Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Tag: Pandemic crisis

How a Seattle neighborhood confronted food insecurity in the pandemic

Seattle’s square-mile neighborhood of South Park has turned its early pandemic community supports into a sustainable system tackling food insecurity.

Oil companies can’t find any buyers for refineries struggling amid pandemic...

“Refiners previously eking out a narrow profit — or acceptable loss — must decide whether their operations justify costly and necessary maintenance. Deferring work risks even more expensive, unplanned shutdowns.”

Trump rushed to reopen America. Now COVID is closing in on...

What is Trump and the GOP’s response to this looming catastrophe? Nothing.

Pandemic crisis and recession can spark a fight for real change...

After getting $600/week in jobless pay, going back to work for $7.25 sucks.

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The west front of the United States Capitol. Photo: Architect of the Capitol, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The single, greatest MAGA Trump threat: Constitutional nullification

The horror of MAGA Trumpism is both the speed and ease by which corruption reigns PLUS the dearth of popular resistance.
Command Sgt. Maj. John Sparks delivers copies of Stars and Stripes to U.S. Marines from Weapons Platoon, 3-2 India Company, on April 4, 2003. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps photo by 1st Sgt. David K. Dismukes (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Pentagon fires three at Stars and Stripes, seven months after taking the paper’s rules...

The regulation governing the newspaper was struck from the books in January and its terms moved into a Defense Department directive. Three senators have asked Hegseth for answers by August 28.
A group running together in a park. Photo: David Hawgood / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The physical activity paradox: not all forms of exercise lower your dementia risk –...

Pooling 74 studies of more than 4.2 million people in 30 countries, researchers found leisure exercise cut dementia risk while active commuting was linked to a 10 percent higher risk.
The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, where Judge Indira Talwani sits. Photo: Scott LaPierre / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Postal Service issued its mail ballot rule on Friday night while a court...

Judge Indira Talwani has given the government until 8 a.m. Tuesday to respond, or take a restraining order that stops the rule reaching the Federal Register on Wednesday.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Photo: Shlomi Amsalem / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Israeli Security Chief Ben Gvir’s Murder Spree against Palestinian Civilians- “30 to 40 Every...

In a podcast interview with former hostage Ron Braslavski, Ben-Gvir said targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night.