Saturday, May 30, 2026

How Power Works

When the state decides to isolate, discredit and crush you it has innumerable ways to do so.

Houston police kill pedestrian during vehicle pursuit

“We are not going to treat this case any different because it involves officers. It involves a human being who lost his life. So we’re going to be looking at it through that lens.”

It’s time for Democrats to abandon stale centrist politics once and for all

The party’s centrist wing is terrified. The political enterprise they’ve spent their careers building runs counter to the big, universal redistributive policies being supported by the Democratic base.

This right-wing U.S. Supreme Court is the new King George III

Our most fundamental rights are being trampled by a tyrannical, unaccountable, and unelected force.

The useful idiocy of Donald Trump

The inability of the political establishment and the press to moderate or reform Trump’s egregious behavior is rooted in their loss of credibility.

1 dead, 5 injured in second Enbridge pipeline explosion this year

"These incidents are just the latest in a growing list of injurious and deadly fossil fuel impacts across the United States."

What’s next, a war between the police and the people, the birth of a...

All those taking part in these efforts need to incorporate the ideas of the best and brightest Americans to help in making all this work.

How a powerful US lobby group helps big oil to block climate action

“I think it’s fair to say that API and its prominent member companies have a broadly shared goal, which is to keep the social license of the oil and gas industry operating, and therefore enabling them to continue to extract oil and gas for as long as possible, as profitably as possible.”

Whatever happened to the Republican Party that stood for limited government?

Today’s Republican Party, while still claiming to stand for limited government, is practicing just the opposite: government intrusion everywhere.

EU votes to label gas and nuclear power investments as ‘green’

"Russia’s war against Ukraine is a war paid for by climate-heating fossil fuels and the European parliament just voted to boost billions of funding to fossil gas from Russia."