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Over 500 Creative Agencies Have Now Pledged Not to Work for Fossil Fuel Industry
Brett Wilkins, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan:_
_Here is some good news about ethical behavior. We need more, much more, of this._
_Climate activists protest outside the New York State Supreme Court building on October 22, 2019 in New York City.
Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP / Getty_ ... ⌘ Read more
Michigan legislation proposes 2030 coal phase-out, fossil-free energy by 2035
Karin Rives, - S&P Global
_Stephan:_
_Michigan has become a fascinating state to watch as it has shifted under Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer from MAGAt fascism, to a state fostering wellbeing, and the research data about the difference, the improvement, is irrefutable._
_Michigan Democ ... ⌘ Read more_
These tiny creatures are losing their battle to survive. Here’s what we can do to save them
Amy Chillag, - CNN
_Stephan:_
_Birds and Bees are suffering terrible losses, and this is an easy problem where for modest sums to can make a difference and foster wellbeing. Set up bird feeders with seed for most birds, and sugar water feeders for hummingbirds. Four parts water to one part white sugar. Wherever you live plant flowers for th ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden signs order expanding environmental justice push
Ben Geman and Shawna Chen, - Axios
_Stephan:_
_Here is some more good news from the Biden administration about climate change. It may seem small and bureaucratic, but it is a signal that will sensitize the federal agencies as to the intention of the White House, which is one of the ways things are made to work in the American federal government._
Catholic Church decline in Latin America: The Cath ... ⌘ Read more
‘Disgusting Filth’: Critics and Adoptees Blast Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Claim a Stepmom Is ‘Not a Mother’**
David Badash, Staff Writer - New Civil Rights Movement
_Stephan:_
_Speaking as a step-father for my late wife's adopted daughter from her earlier marriage all I can say is I wish the people of Georgia's 14th Congressional District would wake up to what this vulgar coarse woman is doing to degrade their wellbeing. They ... ⌘ Read more_
Poverty kills more Americans than obesity, diabetes, and drug overdoses, study reveals
, \\- Study Finds
_Stephan:_
_This is what the peer-reviewed published in JAMA Internal Medicine has to say based on the peer-reviewed facts: "The US perennially has a far higher poverty rate than peer-rich democracies.[1](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2804032?guestAccessKey=5e3c70e5-f175-43ef-8e31-b04942227ccd&utm_s ... ⌘ Read more_
Bills Enabling Child Labor Can Be Traced to This One Conservative Lobbying Group
Sharon Zhang, -
_Stephan:_
_The inhumanity of child labor that the MAGAt Republicans are pushing has become a trend in Red states. I think it is despicable._
_MAGAt Republican Arkansas Governor. Sarah Huckabee Sanders_
Republicans have been waging a push in recent months to pass bills ... ⌘ Read more
Here are all the positive environmental stories from 2023 so far
Euronews Green , - euronews.green
_Stephan:_
_There is so much bad news about the trends shaping America, that it makes me very happy to bring this good news to your attention. Fostering wellbeing is making some progress._
_Our favourite positive environmental story from 2022: World’s oldest two-headed tortoise celeb ... ⌘ Read more_
New Research Sparks Concerns That Ocean Circulation Will Collapse
FRED PEARCE, Contributing Writer - Yale Environment 360
_Stephan:_
_Yet another alarm telling humanity we are not doing anywhere near enough to avoid catastrophe. And to be honest I don't think we will ever do. Instead we are going to experience radical change in the environment and there will be millions who die, and millions more reduced to misery. Greed and power in the moment just seem ... ⌘ Read more_
Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property
HEIDI PRZYBYLA, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan:_
_Coming in addition to the corruption of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, we now have yet another report of corruption. This one is about Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, as you can see in this article. Do you notice something about this list? They are all MAGAt justices. It is clear these conservative justices believe they are above the law, and feel ... ⌘ Read more_
Gun Violence Is Actually Worse in Red States. It’s Not Even Close.
COLIN WOODARD, Contributing Writer - Politico Magazine
_Stephan:_
_Like me, I suspect you have heard endless Republican politicians or commentators talking about the crime wave and gun violence in Blue cities in the Blue and even Red states. The implication being that Democrats don't know how to handle gun violence. Well, here are the facts. That whole Republican sthick is crap. The fact is ... ⌘ Read more_
Who Else Has Harlan Crow Given Money To?**
Shirin Ali, - Reader Supported News / Slate
_Stephan:_
_Right now there is a case before the Supreme Court in which Harlan Crow has an interest. Do you think Clarence Thomas will recuse himself? Of course, he won't. Nine people determine how the law is interpreted in the United States. At least three of them are hopelessly corrupt, and six of them put their personal prejudices and ideologies before fair jurisprudence. Is it any wonder that ... ⌘ Read more_
State politics are driving high schoolers’ college decisions
Jennifer A. Kingson, - Axios
_Stephan:_
_As you will remember I predicted that one of the effects I saw coming out of the MAGAt world's hysterical obsession with controlling women, which masquerades as the anti-abortion movement, would be that it would have a significant effect on healthcare in Red states, but also it would have a great influence on the college choices made by graduating high school ... ⌘ Read more_
Republican budget will harm veterans by putting at least 50,000 vets on the streets: VA
Sarah K. Burris, - Raw Story
_Stephan:_
_I am a vet and, although I have never used any VA service, I have several friends for whom it provided crucial support. The idea that the Republican bill being put forward by Kevin McCarthy would cut 81,000 Veteran Health Administration jobs, making it more difficult for veterans to get the help they need I ... ⌘ Read more_
Urban water crises driven by elites’ unsustainable consumption
Elisa Savelli, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Hannah Cloke & Maria Rusca , Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, CNDS, Uppsala, Sweden \\| Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam \\| View ORCID ID profile Department of Earth Sciences, Air, Water and Landscape Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala \\| Department of Earth Sciences, Air, Water and ... ⌘ Read more
New York trial could confer new title on Donald Trump: rapist
Chris McGreal, Reporter - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan:_
_E. Jean Carroll's trial against criminal Trump may change the course of history. It is a jury trial scheduled to begin in Manhattan on Tuesday, and if it ends with the jury deciding against Trump I do not see how the Republican Party, as weird, unethical, and cultish as it has become can put forward a nominee who is a convicted rapist._
Body’s Own Stem Cells Can Lead to Tooth Regeneration – The End of Dental Implants?**
, \\- Peridontal Associates
_Stephan:_
A technique pioneered in the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory of Dr. Jeremy Mao, the Edward V. Zegarelli Professor of Dental Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, can orchestrate stem cells to migrate to a three-di ... ⌘ Read more
In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself
Gree Jaffe and Patrick Marley, National Reporter \\| Midwest Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan:_
_Here you can see clearly what happens when a county shifts from Democratic rational wellbeing oriented governance to Republican MAGAt governance. Republican governance, and I say this on the basis of objectively verifiable social outcome data, is always inferior. It creates fear, resentme ... ⌘ Read more_
When the Culture Wars Come for the Public Library
E. Tammy Kim, Contributing Lawyer - The New Yorker
_Stephan:_
_I have extremely strong views about public libraries and protecting them from political and ideological manipulation. Libraries have played a major role in my life, from the time I learned to read until today, and my wife would say the same, as would tens of millions of other Americans. In the 19th century Andrew Carnegie, himself an immigrant from Scotland, a ... ⌘ Read more_
Nebraska Republican: Abortion Ban Needed to Ensure Dominance of White Population
Sharon Zhang, - truthout
_Stephan:_
_The thing about MAGAt politicians is that if you listen carefully, their hate, resentment, and racism is so strong that eventually one of them will tell you their real thinking. And here is the reason they are so committed to forcing women, particularly White women, to not be able to obtain an abortion, and why they increasi ... ⌘ Read more_
Fox’s Primetime Hosts Completely Ignored the Dominion Settlement
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_Stephan:_
_As soon as I heard about the judgment against criminal Trump I immediately wondered how the Fox propaganda operation would treat the story and tuned into Fox. Except for a clip on an interview with Howard Kurtz who said a total of one sentence about Fox losing, there was not a word in the hour I watched while MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and BBC dedicated multiple segments to the case. If ... ⌘ Read more_
Details about multimillion-dollar stock holding concealed in abortion pill judge’s financial disclosures
Casey Tolan and Isabelle Chapman, Reporters - CNN
_Stephan:_
_Matthew Kacsmaryk is obviously incompetent as a non-partisan judge knowledgeable in jurisprudence. But few if any seem to have realized he is also a minor-league Clarence Thomas. Here is the question I wonder about: Is it possible to be a Republican and ... ⌘ Read more_
US demand for bulletproof cars skyrockets, with some paying $85K for protection
Selim Algar, - New York Post
_Stephan:_
_This is what America goaded into fear by Fox, NRA, and weapons corporations spewing an endless phony saga of crime, violence, and danger that has stimulated an obsessive gun psychosis has gotten us to: ordinary people buying bulletproof trucks and SUVs._
_The remains of houses are pictured as rising sea levels destroy homes built along the shoreline, forcing villagers to relocate, in El Bo ... ⌘ Read more_
Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment
NICK MORDOWANEC, Staff Writer - Newsweek
_Stephan:_
_This morning, as I was doing my first media survey looking for trend data I came across this article about Charlies Kirk, a prominent MAGAt spokesperson. I paid attention to it because a few days ago I had published a remarkably stupid comment he had made about the 2nd Amendment. As I was reading this, I had CNN on the ... ⌘ Read more_
Reproductive Health Laws Factor Into Many College Decisions
STEPHANIE MARKEN AND ZACH HRYNOWSKI, - The Gallup Organization
_Stephan:_
_If you read me regularly you know my prediction that as a result of the Dobbs decision and what Republicans have done in the states they control people, particularly young women would begin to make enrollment decisions about whether to attend colleges in Red states where women don't have the right to control their own bodies a ... ⌘ Read more_
Educators and Publishers Are Fighting the Right’s Attempt to Erase Black History
Eleanor J. Bader, - truthout
_Stephan:_
_The MAGAts don't live in a world based on facts. They don't want history to be taught factually, they want students at every level to be indoctrinated into their toxic hate-filled version of reality. It is exactly the same thing being done in North Korea. Read this, and ask yourself: Is this how I want my children to be ... ⌘ Read more_
A Christian’s Thoughts on the Problem of Christian Nationalism
Bill McKibben, - The New Yorker / Reader Support News
_Stephan:_
_Bill McKibben has written a very good essay on Christian Nationalism, which is what Christianity in the United States has become. It uses the traditional language of Christianity but, in fact, has very little to do with Christianity as Jesus taught it, anymore than the Taliban version of Islam represents what Mohammed taught._
![] ... ⌘ Read more
Biden’s electric car push sparks lobbying surge
TIMOTHY CAMA and HANNAH NORTHEY, - E&E News Greenwire
_Stephan:_
_In this report, you see exactly how the corruption of the U.S. Congress works. It is almost impossible to get wellbeing fostering bills passed because the hundreds of millions spent on corruption just completely skews what Congress can do._
_More than 30 of those companies retained lobb ... ⌘ Read more_
Arkansas Gov. Sanders signs a law that makes it easier to employ children
Kaitlyn Radde, - npr
_Stephan:_
_Sarah Huckabee has been a disaster as a governor, typical MAGAt, not very bright, ignorant, not interested in fostering wellbeing for the people of her state. But making child labor legal is really despicable. And she is not alone. The Republican Party is pushing child labor in many of the states they control. This story is just an example of ... ⌘ Read more_
A silent crisis in men’s health gets worse
Tara Parker-Pope and Caitlin Gilbert, WellBeing editor \\| Wellbeing Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan:_
_Yesterday I did two stories on the new trend I see emerging in the United States about the ill health, increasing mortality at all ages, and shortening lifespan of American males. It is a worldwide trend, but particularly notable in the richest country in the world. I think this is telling us something very important about the ... ⌘ Read more_
Clarence Thomas Proves Justices Can’t Police Themselves
Michael Waldman, - Brennan Center for Justice
_Stephan:_
_Clarence Thomas I see as a kind of tumour on the body politic. If he had any integrity he would resign as Abe Fortus did. But I don't think he will and since The Constitution gives the House of Representatives the sole power to impeach federal officials, and makes the Senate the sole court for the actual impeachment trials, I do not think it probable th ... ⌘ Read more_
Republican states could be hit hardest by McCarthy’s proposed spending cuts
Andy Sullivan, Reporter - Reuters
_Stephan:_
_It is amazing to me that Red state voters don't seem to understand that the people they elect at both the state and federal level have no interest in fostering their wellbeing; they have a very different agenda. Here is yet another example of this._
_S ... ⌘ Read more_
Record number of Americans say they’re politically independent
Mike Allen, - Axios
_Stephan:_
_Here is a very important trend that I think is going to determine the 2024 elections, unless the Democrats screw up, which they are fully capable of doing. As this polling shows an increasing number, nearly a majority of voters are now Independents. The Republicans, because they serve interests in personal power and status, and serve the corporations and oligarchs ... ⌘ Read more_
America’s Looming Conflict: Red Judges vs. Blue Governors
ALEXANDER BURNS, Associate Editor for Global Politics - Politico
_Stephan:_
_Here is another facet of the Great Schism Trend; one that has not gotten as much attention as it should._
_Democratic Illinois Governor. J.B. Pritzker_
In other times, Gov. J.B. Pritzker might have batted away my question as a contrived provocation.
But the ... ⌘ Read more
Clean your teeth, bro! Only 54% of young men brush daily
Chris Melore, - Study Finds
_Stephan:_
_This report on the decreasing level of personal hygiene amongst younger men in two populations -- age 18–26 and 27–42 -- I see as part of a larger trend, increasing obesity, Type II diabetes, a host of other afflictions, and a shortening lifespan. Also decreased fertility. I think additionally there is a strong psychological component. Men do better when service for soci ... ⌘ Read more_
Lockheed Martin Got $106 From the Average Taxpayer, While Renewables Got Just $6**
Brett Wilkins, Staff Writer - truthout / Common Dreams
_Stephan:_
_More than 50 years ago, President, and former five star general, Dwight Eisenhower warned America about what he called the military-industrial complex. More than any president before or since Eisenhower understood the rapacious greed of the corporations that made up this sector of our economy. He w ... ⌘ Read more_
Concern About Several Environmental Problems Dips in U.S.
MEGAN BRENAN, -
_Stephan:_
_Look at the graph at the head of this article. Do you note the differences in concern between the Democrats and the Republicans? Particularly the 48-point spread of concern over climate change. In addition to everything else in the Red-Blue Schism, this lack of concern about pollution, and climate change, are both alarming and dangerous._
, University of Zurich - Raw Story
_Stephan:_
_Very few Americans, unless they are involved with it, realize that MAGAt world is trying to create its own economy, by d ... ⌘ Read more_
Oxfam shows US billionaires almost a third richer today than when COVID hit
Brett Wilkins, - AlterNet
_Stephan:_
_Seventy percent of Americans are feeling financially stressed. One in seven American children has hunger issues. But for the oligarchs times have never been better; they are almost a third richer than they were three years ago. Because of our grotesquely skewed tax system, the United States has become two very different countries. N ... ⌘ Read more_
‘A new era’: Germany quits nuclear power, closing its final three plants
Laura Paddison, Nadine Schmidt and Inke Kappeler, Reporters - CNN
_Stephan:_
_Here is some good news for Germany. While the American government is considering building more nuclear power plants, the Germans have had the good sense of get out of nuclear power. They still have the waste problem of course, that will plague them for generations, but at least they are making any more._ ... ⌘ Read more
Governor Kristi Noem Reassures NRA Audience That Her 2-Year-Old Granddaughter Already Has a Shotgun and Rifle: ‘The Girl is Set Up’**
Candice Ortiz, - Media ite
_Stephan:_
_Between two mass shootings that killed nearly a dozen people Kristi Noem, MAGAt Republican Governor of North Dakota -- what were you thinking people of North Dakota -- bragged at the NRA convention that her two-year-old gran ... ⌘ Read more_
Marjorie Taylor Greene stuns experts with scientifically illiterate rant on climate change
Brad Reed, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan:_
_Here are the views on climate change of one of the current leaders of the Republican Party in the House. I hope the people of the 14th District of Georgia are ashamed of what they have done to America, and vote this horrible woman out of office in 2024._
_Stephan:_
_If you read me regularly you know I think this is exactly what is going on, exactly what the Republican Party is trying to do. The only thing that can end this is massive Democrat voter and independent turn out voting control of both houses and the presidency This is also why the Senate should be reconfigured. and the Supreme Court ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump made up to $160 million from foreign countries as president
Rebecca Jacobs and Robert Maguire, - CREW
_Stephan:_
_Do you remember Trump promising that his company would make no foreign deals while he was president so that his presidency would be without "conflicts of interest?" I certainly do. It was of course,like almost everything he says a lie. It turns out foreign interests pumped $160 million into the Trump companies while he was president. As ... ⌘ Read more_
AAMC Warns of Possible Physician Shortage in States That Ban Abortion
Cheryl Clark, Contributing Writer - MedPage Today
_Stephan:_
_I warned you this was going to happen; well, now it is. It is going to become dangerous for a woman to get pregnant in Red states, particularly the Southern Red states which already have very poor healthcare social outcome data. If you are a fertile woman and you voted for Republicans you voted against your own safety and ... ⌘ Read more_
U.S. Army recruits are more out-of-shape than they’ve ever been: study
Sky Palma, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan:_
_There is a trend going on in the United States to which no one except the military is paying much attention: the deteriorating fitness of Americans. When this is seen in the context of American obesity it is clear that this is a cultural failure. And the comments about recruits from Red states in the South, I think, is particularly tell ... ⌘ Read more_
Of God and Guns
Col. John B. Alexander, USA (Ret.), PhD, - Daily Kos
_Stephan:_
_John Alexander is a retired Army officer, and a special forces combat veteran. I mention this to say that this is a person who know whereof he speaks about what guns do to people. And, I think, he has a very good take on our culture and the role of guns._
Politicians often talk of “ _God given Rights’_**,” including gu ... ⌘ Read more_
A New Era of Fossil Fuel Decline
JOSH GABBATISS, - truthdig
_Stephan:_
_Here is some good news about the transition out of the carbon power era. We're not there, but we are moving in the right direction._
_Wind turbines in Southern California Credit: Erik Wilde via Flickr_
The power sector is about to enter a “new era of falling fossil generation” as coal, oil and gas are pushed out of the grid by a record exp ... ⌘ Read more
Clarence Thomas Is Exactly What He Appears: A Corrupt, Plutocrat-Backed Ruling-Class Elite
Ben Burgis, - Jacobin / Reader Supported News
_Stephan:_
_The endless corruption of Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni, reveals how corrupt the Supreme Court has become, and the reality that the justices live, or at least feel they do, in a world above the law. Thomas needs to be removed from the court, or to r ... ⌘ Read more_
How to become one of Clarence and Ginni’s dearest friends
ROBERT REICH, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies - Robert Reich Substack
_Stephan:_
_Robert Reich has it right. We need to clean up our government, and it should start with Donald Trump and Clarence Thomas. It is important that Americans see that no one is above the law, and that we have the abili ... ⌘ Read more_
Dramatic realignment swings working-class districts toward GOP
Stef W. Kight, - Axios
_Stephan:_
_This is a data-based assessment of what is happening with voters, showing how the Red Blue schism is playing out. What it doesn't seem to get is that while it accurately reports the Republican Party is becoming a party of lower income, lower education, largely rural White voters it does not report that these voters are manipulated by the oligarchs who now own t ... ⌘ Read more_
Health Secretary Says “Everything Is on the Table” to Protect Abortion Pill Access
Ruth Murai, Research Editor - Mother Jones
_Stephan:_
_Here is news showing the difference between Republicans and Democrats. I think that is the big takeaway from the last week's news. From Clarence Thomas to the state legislatures of of Tennessee and Missouri both the Republicans and the Democrats through their actions, which is much more important than the ... ⌘ Read more_
ACLU calls Missouri Republicans move to defund libraries ‘abhorrent’**
: Mark Maxwell, - KSDK (Missouri)
_Stephan:_
_Missouri is now in the news for its blatantly racist Republican-controlled state legislature. I see this legislature as representative of the Republican Party nationally at state level scale. The Republican legislators threw out the two young Black men only to have them reappointed by the communities that had elected them in the first place ... ⌘ Read more_
Missouri Republicans threaten to defund public libraries in stunning move over book bans
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_Stephan:_
Republican state lawmakers in Missouri have threatened to defund all of the state’s public libraries in a drastic budget proposal that has magnified the accelerating state-level campaigns against libraries over books and materials wit ... ⌘ Read more
Missouri Republican defends letting parents marry off 12-year-old kids
Brad Reed, -
_Stephan:_
_You don't have any problem with someone marrying their 12-year-old daughter off to some man, because he likes little girls, do you? Seems a normal thing to do, right? I read this report about Missouri Republican state senator Mike Moon and thought it had to be some kind of satire. But no, this really is where Missouri state Senator Mike Moon is mentally. ... ⌘ Read more_
Washington Senate votes to ban sale of assault weapons weeks after House approves measure
News Staff, - Fox 13 (Seattle)
_Stephan:_
_Here is some good news, and from a Fox television station. While Republican-controlled Red states like Texas and Florida are passing legislation authorizing anyone to carry a concealed weapon like an AR-15 with no training, and no license, Democrat-controlled states are going in the exact opposite di ... ⌘ Read more_
Sowing the Seeds for a Better Tomorrow
Kate Silver , Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan:_
_Some more good news. For many years I have been saying that Industrial chemical monoculture is a failing agriculture system, that should be changed to sustainable agriculture because such a transition would have many benefits. It would help communities generally by eliminating the dangerous toxins used in chemical agriculture, and result in great improvement in the health of people who work in ... ⌘ Read more_
70% of Americans are feeling financially stressed, new CNBC survey finds
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_Stephan:_
_While the House of Representatives and therefore the media is consumed by the toxic democracy-threatening Republican circus, American society is undergoing major financial stress as this article spells out. It appears that the House is simply not going to get anything done that fosters wellbeing before the 2024 election. Instead all we are going to get from MAGA ... ⌘ Read more_
Project that gave $500 a month to some California residents shows that such efforts could have a ‘profound impact on public health, researchers say
Carma Hassan, - CNN Health
_Stephan:_
_Two years ago when this Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration or SEED began I did a story on it. Now the ... ⌘ Read more_
House Progressives Revive Legislation to ‘Cut Child Poverty by Nearly Two-Thirds’**
BRETT WILKINS, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan:_
_It isn't getting much comment from the media but I think one of the most important things going on in the United States today is the glaring difference between the Republican and Democrat Parties. While the Republicans are gutting any form of gun control, gutting a woman's right to control her own body, an ... ⌘ Read more_
US Fascism Is Spreading Under the Guise of “Patriotic Education”**
Henry A. Giroux, Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department, McMaster University and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. - truthout
_Stephan:_
_Americans just don't seem to get that they are being played by a well-organized multi-aspect strategy designed to dismantle our democracy and turn American into an anocracy. It a ... ⌘ Read more_
The Medical System Is Failing Black Kids With Severe Mental Illness
Amanda J. Calhoun, MD, MPH, Adult/child Psychiatry Resident at Yale School of Medicine-Yale Child Study Center - MEDPAGE TODAY
_Stephan:_
_I have suspected that the American Illness Profit System was racist for some time, but getting reliable actual data is not easy. Well, here is some from a physician inside the system. As we are becoming racially a majority-minority culture the fear t ... ⌘ Read more_
Neo-Nazi, racist groups a bigger threat to the US than Russia and China
Jamie Seidel, - New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
_Stephan:_
_While we in the U.S. are undergoing the MAGAt world's culture war it is not going unnoticed by the rest of the world, and that is radically changing how we are viewed in the world. This is an article in the New Zealand media. If you lived in New Zealand how would you react when you read: "The US intelligence community’ ... ⌘ Read more_
Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment
NICK MORDOWANEC, President of Turning Point USA - Newsweek Magazine
_Stephan:_
_There were 48,832 gun-related deaths in 2021 per CDC data—the highest single-year number on record and up 8 percent compared to 2020. There is no other country in the world not embroiled in an active war that has numbers anything like that. How is this permitted by the Republicans who block all ... ⌘ Read more_
Raincoats and Undies: Are Your Clothes Dripping in ‘Forever Chemicals’?**
Hannah Norman, - Med Page Today / Kaiser Health News
_Stephan:_
_I have been telling you for years, and publishing report after report on the toxins that pervade the bodies of Americans, and cause a range of illnesses, and death. Here is the latest on this trend. Please stop using chemical cleansers, laundry products, soaps, fragrance supplements, air cleansers, and a host of other ... ⌘ Read more_
North Dakota Republicans Vote to Boost Own Meals After Nixing Free School Meals
Sharon Zang, News Writer - truthout
_Stephan:_
_You may remember that in early February I published a piece on Republicans cutting food programs for school children, even though 1 in 8 or 7 school children in America, depending on which study you read, has hunger issues. Well, the Republicans in North Dakota have done it again. Only this time just to make it clea ... ⌘ Read more_
Advocates Worry New Kansas Anti-Trans Law Might Lead To Genital Inspections Of Children
Nathalie Baptiste, - Huffington Post
_Stephan:_
_The Republican Party has no wellbeing-fostering policies, what as a group the party has become is a white supremacy, male-dominant, sexually perverse culture war cult. How far will the Republicans go with their obsessions? How about having your child go to school, and have to pull down their underw ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high
Graham Readfearn, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan:_
_We humans just aren't getting it. We aren't taking climate change seriously enough, and our failure to do that guarantees that we, the land creatures, are going to experience increasingly violent, destructive, and deadly weather events. Will that wake us up? I wouldn't bet on it._
_Bonner General Hospital in Sandy Point, Idaho, the only hospital in the city. They will no longer offer obstetrical care.
Credit: The Spokesman- ... ⌘ Read more_
Free speech the next key battleground for abortion rights
Sareen Habeshian and Oriana González, - Axios
_Stephan:_
_As I see it there is something historic going on in American politics. It is clear by today's Texas court decision, and all the woman controlling anti-choice actions by Republicans that the Republicans think they are dominant. But when I look at what has gone on since the 2022 elections, and how things came out, and now the craziness we are seeing ... ⌘ Read more_
Clarence Thomas and the Ethical Disaster of the Supreme Court Undisclosed gifts from billionaires won’t even embarrass the right.
Jonathan Chait, Political Columnist - New York Magazine
_Stephan:_
_Clarence Thomas' corruption is, I think, unparalleled in American history. And that is without considering his wife, Ginni, who has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from far-right groups, and w ... ⌘ Read more_
The Trump Curse
Robert Reich, Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, . - Robert Reich substack
_Stephan:_
_I think Robert Reich has it about right. I think the Republicans are making a major mistake, one that will be seen as a historic miscalculation._
In February, Ron DeSantis led Donald Trump 45 percent to 41 percent in the [Yahoo/YouGov poll](https ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/04/07/the-trump-curse/)
‘We may be looking at the end of capitalism’: One of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks warns ‘Greedflation’ has gone too far
WILL DANIEL, - Fortune
_Stephan:_
_As this report says, "Albert Edwards, a global strategist at the 159-year-old bank Société Générale, just released a blistering note on the phenomenon that has come to be called [Greedflation](https://fortune.com/2022 ... ⌘ Read more_
Matt Gaetz’s Legislative Aide is a Convicted War Criminal
Ken Klippenstein, Staff Writer - The Intercept
_Stephan:_
_The thing about MAGAt Republican politicians is they are largely crooks, grifters, and scammers, and they surround and staff themselves with people with the same lack of ethics. Matt Gaetz who has been in Congress since 2017 as a result of the voters of Florida's 1st congressional district. The district includes portions of Walton County and all of ... ⌘ Read more_
Wisconsin Supreme Court election loser refuses to concede to winner he deems not “worthy”**
JULIA CONLEY, Staff Writer - Salon
_Stephan:_
_I think something very interesting happened yesterday in both Wisconsin and Chicago and it constitutes good news. In the 2022 election the Red wave did not happen, and yesterday in both elections progressives defeated christofascists. That suggests to me that the majority of Americans are fed up wit ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden wants coal country to rise like a phoenix
HEATHER RICHARDS, - Politico
_Stephan:_
_This is a very interesting, difficult, but positive (potentially at least) trend being created by the Biden administration. To help the mostly Red state communities that have been focused on coal for decades to transition to non-carbon energy production. I hope, for the fate of those communities, that they can make this effort successful. But these conservative religious communities h ... ⌘ Read more_
150 Maryland Catholic priests allegedly abused hundreds of children for nearly 80 years: report
Maya Boddie, - AlterNet
_Stephan:_
_I feel like I have been doing stories like this one for decades, and that in the United States, tens of thousands of young Catholic children must have been sexually molested. It makes me quite sad to say I would not leave a child alone with a Catholic priest or staff worker, and I can only wonder ... ⌘ Read more_
As Enforcement Lags, Toxic Coal Ash Keeps Polluting U.S. Water
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_Stephan:_
A few months ago, the New Castle Generating Station, an hour northwest of Pittsburgh, was named one of the most contaminated coal-fired power plant sites in the country. Polluted with arsenic and other toxic chemicals, the facility sits between the village of West Pittsburgh, pop ... ⌘ Read more
Fascist Street-Thugs Are Making Gains in Northwest Politics
JONATHAN LEVINSON, - truthdig
_Stephan:_
_Trump Theater has completely overwhelmed American media, and all kinds of things are getting little or no coverage. One that I am watching and that I find increasingly alarming is the growing violence of the Trumper White boys. They are actively trying to provoke civil violence, and there is nowhere near enough public attention paid to what they are doing. Her ... ⌘ Read more_
The Rich World Has a Shockingly High Tolerance for Cruelty
Lydia Polgreen, Columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan:_
_I have been telling you for years now that as a result of climate change, and the wars it will stimulate, there are going to be massive migrations between countries and within countries and that not a single country on earth is properly preparing for this. Some estimates suggest the number will be on the order of 350 million men, women, and child ... ⌘ Read more_
Liberal candidate Janet Protasiewicz wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race
CAROLINE VAKIL, Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan:_
_Here is some very good news not just for Wisconsin, whose supreme court has now been radically changed in a progressive wellbeing fostering way, but also for the United States. The 2022 election showed that even though christofascist oligarchs poured hundreds of millions in support of Republican elections to shift the United Stat ... ⌘ Read more_
Scoop: Trump raises over $7 million since indictment news
Mike Allen , - Axios
_Stephan:_
_I cannot politely tell you how tired I am of Trump theater. I watched his refurbished 757 land, Trump coming down the stairs just as he did as president, climbing into a car one would expect to see in a presidential motorcade, and the line of cars driving off to Trump tower, just as it did when he was president. All theater designed to make him look like a powerful innocent ... ⌘ Read more_
DeSantis signs bill to carry concealed guns without a permit
BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Reporter - Associated Press
_Stephan:_
_Ron DeSantis, whom I consider one of the scummiest politicians in office today has just signed a new law that will allow anyone who can legally own a gun in Florida to carry one concealed on their person without a permit. No training. No background check. It takes effect July 1. And what do you think will be the effect of this new law? In 2 ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Break Up Big Ag,’ Says Sanders After Egg Giant Posts 718% Profit Increase
Brett Wilkins, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan:_
_While the Republican party is blocking a woman's right to control her own body, and changing laws so anyone can carry a concealed gun, this is what Democrats are doing. You choose._
_Eggs are seen at a grocery store in Washington, D.C. on January ... ⌘ Read more_
Political polarization is sorting colleges into red and blue schools
Nick Anderson, - Microsoft Start
_Stephan:_
_As I keep telling you Republicans are trying to restructure the education of children in the United States from Kindergarten to College so that they are indoctrinated into the MAGAt view of the world, not educated to think for themselves, and this strategy is well underway. It is a growing part of the Great Schism Trend, and will fundament ... ⌘ Read more_
‘We’re Going Away’: A State’s Choice to Forgo Medicaid Funds Is Killing Hospitals
Sharon LaFraniere, Investigative Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan:_
_Here is yet another tragic story about how Red state legislatures debase the quality of the healthcare available to their citizens, particularly their poorest citizens, and those of color. If you are an older person, or someone with medical issues, or have to rely on Medicaid, and you live ... ⌘ Read more_
The Great Medicaid Purge Begins
Catherine Rampell, Reporter - Reader Supported News / The Washington Post
_Stephan:_
_Yet more bad news about the American illness profit system, and the failure of Congress to do anything positive to improve this appallingly bad system. Fifteen million people, at a minimum, are about to lose healthcare and, of course, American children will also suffer._
_An empty hospital bed at Pr ... ⌘ Read more_
Solar-Powered Refrigerated Trailers Could Eliminate Millions of Tons of CO2 Emissions
Lioyd Alter and Haley Mast, Design Editor and Contributing Writer - Treehugger
_Stephan:_
_Here is some innovative excellent good news. When I say that transitioning out of the carbon power era successfully will lead to a whole new spectrum of technologies, this is the sort of thing I mean._
_Wind turbines stand in fields near Palm Springs, Calif, March 22, 2023. Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Inform ... ⌘ Read more_
_Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum greets then-U.S. President Donald Trump at Bismarck Municipal Airport on September 6, 2017. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP / Getty_