The presidential election: “A 200-pound sack of concrete” vs. “the orange menace”
The entrenched system is heavily weighted -- always has been -- against the interests of working people, women, people of color, the poor and others deprived of power by structural inequities.
Sanders slams Republican Senate for happily approving $740 billion for pentagon while doing ‘nothing’...
“Instead of more austerity for the working class of this country, we need to impose austerity on the billionaire class and on Wall Street.”
The pandemic and oil
With oil prices down and wealthy countries bungling COVID-19, the pandemic has exposed the weaknesses that wealth papers over.
The evidence is clear: The US public wants science-based policies for Covid-19
Any true hope in ending despair and the unchecked spread of the coronavirus must begin by following the public’s clearly documented trust in science.
Patton and Westy meet in a bar
A play of many parts in one act...
Senate Republicans propose new ‘relief’ bill that ignores struggling Americans and gives aid to...
“The pandemic is already widening social and economic divisions. Shielding corporations from accountability will endanger workers, consumers, and patients, and make the pandemic even worse.”
Warren demands DeJoy resign or be removed after probe shows USPS ‘sabotage’ led to...
“We know Louis DeJoy is sabotaging the Postal Service—and our investigation reveals his scheming has slowed the delivery of mail-order prescription drugs, threatening health risks for millions of Americans during a pandemic.”
Trump and the troops
The alternative to Trump is not the glorification of military service. It’s promoting the kind of service that gets fewer people killed.
California lawmakers contemplate reparations for slavery
Cash, housing assistance, lower tuition, forgiving student loans, job training or community investments are a few examples of reparation.
The real threat to law and order
It’s found in these and other Trump enablers, lackeys, and bottom-dwellers.