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How High Vaccination Rates Are Protecting Parts of California
Soumya Karlamangla, - The New York Times
_Stephan: Here is the fact-based proof. The more people vaccinated the fewer deaths and people having to be hospitalized for covid. It is becoming increasingly obvious now that covid has become a Republican anti-vaxxer pandemic._
The notion that religion is an inherently pro-s ... ⌘ Read more
A 1987 Pollution Treaty Prevented the World’s Plants from Withering, Study Finds
Becky Ferreira, - Vice
_Stephan: This is why international treaties and agreements fostering environmental wellbeing as so important. Here is proof. So when you hear some climate change or environmental denier spewing disinformation just let them know about this._
_Robert Reich_
Today a federal judge is expected to certify Purdue Pharmaceutical’s bankruptcy plan – a $4.5 billion settlement between the company and thousands of state and municipal governments that have sued for damages related to the opioid epidemic ... ⌘ Read more
World is deeply shaken by America’s retreat
David A. Andelman, - CNN
_Stephan: Afghanistan, from start to finish has been an international geopolitical mistake. We never should have become involved, and we should have left years ago. But it was ever so profitable and the military-industrial corporations and contractors lobbied so hard to keep it going.
America needs to reconfigure its foreign policy. We will get much more mileage and respect out of fostering wellbeing t ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Green steel’: Swedish company ships first batch made without using coal
, \\- The Guardian
_Stephan: Green steel. Here is a report on what could turn out to be some very good news._
_A piece of iron produced as part of the green steelmaking process. Credit: Hybrit_
The world’s first customer delivery of “green steel” pr ... ⌘ Read more
Small Towns Grow Desperate for Water in California
Thomas Fuller, San Francisco Bureau Chief - The New York Times
_Stephan: I am beginning to see stories from many communities about their growing water problems, and in the Southwest this is just the beginning._
_A Mendocino Water Company delivery truck. Credit; Max Whittake/The New York Times_
� ... ⌘ Read more
Trump and Barr ‘Deliberately Targeted’ Black Lives Matter Protesters, Report Finds
Alex Woodward, - Reader Supported News
_Stephan: What I want to know is why is Trump not in court defending himself against criminal charges, and how is it possible Bill Barr still has a law license? Because the American justice system is so deeply flawed it does not hold accountable the rich and powerful. This has become a major issue in the United State ... ⌘ Read more_
Mississippi officials warn against using livestock ivermectin to prevent COVID-19 after rise in poison control calls
Meredith Deliso, - ABC News
_Stephan: I am really really tired of readers writing me to tell me that I am wrong about taking a strong position, as I have, against taking a horse dewormer, Ivermectin, for covid. Some even tell me it is as good as the vaccine. That is CRAP. Do you get it, CR ... ⌘ Read more_
Merck Statement on Ivermectin use During the COVID-19 Pandemic
, \\- MERCK
_Stephan: Here is what the pharmaceutical company, Merck, that makes Ivermectin has to say about its use for covid. The Fox disinformation operation has been promoting ivermectin for covid for weeks now, spreading one lie after another. Personally, I think Fox should be held responsible for adding in mass murder, but in the United States, we no longer seem to be able to hold the rich ... ⌘ Read more_
$10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth Almost $100,000**
Jon Schwarz, - The Intercept
_Stephan: America's death merchants are extraordinarily profitable investments, if one has no moral character. Here is the proof of that._
Illustration: Soohee Cho/The Intercept/Ge ... ⌘ Read more
This attorney took on Chevron. Then Chevron-linked judges and private prosecutors had him locked up.
, \\- Grist/Slate
_Stephan: The corruption of the American justice system is appalling. Here's a fact. In the World Justice Project rankings America is not even in the top ten. We rank 21st, and the reason for our dreadful ranking is that we have two systems, one for the oligarchs and the people they sponsor, the other for ... ⌘ Read more_
A Fight to Expose The Hidden Human Costs of Incarceration
Eyal Press, - The New Yorker
_Stephan: All my readers know that I think the American Gulag is one of America's greatest shames. (See SR archive We have more people incarcerated than any nation on earth, and the system is disgustingly racist. Warehousing humans is very expensive, and for private prisons very profitable. It costs as much to keep a man in prison as it would to keep him in college. This well- ... ⌘ Read more_
Adding to US Failures in Afghanistan, Taliban Have Grabbed Billions in Weaponry
ANDREA GERMANOS, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: I think it is time that we ask why do we keep getting into wars that we lose, and that end so very badly? I am a vet from one of the earlier stupidities, VietNam and have been watching this recurring theme over and over. Now we are doing it again. Something is very wrong with our approach to international relations. And ... ⌘ Read more_
California builds a ‘Noah’s Ark’ to protect wildlife from extinction by fire and heat
LOUIS SAHAGÚN, Staff Writer - Los Angeles Times
_Stephan: This is one of the nicest stories of good news I have seen in a very long time, although the reason for it is very sad. Read and Enjoy._
SHOSHONE, Calif. — It was just before sunrise in July when the botanists Naomi Fraga and Maria Jesus threw on backpacks and crunched their way ... ⌘ Read more
‘Another Republican endorsing terrorism’: Mo Brooks faces backlash for ‘inflammatory’ take on Capitol bomb suspect
Bob Brigham, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Here is today's recipient of the Republic Scum Award. I frankly don't know how the people of Alabama could vote for this cretin. Not once but several times. Mo Brooks is a truly loathsome example of an American politician._
_Stephan: I very strongly agree with this exegetic essay. Our problem is not international terrorism, Islamic or anything else. What American faces is a serious internal terrorism problem. One that is growing year by year. I urge you to read this._
Inside the warped world of incel extremists
Charles Tye, - Commentary
_Stephan: America is a very sick society, made all the sicker by the fact that we don't seem to be able to tell ourselves the truth about ourselves. Start with the QAnon world, then add the anti-vaxxers, the climate change deniers, the White supremacists, then the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and, as this article describes, the Incels. And yes, I know, the list could be longer and that there is a lot of ove ... ⌘ Read more_
First-ever water shortage declared on the Colorado River, triggering water cuts for some states in the West
Karin Brulliard and Joshua Partlow , National Health and Science Reporter \\| Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: If you live in one of the eight states that depend on the Colorado River for water, or hydroelectric power, your life is going to change. The rest of us are going to experience this water pro ... ⌘ Read more_
A new study breaks down vehicle ownership cost. Here’s how EVs fared
Michelle Lewis, - electrek
_Stephan: As seems to be the norm today, there is a massive amount of disinformation concerning the relative costs of petroleum compared with electric vehicles. Quite predictably conservative media think petroleum vehicles are cheaper. As predictable as usual, it is a lie, and deliberate disinformation. Here is the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne Nat ... ⌘ Read more_
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham has a solution to unemployment: More ‘hunger’**
Alex Henderson, - AlterNet
_Stephan: I find Laura Ingraham a particularly loathsome "Karen." It isn't just that she lies constantly, and has a smug sense of entitlement. For me what makes my skin crawl when I watch her is her nastiness, and her utter contempt for the poor. I just wish something could happen so that she loses all her money, and has to live in the world her nasti ... ⌘ Read more_
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Americans deserve assault weapons like the Taliban
David Edwards, - Raw Story
_Stephan: Here is today's Republican Scum Award; it goes to Marjorie Tayor Greene. What I find amazing is that no one can have any doubt about who and what Taylor Greene is. And yet the MAGAT Party seems to have no problem continuing to include her, and a dozen other similar cretins in their ranks. Even worse the people of Georgia liked her so mu ... ⌘ Read more_
Vast Stretches of America Are Shrinking. Almost All of Them Voted for Trump.
JORDAN WEISSMANN, - Slate
_Stephan: More hard fact insights from the Census data. This report should make it clear to you why the Republican Party has turned into an anti-democratic, authoritarian, White supremacist, anti-science, christofascist cult. The only way they can stay in power is by rigging elections in one of several ways. In the 2022 elections a year from no ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Who Are They Paying Secretly Now?’: Signs Of UAE Meddling In U.S. Politics Go Ignored
Akbar Shahid Ahmed, - HuffPost
_Stephan: Do you doubt for a moment that other world leaders, particularly authoritarian ones, don't understand how corrupt the American government has become? Read this and disabuse yourself. Publicly funded elections are the only cure for this since indididual personal integrity clearly isn't up to the task._
... ⌘ Read more
The Long, Slow Drowning of the New Jersey Shore
Andrew S. Lewis, Contributing Writer - The New York Times
_Stephan: This, and the following story, layout very clearly the full spectrum of how water is destiny is playing out. It is not going to happen, it is happening, changing the United States in ways that are only now being realized._
_Bayfront homes in ... ⌘ Read more_
The ocean is about to flip a switch that could permanently disrupt life on Earth: study
Matthew Rozsa, - Raw Story
_Stephan: We have been warned again and again that our unthinking abuse of the earth's meta-systems is going to exact a painful and catastrophic cost. How much attention do you think the world's politicians, America's politicians, are paying to reports like this one? Not enough you can be sure. So begin to think about ho ... ⌘ Read more_
Behind the Surprising Jump in Multiracial Americans, Several Theories
Sabrina Tavernise, Tariro Mzezewa and Giulia Heyward, National Correspondents and Reporting Fellow - The New York Times
_Stephan: I am sure you have noticed how many television ads portray mixed-race couples, and multi-racial children. This is what is happening as the United States becomes a majority-minority nation and, as the 2020 census describes, and it is the existential nightma ... ⌘ Read more_
What Does It Mean for a Whole Nation to Become Uninhabitable?**
Devi Lockwood, Editor of the digital news site Rest of World - The New York Times
_Stephan: We are going to see in our lifetimes whole communities, even countries, disappear under the waves. How are we going to deal with that? Is anyone seriously thinking about this? This article lays out a bit of what is coming._
Fast-forward Earth about a million years .* ... ⌘ Read more*
How to fix our rigged tax system
Elizabeth Warren, Democratic Senator from Massachusetts - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Here is what an intelligent person committed to decency and fairness, who actually understands America's corrupt and rigged tax system has to say about how to fix it. I completely agree with her._
Now that the Senate has [passed a budget resolution](https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/08/11/senate-democrats-budget-reconciliation/?itid=lk_inline_manual ... ⌘ Read more
These 30 Republicans Voted Against Infrastructure Bill; Here’s What It Would Give Their States
Elizabeth Crisp, - Newsweek
_Stephan: The MAGAT Party has this ongoing myth about deficits. When Eisenhower built the interstate road system it had nothing to do with deficits; it was about preparing America for the future. The infrastructure bills the Democrats are pushing to pass, with the exception of a few Democrats like Manchin ... ⌘ Read more_
COVID-19 is on its way to becoming a predominantly Republican disease
Hunter, - AlterNet
_Stephan: I have been holding on to this report for two months, because when I first read it I thought it had to be Democratic political exaggeration. I was wrong. If you look at the data today it is clear that Covid-19 is now principally a Republican disease, because Republicans are the ones who don't get vaccinated, and don't wear masks. The fact is the Red sta ... ⌘ Read more_
Returning
John B. Alexander, PhD., Lieutenant Colonel, USA (Ret.) - Daily Kos
_Stephan: John Alexander is a combat veteran who knows whereof he speaks. As the debacle of Afghanistan comesto and end he raise issues about the men and women who served there, that are not getting the coverage they deserve._
_Returning soldiers from Afghanistan_
From Vietnam we did return, not defeated, ... ⌘ Read more
Five takeaways from a groundbreaking census report
Reid Wilson, - The Hill
_Stephan: Here is clear and incontrovertible evidence from the Census Bureau, describing what is happening to the United States as it becomes a majority-minority nation. You can see why the White supremacy MAGAT world has become so unhinged over this._
The United S ... ⌘ Read more
Anti-Vax Insanity
Charles M. Blow, - The New York Times
_Stephan: I have to be honest, while I resent the incredible and unnecessary demands and workload of the medical staffs of hospitals as a result of the anti-vaxxer MAGATs, I don't mind that hundreds of them are essentially committing suicide. What really concerns and disgusts me is that as a result of the stupidity of the MAGATs, and the Republican governors they voted into office, children have been condemned to illness and death._
The GOP’s death cult comes for the children
SOPHIA TESFAYE, Senior Editor - Salon
_Stephan: All day I have been listening to news reports about how overcrowded red state hospitals are, how close to collapse they are. But what really makes me angry are the reports that there has been an 84% increase in children being hospitalized for Covid in the last week. All of this is the result of the incompetence and power hunger of Red state governors like DeSantis, and Abbott. I think ... ⌘ Read more_
A new state-by-state scorecard details GOP assault on voting access
, \\-
_Stephan: The MAGAT Party recognizing what the Census Bureau has just announced is doing everything it can to dismantle our democracy. This is going to get down to what each one of us does. Every single person eligible to vote must vote for democracy and against the MAGATs in the upcoming election._
 that the United States is becoming a majority-minority country. I don't have any problem with that, but the data makes it clear that for about a third of the population -- basically the MAGAt ... ⌘ Read more_
Climate Denial, Covid Denial and the Right’s Descent
Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate, Professor, and Columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan: As usual Paul Krugman gets to the core of things and has written an essay with which I am in total agreement, also as usual. The anti-science orientation of the MAGAt world is proving to be absolutely lethal for large numbers of people, and yet MAGAts seem to care more about ideology than life itself -- including their own lives. I ... ⌘ Read more_
How anti-vaxxers weaponized Ivermectin, a horse de-wormer drug, as a COVID-19 treatment
Nicole Karlis, - Salon
_Stephan: Over the past 18 months, I have received several dozen emails from anti-vaxxers telling me that the vaccines were not like earlier vaccines and these new vaccines were more dangerous than Covid itself. These assertions were often accompanied by their touting a drug I had never heard of, Ivermectin, a drug I discover ... ⌘ Read more_
Voting Machine Tampering Is Coming From Inside The MAGA House
TIM MILLER , Writer-at-Large - The Bulwark
_Stephan: Finally, after all this digging into the 2020 election proof of election tampering has been discovered. How ironic the tampering was done by a Republican to serve the interests of Donald Trump._
_Credit: ... ⌘ Read more_
The Untold Story of Purdue Pharma’s Cozy Relationship With the American Medical Association
JULIA LURIE, - Mother Jones
_Stephan: This is an alarming and disgusting account of the corruption of the American illness profit system. It is the best account I have read about how the opioid crisis developed because of that corruption and once again it demonstrates how the rich live in a different legal world than ordinary people._� ... ⌘ Read more
If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned, the Future Will Be Worse Than the Past
Katha Pollitt, Columnist - The Nation
_Stephan: I am old enough to remember America when abortions were illegal, and knew two women who almost died from kitchen abortions. One had been raped by her boss, the other was in college and had gotten drunk at a fraternity party and had sex, semi-consensually, with a boy she had just met.
The Republican male-dominant christofascists in sta ... ⌘ Read more_
Mexico sues US gun manufacturers over arms trafficking
, \\- BBC News
_Stephan: How humiliating this story is for America. Our neighbors don't want America's merchants of death spreading their poison in their country. I hope Mexico gets the full $10 billion they are asking for, and that it puts some of the death merchants out of business._
_Cred ... ⌘ Read more_
An Obstacle to Amtrak Expansion That Money Won’t Solve
Madeleine Ngo, - The New York Times
_Stephan: If you have travelled outside of the U.S. in Asia or Europe you have probably had some experience with passenger rail travel in those countries. Trains, are modern, comfortable, set-up for internet, and travel at a couple hundred miles per hour. In contrast in the U.S. you probably haven't traveled on a train, because passenger rail travel in this country is a remn ... ⌘ Read more_
Nearly half of US states withdrew federal unemployment benefits early. It has not incentivized a return to work
Meaghan Ellis, - AlterNet
_Stephan: It is an article of faith, and an example of the inherent nastiness of Republicans, that they chose to cut off critical funding for poor people thinking it would force them to seek some kind of job and go back to work. Well, like most things Republicans believe tha ... ⌘ Read more_
The Big Money Behind the Big Lie
Jane Mayer, Chief Washington Correspondent - The New Yorker
_Stephan: Jane Mayer, long recognized as a notably good investigative correspondent, and person of high integrity, has done an excellent job here telling us the hidden story behind Trump's Big Lie. All of this is only possible because the Supreme Court in Citizen's United legalized bribery. They don't call it that of course, but that is what it is, and what they did. This is a truly disgusting st ... ⌘ Read more_
The Postal Service Presses Forward With Unpopular Plan To Slow Some Mail Delivery
Brian Naylor, - npr
_Stephan: Benjamin Franklin, during the colonial period the Deputy Post Master General, during the Constitutional Convention convinced the other Founders of the importance of the Post Office and made such an impression that they literally wrote its importance into the Constitution. At the other end of the spectrum two centuries later we h ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Long Past Time to Fire DeJoy’: Postmaster General’s Ex-Company Gets $120 Million Contract
JESSICA CORBET, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Louis De Joy, major Trumpian orc and grifter, is so blatantly corrupt it is amazing to me that he is still the Postmaster General this long into Biden's administration. I see it as a demonstration of how corrupt American government has become. Write your Representative and Senators please and tell ... ⌘ Read more_
Republicans now have a ‘road map to overthrowing the will of voters’ — we shouldn’t doubt they’ll use it ⌘ Read more...
Climate change has far-reaching effects on your health — let us count the ways ⌘ Read more...
Republicans ramp up the racism to deflect blame for COVID surge ⌘ Read more...
Why we can be confident that the surge in coronavirus cases isn’t the fault of immigrants ⌘ Read more...
Here’s the strange truth about the pro-slavery origins of Christian nationalism in the United States ⌘ Read more...
Biden, in a Push to Phase Out Gas Cars, Tightens Pollution Rules ⌘ Read more...
How Replanted Seagrass Is Restoring the Ocean ⌘ Read more...
A neuroscientist explains how Trump’s most fanatical followers could lead America to societal collapse ⌘ Read more...
Syria’s Refugee Crisis Gives An Idea Of What To Expect With Future Climate Refugee Waves ⌘ Read more...
Sea-level rise rates more than double along part of U.S. East Coast ⌘ Read more...
Police Shootings Continue Daily, Despite a Pandemic, Protests and Pushes for Reform ⌘ Read more...
As EPA Forced to Finalize New Rules, Report Details Widespread Use of Neurotoxic Pesticide Across US ⌘ Read more...
Report: Real Estate Groups Paid GOP Lawmakers Huge Sums to Reinstate Evictions ⌘ Read more...
Water Level in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Hits Historic Low ⌘ Read more...
Big Pharma Monopolies Make Cost of Global Vaccination Against Covid-19 5 Times Costlier Than Needed: Report ⌘ Read more...
BIpartisan Infrastructure Bill Includes $25 Billion in Potential New Subsidies for Fossil Fuels ⌘ Read more...
Exxon-Influenced Senators Carved Climate Out of Infrastructure Almost Entirely ⌘ Read more...
Scientists expected thawing wetlands in Siberia’s permafrost. What they found is ‘much more dangerous.’ ⌘ Read more...
A Brain Drain Among Government Scientists Bogs Down Biden’s Climate Ambitions ⌘ Read more...
‘Nobody’s ever seen a number like this!’ New data reveals just how bad the Trump economy actually was ⌘ Read more...
Bayer to Pull Glyphosate Products, Including Roundup, From U.S. Home and Garden Market ⌘ Read more...
Will Climate Change and A Rising Ocean Mean the End of the Road for NC Highway 12? ⌘ Read more...
People are dying because of Republican hostility to science ⌘ Read more...
A Florida city wanted to move away from fossil fuels. The state just made sure it couldn’t. ⌘ Read more...
For First Time on Record, US Renewables Generated More Electricity Than Either Coal or Nuclear in 2020 ⌘ Read more...
Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real ⌘ Read more...
‘I don’t feel any fear going out.’ How residents are living in America’s most vaccinated state ⌘ Read more...
Some in Missouri Seek Covid-19 Shots in Secret, Doctor Says ⌘ Read more...
Florida sets a record with 21,683 new COVID-19 cases reported Saturday, the CDC says ⌘ Read more...
Ammunition shelves bare as U.S. gun sales continue to soar ⌘ Read more...
Pandemic Aid Programs Spur a Record Drop in Poverty ⌘ Read more...