The Young Turks

Police and protesters briefly clashed in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday night after a rally protesting the possible overturning of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision made its way from a federal courthouse to Pershing Square. Anti-abortion zealots targeted Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s aide as the sort of the leaked draft opinion. The future of abortion in a post-Roe America: Inside the co...

The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court. Three national reproductive rights groups on Monday announced plans to spend $150 million campaigning for pro-choice candidates in nine states ahead of the 2022 midterm elections—just as a newly-unveiled Republican...

CNN’s Dana Bash pressed Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Department of Homeland Security’s formation of a Disinformation Governance Board to counteract information it deems inaccurate. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) 10-day-long “enhanced” safety inspections of commercial trucks entering the state from Mexico may have cost Texas $4.2 billion in economic damage, but it’s been great for business i...

Report: Ukraine Strikes Russian Territory | Elon Musk’s Political Spectrum Meme Is Pure Nonsense | Ben Shapiro Paints The Left As “Culture War Aggressors” | Watch: Rebellion Pac Exposes Nina Turner Challenger | Essential Workers Ripped Off By Bosses Making Record Profits Hosts: John Iadarola, Cenk Uygur, Francesca Fiorentini ***  The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cen...

Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, feared in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack that several far-right members of Congress would incite violence against other lawmakers, identifying several by name as security risks in private conversations with party leaders. At least a dozen states, including Tennessee, have introduced legislation to create private school vouchers. Twitt...

President Biden is asking Congress to authorize more than $30 billion in additional security, economic and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine to help the country fend off the prolonged Russian attack over the next five months. Nuclear war would be OK because “we’re all going to die someday”, a Russian broadcaster told TV viewers on Wednesday night. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights found t...

According to a new book, an advisor for President Biden called the progressive “Squad” “f***ing idiots.” Elon Musk is a “free speech absolutist” except when he’s not. President Joe Biden will mark “Second Chance Month” at the White House on Tuesday, commuting the sentences of 75 people serving time for nonviolent drug offenses, issuing full pardons for three individuals who the administration says...

Elon Musk is poised to acquire Twitter for around $43 billion in cash, the price the CEO of Tesla has called his “best and final” offer for the social media company. Ben Shapiro, “bastion of the free market”, twists himself into knots trying to explain why the market shouldn’t be free anymore when companies do things that he doesn’t like. Fox News host Kennedy casually suggested that public school...

Hour 1 hosted by John Iadarola, Cenk Uygur, and Jessica Burbank | New Audio Destroys Kevin McCarthy’s Credibility | Bannon Allies Plead Guilty To Border Wall Fundraising Scam | Dems Consider Rethinking Messaging On Culture Wars | Marjorie Taylor Greene Testifies In Challenge Over Jan 6 Ties | Activists Protest Corporate News For Ignoring Climate Crisis Hosts: John Iadarola, Cenk Uygur, Jessica Bur...

President Biden announced another $800 million in aid to bolster Ukraine’s military efforts in the Donbas region. Ron DeSantis’ plan to punish Disney for supporting LGBTQ rights by repealing their special district governing authority would raise taxes on Florida families in the Orlando area by $2,200 each. Lindsey Graham on the midterms: “If this is a policy debate, we’ll kick their ass. If it’s a...

Shutdowns in China are having a devastating impact on the global economy and inflation. In a massive victory, Amazon workers recently won a union at a warehouse in New York. So now the company is trying every trick in the union-busting playbook to throttle worker organizing at a second facility. Hosts: Ana Kasparian ***  The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur a...

Israel launched a strike in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump called for a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine Monday, which he said must happen before “everyone is dead.” Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) appeared on Monday’s Hannity to discuss his decision to bus undocumented migrants to Washington, D.C. He even threatened to send migrants to P...

Senator Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin “will only stop when we stop him” as he was pressed about whether the United States should send troops to support Ukraine in the ongoing war. GOP Rep Mo Brooks says prime committee chairmanships cost a minimum of $1 million and are paid by special interest groups as “a quid pro quo” for favored legislation. Far-...

Israeli forces are accused of a 'barbaric premeditated attack' on Palestinian worshipers. The Russian Black Sea Fleet's flagship 'Moskva' sunk after Ukrainian Attack. What the Meadows texts reveal about how two Trump congressional allies lobbied the White House to overturn the election. A candidate mocks progressives on TikTok. Why Starbucks may exclude unionized employees from new benefits. Hosts...

Colleagues are worried that Dianne Feinstein is now mentally unfit to serve. The Republican-led Kentucky legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto Wednesday evening and passed strict abortion restrictions that advocates say will force the state’s two clinics to stop providing abortions immediately. An NFT of the first tweet ever secured a bid of just $277 after selling for $2.9 mill...

The NYC subway shooting suspect was a self-declared ‘prophet of doom’ on YouTube. The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC endorsed incumbent Shontel Brown over Nina Turner. More than a dozen Los Angeles gangs are targeting some of the city’s wealthiest residents in a new and aggressive manner, sending out crews in multiple cars to find, follow and rob people driving high-end vehicles or wearing e...

At least 16 people were shot or otherwise injured after a lone gunman in a reflective vest and a gas mask threw smoke bombs on a subway car in Brooklyn and began shooting Tuesday morning. A college is ‘fighting leftist academics’ by expanding into charter schools. NFL quarterback Cam Newton shared some opinions about what he believes to be the role of women in a new interview. Former Virginia poli...

Russian Airstrike Reportedly Kills 30+ at Train Station Used to Evacuate Civilians, Mitch McConnell On Why He Would Back Trump In 2024: Party Comes First, Republicans Want Oil Execs To Stop Apologizing And Do Less To Avert Climate Disaster, U.S. life expectancy falls for 2nd year in a row, 'Outrageous': Judges slam FBI for not breaking down rich suspect's front door to preserve 'aesthetics'" Hosts...

Sen. Bernie Sanders and other progressives on Wednesday applauded President Joe Biden’s words of support for Amazon workers—and rejected the White House’s attempt to temper the president’s statement, calling on the administration to proudly and unequivocally align itself with pro-worker efforts. A new survey released Wednesday shows that Democrats are losing electoral support among recipients of t...

A White House reporter confronted White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and asked why the United States and its NATO allies can’t militarily attack Russia over its actions in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. Senate Republicans threatened to tank a new $10 billion coronavirus relief package unless Democrats allow a vote on an amendment to preserve Title 42, a Trump-era border expulsion policy that the Bid...

By a bipartisan vote of 53-47, the Senate has forced the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson out of the Judiciary Committee -- putting the judge on track for final confirmation by week’s end. Amazon’s internal messaging app now has an automatic word monitor that would block a variety of terms that could represent potential critiques of Amazon’s working conditions, like “slave labor,” “prison...

Rep. Matt Gaetz voted against capping insulin prices and said people should just lose weight. According to Fox Business, unionizing Amazon workers are driven by “anger” and “jealousy” about CEO pay. Accounts of alleged Russian atrocities, including the horrific images of dead civilians captured by Agence France-Presse, are emerging as its forces retreat from areas near Kyiv following a failed bid...

US home prices have soared to new heights and keep on climbing, and now some researchers and economists are saying they have seen signs of a housing bubble brewing. A CBS News boss told staff that Republicans will ‘take over’ before Mick Mulvaney was hired. An outside group planning to attack Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman for supporting single-payer health care is being l...

Russia has been accused of intensifying its bombardment of the besieged Ukrainian city of Chernihiv and continuing to attack Kyiv despite claims the Kremlin would drawback out of respect for ongoing peace talks. Rep. Katie Porter: Private insurance spends 17x more on administrative costs than traditional Medicare—to pay for things like stock buybacks, executive pay, and ads. Sandy Hook families re...

Russia promised on Tuesday to scale down military operations around Ukraine’s capital and north, while Kyiv proposed adopting neutral status, in confidence-building steps that were the first signs of progress towards negotiating peace. Tucker Carlson issued a bizarre warning that if Putin is removed “it’s likely” Islamic extremists will “wind up with” a nuclear weapon and attack America. Internal...