GOP state laws attacking trans kids’ rights are ‘unconstitutional’: DOJ
"These filings from the Department of Justice confirm what we have been telling legislatures all year: Banning trans youth from sports and denying trans youth health care violates the Constitution and federal law."
After ‘mind-blowing’ September, 2023 set to be hottest tear on record: EU Climate Agency
The European climate agency said Thursday that last month was the warmest September on record globally and "the most anomalous warm month of any year" in its dataset going back to 1940.
A pregnant teenager died after trying to get care in three visits to Texas...
That is what many pregnant women are now facing in states with strict abortion bans, doctors and lawyers have told ProPublica.
The Republican Debate: Seven Trumped-Up Survivors
Fireworks, muscle flexing, invective: the cage match that was the Republican presidential debate in Charleston, South Carolina.
Treading water, Biden needs what energizes progressives: vision
Rethugs corrupt politics as war,/ Sucker punching with doom, gloom and gore.
Supreme Court’s ruling delays Keystone XL Pipeline construction furthermore
"No oil pipeline is safe, and TransCanada’s record over the past decade does little to assuage concerns of a spill."
The Bernie Campaign: The Democratic Party’s Biggest Insurrection in Decades
Genuinely progressive candidates can inspire and galvanize -- and sometimes they can even win. But election campaigns, especially national ones, are almost always boom/bust.
How a rural Colorado county became an epicenter of Trump’s big lie
First an election official erred. Then Trump’s IT squad arrived. Then the false claims, conspiracies, stolen data and denials ensued.
America’s bullies
In recent years America has become a culture of bullying – the wealthier over the poorer, CEOs over workers, those with privilege and pedigree over those without, the whiter over the browner and blacker, men over women.
Plastics industry loses legal bid against Chile’s landmark bag ban
Chile's Constitutional Court ratified a bill that bans plastic bags across the country after rejecting an appeal from the plastics industry.