It’s 2016 all over again, as the press and analysts go to unusual lengths to ignore Sanders’ gains.
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Hope You Can Make One of Our Meetups This Week! Milwaukee This Wed May 1, Minneapolis Thurs May 2
Reinders and details for this week’s meetups! Hope you can stop by!
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/29/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Festival of Biden, Buttigieg, Gravel, Hickenlooper, Moulton, O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Weld, the Clintons, redistricting, white nationalism, factory farms, personal income, manufacturing, UK fracking, ocean plastic, thunderstorms, reforestation, PFAS, Stanford University Press, adjuncts, Zuckerberg, computers and kids
Boeing Kept Mum to Customers, FAA About Disabling of 737 Max Warning System
Even more bad facts about the Boeing 737 Max are coming out.
Dying on the Job: How Workers Get Hurt When Businesses Keep Deadly Secrets
OSHA reversed a rule that would have provided more information about workplace dangers nationally. It decided to stop requiring large employers to electronically report injury and illness data. OSHA still requires employers to document this information, but they don’t have to tell anyone.
House Democrats Schedule Hearing on HR1384 (#MedicareForAll) for This Tuesday, April 30
Witnesses for the HR 1384 hearings include one (known) HR1384 advocate, only two Medicare for All advocates, and no subject matter experts who can speak on budget.
How AI Systems Could Threaten Democracy
AI surveillance is more widespread than most people realize…with virtually no checks in place.
Ralph Nader Calls Out Boeing for 737 MAX Lack of Airworthiness, Stock Buybacks, and Demands Muilenburg Resign
Nader: “There is no need to wait for some long-drawn out, redundant inquiry. Management was criminally negligent, 346 lives of passengers and crew were lost.”
Progressives Take a Bold Stance at an Epicenter of the Charter School Movement to Score a Major Win for Public Education
Despite the decades-long effort to privatize Milwaukee’s local school, recent events in that community have shown that public school advocates can successfully fight back against privatization.
Using Maps as a Weapon to Resist Extractive Industries on Indigenous Territories
MappingBack can support Indigenous perspectives on territories and resources through spatial representations
Boeing Might Represent the Greatest Indictment of 21st-Century Capitalism
Packed in the Boeing 737 fiasco are all the economic problems we face: crony capitalism, regulatory capture, offshoring and man vs. machine.
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/26/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread, until it isn’t!
