Exxon scientists accurately predicted climate damage while company pushed misinformation
"Airtight evidence that Exxon Mobil accurately predicted global warming years before, then turned around and attacked the science underlying it."
White House Staff Secretary resigns amid abuse allegations
Rob Porter is resigning from office while denying the allegations against him.
Trump’s fascist efforts to demolish democracy
Driven by a hatred of “the other” and infused with narratives of decline and victimization, fascist politics trade in an incendiary rhetoric of fear, demonization and violence.
Former Chris Christie allies convicted in bridge scandal
Although federal prosecutors claim they do not possess enough evidence to convict Christie of a crime, critics of the New Jersey governor suspect Christie had initiated the Bridgegate scandal and used his subordinates to take the fall for him.
Making madness normal in wartime
All the talk about “heroism” and “duty” greased the wheels for slaughter.
Protesters blockade DNC party meeting, demand Democrats put workers and climate first
Climate Defiance calls on the party to get dirty fossil fuel money out of Democratic politics forever.
In-Tim-I-Dation—brutality drives ‘domestic ICE terrorism’ to shut down mass, anti-MAGA resistance
Corruptly, stupidly defending massively excess force against a made-up "terrorist" reinforces the ultimate criminality ofMAGA Trump government-driven terrorism, lying the unarmed, unaggressive Good “deserved what she got.”
The Clean Transit for America Plan unveiled to Senate
“Too many buses spew dirty diesel. That hurts the workers, that hurts the commuters, that hurts everyone.”
Will the Paris Agreement be Trumped?
Whether or not the world confronts climate change could boil down to how Americans vote.
A putz at fascism, too! Trump’s feral, libertarian despotism ordains oligarchy, not centralized dominance...
Trumpist extremism turns out to be a particularly noxious, authoritarian brew better called “oligarchic, authoritarian libertarianism.”