BY BESS LEVIN MARCH 23, 2021 (vanityfair.com) Sorry they’re not sorry about all the senseless, easily preventable killings. One happy by-product of a terrible year that’s kept millions of people at home has been the sharp reduction in mass shootings in the U.S.—in 2020, there were just two, the last one occurring within… Continue reading
Status Coup Jordan Chariton interviews Matt Taibbi, progressive journalist, and discusses Biden backtracking on $15 minimum wage and Larry Summers’ latest awfulness. SUPPORT Status Coup’s INDEPENDENT & IN-THE-FIELD reporting for as low as $5 bucks a month: https://statuscoup.com/join/ SUPPORT our investigative reporting GoFundMe if you can: https://www.gofundme.com/f/qtb9g8-sta… SUBSCRIBE to this… Continue reading
Posted on March 24, 2021 by SF Forest Alliance (sfforest.org) As we have been doing for many years now, we compiled the pesticide usage data for San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department for 2020. It’s getting worse year by year. Toxic herbicide use (i.e. herbicides classified as “More Hazardous” or “Most Hazardous”) has risen… Continue reading
Argot Pictures After moving to New York City from rural Maine, filmmaker Ian Cheney asks a simple question, “What do we lose, when we lose the night?”. Blending a humorous tone with cutting-edge science and poetic footage of the night sky, Cheney unravels the myriad implications of a globe glittering… Continue reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Progressive International Abbreviation PI Founded 30 November 2018 Political position Left-wing Colors Warm red and rich black Slogan Internationalism or Extinction Purpose To unite, organize, and mobilize progressive forces around the world. Region served Worldwide Website progressive.international The Progressive International is an international organization uniting and mobilizing progressive left-wing activists and… Continue reading
Detail of Guillaume Budé (c1536), by Jean Clouet. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 23 MARCH 2021 (psyche.co) Emma Claussenis a British Academy postdoctoral fellow and an affiliated lecturer in French at the University of Cambridge. Her first book is Politics and ‘Politiques’ in Sixteenth-Century France: A Conceptual History (forthcoming, July 2021) and… Continue reading
Monday 2:00PM (theonion.com) WASHINGTON—Blasting the critics of surging migrant detentions, President Joe Biden claimed Monday that it was unfair to attack his administration over borders that former President James K. Polk was responsible for creating. “It’s absurd, we just got here, and now we are being blamed for a lack of… Continue reading
ADAM BEAM, Associated Press March 23, 2021 (SFGate.com) SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The mayor of Oakland, California, on Tuesday announced a privately funded program that will give low-income families of color $500 per month with no rules on how they can spend it. The program is the latest experiment with a… Continue reading
Names of the people killed in the Boulder Colorado shooting, please hold their families in your thoughts and prayers May they Rest in Peace ♥ Tralona Bartkowiak ♥ ♥ Suzanne Fountain ♥ ♥Teri Leiker ♥ ♥ Kevin Mahoney ♥ ♥ Lynn Murray ♥ ♥ Rikki Olds ♥ ♥ Neven Stanisic ♥ ♥ Denny Stong ♥ ♥ Jody Waters ♥ ♥ Eric Talley ♥ Few events that might be of interest…Am NOT back posting on a regular basis… Continue reading
The Rational National Nina Turner, who’s running for Ohio’s 11th district, delivered a powerful and uplifting speech to Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, who are organizing to be the first Amazon union in the United States. === Support the show at http://TheRationalNational.com/Join Donate Directly at http://PayPal.me/daviddoel Tip at https://streamlabs.com/therationalnat… ‘Join’… Continue reading
