As of today, for the summer of 2018 Race Trac will no longer be continuing soda pallooza. This is a tragedy for those who cherished this wonderful time of the year, lets get it back!

This petition is to show that the United States citizens can stand up for what they believe in. The people of this nation deserve jobs and and the steel tariff destroys jobs. Put an end to this madness. Sign the petition!

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to kill the bipartisan legislation to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump and his administration. We must speak out to stop him. The only way to force McConnell’s hand here is if his fellow Republicans call him out. At such a perilous moment for our democracy, every single senator must put country before party, and demand a fair up-or-down vote for the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act. Huge majorities of Americans think Mueller should conduct his investigation without presidential interference. That fact isn’t lost on the many GOP senators, who’ve said they agree with the American people that Trump would be crossing a red line by disrupting the investigation now. Now, it’s time for every single one of them to back up their words by putting country over party -- and demanding, in a public statement, that Mitch McConnell give this critically important legislation to protect Mueller the fair consideration it deserves. We have the votes to pass this bill -- if it gets a vote on the Senate floor. That’s where you come in: please join me in demanding that McConnell stop standing in the way. Add your voice now and tell Republicans in Congress to publicly call for a fair, up-or-down vote on the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act.

Legalization of Cannabis.

I'm a badass bitch fighting for the rights of immigrants and workers. Shout out to the Pioneer Valley Workers Center.

Funk band Jeb Bush Orchestra must open for former Florida governor Jeb Bush (having no affiliation with the Jeb Bush Orchestra).

Bobby Shmurda is a political prisoner.

Mitch McConnell has a long history of obstructing justice which dates back to at LEAST Obama's presidency! More recently though,he has lied under oath & committed treasonous acts in an effort to save Trump from being charged with multiple counts of treason & other crimes! Mitch McConnell's most recent act of obstruction is his trying to stop Robert Mueller's investigations of Trump's countless wrong doings! Mitch McConnell MUST be charged for his obstructions & MUST be locked up! We can't let him be above the law!

The Trump administration is escalating their attacks on small town immigrants working in the agricultural industry. On April 5, 2018, Trump officials arrested 97 immigrants at a meat-processing plant in rural Tennessee. It was one of the largest workplace raids since President George W. Bush was in office. Recently, the Trump Administration stormed John Collins' dairy farm in upstate New York without a warrant. They cuffed him and destroyed his phone after seven officers came onto his property and several went into his milk house without permission. The officers detained one of his workers, who had documents to work on the farm, pinning the man up against the window in the process. These raids are absolutely devastating for small towns. They destroy our agricultural economy and they separate families. Please join with us and demand that the Trump Administration stop their raids.

A Kansas firefighter reportedly got his job back ahead of his trial for an incident where he allegedly spit on a 3-year-old and used a racial slur. Terrence Jeremy Skeen, 42, is back at work at the Kansas City Fire Department after his lawyers claim he was “suspended incorrectly,” according to the Kansas City Star. Skeen, however, still faces charges of battery, assault, and disorderly conduct in connection with a Feb. 26 altercation at a local Hooters. The firefighter is accused of threatening to shoot a black customer, hurling the N-word at him and spitting on his 3-year-old grandson at the restaurant. The tot’s grandfather, Raymond L. Harris, said that the boy briefly wandered away when another patron told him that Skeen spit on the child. “You need to get that f—ing girl and take her back to the other side where you came from,” Skeen allegedly shouted at Harris from across the restaurant. After correcting him on his grandson’s gender, Harris said that he asked him if he spit on the boy, according to the Kansas City Star. “F— you, you n—-r,” Skeen reportedly said to him. “I will spit on you. F— you! I will shoot you!” Skeen’s lawyers denied the accusations to the newspaper and said that his story “will all come out at the trial.”

Congresswoman Barbara Lee Warns Corker-Kaine AUMF Would Expand, Not Curb, Trump's Ability To Wage Endless War Joining others who have already made their opposition clear, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)—who in 2001 was the sole member of Congress to vote against the original Authorization for Use of Military Force in the wake of the the 9/11 attacks—is raising her voice once more against a bi-partisan proposal introduced this week that she says would only strengthen, not curb, the "blank check for war" that Congress has bestowed on the president. Saying she has "grave concerns" about the bill introduced by Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Lee on Tuesday warned it "would continue all current military operations, allow any president to unilaterally expand our wars, and effectively consent to endless war by omitting any sunset date or geographic constraints for our ongoing operations." According to Lee, the legislation actually "further limits Congress's role in warmaking by requiring a veto-proof majority to block military action from the president." Not only must the new AUMF be rejected, Amnesty International said, but the existing authorizations—the first from 2001 and then a second one passed in 2002—must also be repealed. The "seemingly limitless interpretation" of those AUMFs, the group said "has led to a widespread violation of human rights, from indefinite detention and torture to unlawful drone strikes. If Congress does not get this right, it will repeat the mistakes of the original authorization and bear responsibility for further abuses." And as Lee concluded, "Over the last sixteen years, we have witnessed the consequences of unfettered executive power in matters of war. Instead of further endorsing perpetual war, we need to insist on an AUMF that is narrow, clearly defined, and respects Congress's constitutional duty to debate and authorize military action." ( Read the entire Common Dreams article here: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/18/congresswoman-barbara-lee-warns-corker-kaine-aumf-would-expand-not-curb-trumps)

As an institution which prides itself on it’s progressive and environmentally conscious ideology, it’s time for the University of Hawaii at Manoa to step up and eliminate single use plastic straws from campus. If 17,600 undergraduate and graduate students at University of Hawaii at Manoa, can publicly make this one simple change in their campus life, it will encourage other schools as well as small and large businesses to also make the change.