Black Sites and Black Days
More on how the US looks to be running ICE-related black sites, as in torture sites, in the US.
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As the UN General Assembly Turns 80, Can Ordinary Citizens Change How the World Is Governed?
A permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly met and is getting more and more participation. Does it have any hope of being effective?
Read more...3 Trump Administration Health Policy Changes That Will Worsen Care for the Elderly
One Trump rule rollback alone will kill an estimated 13,000 nursing home residents a year. Welcome to what passes for health care in the US.
Read more...AI-Induced Cultural Stagnation Is No Longer Speculation − It’s Already Happening
By displacing new content, AI is eroding culture. Add in screen addiction eroding reading and the devaluation of the humanities.
Read more...ICE War on Rights and Safety Continues With Policy of Illegal, Fourth Amendment-Violating Home Break-Ins, Detainee Homicide, and Detention and Transport of Children
ICE lawlessness is only getting worse.
Read more...“Who Gets to Decide How Much Is ‘Enough’ to Live a Good Life?”
A new climate change fix of sustainable limits bizarrely hypes that collective groups will decide, ignoring power and wealth inequality
Read more...Capital Dividing Lines in the New Police State. Are We Approaching Reconciliation?
ICE Nation is good for surveillance tech and private prisons. Not so much for other sectors—but is there a plan in place to make them whole again?
Read more...ICE Called Out by Minneapolis Police for Harassing Off-Duty Officers of Color as DOJ Targets Minnesota Officials Personally with Criminal Subpoenas
As authoritative proof of ICE civil rights abuses emerges, the Feds issue criminal subpoenas against officials seeking an injunction.
Read more...NYC Is Testing Guaranteed Income for Homeless Youths. Here’s How It’s Going.
A new program to give a monthly stipend and other support to homeless young people in New York City is showing promising initial results.
Read more...“We Are Watching Critical Thinking Disappear in Real Time” Due to AI Addiction: 40% of Kids Can’t Read, Teachers Quitting in Droves
How AI and device overstimulation are producing students with severe deficiencies in reasoning and information processing skills.
Read more...What Can We Do for the 250 Million and Counting Displaced by the Environmental Crisis?
A call for a new comprehensive legal framework for climate refugees to safeguard vulnerable populations and protect those who may be at risk in the future.
Read more...Coffee Break: The President Fixes Health Care While Unfixing the Air We Breathe, Among Other Things
Part the First: The President Fixes Healthcare. Oh, joy! A very long time ago I told myself that, surely, by the time I was eligible for Medicare the United States would have fixed our healthcare system so that job lock and other assorted problems would have vanished. Silly me. I have been eligible for Medicare […]
Read more...The Ever-Shrinking Eldercare Workforce
Another health industry train wreck in the making is the rising difficulty of staffing so-called eldercare needs, particularly dementia care.
Read more...Here Comes the Sun: A Way Forward if We Take It?
Bill McKibben published The End of Nature in 1989 when he was in his twenties. His book is generally recognized as the first to address what was then called global warming and now more properly labeled AGW, anthropogenic global warming. I read the book when it was released and it made perfect sense to me […]
Read more...Illinois, Minnesota Sue Over Trump ICE Agents Who ‘Have Acted as Occupiers’
Better late than never: states are starting to file suits over ICE thuggery.
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