Thursday, April 16, 2026

MAGA wars against civilization and Mother Earth, not just democracy, justice and the Constitution

Sabotage and subversion from within, hypocritically called redemption of greatness, is the cowardly default. Burn it all down crushes good reform.

Sanders and Varoufakis announce alliance to craft ‘common blueprint for an international new deal’

The pair hopes to promote a "progressive, ecological, feminist, humanist, rational program" for not only Europe, but the entire world.

Crippling common good worldwide, landmark study shows $427 billion lost each year to tax...

"A global tax system that loses over $427 billion a year is not a broken system, it's a system programmed to fail."

Trump signs new executive order revising Muslim travel ban

“President Trump still seems to believe you can determine who’s a terrorist by knowing which country a man, woman or child is from.”

How workers and management at one company teamed up to fight the pandemic

PCI and Local 286 recognized early on the importance of protecting workers from the virus and preparing for a possible role in distributing vaccines.

Give children the vote, strengthen democracy

Facilitating such participation would not only encourage broader social responsibility among young people, it would enrich and strengthen democracy itself.

Biden’s appeasement of hawks and neocons is crippling his diplomacy

We hope he and his advisers are not too blinded by anachronistic imperial thinking or too intimidated by the neocons to make a fresh start and engage with the world as it actually exists in 2021.

2 Denver police officers suspended for use of force during George Floyd protests

“Once I dispersed the fogger, the female immediately put her window up and put her head down to read her phone. I realized that I made a mistake and walked away from the female and her car.”

House Democrats hold first climate change hearings in more than 5 years

"Today, we turn the page on this committee from climate change denial to climate action."

Indigenous languages are going extinct and taking knowledge of medicinal plants with them

"[L]anguage allows indigenous societies to use the biodiversity that surrounds them as a 'living pharmacy' and to describe the medicinal properties of plants."