Tuesday, April 7, 2026

A ‘down’ year for our deepest pockets?

Billionaire fortunes have shriveled a bit over the past year. Billionaire power hasn’t.

White makes ‘far’ right!!

Hey, Captain Ron, did you forget your ancestral roots? Shame on you!!!

Why College Isn’t (and Shouldn’t Have to be) for Everyone

Why do we encourage our young people through a single funnel called a four-year college education? It’s time we stop pressuring every young person to go to college and, instead, offer an alternative route into the middle class.

Prosecutors investigate dehydration death of mentally ill inmate

Despite the fact that four people died in his jail within a six-month period, Sheriff Clarke has shown no remorse nor accepted responsibility.

A former EPA adviser on how to push for environmental justice under Trump

“In our country there are two things that move policy. One is money. The other is the power of people.”

What Trump’s idea to break up big banks could mean for average Americans

While it is unclear whether Trump’s plans are serious, it’s worth considering what breaking up the banks could mean for typical bank customers.

Trump withdraws U.S. from Paris climate accord; scientists respond

“This is the wrong decision for America and the planet on many levels.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the threat of science denial

The astrophysicist says that when you have people who don't know much about science denying it and rising to power, it's a recipe for the complete dismantling of our democracy.

Judge blocks Trump plan to add citizenship question to census, citing ‘smorgasbord’ of broken...

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman wrote that in deciding to add a citizenship question to the census, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated a “veritable smorgasbord” of federal rules and “alternately ignored, cherry-picked, or badly misconstrued the evidence in the record before him.”
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Bree Newsome & Prof. Eddie Glaude: The Black Lives Matter movement helped the Democrats...

“It makes no sense that we would go back to the politics that produced Trump in the first place.”