Tag: government shutdown
Bernie Sanders: As world faces climate crisis, 95% of EPA workers...
"So here you have a major crisis for the United States and for the world, and at the same time you have nobody, or almost nobody, working here at the EPA."
Volunteers protect our national parks during shutdown
Many national parks are open but since staff are furloughed amid the longest shutdown in U.S. history, services such as maintenance, visitor services, and law enforcement are not being performed, or are severely limited.
As gov’t shutdown drags on, IRS continues to aid the rich...
As 800,000 federal workers remain furloughed or working without pay in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, we look at how the Trump administration has restarted a division of the Internal Revenue Service to help corporate lenders.
The shutdown causes some parents to pay twice for child care
Federal employees have child care fees to add to long lists of expenses for households that live paycheck to paycheck.
National parks overflow with trash, human waste as gov’t shutdown approaches...
Park experts are now warning that the damage may take years to undo.
Trump’s delusion about the wall that never was
Let’s be clear on one thing: There is no Wall. There never has been a serious plan to build a Wall. And there never will be a Wall.
Five things the shutdown shows us about 2019
This Trump-created crisis and the standoff that ensued give us an early indication of how little the Democratic Party as a whole has changed.
With 800,000 Public Employees Facing Pay Freeze and shutdown, Pence and...
"This administration's corruption and hypocrisy are remarkable."
Federal employees’ union sues Trump administration as 420,000 work without pay...
The American Federation of Government Employees, or AFGE, says it’s illegal for federal workers to be forced to work without pay.
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.