Sunday, May 17, 2026

91% of plastic isn’t recycled, new study finds

“We as a society need to consider whether it’s worth trading off some convenience for a clean, healthy environment."

Trump debased his own primary, slurred party foes & stole the election. What! No...

That my thought experiment won’t happen, indeed fail badly, reinforces a party going full speed towards a cliff without looking up from its insular "party favors."

The stand down order: Charlottesville PD’s complicity with terror

There was a stand down order. The police did nothing. The Sheriff’s Department did nothing. The city council did nothing. They. Let. This. Happen.

Disney reverses course as Jimmy Kimmel returns after FCC threats spark free speech backlash

Disney says comments were “ill-timed,” but reinstates Jimmy Kimmel following FCC threats, nationwide protests, and a celebrity-backed ACLU letter warning of government-driven censorship.

‘An abject failure’: Economists trash Trump’s disastrous job creation record in year-end reviews

“The jobs aren’t coming back, the wages aren’t rising,” one economist said.

Bank CEOs rake in millions as fossil fuel financing jumps $162 billion in one...

Banks boosted fossil fuel financing by billions in 2024, CEO pay soared, and climate commitments collapsed while frontline communities faced devastating consequences.

What happens when Russian and Ukrainian soldiers come home?

Russian and Ukrainian soldiers will eventually largely lay down their arms, but as the Soviet Afghanistan War shows, returning from the frontlines causes its own issues.

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.

Trump fuel squeeze sparks Cuba energy crisis as officials hint at regime change push

Oil cutoff threats intensify blackouts and humanitarian alarms as AOC warns collective punishment is becoming normalized.

CBS invited a war criminal to their dinner party

This is just one example of mainstream media not only refusing to ask questions of war criminals, but blatantly befriending them.