Thom Hartmann August 11, 2023, 2:42 PM ET (rawstory.com) Rural Voters Oregon (AFP) If you live in the Blue part of a Red state, Republicans don’t want you to vote. And their latest strategy is their most brute-force method: simply remove you from the voting rolls. A shocking new study from Demos lays… Continue reading
PDAMERICA Streamed live 99 minutes ago #Endfossilfuels To paraphrase Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows that the planet is burning / Everybody Knows we’re not doing enough / Everybody Knows that has to change. So, the time has come—not to talk of many things—but to take action. This Sunday, PDA will do… Continue reading
Megan Cassidy Aug. 11, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advised hundreds of employees in San Francisco to work remotely for the foreseeable future due to public safety concerns outside the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building on Seventh Street. The imposing, 18-story tower on the… Continue reading
Former President Donald Trump appears at an event hosted by the South Carolina Republican Party on August 5, 2023 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Photo: Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images) “Donald Trump cannot be president—cannot run for president, cannot become president, cannot hold office—unless two-thirds of Congress decides to grant him amnesty… Continue reading
WED, 8/9/2023 – BY CARL GIBSON (Occupy.com) The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) wasn’t designed to be an unaccountable super-legislature of a handful of corporate lawyers who can simply override the decisions of the executive and legislative branches, but it has undoubtedly become so. The 6-3 conservative SCOTUS majority… Continue reading
TUE, 8/8/2023 – BY CARL GIBSON (Occupy.com) It would be a severe mistake to reduce the Greta Gerwig-directed ‘Barbie,’ which is currently dominating the summer box office, to a hot pink toy marketing campaign. On its surface, ‘Barbie’ contains all the right ingredients for a kid-friendly celebration of Mattel’s iconic toy…. Continue reading
It’s hard to take the doom loop seriously at 5 o’clock in the afternoon when you’re staring out of a downtown office window at a line of cars backed up several blocks on Battery Street on their eventual way to the Bay Bridge. More people are working in offices again… Continue reading
Campaigners demand far-reaching climate action at a rally. (Photo: michael_swan/flickr/cc) “Fossil fuel interests see a clear benefit in promoting direct air capture as a means to preserve the dominance of dirty fossil fuels,” said one advocate. JULIA CONLEY Aug 11, 2023 (CommonDreams.org) Climate action groups on Friday said the U.S…. Continue reading
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks during a July 26, 2023 House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) “No one is above the law,” the New York Democrat asserted. “For two decades, Justice Thomas failed to report millions in gifts.” BRETT WILKINS Aug… Continue reading
Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov and Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov The Friedel Chronicles Oct 19, 2020 (frederic-38110.medium.com) Never heard of these two men? They are the reason why most of you were born, and why all of you are reading these lines — instead of fossilizing or spreading as ash across the globe…. Continue reading
