Friday, June 19, 2026

Screwing With and Screwing the Elderly and Disabled

The American people should be demanding annual benefit adjustments that reflect the real world confronted by the elderly and disabled and not simply the fantasies of political hacks in Congress.

Removing hydropower dams can restore ecosystems, build climate resilience, and restore tribal lands

Hydropower dams, initially celebrated as feats of engineering, are now scrutinized for their negative environmental and societal impacts.

Why is Kaiser Permanente engaging in corporate Kabuki?

Ahead of a potentially historic strike, a major nonprofit health care provider seems to be choosing corporate values over worker rights—and by extension, patient care.

How do we get the media more focused on climate change?

"My hope is that if the candidates start getting inundated with emails, they may decide to join the Global Climate Strike crowd."

Kitchen logic: Don’t let Trump’s GOP privatize America

Why privatize our national patrimony when we have the money to repair it ourselves?

Red pilled General? The strange odyssey of Michael Flynn

As terrifying a prospect as it is, it isn’t inconceivable that General Flynn may come to have political ambitions of his own in the years ahead.

As extremist Trumplicans sabotage the midterm, party suicide looms, and more scandals on tap

Short and long term, why are MAGA Republicans not damned if they do dump Trump and damned if they don’t.

The Doomsday Clock

Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival

What does it say when unprecedented buyers’ remorse smites 23 suckered MAGA millions, appalled...

The hypnotic spell over deluded centrists, especially minority young men who confused make-believe strength with genuine, positive strength, will go down as the greatest electoral scam in our history.