Featured Investigations › Exposed: Tucker Carlson, His “Charity,” and the Trump Campaign Cash He Didn’t Tell FOX Viewers About Tucker Carlson, FOX News’ new primetime anchor, received a six-figure sum from the Donald Trump campaign for president through his Daily Caller operation–which rented out its email list to Trump–according to Center for Media and Democracy’s newest investigation.
Fossil Fuel Industry Has Known Since 1967 That Injection Wells Cause Earthquakes, Despite Denials
The Associated Press wrote that it was "the severest earthquake ever recorded" in the city's history. Building foundations cracked, windows broke, bricks flew off of downtown rooftops. A year later in the prominent academic journal "Science," geophysicist J.H. Healy and his associates proposed that humans, not nature, were responsible for the quake.
Frackers Knew: Fossil Fuel Industry Has Known since 1967 that Injection Wells Cause Earthquakes, despite Denials
The Associated Press wrote that it was "the severest earthquake ever recorded" in the city's history. Building foundations cracked, windows broke, bricks flew off of downtown rooftops. A year later in the prominent academic journal "Science," geophysicist J.H. Healy and his associates proposed that humans, not nature, were responsible for the quake.
Fracking Special Interests Spent Big in 2016 Elections
Corporations that profit from fracking funneled millions to PACs for "independent expenditures" in the 2016 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
Fracking Special Interests Spent Big in 2016 Elections - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Corporations that profit from fracking funneled millions to PACs for “independent expenditures” in the 2016 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
"Independent Women's Forum" Uses Misleading Branding to Push Right-Wing Agenda
The Independent Women's Forum and its 501(c)(4) affiliate, the Independent Women's Voice, market themselves to the media and voters as "non-partisan," "independent," and "neutral." However, a new investigation of the groups by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveals them to be anything but that. Joan Walsh in the Nation broke this story this week along with other new details about these not-so independent women's groups.
AARP to Drop Membership to Right-Wing Lobby Group ALEC After Progressive Groups Apply Pressure
Officials with Kentucky's state-run health insurance exchange set up at an AARP event in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, on October 23, 2013.
Revealed: AARP Is Funding ALEC
AARP, the non-profit seniors organization that exists to promote the financial security, pensions and healthcare of those over 50, is secretly funding the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization whose bills have acted against the interests of ordinary Americans, including retirees and their families.
The Not-so-Independent Women's Forum Was Born in Defense of Clarence Thomas and the Far Right
HBO's new film on demand, Confirmation, revisits the painful battle over the appointment of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court in spite of the testimony of Anita Hill that he sexually harassed her. Some pundits have attempted to disparage the film, even though it has several scenes that portray Thomas and his wife Ginny as quiet, sympathetic figures and not as the outspoken right-wing political activists that they were and are.
Dustin Hoffman Narrates Children's Book Appleblossom the Possum : People.com
Dustin Hoffman reads Appleblossom the Possum to three young children (and Mary the possum) Calvin Sloan By Tierney McAfee @tierneymcafee 08/11/2015 AT 02:40 PM EDT Dustin Hoffman has landed some enviable roles in his lifetime – Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate, Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer, Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man, just to name a few – but it wasn't until he nabbed a part narrating the audiobook of Appleblossom the Possum that his 9-year-old granddaughter really got jealous.
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