Earlier this week California lawmakers introduced Senate Bill (S.B.) 222, which would allow individuals, private insurers, and the state-run insurance plan to sue oil companies for damages they suffer from "climate disasters and extreme weather events."
"By forcing the fossil fuel companies driving the climate crisis to pay their fair share, we can help stabilize our insurance market and make the victims of climate disasters whole," said California Sen. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco), one of the bill's authors, in a press release
President Donald Trump's victory in November has left Democrats "leaderless, rudderless, and divided" with "no coherent message," according to a report in The New York Times of 50 Democrat leaders.
Supreme Court rejects climate, lands, wind, air battles
Jan 13, 2025 — The Supreme Court is staying out of heated legal fights over the oil industry's responsibility to pay up for climate change, ownership of ...
US private sector hiring is in a RECESSION:
US hiring in the private sector has declined for 29 months STRAIGHT, the longest streak since the Great Financial Crisis.
Hiring rate dropped to 3.6% in December, the second-lowest in 10 YEARS, nearly in line with the 2020 low.
US hiring in the private sector has declined for 29 months STRAIGHT, the longest streak since the Great Financial Crisis.
Hiring rate dropped to 3.6% in December, the second-lowest in 10 YEARS, nearly in line with the 2020 low.
CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein said Monday that the Democratic Party was in its weakest position since the 1980s, the Reagan-Bush era, as the party continues to determine its best way forward.
"If you talk to Democrats, you know, they recognize they are in a hole. I mean, the image of the party is probably in a weaker position than at any point since I think the 1980s, the Reagan and George H.W. Bush era," Brownstein told CNN's Audie Cornish
"If you talk to Democrats, you know, they recognize they are in a hole. I mean, the image of the party is probably in a weaker position than at any point since I think the 1980s, the Reagan and George H.W. Bush era," Brownstein told CNN's Audie Cornish
The Democratic Party's brand is in rough shape in the congressional battlegrounds.
Nearly two months into the second Donald Trump administration, a majority of voters in battleground House districts still believe Democrats in Congress are "more focused on helping other people than people like me," according to an internal poll conducted by the Democratic group Navigator Research. Among independents, just 27 percent believe Democrats are focused on helping them, compared with 55 percent who said they're focused on others.
Only 39 percent believe Democrats have the right priorities.
"We've always had the stigma of being the 'welfare party,' but I do think this is related to a post-Covid feeling that we don't care about people working, and we've had a very long hangover from that, which feels really, really consequential," Murphy said. "How can you care about working people if you don't care about work? It's going to be really hard in the midterms if voters don't think we care about work."
Nearly two months into the second Donald Trump administration, a majority of voters in battleground House districts still believe Democrats in Congress are "more focused on helping other people than people like me," according to an internal poll conducted by the Democratic group Navigator Research. Among independents, just 27 percent believe Democrats are focused on helping them, compared with 55 percent who said they're focused on others.
Only 39 percent believe Democrats have the right priorities.
"We've always had the stigma of being the 'welfare party,' but I do think this is related to a post-Covid feeling that we don't care about people working, and we've had a very long hangover from that, which feels really, really consequential," Murphy said. "How can you care about working people if you don't care about work? It's going to be really hard in the midterms if voters don't think we care about work."
