Jamaal Bowman Our ‘infrastructure’ isn’t just steel and concrete. It is the millions of people who provide care services and the millions who rely on them Tue 6 Apr 2021 06.14 EDT (theguardian.com) It’s the one thing everyone in Washington can agree on: our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling and in desperate… Continue reading
9 APRIL 2021/SF POLITICS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) President Joseph Biden has put together a 36-member bipartisan commission, comprised mostly of academics, to “study” different potential changes to the Supreme Court including term limits and adding more justices. Actually making changes to the court would likely cause Mitch McConnell to light himself… Continue reading
April 08, 2021 by Common Dreams “These companies are producing a significant percentage of the carbon that we use, which is destroying our planet, and we want to know what they are doing to transform their companies away from fossil fuel.” by Brett Wilkins, staff writer (commondreams.org) 28 Comments A gas… Continue reading
THE FUN BUNCH Ernest Hemingways documentary on Spain during the civil war. Orson Welles got his first job on a commercially-produced film providing the voiceover for it. Hemingway hated the voiceover thinking it too camp and the two men broke out into a fight. Hemingway re-recorded the voiceover in a… Continue reading
The Supreme Court may consider a case that could defang Biden’s bankruptcy bill and protect people being crushed by college debt. Walker Bragman April 8, 2021 (The Daily Poster) A student debt protest at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo credit: Paul J. Richards/Getty Images) This report was written… Continue reading
Alex Shultz, SFGATE April 8, 2021 (SFGate.com) How do you organize against trillions of dollars of debt and the lenders that control it? It’s a stupefying question without a definitive answer or action plan because the numbers are so daunting and every debtor’s situation varies so wildly. In March, SFGATE ran a… Continue reading
8 APRIL 2021/SF NEWS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) The Centers for Disease Control confirmed today what epidemiologists have been saying for at least eight months, which is you don’t need to keep disinfecting surfaces and decontaminating your groceries because the coronavirus doesn’t spread by surface contact. This is not to say that it… Continue reading
Column APRIL 08, 2021 (democracynow.org) By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The COVID-19 pandemic demands a collective, global response of the sort that has few parallels in human history. The 132 million confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide and 3 million deaths are likely underestimates. More contagious variants have emerged, causing an alarming surge… Continue reading
An Intercept investigation finds that a revolving door of friends and colleagues at the top echelons of the DCCC reinforces its corporate sensibility. Ryan Grim, Rachel M. CohenApril 6 2021 (TheIntercept.com) IN A 2018 House Democratic primary, Gina Ortiz Jones fought her way through a crowded field of congressional hopefuls and emerged… Continue reading
