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January 2022
Kellog’s flooded with fake job applications after threatening to replace striking workers
Billionaire wealth has skyrocketed during the pandemic
Gavin Newsom calls for bill modeled on Texas abortion ban to crack down on gun manufacturers (Brilliant!)
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article256524466.html
More: https://www.vox.com/2021/12/12/22830625/newsom-california-guns-texas-abortion-law-supreme-court
The number of Americans who want stricter gun control laws continues to grow
Six in ten American favor freedom of choice for women (PEW research)
Sotomayor’s scathing rebuke of the Texas abortion vigilante law
How reliable are news sources?
Why managers fear a remote work future
October 2021
- India’s death toll from Covid is probably in the millions, 10X the official toll
- Tik Tockers troll anti-abortion website with Shrek porn (wouldn’t it be awful if more people did this after reading the article?)
- Study: Conspiracy theorists lack critical thinking skills
- Abortion rights in the USA
- Why everyone should be terrified of the Texas anti-abortion vigilante bill
- In the end Bin Laden won – a Michael Moore essay
- Another pipeline threatens native lands
- Brazil High Court Suspends an Indigenous Land Rights Case
- Monument to Indigenous Women Will Replace Columbus Statue in Mexico City
September 2021
- Texas effectively breaks Roe V. Wade and the Supreme Court says nothing
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announces that she plans to bring up legislation that would codify Roe v. Wade
- Oklahoma mom of 11 rescues members of Afghan all-girls robotics team
- Women’s equality in the USA – are we there yet?
- Organic milk, farms threatened in Vermont and other areas
- A third anti-vaxxer Conservative radio talk show host has died of Covid
- How Hippies Won the Culture War…and Drove the Evangelicals to Fascism (don’t blame the hippies, the fascists did it to themselves)
- Minnesota park recognized as historic, sacred Native American cemetery
August 2021
- Why Native American activists are carrying a 25 foot totem pole across the US
- UN council adopts resolution against Witch hunts
- The critical race theory panic is a new weapon in the right-wing war on public education
- Amid surges in anti-Asian violence, Illinois becomes the first state to mandate teaching Asian-American history in public schools
- For the first time in 45 years, the forced-birth Hyde Amendment is out of a spending bill
- Republicans double down on protecting wealthy tax cheats at the expense of nation’s infrastructure
- Mitch McConnell says he’s ‘perplexed’ by inability to get vast majority of U.S. vaccinated. Really.
June 2021
- America’s right wing political monsters are real – and they are coming for you
- Parkland dad called Marjorie Taylor Green a “dangerous fraud”. The GOP does nothing about it.
- How is it not apartheid? The Israel-Palestinian conflict.
- Liz Cheney says members of Congress had voted against impeaching Trump out of fear for their own lives.
- America’s final descent into a failed state
- Animals to be formally recognized as sentient beings in UK law
- Court agrees to hear the Habeas Corpus case of an elephant, jailed for 40 years, for the first time in US history
- Don’t be a Sucker (video)
- Gullible Americans are waiting for Trump’s return by August of this year
- Everyone Thinks Americans Are Selfish. They’re Wrong.
May 2021
- How Trump tricked donors into giving, even after he lost
- The origins of America’s unique and spectacular cruelty
- Crisis intervention training for police (video)
April 2021
- The vast majority of Americans want stricter gun control laws (but politicians won’t let us have them)
- Inside the prosecution of the capitol rioters
- Can we save American democracy, if it was never a democracy to begin with? | Salon.com
- US Forest Service delays sale of Apache sacred sites/land to mining interests
March 2021
- Nazi imagery at the C-pac conference
- With strict gun laws in place, Massachusetts proves that strong laws mean less gun violence
- A deep dive into the origins of Q-ANON
- What happened to society after the 1918 flu pandemic
- Biden’s new CCC is straight out of the New Deal
- The hidden conspiracy to save the 2020 election
- The next authoritarian will be much more competent
- Due to a pandemic, climate change, and the threat of nuclear war, Doomsday Clock is set at 100 seconds to midnight
- Surprise, surprise! Republicans suddenly care about deficits again!
- Change is already here – the women who lead the world
February 2021
- Watch and weep – a NY Times reporter films the riot
- REBROADCAST: S4 E8 The Second Redemption (podcast)
- Statement from Tribe of the Oak Druids
- American needs to break with its Fascist movement now – or else
- Chomsky: Coup Attempt Hit Closer to Centers of Power Than Hitler’s 1923 Putsch
- How radio stations once stopped a public figure from telling dangerous lies
January 2021
- Co-ops in Spain’s Basque Region Soften Capitalism’s Rough Edges
- America’s acceptance of Trump’s behavior will be his vilest legacy
- Biden’s historic cabinet picks highlight the environment
- Billionaires have made 1 trillion dollars off the pandemic, so far
- 14 groups designated as “hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center have received $4.3 million in pandemic aid
- Joel Osteen’s Texas megachurch received $4.4M COVID-19 stimulus loan
- Veterans organizing to stop Trumpism
December 2020
- Welcome to the Matriarchy: The Manosphere is freaking out over a Kamala Harris presidency
- Racism is a public health crisis in the USA
- A game designers brilliant analysis of QAnon and what it is really doing
Related: Conservatives are flocking to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook, Twitter (good riddance, I do hope they enjoy their little alternate reality. I hear it is full of Nazis and Trolls - How to protect America from the next Donald Trump (NY Times)
- In 1987, David Frost interviewed 45-year-old Joe Biden during his first bid for the presidency (podcast)
November 2020
- Women in Poland are rioting and blocking traffic because the Catholic church is about to ban abortion there. This is what the USA can look forward to if SCOTUS guts Roe v. Wade
More on the Polish women’s protests…
Polish women strike due to near-total abortion ban - US just signed anti-abortion pact with 32 countries, many of them are undemocratic nations
- Native Lands App – whose land are you living on?
- How women really vote – separating myth from reality
October 2020
- 10 things you need to know to stop a coup (and how to know if it’s happening – Coup – if the government:
1. stops counting the votes
2. declares some a winner who didn’t get the most votes
3. allows someone to stay in power who didn’t win the election - Historians warn that Trump is behaving like Mussolini
- Where the trump Money came from; “We have all the funding we need from Russia” – Eric Trump
- Is this how American dies? The death of Ginsburg and the Supreme Court implications
- The history of forced sterilizations in the USA
- The most effective way to convert an undecided voter is by deep listening, study finds
- Operation Infektion: A three-part video series on Russian disinformation
- Doomsday prepping for the end of Democracy if Trump wins
- The Republicans who are not supporting Trump
- Conspiracy theories – our herd immunity to bullshit may be breaking down
- Germany is beginning a universal-basic-income trial with people getting $1,400 a month for 3 years
- Why people of color fare worse in the pandemic
September 2020
- The RNC is American Authoritarianism unmasked
- The Trumps are gaslighting a collapsing America
- VOTE 411 – all the election info you need
- DNC convention – Joe Biden’s full speech
- DNC convention – Obama’s full speech
- DNC- Bernie Sander’s full speech
- DNC – Michelle Obama – full speech
- Listen to the young Barack Obama speak in 1995 (video)
- Senate report: Trump was eager to accept Russian help in 2016 to get elected (I am shocked by this – aren’t you?)
- Michael Cohen’s new book outlines how Trump colluded with Russia, will never leave office peacefully
- ProPublica: The best reporting on Kamala Harris
- Kamala Harris on Black Lives Matter protests
- One in three Mass. Renters in danger of eviction
- Gloria Steinem endorses Ed Markey for Senate
- AOC endorses Ed Markey for senate
- NY Attorney General seeks to dissolve the NRA after fraud investigation
- Al Franken and Andrew Yang in conversation (podcast)
- Trump is purging senior officials from Voice of America, adding his own cronies
- Trump’s sister says he “has no principles and you can’t trust him”
August 2020
- A group of moms created a human wall to protect Portland protestors from federal officers
More: A wall of moms protects protestors from government thugs and police - A Vietnam Veteran is beaten, pepper sprayed by federal agents in Portland, OR
- Federal agents are to leave Portland, sort of
- Judge orders Dakota Access pipeline shut down
- “Police officers kill about 1,700 Americans every year. In other words, police killings have made up about one out of every twelve violent deaths of Americans between 2010 and 2018.”
- Is it time to change the Massachusetts state flag?
- SCOTUS rules that Eastern Oklahoma is a Native reservation subject to tribal laws
- Plimouth Plantation in MA will change the name to Plimoth-Patuxet to honor both the original inhabitants and the white settlers
More… - Science-denying LA residents who refuse to wear masks – what are they thinking?
- America is experiencing the mother of all social collapses
- Greta Thunberg received 1 million Euros and donated it all to groups fighting climate change
- And a little comic relief
July 2020
- A brief history of Anti-Fascism in the US
- 144 years after Little Big Horn Lakota values persist (I wish we had leaders like that)
- Resources for understanding systemic racism in the USA
- After 200 failed attempts, Congress still can’t make lynching a federal crime (Senator Rand Paul blocked it this time)
Booker and Harris respond - Jane Goodall – humanity is doomed if we don’t change our ways
- An apology to JK Rowling for the abuse she has endured
- The best way to reform the police is to de-fund the police
- “How Can We Win”? (video)
- Juneteenth, our other Independence Day
- Americans are historically unhappy now, Twitter study finds
- Toppling controversial statues – a history
- The jobs we need – wealth inequality in America (NY Times)
- The secret history of New England’s sundown towns
June 2020
- After the most recent police murder of a black civilian in MN, here are 75 things you can do
- Facebook Zoom clone “messenger room” may be collecting your meta data
- Biden taps Progressives to forge a “unity” taskforce
- When two female reporters refused to let Trump bully them into silence, he fled
- Trump’s Nationalism is on a Trajectory to Violence
- The Federal government is ramping up security funding, purchases of riot gear, citing Corona virus concerns
- In its zeal to blame China, Trump administration blocks funding to investigate origins of the virus
- Warren Harding Tried to Return America to ‘Normalcy’ After WWI and the 1918 Pandemic. It Failed.
- Four federal lawmakers vote against making lynching a hate crime, cite “government overreach”
- When a Witch went on Fox News it didn’t go as Tucker Carlson planned
- The mere sight of a gun makes police, the public more aggressive, psychologists find
- Donald Trump “the most un-manly president”
May 2020
- The first Earth Day in pictures (1970)
- The Atlantic: We are Living in a failed State
- Americans need a guaranteed basic minimum income
- What happens if big oil doesn’t recover?
- Climate change deniers are now attacking Covid-19 modeling
- Bernie Sanders tells his supporters that to not back Biden is “irresponsible”
- AOC backs Biden
- Warren backs Biden
- Obama backs Biden
- NY Times: this is the worst time for Trump to make false claims of authority
- 100 militant groups promoting a second Civil War on Facebook
- The US Post Office is under threat from Corona virus
- Congress knocks Trump administration’s decision to remove Native American lands from federal trust
- The Queen’s address on the Corona virus (Facebook video)
- Chomsky: Obama ordered more ventilators, but corporate executives pulled out of the contract, complaining that it was not sufficiently profitable for the company.
- George Bush made a pandemic video and its actually quite good
- Military Times : A war reporter is more afraid now than he has ever been
- An iconic picture of a 1976 racial protest in Boston
April 2020
- Experts: we need a national shutdown. Now.
- Trump failed to follow the NSC pandemic playbook and we are all paying the price
- Guiliani temporarily banned from Twitter for making false statements about Covid-19 virus
- Al Franken: The President is Crazy
- GOP values profits, ideology, over human lives in pandemic
- How power profits from disasters
- The Trump presidency is over
- Germany gives $54 billion bailout aid package to small businesses and the arts, cultural organizations, dwarfing other nations
March 2020
- Women’s Declaration of sex based rights (signatures needed)
- Native Americans could make the difference in the election
- How to lose a Democracy in 7 steps
- Krugman: The party that ruined the planet
- Nordic countries embody the American Dream better than the US
- Social Democracies rank happiest in the world. US ranking falls. Again.
- 20 ways Trump is imitating Hitler’s early policies
- FBI FINALLY puts neo-Nazis and White Supremacists on same threat level as ISIS (What took them so long?)
- Trump’s separation of children and parents is torture says physicians group
- Millionaires no longer pay into Social Security as of Feb. 19, 2020, due to cap.
- Job growth, economy actually slower under Trump than under Obama
February 2020
- Watch Adam Schiff making closing arguments in the Impeachment trial. Brilliant.
- It matters that Elizabeth Warren is a woman
- The states most dependent on tax payer aid are the red states
- Elizabeth Warren is a dream candidate – here’s why
- The Equal Rights Amendment is 96 years old, here is why we still can’t have it
- There are still debtors prisons in Mississippi
January 2020
- 125,000 Paper Cranes to Washington, D.C. in June 2020 for Tsuru for Solidarity’s “National Pilgrimage to Close the Camps”
- For profit prisons and detention camps are booming under Trump
More… In the U.S., the richest 0.1% control a bigger share of the pie than at any time since 1929 - Women aged 50+ will likely decide the next election
- Elizabeth Warren’s plan to fight global corruption
- Democracy grief is real
- Angela Merkel tell Harvard grads to “tear down the walls of ignorance” in reference to Trump
- More than 500 law professors say Trump committed ‘impeachable conduct’
- Despite the “great” economy poverty has grown in one third of counties
- SCOTUS judge Sotomayor raises alarm over brutality of border patrol agents
Related: children are dying under border patrol “care” - America’s real economy isn’t booming
- Income inequality in America is the highest since the census bureau started tracking it
- The USA has lots of jobs, but they are rotten jobs with low pay (Forbes)
- For the first time in history billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year
- Cheers for the women who may save us all “Bless and praise these women professors, the women office holders, the candidates, the advocates, the women who will vote to throw the rascals out and do their utmost urging others to do so, too.”
December 2019
- Read the full text of Fiona Hill’s opening statement before impeachment committee
- Amazon has now moved into the US election business. WE NEED TO DEMAND A RETURN TO PAPER BALLOTTS. They work just fine.
- How concerned should we be about 5G health effects?
- We have no reason to believe 5 G is safe
- Trump eliminates Obama era animal welfare rule
- Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give Workers ‘Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation’
- Trump and McConnell are packing the courts with ultra-rightwing judges, could change the courts forever
- Trump resettled “0” refugees this October
- A federal judge has granted North Dakota Republicans the ability to block Native Americans from voting
- Stephen Miller’s White Nationalist leanings revealed through leaked emails
- After 96 years the Equal Rights Amendment still hasn’t passed. Here’s why…
- Yang wants you to make money off your personal data
- Trump ordered to pay $2 million in charity scandal (why isn’t this enough to kick him out of office?)
- What Joe Biden can’t bring himself to say
- Chomsky: Trump is consolidating far right power globally
- The racist origins of the electoral college
- More US school-age children die from guns than on-duty US police or global military fatalities, study finds
- Thousands of migrant children were sexually abused in U.S. custody, HHS docs say
November 2019
- Indigenous women travel 3000 miles to save the Tongass forest from Trump
- AOC on our climate future “So they knew’: Ocasio-Cortez questions Exxon scientist on climate crisis denial – video”
More… - Climate protests in Dublin, Ireland
More… - 200,000 march in favor of Scottish independence
- Removal from office is not the only purpose of impeachment, according to the Founders
- Tribal map shows whose land you are actually living on
- The 8 best online sources for unbiased news
October 2019
- Why is Greta Thunberg so triggering for certain men?
- When Socialism came to Oklahoma – the forgotten “Green Corn Rebellion”
- Alabama court orders jail time for rape victim unless she hands kids to rapist
- Colt is ending production of AR-15s (really good news)
- 2017 marked the first year that guns killed more people (40,000) than car accidents did
September 2019
- Cambridge Analytica executives boast of Trump win they orchestrated
- When the US government tried to replace migrant Mexican farmworkers with US high school students
- Woodstock 50 years later “A waterfall of love”. We need this again!
- Here is the data on White Supremacist terrorism that the Trump administration refuse to give to Congress
- “Online extremists act like curdled milk” says physics professor
- It was corruption, not Socialism, that brought down Venezuela
August 2019
- George Wallace’s daughter says Trump is a worse racist that her father was
- Where your tax dollars really go (video)
- Do Republicans even believe in democracy anymore?
- Russian documents show they were trying to sow discord and violence in US (our president finds this funny)
- Irish Times: Trump is rehearsing for Fascism
- The Supreme Court just dealt a blow to democracy
- Meet the economist behind the 1%’s stealth takeover of America
- Map of US concentration camps
- Yes, America there is a class war – and you just lost it
- A race riot in DC, 100 years ago (if Trump has his way this could easily happen again)
- We must end corporate welfare (Socialism for the rich) now (video)
When corporations get special handouts from the government, it costs the rest of us. We have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden tax breaks, subsidies, and loopholes. In turn, we have less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense, and everything else we need. So the next time you hear conservatives railing against welfare handouts for the poor, *remind them that we should really be cutting corporate welfare — unnecessary and unwarranted aid for dependent corporations. - Trump’s rallies are now nakedly Fascist (and very dangerous)
MAY 2019
- Cellist Yo Yo Ma plays at the southern US border in attempt to “build bridges”
- Republicans have put the US on a solid path towards decline and they want you to think we aren’t smart enough to change course
- Because of Trump tariffs Chinese manufacturers are now moving to Mexico
- Was ending the draft a mistake? (I’d say yes)
- My current favorite candidates are Bernie and this guy, Andrew Yang
- Wendy’s is a big Trump donor and is abusing farmworkers (please don’t eat there)
- The rise of the killer robots – and the two women fighting back
- The US is the most unequal developed nation
- Disappeared middle class tax deductions this year (the super rich did just fine, thank you)
- America’s elderly are twice as likely to be working now than in 1985