Resurrected Politically, Lula Goes After Bolsonaro’s ‘Moronic’ Handling of Covid-19 Pandemic
A Brazilian court this week rehabilitated former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, clearing the way for a 2022 presidential bid.
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Work in 2021: What Makes a “Good Job” Good?
Musing on the place of work in society.
Read more...Unsafe at Any Speed: Don’t Park Your Kia Sportage or Cadenza in the Garage, or Near Your House, for That Matter
For owners of Kia’s Sportage and Cadenza models, unsafe at any speed includes parking the vehicle in the garage.
Read more...H.R.1 (the “For the People Act”) Legitimizes WaPo’s McCarthy-ite PropOrNot “Reporting,” Institutionalizes Ballot Marking Devices, and Cripples Minor Parties
Some flaws in H.R.1, the enormous Democrat election reform bill.
Read more...Global Transformation: The Precariat Overcoming Populism
A contribution to debate urging the mainstream left not to be distracted by populism. Aim instead for what we know about the near Future.
Read more...California Wildfire Smoke Harms Respiratory Health More than Fine Particulates from Any Other Source, Including Vehicle Emissions
Wildfire smoke is more toxic than other sources of fine particles – a worry for COVID survivors.
Read more...‘We Must Deliver on This Issue’: Jayapal Vows to Fight for $15 Minimum Wage
The Congressional Progressive Caucus chair said that despite the Senate failing to include the wage boost in the relief bill, the fight for $15 must go on.
Read more...New Report: U.S. Dams, Levees Get D Grades, Need $115 Billion in Upgrades
Heavier precipitation caused by climate change is straining aging flood-control systems throughout the U.S.
Read more...Waste Watch: Europeans Get Right to Repair for Some Consumer Electrical Goods, While John Deere Reneges on Promise to U.S. Farmers to Make Diagnostic Software Freely Available
On March 1, the EU implemented a right to repair for some consumer electrical goods; which U.S. state will wake up and do the same?
Read more...Yes, Export Bans on Vaccines Are a Problem, But Why Is the Supply of Vaccines so Limited in the First Place?
Italy has blocked vaccine exports to Australia, which now must reconsider its opposition to proposed global solutions to unblock supply.
Read more...Pointless Pain Is What We’re Enduring. And All for the Sake of Accepting That Money is Not a Constraint on Our Potential, and Never Will Be
Defitic hysteria, UK style, and why misunderstanding what government money is about persists.
Read more...GOP Voting Rights Act Position Falls Apart in SCOTUS Arguments
The GOP scored an own goal in its Supreme Court arguments on a closely-watched Arizona voting rights case.
Read more...Bad Stimulus: Government Payments to Individuals Are a Terrible Way to Solve America’s Structural Economic Problems
Why the Biden stimulus program is fundamentally wrongheaded.
Read more...How the NATO Alliance Is Fighting Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine With Subsidies From State Budgets and the Gates Foundation, Hidden by bhe Financial Times
The Financial Times runs dodgy numbers to claim that Russia is vaccine price gouging to poor countries, when that’s Big Pharma’s gig.
Read more...Department of Pre-Crime: Left-Wing Protester Arrested by FBI for Being on a “Path to Radicalization”
In the real world, the one we’re in now, the Department of Pre-Crime will not be this much fun. Nor will the good guys win.
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