Keith Ellison

Sex, Lies, And Audiotape

Johnny Depp may be an A List actor and wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice, but fame and fortune often go hand in hand with misery. By his own admission, Depp has abused both alcohol and recreational drugs. Along with serial relationships/marriages, this is rather common among artists of all kinds, partly because of their often peripatetic lifestyle, and, well, you know how it is, creative people are often weird. Depp isn’t only an actor, he is also a talented musician. Like all of us he has made mistakes, and his biggest mistake appears to have been marrying Amber Heard.

A Long List of Public Figures Jake Tapper Must Condemn for Ties to Farrakhan

On June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld President Donald Trump’s Executive Order supporting a ban on immigration from many Muslim-majority countries, especially those in the crosshairs of American foreign policy. The five Republican judges decided that it did not matter that Trump had been touting plans for a Muslim ban for over three years, and essentially ruled that their own right-wing ideology superseded the Constitution.

Keith Ellison Slams Trump Scheme to Resurrect Child Labor

Teenagers in coal mines. Kids driving forklifts. 17-year-olds operating heavy and dangerous machinery with little training. All of that could be possible under a Trump Labor Department plan to consider relaxing the rules governing child labor.
And Rep. Keith Ellison, DFL-Minn., is asking questions – lots of questions. He doesn’t like it.
Neither does the Child Labor Coalition, the century-old advocates for the rights and safety of youngsters in the farms and on the job, backed by the National Consumers League and the Teachers (AFT).

Progressive Democrats Help Enshrine "Blue Lives Matter" Into Law

"Hands up, don't shoot" — this is one form of defiance against police at the Ferguson protests. It's only in the context of state-sanctioned murder that a symbolic act of surrender can be taken as defiance (source).by Gaius PubliusThe Blue Lives Matter movement is a political counterattack against the Black Lives Matter movement.

Four Years Since Flint Crisis Began, New Bill Declares ‘Clean Water a Right for All’

(CD) — Four years after the city of Flint, Michigan began using the heavily polluted Flint River as a drinking water source, resulting in the city’s water crisis, Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday introduced legislation to ensure such a catastrophe never again occurs in an American city. “Today marks the four-year anniversary of the […]

Paul Ryan Runs Away

Because Blue America has spent years trying to defeat Paul Ryan, about a year ago we got two consecutive call, one from former Ryan opponent and one from state Senator Chis Larson, asking me to call a very politicized progressive union iron worker in Racine County and help persuade him to run against Ryan. The Wisconsin Working Families Party had already done the heavy lift and they just needed me to push Randy Bryce over the edge.