Thursday, July 9, 2026

World leaders’ lack of urgency to fight climate crisis hangs over UN General Assembly

“Climate change ignores power politics. It doesn’t care how many armies you have, how many weapons you have… We saw in the pandemic when we don’t organize collectively how damaging it is. Climate is just much worse.”

It’s Citizens Who Will Save Us From Citizens United

Constitutional amendment organizers are confident of an eventual victory. “The push toward justice has always started at the grassroots.”
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How Citizens United got us Trump

Why the past 10 years were the anti-democracy decade.

Ad wars escalate ahead of 2018 midterm elections

Almost all of the spending by outside groups backing Democrats in Senate races since Labor Day has come from “dark money” sources.

Afghan Central Bank calls US theft of $7 billion ‘injustice to people of Afghanistan’

What Biden is doing, said Askaryar "is not justice for 9/11 families," but rather the "theft of public funds from an impoverished nation already on the brink of famine and starvation brought on by the United States' disastrous withdraw" in 2021.

Joe Biden’s AstroTurf campaign

Biden’s decision last month to greenlight super PACs on his behalf has underscored just how eager he is to bankroll his AstroTurf campaign against grassroots progressives no matter what.

NYT urges Biden to shun his party’s ‘left-leaning brand’

Election season is finally heating up again—which means it’s time for corporate media to get back to flogging their “move to the center” horse when covering Democrats.

Ivanka Trump dumps fashion brand after her father issues security clearance threat

By drawing attention to security clearances and potential conflicts of interest, Trump’s attack against the intelligence community appeared to backfire against his own family and administration.

Trump’s end

Good riddance.

Can You Sell Marijuana Pipes to Help Fund Bernie Sanders?

Campaign finance experts clear the smoke on the legality of the new grassroots movement.