The interminable, withering babble from today’s Tower of Babel
When the end is messianic, imperial, “destiny” or God’s will—human fabrications made into commandments—all civilized bets are off.
Trump lies as global warming’s victims die
The Trump administration's lies about climate change are having real impacts today.
20 Year Old Class Action Lawsuit on Radioactive Contamination Finally Moving Forward
BNL was designated a high-pollution Superfund site in 1989. The large amounts of radioactive tritiumH30 or radioactive water were found to have been leaking from BNL’s High Flux Beam Reactor in 1997.
If poverty is a moral issue, then the U.S. is bankrupt
The Poor People’s Campaign, ahead of its June 18 gathering, is calling out the false pro-corporate rhetoric on poverty, wages, and inflation.
Spotify’s business model is screwing over musicians and ruining music
The recent spat between Neil Young and Spotify reminds us that the world’s largest streaming company only cares about profits—which is what independent musicians have been complaining about for years.
Rightwing mythmaking and the January 6th capitol siege
The idea that conservatives and Republicans are being widely and unfairly targeted by federal law enforcement is yet another example of an emerging right wing tactic of projection.
Underfunding labor & delivery: A national disgrace that discriminates against women’s & babies’ rights...
Is getting born any less of a right than the “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” set piece that buttresses our opening national gambit?
Trump’s Russian hand
The dark cloud of illegitimacy continues to grow darker.
How Greenland was my Silicon Valley
Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland. Mainstream media strives to coat this nonsense in a veneer of rationality by citing Greenland's rare...
Trump’s suicidal gut instinct at work: ‘Fix those ‘rigged’ elections or we won’t vote.’
Trump can’t stand that he can't punch one hole in one state’s tabulations, thus his ever-tiresome "rigged election" lies, taking the untenable to the unthinkable.