Is Big Tech too powerful? Chris Hedges & Ramesh Srinivasan debate Twitter & Facebook...
“To allow these companies to essentially function as de facto platforms for censorship and manipulation … harkens back to the way civil liberties were eviscerated in the wake of 9/11.”
Benefits of equality
“Billionaire wealth is surging at the same time that millions face suffering, hardship, and loss of life. This is a grotesque indicator of the deep inequalities in U.S. Society."
Incentive
I don’t think that the solution is to treat everyone exactly alike, because that eliminates incentives.
Another season of despair
Or a pigskin blue wave?
US turned away thousands of Haitian asylum-seekers and detained hundreds more in the 90s
When the U.S. detained Haitian refugees indefinitely, it set a precedent.
Trump calls Howard Zinn’s work ‘propaganda.’ Hear the legendary historian in his own words.
Zinn believed the opposite, that teaching the unvarnished truth about history was the best way to combat propaganda and unexamined received wisdom.
Psychologists: Migrant parents reunited with detained children must brace for trauma & long recovery
The trauma children are experiencing in detention “freezes them in time” and takes away their ability to express themselves.
A UN treaty guarantees youth rights everywhere on Earth – except the United States
Young activists fighting to advance climate justice, end gun violence and increase racial equity should all have the convention behind them when they speak out.
Mother’s Day tears
The fierce prophetic vision of poor women...
Where are the men?
No more bystander boys in the post-Roe era.