Friday, March 20, 2026

Trump’s Cabinet picks aren’t just unqualified and inexperienced—they’re morally bankrupt

While every president has a right to select their own Cabinet appointees, the Senate also has the Constitutional authority to decide whether each nominee is fit to serve.

Supreme Court ruling allows ICE to use racial profiling in Los Angeles raids

Civil rights groups warn that Trump’s immigration crackdown has been given a green light to target Latinos across Southern California.

Microsoft faces reckoning for assisting Israel’s genocide in Gaza

A new legal and shareholder campaign warns that Microsoft’s military contracts expose the company and its executives to international and domestic liability.

Scientists warn the planet has crossed its first climate tipping point

Global heating has pushed warm-water reefs past a point of no return, scientists warn, with mass bleaching since 2023 affecting more than four-fifths of reefs and cascading risks for food security, coastal protection, and the global economy ahead of COP30.

Opposition of nuclear power ‘revival’ in New York holds its first forum

This first forum, a webinar on Jan. 15, was titled a “Symposium for Safe and Affordable Energy in New York" as part of a series of “Forums for a Nuclear-Free New York.”

Trump’s push into nuclear questions economic conflicts of interest, public safety

The Trump family’s investments in nuclear fusion live under a bad cloud that threatens us all.

How union members pay it forward

More and more workers want to join unions amid the high grocery prices, spiraling health care costs and other failures of today’s uncertain economy.

Renewable energy surpasses 30% of global electricity supply for first time ever

According to Ember’s executive summary of the report, record solar and wind construction in 2023 means “a new era of falling fossil generation is imminent.”

The War intervention: AI, data centers, and the environment 

This increasingly inextricable partnership between AI and the war economy is throwing us into a fast track of climate and environmental chaos that threatens us all.
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The actual Gavin Newsom is much worse than you think

For anyone who wants a truly progressive Democratic Party, Gavin Newsom is bad news.