Monday, June 22, 2026

Ireland passes bill to fully divest from fossil fuel by end of 2018

While Ireland is making history, many emphasized the need for the rest of the world to follow the Irish's lead.

Amazon ships goods on Maersk’s first-ever zero-emissions container vessel

The "maiden voyage" was part of a 2023-2024 agreement Amazon finalized with Maersk to transport 20,000 40-foot equivalent containers using methanol through Maersk’s “ECO Delivery” ocean product offering.

Nearly 200 activists arrested in DC demanding passage of voting rights legislation

“We are here today to send a message that President Biden must take action now to ensure the promise of our democracy and protect our freedom to vote.”

Was the GOP sponsored shutdown crafted to provide cover for Trump as he neuters...

”If there’s no access to the courts–there’s no functioning government.”

Trump pardons promise the sleazy ‘total immunity’ escape-hatch that courts defy 

What smart primary candidates stumble into self-destructive mode, immune from knowing smart pandering from dumb pandering.

Why Michigan public school parents might be too strong of a match for Betsy...

Parents in DeVos’s backyard tell right-wing radicals, “No thank you to divisive, partisan agendas in schools.”

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.

Our worst, lyingest president is also the world’s most delusional seer—an appalling Chicken Little

An America that dares refuse Trump is by definition unworthy, even illegitimate, thus perversely deserves a fate like Humpty Dumpty.

Will the Trump administration end Michelle Obama’s “Let Girls Learn” program?

“Moving forward, we will not continue to use the Let Girls Learn brand or maintain a stand-alone program.”

How to Become Terror-Torn Europe – and How Not To

If Trump or Cruz ever enacts the kind of repressive policy they now advocate, then eventually we will become much more like Europe in its ethnic and religious polarization.