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Click:Canada nicotine Pouches Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who’s considering a presidential bid in 2020, said that there’s “no way” an independent candidate can defeat President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE. Bloomberg, a former independent who recently re-registered as a Democrat, said in a Monday statement that it was “no secret” he’d been exploring an independent run. But he argued that the data backs up that it’d be very difficult for an independent to win and ultimately…

The Canadian government’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls concluded in a final report published Monday that “this violence amounts to a race-based genocide of Indigenous Peoples.” The Indigenous Peoples referred to in the report include First Nations, Inuit, and Métis—with a specific focus on women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people, which stands for Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, and asexual. The report—entitled Reclaiming Power and Place—was unveiled at a Monday morning ceremony at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, but several news agencies published details from a leaked copy over the weekend. The inquiry also released a supplementary report (pdf) about…

Alabama women in need of abortion care can travel to Saudi Arabia for less restrictive rules if the southern U.S. state’s recent anti-choice law is upheld in the courts.  That’s according to a new study by Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which compared new laws in the U.S. to restrictions in Muslim-majority countries in southwest Asia and North Africa. All have more lenient laws around abortion than the Alabama law.  Alabama’s law, which was passed through the legislature last week and signed by Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, bans abortions in the state at every point in pregnancy and carries sentences of up to 99 years for doctors that perform the medical procedure. The…

In a press conference that immediately evoked memories of the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday claimed Iran was behind alleged attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman without presenting one single shred of evidence. “I remember the Iraq lies. I know this administration is truthless from top to bottom and all the way out both sides.” —Charles Pierce, Esquire “This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources…

Results from a straw poll by progressive group MoveOn of its members released Tuesday show Sen. Elizabeth Warren trouncing the rest of the Democratic field in the presidential primary, 21 points ahead of her closest rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders.  Warren, of Massachusetts, claims 37.8 percent of the poll’s voters, while Sanders, of Vermont, came in second with 16.5 percent. Former vice president Joe Biden, who is seen as a more conservative candidate, came in third at 14.9 percent with MoveOn’s progressive supporters; Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg rounded out the top four with 11.9 percent. The rest of the field were in the single digits. Warren, California’s Sen. Kamala Harris, Buttigieg,…

As protests of Amazon’s 48-hour “Prime Day” continued Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders and a dozen House Democrats demanded a federal probe of workplace conditions employees have described as “grueling” and “unsafe.” A letter (pdf) to the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration—spearheaded by Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)—outlines in detail the “unacceptable” conditions that hundreds of workers have reported at the warehouses operated by Amazon and its subsidiaries and contractors. “Amazon operates more than 100 warehouses across that country that employ more than 125,000 people, yet in the last five years OSHA has reported conducting only 150 inspections of Amazon spaces and issued just 41 violations,” the…

In her first endorsement of the 2020 elections, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced Tuesday that she is supporting progressive challenger Marie Newman in Illinois’s 3rd congressional district. Newman is campaigning for a second time against Rep. Dan Lipinski, an eight-term right-wing Democrat who opposes women’s constitutional right to abortion care. “The fact that a deep blue seat is advocating for many parts of the Republican agenda is extremely problematic,” the New York Democrat told the New York Times. “Marie Newman is a textbook example of one of the ways that we could be better as a party—to come from a deep blue seat and to be championing all the issues we…

Two-thirds of registered voters in the United States believe that federal judges’ legal rulings have become increasingly tainted by political bias, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released Monday. The poll results, shared exclusively with The Hill, suggest that Americans have become increasingly convinced that the country’s judges act less as independent jurists than political players, willing to bend their rulings to suit their own political beliefs. Sixty-six percent of respondents said that the decisions put forth by federal judges were “influenced by politics” and that their rulings are based “more and more on their political views,” according to the Harvard/Harris poll. ADVERTISEMENT Another 34 percent of respondents reported…

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