Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats’ Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending
“I just don’t understand how we provide votes for a bill that funds the extent of the depravity,” says one senator.
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Thrift Store. Clinic. Roller Rink. New Orleans Center Becomes ‘Radical’ Lifeline Amid Homelessness, Drug Crises.
A New Orleans collective is a heartening example of community self help…and an indictment of income inequality and failing social programs.
Read more...Portland Mayor Decries Mounting Bloodshed, Tells ICE to Get Out After Federal Agents Shoot Two
Portland mayor Keith Wilson called on ICE to halt operations pending a probe of its latest shootings. That won’t happen. So what do cities do?
Read more...The Next Frontier of Climate Accountability: Making Big Food Pay Its Ecological Bill
Food industry induced environmental degradation is more serious than most realize. We could reverse this trajectory….but will we?
Read more...Why Politicians Won’t Fix Affordability
Why affordability crisis is a symptom of predatory neoliberal practices. Concentrated wealth looks set to keep this new norm in place.
Read more...Trump DHS Post Calling for ‘100 Million Deportations’ Suggests Intent to Kick Out Nonwhite Citizens
One journalist called it “absolutely insane Nazi propaganda, posted by the US government.”
Read more...SMRs Explained: Real-World Economics, Fuel Bottlenecks, and the Race to Scale
A primer on SMRs, as in small nuclear reactors, the new bright idea for how to satisfy insatiable AI energy demand.
Read more...Coffee Break: More on Our Lousy Diet and Recovery of the Iconic American Chestnut
Part the First: Ultra-Processed Foods and Addiction. Big Ag and Big Food may finally have a problem with their big moneymaking products. We have discussed UPFs here several times before. They fill the center aisles of grocery stores in much of the Anglophone world. This article in Scientific American adds to wave of information coming […]
Read more...There Are No Free Markets
Neoliberal free market ideology was always a fantasy. But what comes next given the late stage capitalism breakdown?
Read more...A Few Notes on Progress in Gene Therapy
Gene therapy has been a goal of medicine since the first “inborn errors of metabolism” were identified by Sir Archibald Garrod in the early twentieth century. This was before anyone had a good idea of what a gene was, but the principles of Mendelian genetics were used by Garrod, with the assistance of William Bateson, […]
Read more...How Some Courageous Super Rich Can Save Our Country from Trump’s Expanding Dictatorship!
Ralph Nader describes how the anti-Trumpers in ranks of the rich can engage in regime change.
Read more...Progressive Educator Myles Horton’s Lessons for Fighting for Social Justice Today
Horton’s work offers a compelling model of how popular education can contribute to progressive change, fostering critical thinking in slow times and accelerating the spread of radical ideas during movement peaks.
Read more...Coffee Break: Boxing Day Miscellany
Part the First: No, This Is Not Another Bell Labs. Bell Labs was justifiably renowned as the place to do high level physics and engineering. It also supported Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in their research that identified the background cosmic microwave radiation that is the remnant of the Big Bang. But Bell Labs worked […]
Read more...Elections in Venezuela and Honduras: Two Sides of the Same Coin — Minted in Washington
In Venezuela and Honduras, the U.S. demonstrates that political authority in Latin America derives not from democracy, but from U.S. endorsement
Read more...Trillions for War, Pennies for People: How Soaring Military Spending Fails Americans
Unpacking why the US military is so expensive and even if it were less pork-driven, would still be unduly costly for society at large.
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