The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waited to brief the administration’s transition team on the agency it would soon be running. Nobody appeared. Across all departments the stories were the same: Trump appointees… Continue reading
Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as “the news” is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi… Continue reading
December 31, 2020 2:54 pm (wgem.com) Jim Roberts CHICAGO (WGEM) — Gov. JB Pritzker announced Thursday 492,129 non-felony cannabis related arrest records have been expunged at the state level by the Illinois State Police (ISP). The announcement comes four years in advance of the deadline set in the Cannabis Regulation and Tax… Continue reading
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 Bill Chappell / NPR (kpbs.org) PHOTO BY ANDY WONG AP A woman wearing a protective face mask walks by the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region office building in Beijing in June following the imposition of a national security law on Hong Kong. Ten Hong… Continue reading
The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder On today’s Best Of 2020: Sam hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale Historian David Blight to discuss his recent biography of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, and how the Reconstruction era lives on in our contemporary politics. Sam and Blight take a deep dive… Continue reading
The revenue the Treasury sorely needs must be sought from the ever-increasing wealth in Britain’s boardrooms Inside an Ocado warehouse. The firm’s boss earns 2,605 times more than the average worker. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian Sun 20 Dec 2020 01.55 EST (theguardian.com) Pressure is building on Rishi Sunak to tax the City financiers… Continue reading
Friendship House, a nonprofit run by and for Native American Indians, is launching fundraising for a cultural center on Julian Avenue. (Courtesy Meg Allen) ‘The Village’ intended to create new visibility, community for ‘an invisible people’ JOSHUA SABATINI Dec. 31, 2020 6:30 a.m. (SFExaminer.com) NEWS NEWSLETTER San Francisco could soon… Continue reading
Christo Aivalis Bernie Sanders stimulus filibuster continued on New Year’s Day, even though many Democrats betrayed him by voting to override Trump’s Defense Bill NDAA without locking in a vote on the $2000 checks. In doing this Bernie Sanders roasted Republicans like John Thune and others (not really Josh Hawley)… Continue reading
