Wednesday, July 15, 2026

A Green New Deal must be 100 percent just

A 100% Just Green New Deal doesn’t just offer a blanket promise of good green jobs and training for everyone, it will ensure that jobs training programs and investments in job creation are targeted and available first to the communities that need them most.

Volunteers protect our national parks during shutdown

Many national parks are open but since staff are furloughed amid the longest shutdown in U.S. history, services such as maintenance, visitor services, and law enforcement are not being performed, or are severely limited.

Progressives call to #DefundHate, tell Democrats not to fund Trump’s aggressive anti-immigration agenda

"We don't want money for an institution that is demonizing and criminalizing our immigrant neighbors."

‘We are severely off track:’ Global emissions projected to fall only 2 percent by...

The report shows that countries need to take much more action immediately, even though some have been making increased efforts, in order to speed up the transition away from fossil fuels and avoid the worst climate change impacts.
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Ending the punishment of poverty: Supreme Court rules against high fines & civil asset...

On Wednesday, the court ruled the Eighth Amendment protects people from state and local authorities imposing onerous fines, fees and forfeitures to generate money.

PG&E announces initiative to submerge 10,000-miles of power lines to lessen risk of wildfires...

PG&E's new infrastructure safety initiative is said to be the largest effort to lessen the risk of wildfire in the U.S.

McRaven’s Delusional, Dangerous National Security Strategy

Whatever McRaven’s explanation, he might consider whether instead of continuing to use our military power to try to shore up our morally bankrupt empire, we should start to tell the truth and take those moral principles seriously before we repeat our mistakes once again.
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As 2-month-old starves to death in Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha says his own family...

“Where is the mind of the people in the world? How could you let this happen?”

Derek Chauvin pleads guilty to violating civil rights of George Floyd and 14-year-old boy

“This is important and historic. His admissions mark another important moment of accountability and another step on the road to justice.”

Round table on current US foreign policy: Militarism unhinged

How would you assess the most important aspects of current U.S. foreign policy?