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How a Far-right, Christian Cellphone Company ‘Took Over’ Four Texas School Boards
Mike Hixenbaugh, Senior Investigative Reporter - NBC News
_Stephan: The christofascist MAGAt movement has been working for years to destroy public education or, if they can't dismantle public free education, then they want to restructure it so it does not educate instead it indoctrinates. And christofascist corporations like this cell phone company, Patriot Mobil ... ⌘ Read more_
Conservatives Throw A Fit Over Biden’s Student Debt Forgiveness Plan
Sara Boboltz, - HuffPost
_Stephan: Student loan forgiveness is driving the MAGAt Republicans crazy, as this report describes. The MAGAts want you to be in debt, the bigger the debt the better. It is an amazing political position. How do you feel about relieving student debt? I not only support it, but think the sum forgiven should have been much larger. It is in the interest of America ... ⌘ Read more_
One-Third of Vets End Up Arrested at Least Once. Researchers Want to Find Out Why.
Konstantin Toropin, Staff Writer - Military.com
_Stephan: There is something wrong with the American military, and this hard data report makes this clear. Part of the problem, I think is that of the 334 million people in America only 18 million Americans, or about 7 percent of the adult population have ever served in the military, and at the moment only about ... ⌘ Read more_
Counties with more slaves in 1860 have higher gun ownership rates today, study finds
Matthew Roza, Staff Writer - Salon
_Stephan: I do love rigorously researched data, it tells you truths you might not even recognize otherwise. Here is a very interesting example of what I mean, showing a strong correlation between racism and America's obsessive gun psychosis. Also, since men and women from these same Southern counties disproportionately e ... ⌘ Read more_
Antisemitism Once More
Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner, - Reader Supported News
_Stephan: I am not Jewish but, because my surname is Schwartz, many people assume I am and all my life I have been aware in certain situations that what was driving a conversation was antisemitism; it is an ancient prejudice that has always been a cover for something else. In modern times the christofascists have promoted it, and it has become a core belief of the MAGAt Party, and an important trend in American society ... ⌘ Read more_
Jews across United States harassed with wave of antisemitic letters to homes
Michael Starr, - The Jerusalem Post
_Stephan: The MAGAt antisemitism trend is producing two results that really concern me. One it is a further exacerbation of the Great Schism Trend that is tearing the country apart, and second, it is smearing America around the world. This piece came from The Jerusalem Post in Israel, but I could have picked other stories from the fo ... ⌘ Read more_
Texas GOP governor refuses to acknowledge climate change while cities drown in ‘1-in-1,000 year’ floods
Brandon Gage, - AlterNet
_Stephan: I have never met Greg Abbott, nor do I know anyone anymore who knows him. But there is no question that during his time as governor of Texas he has made the state he governs a failed state. Its social outcome data is horrible. As Texas labors under burning temperatures, devastating fl ... ⌘ Read more_
Poll Finds 3 in 4 Voters Want to Expand Social Security by Taxing the Rich
Sharon Zhang, News Writer - truthout
_Stephan: I see this poll as a report on good news, and I think there is a growing recognition in the Democratic Party that the key to winning elections is fostering wellbeing. In my view, the christofascist majority on the Supreme Court made a massive and historical mistake overturning Roe just months before the midterm elections. It ha ... ⌘ Read more_
Former Fox News politics editor says network stoked ‘paranoia and hatred’**
Ramon Antonio Vargas, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Here is an insider from the Fox propaganda channel telling the truth. The Murdoch family are making hundreds of millions of dollars every year purveying hate, fear, and resentment. It is, I think, accurate to say that MAGAt world was created as a result of the Fox operation. One uber-rich family is reasonable for tearing th ... ⌘ Read more_
GOP Candidate Said It’s “Totally Just” to Stone Gay People to Death
Alex Bollinger, - LGBTQ Nation
_Stephan: What kind of party would put a person like Scott Esk forward as a candidate? And what kind of person, candidate or not, would openly advocate, as Esk has, stoning LGBTQ people to death? And what kind of person would vote for such an individual? This advocacy of violence has become an accepted part of the MAGAt world and is one of the things driving ... ⌘ Read more_
The ‘illusion of knowledge’ that makes people overconfident
David Robson, Science Writer - BBC (U.K.)
_Stephan: I have been doing research for weeks now trying to work out why the MAGAt minority functionally lives in a different reality from the rational majority of Americans and makes choices that literally boggle my mind, and probably yours as well. How do people, for instance, like Matt Gaetz, who apparently has just won his primary, get the votes that give the ... ⌘ Read more_
Feds indict former Tennessee GOP house speaker and top aide in ‘bribery and kickback conspiracy’**
Matthew Chapman, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: It seems there is a story like this one almost every week, from one Red state or another. These indictments of MAGAt officials at the state level are so common that I wonder, do you have to be dishonest scum in order to run on the Republican ticket?_
_Stephan: Robert Reich, in my view, has it right when he says, "the three-decades-long shift in power to big corporations has transformed industrial policy into a system for bribing them to do the sorts of things government once demanded they do as the price for being part of the American syst ... ⌘ Read more_
Understanding the Southern Baptist scandal: For evangelicals, women can’t say no
Nathaniel Manderson, Baptist Pastor - Salon
_Stephan: In this article, a Baptist pastor explains the deep religious conviction of Baptists, particularly evangelicals, that God intends women to be subordinate and submissive to men. This, I think, is why so many MAGAt women are anti-abortionists._
 It is not representative of ... ⌘ Read more_
Louisiana officials stall New Orleans flood funds over abortion
ARIEL WITTENBERG, - Politico
_Stephan: Louisiana, a state run by MAGAts voted into office by MAGAt voters is one of the worst governed states in the United States. Its social outcome data is so bad that if it were a country it would be considered a failed state. For instance, a pregnant woman in Lousiana, unless she is rich, would be more likely to survive birth, and have her child survive birt ... ⌘ Read more_
Nebraska woman charged with helping daughter have abortion
JOSH FUNK, - Associated Press
_Stephan: This is how crazy post-Roe women's healthcare has become in Red states, and what women are driven to do in this post-Roe world. The people of Nebraska are responsible for this, they voted these people into office. Only they are going to end it, if they want that, by how they vote in November. We are going to see in less than three months. Abortion has become a majo ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Snip Snip Hooray’: Vasectomies Among the Young and Child-Free May Be Rising
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_Stephan: I don't think it is properly or fully understood just what a big effect on American society the Roe decision is producing. And it is not just an effect on women, as this article explains._
In March, Mike Pridgen, ... ⌘ Read more
U.S. Youth Face Unprecedented Mental Health Challenges, Says Surgeon General
Shannon Firth, Investigative Reporter - Medpage Today
_Stephan: The stress that is tearing America apart is causing all kinds of damage to young people. The November election is either going to foster the needed healing, or it will further exacerbate this damage which will, in turn, change the next generation of American culture profoundly. We need to recognize this and ... ⌘ Read more_
Twitter ‘permanently suspends’ HD 20 candidate after he advocates shooting federal agents
A.G. Gancarski , Staff Writer - Florida Politics
_Stephan: Florida, like Texas, is becoming an authoritarian failed state, if social outcome data is your calibration. Abbott and DeSantis are both focused on power, and helping the individuals and corporations who bought them their position. They aren't focused on wellbeing at all. And the only thi ... ⌘ Read more_
Louisiana Child Kicked Out of Class Because Parents are Same-sex Couple
Gloria Oladipo, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: How interesting that a Baptist school would expel a child for being reared by a same-sex couple, as if the child had any choice in that matter, while the Baptist movement itself is under federal investigation for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of cases of clergy and staff sexual abuse of boys and girls and women. Do you think it is p ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump rakes in millions off FBI search at Mar-a-Lago**
Josh Dawsey and Isaac Arnsdorf, Reporters - MSN / The Washington Post
_Stephan: It isn't fashionable to say this, just as it probably wasn't polite or fashionable in 1930 to say that a lot of the German people supported Hitler and Nazism, but the truth is something like a third of Americans are racist christofascist nationalists. They don't like democracy, and they support and will support, Donald Trump no ... ⌘ Read more_
Rosaries are flying off the shelves after ‘The Atlantic’ article suggests link to ‘extremism’**
Joe Bukuras, - Catholic News Agency
_Stephan: It is interesting how cultural tells develop. Here's an example of what I mean. These things are important, particularly in christofascist circles. They identify a person without having to say anything. Creating totems is a classic step in authoritarian fascist cohorts, i.e., MAGAt world._
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Asian Americans are buying guns in record numbers. What’s caused this surge?**
Claire Wang, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: This is what the MAGAt world's obsessive gun psychosis is doing to American culture. First, it was Black women who began arming themselves, now it is Asian Americans. More guns, more murders and suicides, increasing civil violence. We are entering a civil war, only the majority side has not yet recognized what is happening._
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There’s a ‘serious and spreading threat’ to America — and the media is missing it: analysis
Bob Brigham, - Raw Story
_Stephan: This illustrates the point I made in my comment for the previous article. The Trumper MAGAts are trying to take control of the electoral system, and they are preparing for civil violence if that doesn't work._
America could be rapidly approaching a new civil war and the August 8 search warrant execution at Mar ... ⌘ Read more
Study: What Americans really think
, \\- Axios
_Stephan: Very few polls address the very important issue of the difference between what people think privately and what they say publicly. Here, for the first time, is some hard data on this issue. It is quite surprising._
“Self-silencing” — people saying what they think others want to hear rather than w ... ⌘ Read more
Why Republicans Turned Against the Environment
Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan: I was gobsmacked when during the vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, which contained the largest commitment ever made for climate remediation did not get a single affirmative vote by Senate Republicans. How is it possible, given the overwhelming evidence of what climate change is al ... ⌘ Read more_
Southern states like Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama named least healthy in the US – while residents of Washington, Massachusetts and Utah are considered the best off, report finds
MANSUR SHAHEEN , - Daily Mail
_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for over a decade that wherever Republicans have been voted into a control of a state that ... ⌘ Read more_
People on TikTok are Asking Trees to Touch Their Shoulder and Now I’m Convinced Trees Can Hear Us
Brittanie Pyper, - Totally the Bomb
_Stephan: I have been an experimentalist studying consciousness for over half a century, and all those decades of research, both mine and work by colleagues has taught me this truth. Max Planck's comment that consciousness is causal and fundamental, that space and time arises from consciousnes ... ⌘ Read more_
In 30 years’ time, ‘extreme heat belt’ to cover middle of US, says report
, \\- Agence French-Presse (France)
_Stephan: I have been warning my readers for over a decade that this was coming, heat so great that ordinary life becomes very difficult. This is going to be the cause of one of the three great internal migrations that are going to happen in the U.S. If my wife and I owned property in these heat belt states I would begin to think about selling o ... ⌘ Read more_
‘It’s mind-blowing’: Trump-linked firm copied sensitive data from Georgia voting systems
Travis Gettys, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: As the days go by each day seems to bring into focus another aspect of the Trump/Republican attempt to destroy the integrity of the American voting system. My question is: Given this evidence why haven't people like Sidney Powell been indicted, convicted, and sent to prison?_
_Stephan: Quite apart from issues of alcoholism, whose results we all know, it turns out there is much more damage than that resulting from drinking alcohol. The consumption of alcohol, particularly regularly and in quantity, Oxford University researchers have now reported, literally alters your telomeres and changes your genetics prematurely ... ⌘ Read more_
Study: Climate change is making 58% of infectious diseases worse
Blanca Begert, - Grist
_Stephan: I have been warning my readers for a decade that this was coming, and now we are beginning to get hard data that it has arrived. Viruses and bacteria are mutating to accommodate for the human-mediated changes in the climate. This is also why I predict that Covid is far from the last pandemic we will experience. I expect to see similar pandemics occurring every f ... ⌘ Read more_
How Did Fighting Climate Change Become a Partisan Issue?**
Elizabeth Kolbert, - The New Yorker
_Stephan: Let me start by reminding you that not a single Republican voted for the massive climate remediation effort funded by the just passed in the Senate Inflation Recovery Act. How is it possible, I think it is reasonable to ask, that the Republican Party has made itself willfully ignorant about climate change? Or do they know and just don't care about the future clima ... ⌘ Read more_
Can Biden’s climate bill undo the fossil fuel industry’s decades of harm?**
Oliver Milman, - The Guardian (U.K.).
_Stephan: Oliver Milman has written an excellent historical review of how we got to where we are with petroleum pollution. I think it is important to understand this trend because facts make it very clear why the current practices must end._
They would call him Boy. _Deb bin call um Boye._
Boy was born in low country on a one-dirt-road-in, one-dirt-road-out patch of mainland just an eleven-mil ... ⌘ Read more_
Sinema Took Wall Street Money While Killing Tax On Investors
Brian Slodysko, - Huff Post
_Stephan: Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat, is a living example of the corruption that pervades the American Congress. This is why our government doesn't work properly._
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from priv ... ⌘ Read more
Cognitive biases and brain biology help explain why facts don’t change minds
Keith M. Bellizzi , Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences - University of Connecticut - Raw Story
_Stephan: Last night I listened to Sean Hannity on the Fox propaganda network. To learn about the trends shaping our future I feel I have to look at MAGAt media. It was amazing. Like all the other people on Fox, I don't know how or, more importantly, why, they d ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden has appointed more federal judges than any president since JFK at this point in his tenure
JOHN GRAMLICH, - Pew Research Center
_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news. Biden with help from Schumer has been able to appoint more federal judges than any president since Kennedy, and two-thirds of them are racial or ethnic minorities, and three-quarters are women. This means that the Republican MAGAt attempt to take ove ... ⌘ Read more_
‘People will die waiting’: America’s system for the disabled is nearing collapse
DAN GOLDBERG, - Politico
_Stephan: Healthcare in America is so bad compared with the other developed democracies you would think we would be embarrassed. Biden and most of the democrats -- not Manchin and Sinema -- are trying to do something to improve this miserable system while the Republicans are doing everything they can to make it worse, particularly in Red st ... ⌘ Read more_
Sean Hannity says that Trump could run for president from jail — if he wanted to
KELLY MCCLURE, Nights & Weekends Editor - Salon
_Stephan: This is Sean Hannity. and the sad truth is for the MAGAts what he says is probably true. They would vote for him even if he were in prison. This is America, in the midst of the Great Schism Trend which shapes American culture today. A tragic truth._
_Stephan: This is not getting much general media attention, but to those who understand what this trend means it is a very big deal. Because of the christofascist movement and its obsessions and the Republican blockage of funding, and the things that can be funded, we are becoming a second-tier country in many ways, scientific development, as described here, being just one example_
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The US-China Rift Moves Climate Politics Into an Era of Competition**
Akshat Rathi, Editor of Net Zero - Bloomberg
_Stephan: The idea of there being a race between China and the U.S. to advance climate remediation I see as good news, with interesting geopolitical implications._
_Solar panels and wind turbines ne ... ⌘ Read more_
Did Russia provide funding and support for booster of California secession movement?**
Sam Stanton, Reporter - Sacramento Bee
_Stephan: This report describes a trend that I think is underreported and very dangerous, the use of our poorly regulated internet social media by foreign powers to influence our politics._
_Stephan: I have predicted for years that all beings from bacteria to mammals will have to change to deal with the altered circumstances created by climate change. And here is some of the evidence nd what it means for humans._
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As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters into its fifth month, a common narrative has emerged that the unity of the world in st ... ⌘ Read more
State Legislatures Are Torching Democracy
Jane Mayer, - The New Yorker
_Stephan: I think this is a very serious article about a very serious topic, how the Republican Party at both the federal, but particularly at the state level, is trying to dismantle America as a democratic republic, transforming it into a White supremacy, male dominant christofascist anocracy. I also think that if you are reading this, and you want the United States to remain a democratic republic that you n ... ⌘ Read more_
Exclusive: Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate involved in voting-system breach, documents show
Nathan Layne, - Reuters
_Stephan: Have you noticed that whenever anyone is caught out by the media or the legal system for voter fraud or irregularities they are always Republicans? Anything the Republicans charge others with doing, almost inevitably actually turn out to be what the Republicans themselves ar ... ⌘ Read more_
Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College
REBECCA SALZER and JOCELYN KILEY, - Pew Research Center
_Stephan: I support this. I think the Electoral College should be eliminated. It is a part of our electoral process created during the time of slavery to get the slave states to sign off on the Constitution._
_Stephan: This is what the Republicans voted against, the improvement of life for all life on earth. This is what the Republican Party has become and is about._
The US is, following decades of political ra ... ⌘ Read more
‘What the Hell is Wrong With Them’: GOP Senators Kill $35 Cap on Insulin
Common Dreams Staff, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: The Republicans to a person voted against the critical bill discussed in the previous article. And to make things even worse, as this article describes they blocked lowering the price. The average price for Insulin in the United States is $98.70 per unit. This for a drug that is not proprietary and has been around for a century. In co ... ⌘ Read more_
The consciousness of bees
Lars Chittka, Professor - Queen Mary University of London. - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Bees as conscious beings, new way of thinking about life on earth._
_Credit: Elvis Swift / The Washington Post_
The French philosopher René Descartes, whose views on animals were highly influential, argued that these creatures acted purely by re ... ⌘ Read more
A challenge for antiabortion states: Doctors reluctant to work there
Christopher Rowland, Business Team Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Exactly as I predicted the overturn of Roe by the christofascists on the Supreme Court followed by Red state Republican christofascists in state legislatures, with no medical training passing and governors signing into law restrictions on OB/GYN practices is going to have a profound effect on the quality of heal ... ⌘ Read more_
A Very Dangerous Place to Be Pregnant Is Getting Even Scarier
Claire Suddath, - Bloomberg
_Stephan: Texas based on social outcome data is a failed state, and it is a failed state proveably because it is run by Republican christofascists. Living in Texas, particularly in the rural parts of the state, and particularly for a woman is dangerous. Too many guns, very poor healthcare, radical anti-abortion policies, poor education, and growing White supremacy. What ... ⌘ Read more_
Watch: Tucker Carlson spins new conspiracy theory saying US gov will lace country’s water supply with antidepressants
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_Stephan: Tucker Carlson has made himself America's leading preppy christofascist propagandist and purveyor of misinformation. Frankly, I don't see him as fundamentally any different from Alex Jones. They just do a different schtick, one preppy, one blue-collar. And If Alex Jones can be ... ⌘ Read more_
DeSantis says he’s willing to ‘take away lunch money from poor kids’ for anti-transgender crusade**
David Edwards, - Raw Story
_Stephan: Ron De Santis like Greg Abbott is an incompetent ideologue. He has no interest in governing to foster wellbeing. It is all about power, and that power comes from the people of Florida who elected him governor, because of their fear, hatred, and resentment._
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) v ... ⌘ Read more
‘Grotesque greed’ of oil companies ‘destroying our only home’: UN chief
Jessica Corbett, - AlterNet
_Stephan: You didn't think the carbon industries would quietly exit stage left, did you? Of course not. They are pouring millions of dollars into corrupt, mostly Republican legislators in the U.S., and equally corrupt politicians in other countries to thwart climate remediation policies and, thus, ensure their continued profits._
_Stephan: In the previous story, I reported on how Republicans are blocking climate change remediation in their states. This report makes clear what the Republican MAGAts cannot seem to recognize or, even worse, they recognize but their corruption in service to the industries that create these conditions is so great tha ... ⌘ Read more_
The Dystopian Myths of Red America
Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate, Professor, Columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan: As usual Paul Krugman is focused on the relevant issue. How and why does MAGAt world continue in the fact of all facts to believe nonsense? About a third of the American population has lost touch with reality and unless the other two-thirds come together to resist this Republican dystopian fear fugue the suffering is going to be inconceivable._
_Stephan: If we are going to be able to get through what climate change is doing to the earth's ecosystems we are going to have to make radical changes in the technologies we use. As one example of what I mean, it is now dangerous to drink rainwater anywhere on earth. Think about that for ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Never seen it this bad’: America faces catastrophic teacher shortage**
Hannah Natanson, Education Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: The Republican Party beginning with Reagan realized that the dumber the American population the easier it would be to manipulate them, particularly with fear. culminating in the education disaster of Betsy DeVos, Trump's Secretary of Education. The citizens of the United States, on the basis of hard data, are ... ⌘ Read more_
Trained, Armed and Ready. To Teach Kindergarten.
, \\- DNYUZ
_Stephan: My wife was an elementary school teacher for several decades. I asked her how she would feel, what she would do if being a teacher required weapons training and that she carry a weapon each day as she taught. Her response illustrates another reason America has such a teacher shortage. "I wouldn't do it," she said, "and I would quit teaching, at least in that state." I'd say the same, wouldn't you? How craz ... ⌘ Read more_
“Self-Serving Multimillionaire”: Ron Johnson pushes to dismantle Social Security and Medicare
Jon Queally, Managing Editor for Common Dreams - Salon / Common Dreams
_Stephan: I think the Republican Party has made a major political miscalculation. Thanks to FOX, Infowars, and the other misinformation operations the Republicans came to believe they had a larger base than they actually have, as Kansas demonstrated yesterday. Ron Johns ... ⌘ Read more_
Republicans reverse course as Senate passes burn pits legislation after days of pressure
Paul Kane, Senior Congressional Correspondent - The Washington Post
_Stephan: I am leading today's SR both because it is excellent good news and, also, because it is a wonderful example of citizen power. The Republicans initially blocked the veteran PACT Act out of spite. Then helped by Jon Stewart, citizen groups demonstrated their outrage, and ... ⌘ Read more_
Health Cost Calculator Shows Most Californians Would Save Big With Medicare for All
BRETT WILKINS, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Medicare for all. It should have been passed years ago but has been blocked repeatedly by the illness profit industries that care for nothing but profit. Here is the proof that what amounts to universal birthright single-payer healthcare is a far better form of healthcare than the awful system that currently prevai ... ⌘ Read more_
Great Salt Lake “not that far off” from an ecosystem collapse: Toxic dust storms, die-offs loom
ERIC SCHANK, Staff Writer - Salon
_Stephan: Here is the latest on climate change and its effect on Utah, the Great Salt Lake, and Salt Lake City. As the report describes is facing massive health problems, as well as water problems. I think we will begin to see people moving out of the city and the state. It will be interesting to see wh ... ⌘ Read more_
Viktor Orbán Comes to CPAC
Dalibor Rohac, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute - The Dispatch
_Stephan: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a thoroughly despicable christofascist has, like all such people, significantly degraded the quality of life in the country he leads. But that doesn't matter to the Republican Party, which really only cares about White supremacy, male supremacy, and an end to democracy, all three of which Orbán strongly supports. I think it is incredibly r ... ⌘ Read more_
Republicans’ next big play is to ‘scare the hell out of Washington’ by rewriting the Constitution. And they’re willing to play the long game to win.
Grace Panetta and Brent D. Griffiths , - Business Insider
_Stephan: This is the Republican Party's long game. Unfortunately, I don't think the majority of Americans are smart enough, engaged enough with their nation's wellbeing to un ... ⌘ Read more_
The Crisis Facing Nursing Homes, Assisted Living and Home Care for America’s Elderly
ALEXANDRA MOE, - Politico Magazine
_Stephan: There are two reasons I chose this report. First, it illustrates another failing of the American illness profit system, and the country's failure to make wellbeing its first priority. Second, note that what elder care we do have has been dependent on immigrants. All those aging Republican voters better pay atte ... ⌘ Read more_
Employees are increasingly on the hook for their medical costs
Caitlin Owens, - Axios
_Stephan: I am so tired of publishing reports on the awfulness of the American illness profit system. This is all because of the corruption of the U.S. Congress, that's why we, in the United States, have the worst health care system in the developed world. If you vote Republican you vote for the continuation and protection of this awful system._
_Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) is a leafy residential development in Milan, Italy. Credit: Zac Wolff_
“Hot town! Summer in the city…!”
It’s a cracking song – a 1960s ant ... ⌘ Read more
Phoenix could soon become uninhabitable — and the poor will be the first to leave
Matthew Rozsa, Staff Writer - Salon
_Stephan: I have been telling my readers since 1991 that this would happen, and now it is happening. This is one part of the three great migrations I predict are going to happen. As a nation our culture is beginning the massive transformation that is going to restructure America._
_The U.S. Supreme Court Credit: Tom Brenner / The Washington Post / Getty_
In reaction to the recent onslaught of extremist rulings by far right Supreme Court justices, a group of Democrats introduced a bill on T ... ⌘ Read more