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Lawmakers Want Teachers Who Strike for Better Wages and Supplies to Go to Jail – or Get Fired
Republicans' legislation directs school districts to fire teachers on the spot without a proper hearing if they’re found in contempt of court. → Read More
Exclusive: Pulse Massacre Survivor Blasts 'Bigot' Steve King for Racist Attack on Emma González
A survivor of the Pulse nightclub massacre is speaking out against Iowa’s Republican Congressman Steve King, and praising fellow shooting survivor Emma González. In an exclusive interview with NCRM, Brandon Wolf calls Congressman King “a … → Read More
You Know Your Government Is Broken When: I’ll Take Toxic Politics for $100, Alex
Build a Wall – in Congress? → Read More
Annus Horribilis: The Queen Got 2017 Right 25 Years Ago
One could credibly have the impression that the Queen twenty-five years ago could have been talking about 2017 as it too is ending with a certain air of bleakness and uncertainty. → Read More
Advocate and Activist Zach Wahls Announces Bid for Iowa State Senate
Zach Wahls announced his candidacy for Iowa State Senate. → Read More
A 'Dreamer' Walking on the Edge of Darkness and Fear in Trump's America
As the marked police cruiser slows and then passes, the young man glances up nervously from his coffee, his body tensing in a reflexive way, as if getting ready to bolt if necessary. His concern? Not that he has any warrants or charges pending, in fact, that is actually far from being the case. No, his greatest fear these days is being asked to provide identification. A government issued I.D. is… → Read More
LGBT People Under Attack: Raids in Belarus, Murder in Chechnya, Registration of Gays in Central Asia
Singer and Entertainer Zelim Bakaev Apparently Murdered by the Security Services of Chechnyan President's Security Services → Read More
Trump Sends Immigration Demands to Congress – Democrats Charge Deal Will Derail DACA Efforts
White House Wants No Path to Citizenship for Dreamers – Majority of Nation, Including Republican Voters, Do → Read More
Op-Ed: 19 Years Ago Today Matthew Shepard Was Attacked and Left to Die
This evening marks the sad 19th anniversary of the brutal murder of 21-year old Matthew Shepard. For his friends who loved him, it is a dull ache that never goes away. For his Mum, his Da, and his brother Logan, it is a wound that never heals. The difference though as we mark this anniversary, is that instead of grieving and then letting time pass, his parents have led a fight to erase the very… → Read More
More Than Half of All Americans See Trump as Unfit – Vast Majority of Millennials Really Disapprove
Six Out of Ten Americans Say Trump Is Doing More to Divide the Country Than Bring It Together → Read More
GOP Congressman Urges Paying for Trump’s Wall by Gutting Planned Parenthood and Food Stamps
Republican Wants to Use 'Entitlements' From 'People That Haven’t Worked in Three Generations' → Read More
ACLU Sues Trump, Pence Over White House Voter Fraud Commission
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and their election fraud commission in U.S. District Court. In its Monday filing, the ACLU is alleging the commission had violated federal public access requirements by holding its first meeting in private, without public notice. The civil rights group, technically the American Civil Liberties Union, and the… → Read More
New Trump Policy on Cuba Angers Congressional Republicans
'Today’s Announcement Creates a Very Real Security Risk for the American People' → Read More
Republican Congressman Wants Every 'Radicalized Islamic Suspect' Killed
A freshman Republican U.S. Congressman from Louisiana is calling for individuals suspected of radical Islamic activity to be hunted down and killed. "The free world…all of Christendom…is at war with Islamic horror," Representative Clay Higgins posted to his official Congressional Campaign Facebook page. "Not one penny of American treasure should be granted to any nation who harbors these heathen… → Read More
Homeland Security's New Criminal 'Alien' Hotline Gets Taken Over and ICE Is Not Happy
Majority of Calls Are About Encounters of the 'Third Kind' → Read More
Secretary of State Tillerson May Exit Foggy Bottom Early – and Soon
After this last week of incredible turmoil and staff shakeups in the Trump White House, senior administration sources are telling NCRM that U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is actively considering departing his post as early as late fall, after Thanksgiving. That would make Tillerson one of the shortest-serving Secretaries of State, holding the office for about ten months. According to one… → Read More
US Attorney General Sessions Threatens 'Leakers' – and Journalists
'We Will Not Allow Rogue Anonymous Sources With Security Clearances to Sell Out Our Country' Says Jeff Sessions → Read More
New Polling: Nearly 7 Out of 10 Americans Approve of Transgender Military Service
Results of a new poll released Thursday by Quinnipiac University found nearly seven out of 10 American voters, 68 to 27 percent say that transgender people should be allowed to serve in the U.S. armed forces. The poll also finds the majority (55%) of voters in military households support transgender military service. When asked if it should be illegal for an employer to discriminate against an… → Read More
A Clear and Present Danger to the National Security of the United States
Trump's Latest Tweets on the Eve of the July 4 Holiday Need to Be Seen by Rational Persons as a Threat to Peace and Stability for All Humanity → Read More
McConnell: Gorsuch Will Be Confirmed Next Week
Going Nuclear? → Read More