Thursday, August 13, 2026

‘What a rigged economy looks like’: Top 10% now own 77% of American wealth

As Trump and the GOP push massive tax cuts for the rich, new data shows that the wealthy are doing better than ever.

‘Fascism, full stop’: Progressives in Congress condemn expulsion of Tennessee Democrats

"Republicans may think they won today in Tennessee, but their fascism is only further radicalizing and awakening an earthquake of young people."

Fish and Wildlife Service lists subspecies of silverspot butterfly under Endangered Species Act

The silverspot butterfly isn't in immediate danger of extinction, but rather science indicates that it will likely be endangered in the near future.

New Yorkers staying home make up newest group hospitalized with COVID-19, new data shows

During the press conference on Wednesday, Gov. Cuomo’s confirmed that isolation was the answer to preventing transmission contrary to what the newest state data revealed.

‘Five-alarm fire’: GOP adds over 200 poison pills to House spending bills

"We cannot allow policy that harms regular people, threatens our rights, hurts the environment, and does any number of other terrible things to ride along with the appropriations package," said Public Citizen's Lisa Gilbert.

Palestinian families sue US over arms transfers to Israel amid alleged rights abuses

Lawsuit claims U.S. violates domestic and international law by funding Israeli military accused of gross human rights violations.

Tweeter-in-Chief versus the wisdom of Robert E. Lee

If only we had a leader with such self-effacing wisdom today, when bigots feel newly empowered to incite civil strife in our nation.

Not very bright

How much of Donald Trump’s directive on U.S. tariffs imposed on nations all over the world—that in recent days has caused a stock market loss of trillions of dollars—is a result of his not being very bright?

California regulators allow oil companies to continue injecting wastewater into more than 1,600 wells...

According to the environmental advocacy group Clean Water Action, the announcement appears to be in violation of DOGGR’s own compliance schedule, which requires all injection well operators that have not obtained an aquifer exemption from the EPA to cease injection by February 15, 2017.

States introduce AI bills affecting health care

More than 250 AI bills in health care were introduced in 47 states since October.