Afropessimism Forces Us to Rethink Our Most Basic Assumptions About Society
What does it mean to be Black today? Most of us are familiar with the joyous Black aesthetic expression: “Black is beautiful.” Perhaps you’re also familiar with the radical, revolutionary declaration, “I’m Black and I’m proud!” Indeed, it was in 1969 that the “Godfather of Soul,” James Brown, told us to “Say it Loud.” And […]
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Josh Hawley to Credit Card Companies: Stop Targeting Gun Purchases
A Tuesday letter stated that a Republican senator is asking three major credit companies for help after they announced new policies that would differentiate firearm-related purchases from other retail purchases. “I write to express serious concern with your decision to separately categorize gun-related purchases from other retail transactions made with your payment cards so that […]
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Ken Starr, Rest in Peace
After a long, mysterious illness, Ken Starr, a well-known lawyer, died unexpectedly Tuesday. He had a long and storied—and somewhat controversial—career. Starr, 76 was born in Vernon Texas and was a true Texan. A graduate of George Washington University and Duke Law School (with a master’s degree from Brown University in between), Starr was an […]
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Ilhan Omar Joins Thousands of Nurses in Picket Line
On Monday, progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) joined roughly 15,000 nurses waging the largest private sector nurses’ strike in U.S. history as the workers marched for better pay and safer working conditions in her home state of Minnesota. Omar marched in solidarity with nurses in her district in Minneapolis and encouraged her followers on social […]
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Nuclear Power Is Too Risky Even in Peacetime. Ukraine Is the Tip of the Iceberg.
The alarms raised by the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the dire situation around Ukraine’s war-torn Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant offer the most extreme — and most compelling — case for discontinuing the use of nuclear power. An attack on Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, six reactors, could lead to a […]
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Striking Seattle Teachers Secure Tentative Deal After Rush of Community Support
Seattle teachers on Monday night expressed gratitude for “solidarity on the picket lines” and “enormous community support” that they received over the past week while on strike, as the city’s teachers union announced it had reached a tentative agreement with the school district. The Seattle Education Association saidIt had secured a three-year contract with an […]
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Lindsey Graham and Other GOP Senators Have Introduced a Nationwide Abortion Ban
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, led Republicans in the Senate to introduce legislation to impose an abortion ban nationwide on Tuesday. The legislation uses loaded and deceitful languageIts title. The bill, called the “Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act” by its anti-abortion proponents, would ban all abortions after 15 weeks […]
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2021 Had Lowest-Ever Supplemental Poverty Rate, Thanks to Stimulus Provisions
According to a Census Bureau report, poverty rates fell to a record low by certain measures in 2021. This was due in large part, the Census Bureau said, in a Tuesday report. The Census Bureau foundAccording to the Supplemental Poverty Measure, the poverty rate was at an all time low of 7.8 percent in 2013 […]
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Trump Shares Image Observers Say is “Explicit Endorsement” of QAnon
Donald Trump, the former president, shared a post on Truth Social this week that seemed to be an explicit endorsement by the QAnon organization. Trump has mentioned QAnon before, but has always feigned ignorance of the dangerous conspiracy theories being spread by the far right. At a town hall meeting in October 2020, Trump referenced […]
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Hundreds Protest as Starbucks Holds Investor Day Without Any Retail Workers
Hundreds of workers took to the streets in front of Starbucks’s Seattle headquarters on Tuesday as the company hosted investors for its biennial investor day, in which executives and investors discuss the company’s outlook — an event that has never once included representation from a Starbucks retail worker, the workers’ union says. Starbucks Workers United […]
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