News & Views | Crumbs for Workers, $25 Billion 'Bonanza' for Big Oil

A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) to view this message in a browser window.  [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) [] [] News & Views | 3/27/18 [] Feature... [] [While Workers Get Crumbs, GOP Tax Scam Analysis Details $25 Billion 'Bonanza' for Big Oil](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) 1f9d0/ct2_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7 by Jessica Corbett, staff writer A new analysis published Tuesday details how the tax plan signed by President Donald Trump in December has granted 17 American oil and gas companies $25 billion in one-time savings in a year alone. "The oil and gas industry benefitted to the tune of billions of dollars from the Trump tax cut bill... [] [] News... [] [Net Neutrality Defenders Issue Alert as Telecom Giants Ready to 'Sic Army of Expensive Lawyers' on States](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) 1f9d0/ct3_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7 by Jake Johnson, staff writer Underscoring the importance of protecting net neutrality at the national level rather than relying entirely on state-led efforts, a lobbying group that represents Verizon, AT&T, and other massive telecom companies threatened in a blog post on Monday to "aggressively challenge" states and municipalities that attempt to establish their own open internet protections in the wake of the GOP-controlled FCC's vote to repeal net neutrality last December. --------------------------------------------------------------- [To Defeat NRA and Curb Gun Violence, Former Supreme Court Justice Says 'Repeal the 2nd Amendment'](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) 1f9d0/ct4_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7 by Julia Conley, staff writer Proponents of bold reforms to gun laws were represented on the New York Times op-ed page on Tuesday, in an editorial by retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in which the judge called the Second Amendment a "relic of the 18th century" and advocated for its repeal. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Mad as Hell' Cynthia Nixon Calls Out Gov. Cuomo as Fake Progressive and Bully in Fiery Speech](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) [Cynthia Nixon](1f9d0/ct5_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer A week after actress and political activist Cynthia Nixon launched her campaign as a progressive challenger to New York's Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the NYC native headed to the state capitol to talk corruption, inequality, and education. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Sabotage' of Democracy as Trump Adds Citizenship Question to 2020 Census](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) 1f9d0/ct6_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7 by Jake Johnson, staff writer In a move denounced by immigrant rights advocates and legal experts as an effort to "undercount communities of color" that could have an enormous impact on the drawing of congressional districts, the Trump administration announced late Monday that the 2020 Census will ask respondents whether or not they are U.S. citizens. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Outrage, But Little Surprise, After Police Officers Face No Charges for Killing of Alton Sterling](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) 1f9d0/ct7_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7 by Julia Conley, staff writer Human rights advocates said Tuesday that Louisiana's Justice Department acted in violation of international standards when it decided it would not prosecute two white police officers who fatally shot Alton Sterling, a black man, at close range while he was laying on the ground in Baton Rouge two years ago. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Amid Trump 'Deafening' Silence, Poll Shows Nearly Two-Thirds Believe Extramarital Affair Allegations](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) 1f9d0/ct8_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7 by Jake Johnson, staff writer As President Donald Trump's "deafening" and uncharacteristic silence on his alleged affairs with adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal continues even in the aftermath of Daniels' widely-viewed "60 Minutes" interview Sunday night, a new CNN survey published on Monday found that nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the women over Trump's denials. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) [] [] Views... [] [10 Reasons to Fear John Bolton](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) 1f9d0/ct10_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7 by Medea Benjamin And this is just for starters... --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Largest Protests In American History Are Happening Now. Expect Them To Get Bigger.](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) [Protesters at the March for Our Lives Rally on March 24, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Sharon Finney/Getty Image) ](1f9d0/ct11_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) by Heather Dockray A combustible array of variables, including the rise in authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism worldwide and technology that makes it easier to organize sibling marches, have contributed to historic turnouts. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Donald Trump and the White Ford Bronco Presidency](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) ["Above all, good news or bad, who can’t feel that his deepest desire is simply to be the news, any kind of news, all kinds of news — and in this he has succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest imaginings?" (Photo: Screenshot) ](1f9d0/ct12_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) by Tom Engelhardt Because Big Brother isn't watching you... you are watching him. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Stormy Daniels Is a Feminist Heroine](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) ["She’s an example that no matter how many times, or how publicly, you’ve had sex or been a sexual being, you can take your power back and not allow anyone to silence you." (Photo: "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"/Screenshot)](1f9d0/ct13_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) by Krystal Ball She is a woman who stood up to tell her story on TV, to take on the powerful, the consequences be damned. --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Trump is Preparing for War](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) ["Trump has made John Bolton his National Security Advisor not because Bolton has valuable insights about foreign affairs, but because Bolton – for years, an on-air fixture on Fox News – is a showman who knows how to sell big lies and crazy ideas, and thereby help Trump in the looming battles." (Photo: Getty)](1f9d0/ct14_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) by Robert Reich This has required purging naysayers from his Cabinet and White House staff, and replacing them with bomb-throwing advocates like Bolton and Kudlow. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gun Violence and Mental Health Are Connected—But Not In The Way You’d Think.](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) [In the United States, about 92 people per day are killed by a gun. Less than one half of one percent of these deaths occur in mass shootings. Many of these deaths are homicides occurring in the midst of intimate partner violence—but the majority are suicides. (Photo: Bert Remmus/Flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct15_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) by Dr. Celine Gounder The impulsive nature of teenage suicidality, coupled with the uniquely American easy access to guns, makes it much more likely that suicidal thoughts and behaviors will culminate in death. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) [] [] Newswire... [] [Alton Sterling Decision Highlights Need for US to Meet International Standards on Lethal Force](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) [Citizenship Question Threatens A Fair and Accurate Census](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) [Patriotic Millionaires Blast AAN $1 Million Ad Buy](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) [] [More Newswire](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) [] [] [Facebook](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) [Twitter](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMQ9Tw85B7) [] Share This Newsletter... 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