DeJoy Nets Massive Bonus Amid Mail Delays and Rampant Wage Theft From Carriers
This articleOriginal publication by the Center for Public Integrity, a non-profit newsroom based in Washington, D.C. The U.S. The U.S. Postal Service paid its top executives more bonuses and perks in 2013 than at any point in the past decade. This added up to $370622 in additional income for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, and four […]
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Why Is the Left Suddenly Worried about the End of Democracy?
What is behind recent pessimistic appraisals of democracy’s future, from Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, Brian Williams, and other elite intellectuals, media personalities, and politicians on the left? Some warn of its possible loss in 2024. Others predict democracy’s downturn as early 2022, with scary scenarios of “autocracy” and former President Donald Trump “coups.” To answer […]
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Illinois Sets National Precedent in Banning Immigration Detention
A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit against the Illinois Way Forward Act. The new law, which makes immigrant detention illegal within the state, will take effect in the New Year. McHenry and Kankakee Counties filed the suit. They were holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees in their local jails. The counties will need to end […]
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The Tragic Opera Starring Joe Manchin Has Lasted Far Too Long
With President Joe Biden’s signature Build Back Better (BBB) Act once again teetering before the legislative abyssLet me make it crystal clear: I am so tired of writing about Sen. Joe Manchin that I want to eat my own words until I collapse. It is a futile endeavor from top-to-bottom, a snipe hunting ad infinitum. […]
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bell hooks, Black Feminist Scholar and Intellectual Giant, Has Died
Bell hooks, a giant in Black feminist thought and thought, died December 15 at her home in Berea in Kentucky. Her writings are a foundational part of contemporary movements for justice. They have opened many doors in radical thought on race and gender, and other forms oppression. Gwenda Motley’s sister claims that hooks were the […]
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What Will We Do With Our Rage in 2022?
On April 16, 2021, thousands marched in support of Adam Toledo, the 13-year old victim of the Chicago police shooting.Love & Struggle Photos “At the close of 2021, the right is poised to treat the pandemic as a political portal, and the left is not. That’s a disturbing reality, but it is not a fixed […]
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Sinema Imperils Voting Rights Push for the Sake of Archaic Filibuster Rule
Right-wing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Wednesday cast further doubt on Democrats’ nascent effort to pass voting rights legislation before the end of the year by reiterating her defense of the Senate’s legislative filibuster, an archaic rule that the GOP minority has used to stonewall bills aimed at protecting the franchise. Democratic leaders signaled Wednesday afternoon […]
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Melting of Ice Sheets Is Dramatic, But Melting of Permafrost Means Mass Death
When midnight strikes on New Year’s Day of 2050, there will be little cause for celebration. There will be the standard toasts with fine wines made in climate-controlled compounds by the wealthy few. But for most of humanity, it’ll just be another day of adversity bordering on misery — a desperate struggle to find food, […]
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More Than 100 Firms Across the World Can Make the mRNA Vaccine If Tech Is Shared
Image Credit: Facebook: Global Justice Now A group of vaccine experts have just released a list listing over 100 companies in Africa and Asia that could produce mRNA vaccines as Omicron, a coronavirus variant, spreads at an unprecedented rate. They claim it is the best solution to combat vaccine inequity worldwide and the spread of […]
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DeSantis Hypes His Anti-Critical Race Theory Bill by Quoting Martin Luther King
On Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), proposed new legislation that would allow parents the right to sue school districts for critical race theory and other lessons relating to racial equality being taught in Florida classrooms. DeSantis erroneously suggested that Martin Luther King Jr. would have approved his proposal. DeSantis’s bill is called the Stop […]
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