Friday, May 3, 2024

How to argue with gun nuts

Understand that pro-gun advocates almost never argue the merits of specific legislation.

Generation Z more progressive than millennial generation, new survey shows

"Gen Z looks a lot like millennials politically, which is terrible news for Republicans."

National (in)security

In the United States of inequality.

Texas loosens gun restrictions less than a day after a mass shooting in the...

"We are the only country that struggled with gun violence at this level. Other countries respond to tragedy."

Media just can’t stop presenting horrifying stories as ‘uplifting’ perseverance porn

Because corporate media wholly accept and promote neoliberal, free-market doctrine, they are unable to see how what they see as “awesome” is actually a manifestation of late-capitalist dystopia.

NYT remembers David Koch more as ‘philanthropist’ than polluter

An obituary should memorialize a person, but some people’s legacies are darker than dinosaur exhibits.

Travesty averted: An uplifting poem for the pandemic

There are times when well-meaning "message poetry" captures the moment and touches heart strings.

56 million Native American deaths caused by European colonizers changed Earth’s climate, study says

"For once, we've been able to balance all the boxes and realize that the only way the Little Ice Age was so intense is ... because of the genocide of millions of people."

Ben Carson: Fighting Trump’s war on the poor

Somehow a trillion-dollar tax giveaway is no issue for the deficit, but modest housing assistance for America's poorest people has to go.
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‘Stay alive, stay at home, organize’: Rev. Barber sets June 20 for Poor People’s...

“We’re not going to just die. We’re going to stand up and fight back.”