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President Trump’s Rumored Drug Czar Nominee Rep. Tom Marino is Drug War Extremist, Out of Step With Most Americans & Linked to Scandal

Marino Supports “Hospital-Slash-Prison” for People Who Use Illegal Drugs, Opposes Letting States Set Their Own Marijuana Policies Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 17, 2017. President Trump is expected to soon nominate Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA/10th) to be Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (colloquially referred to as the “drug czar”).[Read More…]

Sierra Club: Trump Administration Prioritizes Corporate Polluters on Public Lands

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2017. Leaked documents from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) outline the agency’s priorities for America’s public lands under the Trump Administration. The priorities include speeding leasing and permitting for dirty fuel development on public land, reforming the implementation of bedrock environmental laws to limit public input[Read More…]

Sierra Club: Sessions’ Border Trip Skips Real Solutions

U.S./Mexico Border Wall TUCSON, AZ–(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2017.  Attorney General Jeff Sessions today will visit Arizona to tour the U.S.-Mexico border. A long-time proponent of building a wall along the border, Attorney General Sessions has ramped up deportation efforts and threatened pro-immigrant cities and counties with enforcement actions and the loss[Read More…]

With Just One Black Teacher, Black Students More Likely to Graduate

Greg Stanley/Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 10, 2017. Low-income black students who have at least one black teacher in elementary school are significantly more likely to graduate high school and consider attending college, concludes a new study co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University economist. Having at least one black teacher[Read More…]

Anti-Defamation League Charts Explosive Growth of Hateful Memes and Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories Against Jared Kushner

Presidential Advisor Jared Kushner (Photo: cnn.com) New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–April 10, 2017 … An anti-Semitic social media trolling campaign aimed at presidential advisor Jared Kushner has escalated from a series of tweets into a full-bore assault perpetrated primarily by white supremacists and anti-Semites of various stripes, according to an online analysis[Read More…]

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