Month: September 2020

For years, consumer demand for sustainable, eco-friendly fashion has increased and every season we are seeing more and more new sustainable materials incorporated into product lines. Focusing on the sustainability of the raw material is critical. According to Kering, choice of raw material accounts for 72 percent of a brand’s environmental impact, and raw materials from animals rank as some of the most environmentally damaging on the Higg Index. The problem is that few of…

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The man charged with sending pipe bombs to more than a dozen Democratic figures and CNN last week also threatened Rep. Beto O’RourkeBeto O’RourkeBiden will help close out Texas Democrats’ virtual convention: report O’Rourke on Texas reopening: ‘Dangerous, dumb and weak’ Parties gear up for battle over Texas state House MORE (D-Texas) on Facebook earlier this year, according to O’Rourke’s Senate campaign. O’Rourke’s campaign forwarded a threat from Cesar Sayoc Jr. to the U.S. Capitol Police…

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Senate Republicans believe they are on the cusp of increasing their majority in the midterm elections despite historic headwinds that seem likely to cost the GOP control of the House. Republicans believe they have growing momentum to pick up seats in North Dakota, Missouri and Indiana, while races in Montana and Florida remain tight. ADVERTISEMENT The GOP is feeling more bullish about not losing any of their own incumbents up for reelection, a significant turnaround…

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Rep. Daniel LipinskiDaniel William LipinskiEngel scrambles to fend off primary challenge from left Liberal group backs challenger to Engel in Democratic primary The Hill’s Campaign Report: Campaigns scale back amid coronavirus threat MORE (D-Ill.) secured a seventh term in Congress on Tuesday, easily defeating self-avowed Nazi and Holocaust denier Art Jones in Illinois’s 3rd Congressional District.  Click Here: New Zealand rugby storeJones garnered more than 51,000 votes at the polls with 92 percent of precincts reporting while Lipinski…

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Denouncing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s new policy of cutting off firms that work with primary challengers as “divisive” and “harmful,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday advised small-dollar donors to stop giving money to the DCCC and instead donate to progressive candidates directly. Click Here: gws giants guernsey 2019 “The DCCC’s new rule to blacklist + boycott anyone who does business with primary challengers is extremely divisive and harmful to the party,” tweeted the congresswoman…

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The New England Stop & Shop strike entered its eighth day Friday as the grocery store’s parent company continued to refuse to honor the union’s demand for a fair contract.  At the heart of the dispute is an inability for Ahold Delhaize, a Dutch grocery conglomerate that owns Stop & Shop, and the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UCFW) to reach an agreement on a new contract. The sticking point is Ahold Delhaize’s refusal to…

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Amnesty International was among the groups accusing A‌i‌r‌b‌n‌b‌ of enabling human rights violations on Wednesday after the company reversed its decision to ban listings of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Back in November the San Francisco-based company announced that it would no longer offer some 200 listings of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, viewing settlements as “at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians.” The removal followed pressure from…

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The youth-led grassroots group Sunrise Movement was praised on Thursday when Beto O’Rourke signed the No Fossil Fuel Money pledge following a sustained campaign by the national organization. O’Rourke announced he was on board with the pledge in an email to supporters and a video posted to social media. “In accordance with the pledge, we returned any money we’ve received over $200 from any fossil fuel company executives,” O’Rourke said. “We will not take any…

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Four new species of crustaceans. Samples of rock from the seafloor. Plastic pollution.  That’s what American explorer Victor Vescovo found when he descended seven miles underwater to the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean—the deepest dive in human history. The plastic Vescovo found at the bottom of the trench is a grim reminder that human refuse is everywhere on the planet.  Click Here: All Blacks Rugby Jersey Vescovo and his team announced they had made the…

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Vice President Mike Pence blamed Democrats on Friday for the overcrowding in camps used to imprison migrants during a visit to the border, an accusation that generated anger from progressives at both the White House and the Democratic congressional leadership.  “You gotta love it when Pence immediately puts complete blame for the horrors he saw on the Dems even after they threw money at monsters,” tweeted journalist Lori Lou Freshwater. In June, House Democrats passed…

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