‘Quiet Skies?’ Boston Globe exposé reveals TSA is secretly surveilling thousands of US travelers
A Boston Globe investigation has revealed the existence of a domestic surveillance program run by the Transportation Security Administration since 2012.
Republican AGs, dark money groups scheme to sue over student debt relief
Conservatives are hoping right-wing courts will intervene to deny debt relief to tens of millions of borrowers.
Living ever larger in the lap of luxury
Today’s fabulously rich can easily guarantee themselves a tumbril-free future.
Michigan approves Nestlé’s permit to increase water intake
"Sadly, the DEQ chose to give the green light to Nestlé to continue pumping our water..."
Affirming belief that waters are for drilling and pillaging, Trump erases Ocean Protection Policy
New executive order revokes Obama-era policy put in place following Deepwater Horizon.
Trump’s Farcical ‘Sarcasm’ Defense the Damning Credibility Blow — Now No One Knows What...
By his own oblivious measure, this reality stands out: no one now knows whether Trump ever means what he says. Or ever did. No wonder 2/3’s of the country judge Trump untrustworthy and unfit, if not the greatest phony dreaming of the WH? The seeming jokester has managed to turn himself into prime object of ridicule. This is politics as phantasmagoria, along with gruesome nightmares American is kaput. If language no longer has meaning, all bets are off, doomed by Trump’s indecipherable intentions. Nothing exactly new here if you track predatory sales pitches, intensely self-serving narcissism, even what most people end up calling crazy, deranged, or unstable.
An open letter to the Washington Office on Latin America about its stance on...
"We write out of concern for the direction that WOLA has taken with regard to a matter of life and death, and possibly war and peace, in Latin America."
“End Modern Slavery!”
Inmates in prison are given opportunities to perform jobs for money in prison, however ,without getting paid anything close to living wages, they are released without the money to find housing and wind up homeless or living in shelters, making them more likely to re-offend.
California passes law to fine oil companies over price gouging
The new law prohibiting fuel price gouging will go into effect June 26.









