Tag: Threat

Brendan Carr’s Half-Empty Threat

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As chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Alfred Sikes took the agency’s duty to foster broadcasting in “the public interest” seriously. Sikes, a conservative who was appointed by George H. W. Bush in 1989, engaged in a long-running battle against Howard Stern’s employer, Infinity Broadcasting, levying repeated fines against its stations for violating rules against broadcasting “indecent” material when children were in the audience. (The legal tangle helped persuade Stern to move to satellite radio, where he faced no such editorial restrictions.) One thing he never did, however, was seek…

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Trump defense pick Hegseth flagged by fellow service member as possible ‘Insider Threat’ over tattoo

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Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member due to a tattoo he has. The Washington Times stories: White House

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ICYMI: Rahna Epting Sounds the Alarm on Third-Party Presidential Threat to NYT

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Rahna Epting was quoted in a piece from The New York Times, sounding the alarm on how third-party candidates pose a clear and present danger to Vice President Kamala Harris’s election efforts in the final stretch of the campaign. The piece also covers MoveOn’s efforts to mitigate third-party spoilers, which have already torpedoed No Label’s’ GOP-funded bid and helped drive Robert F. Kennedy Jr. out of the race. Epting relayed that the stakes are sky-high. She said, “The presidential race could…

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THIRD-PARTY WATCH: Growing Chorus of Voices Warn of Third-Party Threat

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WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today, MoveOn Political Action spotlights the growing chorus of voices raising the alarm on how third-party presidential candidates could damage Democratic chances again in 2024. Pete Rothpletz of The New Republic points out that Jill Stein has made the Green Party even worse off than it was before. Echoing an earlier critique by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rothpletz points out that Stein has done next to nothing to build the party over the years, nor is she focused on actually achieving long-term progressive power:  “This meager coalition can’t possibly…

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ROUNDUP: Third-Party Threat Looming Large, Despite RFK Jr.’s “Suspension”

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West’s Anti-vax, Stein’s Anti-climate Views In the Spotlight … And RFK Jr. Is Still on the Ballot in Three Battleground States WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Democrats continue to rally behind Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz after last month’s strong and joyful showing at the Democratic National Convention, it is becoming clearer than ever that the third-party threat is still looming large over the 2024 presidential race.  With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fully debasing himself to please Donald Trump, Cornel West’s campaign is seizing on the moment to…

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House lawmakers push for EEOC to defend furlough threat

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Two House lawmakers are pushing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to explain why it almost had to furlough almost all of its employees and are accusing agency leadership of “severe mismanagement.” Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), the chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.), the chairman of the committee’s workforce protections subcommittee, wrote to EEOC Chairwoman Charlotte Burroughs seeking documents and answers to questions about the decision to first issue the possible furlough notice and then to rescind it. They called the threat of the…

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