The effort to get the House to rubber-stamp a $1.5 trillion Senate-dictated infrastructure bill has gone pear-shaped.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/30/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Big Doings up on Capitol Hill! ~
Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites
Covid has triggered a hospital crisis in rural American that is killing Covid and non-Covid patients.
Rikers Island: “Humanitarian Crisis” with Dead Cockroaches, Urine and Feces, Plastic Bags in Lieu of Toilets, Lack of Food and Water; Guards Call in Sick to Escape Appalling Conditions, Covid Risk
As deaths rise at Rikers, legislators and the press are having a hard look at the horrific conditions.
Keir Starmer’s Speech – Labour’s Best Thing Since Stale Bread
It’s not capitalism that has to change, the Labour leader told us. It’s you.
How Autonomous Weapons Could Be More Destabilizing Than Nukes
Why autonomous weapons will make the world less safe.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/29/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Involuntary Psychiatric Care: The Part of the ‘Free Britney’ Saga That Could Happen to Anyone
Involuntary psychiatric care is regularly a financial scam as well as an abuse of personal rights, yet patients often have little recourse.
Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty Debate Inequality, Debt, and Reform
Thomas Piketty and Micheal Hudson address “What is debt,” and also address inequality, rentierism, and reform in the West and China.
How Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in His Quest to Privatize Public Education
The Milton Friedman “school choice” scheme in the 1950s aimed to block equal, integrated education for black families.
Jared Holst: Rolling with the Holmies
Bad enough that Elizabeth Holmes could conceivably wriggle out of a conviction. Even if she loses. we’ll have to endure her “Holmies”.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/28/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
The Violence of the 24-Hour Workday: Fighting Exploitation
The 24-hour-working immigrant underclass drags down the conditions of workers of all races, genders, and class positions across industries
