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ADA: Updates (via Facebook)
Congrats to former ADA colleague, Ann Brown. Her groundbreaking consumer advocacy work started as a project of ADA and blossomed into an accomplished career.
Lord's Place honors consumer advocate Brown | Palm Beach Florida Weekly
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The Honorable Ann Brown got her title when she received a presidential appointment to become chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1994 as part of the Clinton Administration. TheRepublicans held countless hearings and spent millions of dollars investigating Hillary Clinton even though no criminal charges ever came from the circus.
But the GOP has decried the Mueller investigation even after it resulted in dozens of criminal charges. Now they’re actively trying to make sure anyone who cooperated with the investigation loses their job. Not exactly the type of leadership that would help make America great again.
Trump allies target Mueller team, one by one
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The president's defenders are using him to remove anyone and everyone involved in the Russia probe.No matter who you're supporting in the Democratic primary, it definitely seemed like last night's debate had more energy and buzz surrounding it. Since 48 states still have to vote, we hope the energy continues and the public comes together as we work to restore sanity to the White House.
Thank you, Mike Bloomberg, for rescuing the debate
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His performance may have stunk, but he inspired rivals to some of their best performances so far.Cambridge Analytica ended up going bankrupt after its corrupt use of personal data to help political campaigns was exposed and raised significant concerns about privacy.
Apparently Trump doesn't care about this in any way as he's bringing in key figures from the disgraced company to run his 2020 campaign's data program.
Trump campaign hires alum of controversial data company
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Cambridge Analytica was called out by Facebook for misuse of user data and shuttered in 2018.Over 1,100 former Justice Department employees are calling for the Attorney General to resign after Bill Barr made it clear he’s just a Trump lackey who is willing to interfere with criminal investigations if it will make the president happy. Our country deserves better leadership at the helm of a major executive department.
Former Justice employees urge Barr to resign
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More than 1,100 signed an online petition.The opioid crisis facing our country is absolutely horrible and action must be taken to help those suffering from addiction, but we also must hold the pharmaceutical companies who took unethical and potentially illegal measures while pushing these drugs on the public.
Virginia now has a lawsuit against one company that tried to hide the results of a clinical trial that led to several overdoses, deaths, and theft of the addictive pills.
Analysis | The Health 202: Patients overdosed on opioids in a clinical trial. Now Virginia is suing.
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Cephalon, now owned by Teva, is accused of misrepresenting the risks of its fentanyl tablet.In case you needed even more proof that Trump would continue acting like a dictator if the Senate didn't hold him accountable, he's already fired one person who testified against him and a senior adviser is promising even more people who didn't swear complete loyalty to him will be forced out.
Kellyanne Conway says more officials may be ousted after Trump’s Senate acquittal
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She also denied that Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was fired from his job at the NSC.See ADA Iowa Organizer, Christopher Schwartz, who has endorsed Sanders in his personal capacity as an elected official, discusses the Iowa Caucus situation on Democracy Now! The segment begins at approximately 34:25.
Apparently Donald Trump isn't happy Speaker Pelosi ripped up a copy of his campaign stump speech .... we mean State of the Union address ... that featured him spewing all sorts of nonsense last night.
Trump Shares Dozens of Posts Attacking Pelosi’s ‘Tantrum’
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Just hours ahead of his expected Senate acquittal, President Trump highlighted insults of Speaker Nancy Pelosi from Twitter users.ICE and CBP separate loved ones and tear people away from their communities, forever altering family’s livelihoods and well-being. It’s time to #DefundHate and cut funding to ICE and CBP! #SOTU2020
ADA: What You Should Know
ADA Awards Gala. Register today!
Join us June 18th in DC to honor progressive champions such as Leo Gerard of the United Steel Workers and Author/Activist Yoland Caraway. Register HERE.
How has Congressional partisanship evolved?
A researcher in London has used ADA Voting Records over the past 70 years to create a tool that shows all sorts of interactive information on partisanship trends. Check out the tool HERE.