COP26 Is Over. When Will Congress Do Its Part and Stop Subsidizing Extinction?
The diplomatic effort behind COP26 — the United Nations climate conference — failed to meet the scale of the climate emergency. While an agreement was reached to phase out “inefficient” fossil fuel subsidies, even this was watered downin last-minute negotiations. Too little, too late frontline communities edge of extinction. Every year, billions of dollars are […]
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4 False Biden Claims About Inflation, ‘Build Back Better’ Boondoggle
Friday’s House vote approved a multitrillion-dollar, radical tax-and-spend package. All but one Democrat voted for it, and all Republicans opposed. Though the bill has been given the innocuous-sounding name “Build Back Better,” it would cause tremendous long-term damageOur way of living. It would also be a serious threat for our economic recovery as it would […]
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Government Supports Would Grow to $76,400 per Poor Family
The partisan Build Back better Act will be up for a vote in the House of Representatives this week. If passed, this legislation would result in the largest increase in welfare spending that has been means-tested in American history. The House leadership allegedly reduced the bill’s 10-year costs by half. But these “savings” are almost […]
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Julius Jones Will “Fight Another Day” — Death Sentence Commuted
On Thursday, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) commuted the sentence of Julius Jones, a Black man on death row for a murder that all available evidence suggests he didn’t actually commit. “After prayerful consideration and reviewing materials presented by all sides of this case, I have determined to commute Julius Jones’ sentence to life imprisonment […]
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Agency Tasked by Trump With $100M Strengthen Supply Chain Hasn’t Spent a Penny
In 2020, former President Donald Trump tasked a government agency with giving loans to help ease supply chain issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic — but that agency hasn’t spent a single penny of the $100 million it received, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently found. GAO released Wednesday’s report showing that the International Development […]
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John Deere Strike Ends as Workers Win Higher Wages, Bonus and Better Pension
John Deere Equipment Manufacturer Union Workers voted to approve a revised contract on Wednesday. This ends a strike that was sustained by nearly 10,000 workers at 14 locations over the past five weeks. The new agreement is valid for six years. includes a 10 percent wage increase, 5 percent raisesIn 2023 and 2025, and the […]
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From Glasgow to Gulf of Mexico, Fossil Fuel Industry Shows Us Who’s in Charge
There is a scene from Francis Ford Coppola’s bleak masterpiece Apocalypse NowThat was what I thought of in the aftermath. Glasgow climate conference and Wednesday’s big oil lease shindigFor drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico Captain Willard is played by Martin Sheen who is an impossibly young actor. He drags a boat crew deep […]
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Kyle Rittenhouse Is on Trial for Murder. Matt Gaetz Says He’d Be a Good Intern.
On Wednesday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) said that he’d be interested in hiring Kyle Rittenhouse as a congressional aide, referring to the 18-year-old gunman currently on trial for killing two individuals and seriously injuring a third during an uprising against police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Gaetz made the comments as he was speaking on Newsmax. […]
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Ed Dept. Opens Inquiry on District That Wanted “Opposing” Lessons on Holocaust
The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has opened an investigation into a Texas school district where an administrator pushed teachers to present “opposing” perspectives of the Holocaust. On Wednesday, the OCR acknowledgedA Carroll Independent School District inquiry was opened in Southlake Texas. The district faces three separate allegations of discrimination based on […]
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In Charlottesville, Rittenhouse and Arbery Cases, White Supremacy Is on Trial
Jurors in Charlottesville, Virginia, are hearing closing arguments today in a civil trial that seeks to hold white supremacists accountable for organizing the deadly “Unite the Right” rally there in 2017, and conspiring to commit racially motivated violence. Richard Spencer and Christopher Cantwell have been defending their positions in courtroom. They took the stand on […]
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