Reading William Rivers Pitt Was Like Traveling. I’ll Miss the Journey.
William Rivers Pitt was a wordsmith extraordinaire. However, he wasn’t a pundit or predictable analyst. Will’s mighty writing was more prophetic than commonplace, more storytelling than think piece. I knew Will as an editor and colleague for many years at Truthout, I considered him a friend for even longer, and I always learned something from […]
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Truss ‘stands by’ her budget as Conservative MPs start to express concerns
A week on from the government’s mini-budget in which the chancellor Kwarsi Kwarteng announced a range of tax cuts, including the abolition of the top income tax rate of 45p, the approach has been defended by the prime minister. Speaking on the BBC 1 Laura Kuennsberg programme this morning, Liz Truss said, “The 45p rate […]
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California Gov. Newsom Proposes Windfall Profits Tax on Big Oil
California Gov. Gavin Newsom called Friday to propose a windfall profits tax for oil companies, which would directly go back to California residents. While crude oil prices have fallen nationally, California’s oil companies have increased gas prices by an astonishing 84 cents per gallons in the last 10 days. “Crude oil prices are down but […]
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Corporations Are Spending a Ton to Stop Low-Wage Workers From Unionizing
In the past year, thousands upon thousands of workers across America have been collecting signatures from their coworkers. Candy makers at a Hershey’s factory in Virginia. Cooks at a Chipotle in Michigan. Six employees work in a Dollar General store located in Connecticut. Their goal was to form an union to force their bosses, who […]
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Abled-Bodied Leftists Cannot Abandon Disabled Solidarity to “Move On” From COVID
I have this bookcoming out. It’s about the disabled future, about how most of the world will be disabled soon, and how disabled people kept each other and other people alive during COVID. I have tour dates. They’re all online. Because COVID. Because COVID remains. Because every week, 90 percent of the country is in […]
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Trump Made Up “Audit” Excuse for Why He Shouldn’t Make Tax Returns Public
In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump claimed that he couldn’t share his tax returns with the public because an IRS audit prevented him from doing so. However, a new book claims that this was a fabrication by Trump to avoid releasing his tax returns. Every viable nominee for president since […]
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205 Republicans Vote Against Bill to Expand School Mental Health Services
On Thursday, the House passed a bill aimed at expanding access to mental health services in schools that garnered only one Republican vote, despite the party’s ceaseless scapegoating of mental illness for issues in the U.S. The Mental Health Matters Act passed 220 to 205 on a largely party line vote, with all 205 “no” […]
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Protests Against Compulsory Hijab Sweep Iran, With Spotlight on Bodily Autonomy
Young women are leading the protests against state violence and the compulsory hijab in Iran. Many women have taken to the streets of Iran to burn their hijabs. They are chanting, “Our hijab will be the noose around your neck,” and have called for an end to the Iranian regime, specifying that they want “neither […]
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Fact-Checking Politico, FEMA Chief on DeSantis and Hurricane Ian
This week in Politics inaccurately reported remarks by FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell about Florida’s response to Hurricane Ian, but she also appeared to be inaccurate in saying that she hasn’t ever acted politically during a natural disaster. Criswell is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under the Biden Administration. He spoke Tuesday at the White […]
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Liberal Media Sycophants Still Shilling for Saint Anita Hill
Thirty-one-years ago, Anita Hill (media-anointed secular saint) revoked some sexual-harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas, then-Supreme Court nominee. She could not prove them. Thomas called it part of a “high-tech lynching.” But Hill, who became a millionaire author and a professor of “social policy, law, and women’s studies” at Brandeis University, has been celebrated ever since. […]
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