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More than 450 Catholic clergymen abused nearly 2,000 children in Illinois, state report says
Virginia Langmaid, Reporter - CNN
_Stephan: The worldwide sordid story of Catholic priest and staff sexual molestation of children never seems to end. It is one of the constants of that church. I actually don't see how the church survives as an institution, it is so deeply flawed. Here is the latest chapter._
_Stephan: It is time to pay the piper, as a true sense of the damage and the need for reparations by fossil fuel companies is finally calculated.
Citation: To read the complete research paper upon which this report is based see: https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(23)00198-7_
_Stephan: Christofascist White supremacist, anti LGBTQ Republican Governor Ron DeSantis seems to be focused on turning Florida into Viktor Orban's Hungary, and this is how Florida and the U.S. look to the people of Israel, and much of the rest of the world. How does that sit with you?_
_A woman with two child ... ⌘ Read more_
Why Are Teens in Crisis? Here’s What the Evidence Says.
Ezra Klein podcast with Jean Twenge , - The New York Times
_Stephan: The Republican culture wars, with its White supremacy, sexism, anti-abortion, anti-immigrant lies, and anti-climate change whining is producing an unanticipated effect, the depression and sadness that has blossomed like a toxic plant amongst American young people, the majority of whom now see America as an unfair rather nasty country. The toxici ... ⌘ Read more_
Little girl who survived Uvalde shooting counts exits because she doesn’t trust cops to save her
Sarah K. Burris, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Here is one reason American children are so scared and depressed. Given the school massacres and the fact that as of today 2,411 young people have been shot, and 693 have been murdered by a gun since 1 January can you blame them? Oh, did I mention that as of two days ago in Florid ... ⌘ Read more_
America’s Poverty Is Built by Design
SHERYLL CASHIN, Professor of Law - Georgetown University - Politico
_Stephan: For over two decades, I have been telling SR readers about America's wealth inequality, the worst in the developed world, and how it is the product of intentioned design developed by Republicans over years. Well, others are beginning to see the same trends, and have reached the same conclusions, and this article is one example of that._
 seem to have been corrupted into near uselessness when it comes to environmental protection. Here is a sad and pathetic example of what I mean. And of ... ⌘ Read more_
World Cup 2026 fans told ‘don’t travel to USA’ over mass shootings and ‘killing sprees’**
James Liddell, - Daily Star (U.K.)
_Stephan: This is how the world increasingly views America. Meanwhile, in Florida, they have just passed a law permitting unlicensed concealed carry of guns, thus, joining Texas and other Republican controlled states. As of 21 May 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive (the gold standard source for such data) 16, ... ⌘ Read more_
Utah’s Suicide Pact With the Fossil Fuel Industry
STEPHANIE MENCIMER, - Mother Jones
_Stephan: Water is destiny. That doesn't seem to me to be very complicated. Yet the Republicans of Idaho can't seem to figure that out. This is an update on what is happening to the Colorado River and it is happening through conscious choice after deliberations. But water is just a part of it. It has another equally important implication. Idaho is illustrating just how damaging to socia ... ⌘ Read more_
As Trump’s legal woes mount, Republicans prep with a new talking point: Jury verdicts don’t count
Amanda Marcotte, Senior Politics Writer - Salon
_Stephan: Amanda Marcotte raises what I consider a very disturbing trend I have noticed but have not seen anyone else comment on: the Republican attempt to make jury decisions against them nothing more than political snark. I see this as part of the Republican attempt to control the ju ... ⌘ Read more_
The Supreme Court Is Hiding Important Decisions From You
IAN WARD, - Politico Magazine
_Stephan: Here is yet another aspect of the Republican trend to corrupt America's judiciary, this aspect directly about the Supreme Court and the manipulation of the court's procedures by the christofascist majority. One of the things that made America great was that it had a fair an just judiciary. This isn't the first time the Republicans have tried to corrupt the court. They ... ⌘ Read more_
Clarence Thomas Can’t Undermine the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court Fast Enough
Jamelle Bouie, Columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan: What I find so remarkable is not only how corrupt Clarence Thomas has been proven to be, but also, and mainly, how little response his corruption has produced. Lots of commentary from the media to be sure, but actual action by his fellow justices or the Congress? Nothing. He continues to vote on the defining l ... ⌘ Read more_
Climate Change Adaptation in Delta Cities
, \\- The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
_Stephan: As this report from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group lays out in detail we are going to see the coastal cities of the world experience massive migrations out of those cities as a result of sea rise, and the submergence of large sections of the cities. Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia gives us an example of what is coming. Already so much of the city is underwater that a ... ⌘ Read more_
Americans Have Less Trust in Supreme Court Than Ever, Poll Finds
Sharon Zhang , News Writer - truthout
_Stephan: It is a measure of the corruption of the American government that George Santos is still a member of Congress and Clarence Thomas is still a Supreme Court associate Justice, given the grotesque corruption of both men. Americans may not agree on many things, but they do agree that our government is a cesspit of corruption, and the implications for ... ⌘ Read more_
The staggering fine print of Texas and Florida’s new anti-trans bills
Nicole Narea, -
_Stephan: In the United States, according to the Gallup Organization, 7.2% of the adult population in 2023 identify as LGBTQ. That is more than 24 million adults. To give you a sense of scale that is nearly 20 times as many people as are affiliated with the Baptist church. I think the Republicans have made a massive miscalculation because I don't think very many of the ... ⌘ Read more_
CNN’s Desperation and Trump’s Lies Add Up to a 2024 Election Disaster Waiting to Happen
JUDY BERMAN, Staff Writer - Time Magazine
_Stephan: CNN has a new chairman and CEO, Chris Licht, who is determined to move the network to the right. That's what led to the debacle townhall they conducted with criminal Trump. I think Licht, seeing the crisis the Fox propaganda operation is going through, decided to take CNN closer to the MAGAt world i ... ⌘ Read more_
Amid DeSantis fight, Disney drops $1 billion Orlando campus plans
Katie Rice and Skyler Swisher, Reporters - Orlando Sentinel
_Stephan: What did I tell you. We are going to see corporations that depend on customer support and seek to foster racial and gender fairness leave Red states. The only exception will be weapons manufacturers who will move from Blue states to Red states. This nastiness by DeSantis is going to cost Florida thousands of high paying jobs ... ⌘ Read more_
Texas, Florida laws have Latinos rethinking where they live
RAFAEL BERNAL, Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: Here is another of my predictions becoming reality. Latinos leaving far right Red states. I think we are also going to see LGBTQ folk leaving Red states, as well as fertile women. It is becoming dangerous for those populations to live in Red state._
Leg ... ⌘ Read more
The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns
FRED PEARCE , Contributing Writer - Yale Environment 360
_Stephan: Climate change is turning out to be far more complex than anyone knew, with implications we are only beginning to understand. Here is the latest information I could find._
There is a paradox at the heart of our changing climate. While the blanket of air ... ⌘ Read more
‘More likely than not’ world will soon see 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, World Meteorological Organization says
Gloria Dickie, Climate and Environment Reporter - Reuters
_Stephan: Here is another just realized report on climate change, and it is definitely not good news. While the U.S. Congress behaves like spoiled children fighting over who gets the cookies, changes are occurring that will reshape human civil ... ⌘ Read more_
Young Americans Are Dying at Alarming Rates, Reversing Years of Progress
Janet Adamy, News Editor - The Wall Street Journal
_Stephan: Here is a report giving us a measure of the failed state of the American Congress. There is a notable increase in the death of our young people and yet nothing is being done about it, in fact, the Republicans want to drastically cut a range of funding designed to foster the wellbeing of our children._
_Stephan: Here is some much anticipated and deeply welcomed good news. There is hope._
_Solar power installation Credit: Getty_
This year, the world is predicted to pass a critical turning point in renewable energy.
Greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector, the largest source of th ... ⌘ Read more
Biden is Selling Weapons to the Majority of the World’s Autocracies
Stephen Semler, - The Intercept
_Stephan: If you live in the United States you live in the country that is the leading death merchant and supporter of autocracies. How can that possibly be, you may ask? The answer is what Dwight Eisenhower warned us about. This story is about corruption and the control of government policy through corruption by the military industrial corporations. This ... ⌘ Read more_
N.J. teenagers — ages 13 and 14 — robbed, killed taxi driver, cops say
Nicolas Fernandes , Reporter - nj.com
_Stephan: This is American society as it suffers from obsessive gun psychosis. Is this the kind of society you want to live in? What are you prepared to do to change this?_
_Taxi driver Kofi Addo murdered by three teenagers with a gun_
_Credit: ABC7 ... ⌘ Read more
12-Year-Old Charged With Murder, Accused of Killing Sonic Employee
Katy Blakey , Reporter - Channel 5 NBC (Texas)
_Stephan: A 12 year old with an assault rifle, what could possibly go wrong? Murder, of course, and that is just what happened. We are getting to a point where any place you thought must surely be safe, may not be._
_A memorial grows (background) for Matthew Davis (fore ... ⌘ Read more_
After school shooting, Tennessee governor signs bill to shield gun firms further against lawsuits
Jonathan Mattise, - Associated Press
_Stephan: Do you think Republicans place guns above people? If your answer is no, perhaps these facts will make you think again?_
_MAGAt Republican Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Credit: AP_
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE — Tenn ... ⌘ Read more_
Google Unveils Plan to Demolish the Journalism Industry Using AI
RYAN BURGE, - Futurism
_Stephan: Local newspapers, where most people got local news, are dying all over the country like starving kittens, and in their place is a torrent of internet misinformation. But the real killer of fact based ethical journalism is AI, and it is going to radically reshape our culture by playing on the fears, resentments, and hate of the sad low IQ white supremacy contin ... ⌘ Read more_
For-Profit Child Care Chains See Opportunity to Monopolize Imperiled Industry
Tyler Walicek , Staff Writer - truthout
_Stephan: By any standard by which you care to measure the United States does not like, does not care for, and does not support family values, or family wellbeing. The endless crap you hear politicians spewing out, be they Democrats or Republicans is just that, crap. The objectively verifiable hard facts tell the real truth. Of ... ⌘ Read more_
Wonking Out: Attack of the Pharma Phantoms
Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate, Columnist, Professor City University of New York Graduate Center. - The New York Times
_Stephan: The corruption of Big Pharma is astounding as our its prices and profits but, because most in the American Congress are more interested in their personal power and wellbeing which depends on corporations renting them as needed nothing is likely to be done to correct this obscene situation._
_An AM car radio_
America’s love affair between the automobile and AM radio — a century-long romance that provided the soundtrack for lovers’ lanes, kept the lonely company with ballgames ... ⌘ Read more
Louisiana Lawmakers Want to Release Youth Criminal Records. But First, Only In Majority Black Areas.
JACKIE FLYNN MOGENSEN, Reporter - Motherjones
_Stephan: The level of Republican racism is so open, so blatant, so racist, I can hardly believe it, but here it is. I thought, hoped, we had gotten past this level of nastiness._
_At Jetson Youth Center, ... ⌘ Read more_
Neil Gorsuch is preparing his revenge
Thom Hartmann, - Raw Story
_Stephan: Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch is a creature of Leonard Leo and The Federalist Society. He is an incompetent justice, a lifelong rightwing fanatical ideologue, and a man with a an agenda that will destroy social wellbeing. Here's a good description of what he is up to. By now it should be obvious to anyone who cares about facts that the MAGAt majority on the Supreme Court have transformed that institution fro ... ⌘ Read more_
There’s no mystery about why the U.S. has so many gun deaths
Fareed Zakaria, Opinion Columnist - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Here is the hard truth about guns in this country, "Every day in America, more than 200 people are wounded by guns; 120 are killed by them. Of these 120, 11 are children and teens. The leading cause of mortality among children in America is now death by a gun. The same number of deaths — 120 — will happen tomorrow, and the day after that, ... ⌘ Read more_
CNN told Trump town hall audience they could applaud but not boo: report
TATYANA TANDANPOLIE, Staff Writer - Salon
_Stephan: The more that comes out about the disaster CNN committed with its Criminal Trump townhall, the worse CNN looks. Read this and wonder, is the new head of CNN trying to turn it into Fox? I think we should all watch closely and see what happens next._
Crim ... ⌘ Read more
Mass killings leave Americans fearful, numb and wondering: Am I next?**
Joanna Slater, - msn
_Stephan: This is what the nearly daily mass murders are doing to the country's soul. When do you think we will wake up to what our obsessive gun psychosis is doing to us? Or will we wake up?_
_A mourner prays at the makeshift memorial at Nashville’s Covenant School on Monday, a day after t ... ⌘ Read more
The U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis Continues to Worsen: An International Comparison
Munira Z. Gunja, Evan D. Gumas, and Reginald D. Williams II, Senior Researcher, International Program in Health Policy and Practice Innovations \\| Research Associate, International Health Policy and Practice Innovations \\| Vice President, International Health Policy and Practice Innovations - The Commonwealth Fund
_Stephan: I wonder if the women in America r ... ⌘ Read more_
White men are the super spreaders of climate denialism
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson, Reporter - National Observer (Canada)
_Stephan: What I see going on in the world today is fear, resentment, and anger because the world is changing. Climate change is occurring, gender and sexuality issues are altering, the nature of employment has radically altered, race relations are eliminating White privilege. And I think men who like to feel in control, particularly White men, are in a ... ⌘ Read more_
18-to-20-year-olds can’t be barred from buying handguns, judge rules
Salvador Rizzo, Crime and Justice Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Here is the latest manifestation of the obsessive gun psychosis that plagues America. Consider this judge's decision in the following context: 18-to-20-year-olds commit gun homicides at triple the rate of adults 21 years and older._
_Handg ... ⌘ Read more_
US Fascism Is Spreading Under the Guise of “Patriotic Education”**
Henry A. Giroux , - truthout
_Stephan: I think we are in the middle of a slow civil war. It has been gathering force for years, but with January 6th, the mass killings, Dobbs, and, well you know the list, this war is reaching a new level of intensity, open warfare. The Republicans are openly, proudly, trying to create a christofascist White Supremacy, heterosexual male-dominant America in whi ... ⌘ Read more_
$26 Million To Support A Modern, Reliable, & Resilient American Clean Energy Grid
U.S. Department of Energy, - CleanTechnica
_Stephan: Here is some more good news from the Biden administration. Not enough by a long shot, but moving in the right direction._
_NREL’s new 19.9 MW substation, used for ARIES utility-scale grid integration research. Credit: Dennis Schroeder / ... ⌘ Read more_
Ediitor’s Note – The Failure of CNN
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: Yesterday, perhaps like you, I watched segments of the journalistic disaster of CNN, The Trump Townhall. I couldn't watch all of it. Wrong idea, wrong interviewer, wrong audience. Wrong questions. CNN was played by Trump like an out of tune piccolo. It was humiliating for CNN to watch Trump tell us his stock lies to the cheers of his MAGAts. It made it clear that even major media outlets don't under ... ⌘ Read more_
A new Supreme Court case seeks to legalize assault weapons in all 50 states
Ian Millhiser , Senior Correspondent - Vox
_Stephan: As the mass murders continue to occur in the United States, more such mass murders than days in the year so far in 2023, with most murders being committed by MAGAts armed with AR-15s or AK-47s, the Supreme Court is on the verge of handing down a decision that could legalize assault weapons and high capacity magazines in ... ⌘ Read more_
A Gun-Filled America Is a World of Fear and Alienation
JAMELLE BOUIE, Opinion Columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan: I do so agree with Jamelle Bouie. We are becoming a society where it, particularly in Red states, can be dangerous to go to the mall to shop. A democracy cannot survive in that environment, and I think that is what the MAGAts are trying to achieve._
_School friends console ea ... ⌘ Read more_
Timeline of mass shootings during Abbott’s tenure
Tasha Tsiaperas, - Axios
_Stephan: Gregg Abbott, the Viktor Orban of Texas, has degraded the social wellbeing of Texas in every way he can, from the electrical grid, to healthcare, to womens' rights, to library censorship, to mass murders. It amazes me that the people of Texas have supported and voted for this vulgar nasty man. But they have, and are now reaping what their voting choice has produced._
![](https://www.schw ... ⌘ Read more
Texas plan to put chaplains in public schools is latest move to inject Christianity
Talia Richman and Allie Morris, Staff Writer \\| Austin Bureau Correspondent - The Dallas Morning News
_Stephan: Gregg Abbott and the state legislature are trying to turn Texas into Viktor Orban's Hungary. They are gutting the public education system so that instead of giving children a fact-based education it promotes and indoctrinates children in Texas in ... ⌘ Read more_
Editor’s Note – What I am not leading with
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: I am not covering the welcome and fully justified conviction of criminal Trump, nor the indictment of George Santos in today's news because that is pretty much all media -- except the Fox propaganda operation -- has covered today. So I am sure you are up to speed on this. But I do want to say something I am not hearing. I think the game changed today. We are still a year and a half out ... ⌘ Read more_
When a mass shooter is a white supremacist. Does it even matter?**
CHAUNCEY DEVEGA, Senior Writer - Salon
_Stephan: I have been telling you for nearly 30 years that based on birth rates and immigration the United States, is going to racially become a nation with no racial -- read White -- majority. As this has been going on it has driven a subset of the white population into white supremacy madness; it is part of the Great Schism Trend. This is the same group t ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Outraged’ letter carriers demand action to stop robberies
DAVID SHARP, - abc News
_Stephan: Here is yet another aspect of what our national gun psychosis is doing. As the report says, "Robberies of postal carriers have exploded, surging 78% to nearly 500 in 2022, according to data provided by U.S. Postal Inspection Service to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act." We are becoming a country that attacks its mailmen. HOw do you feel about that? ... ⌘ Read more_
Japan’s plummeting university enrollment forecasts what could be ahead for the U.S.
Jon Marcus, - Los Angeles Times / The Hechinger Report
_Stephan: As this article describes Japan is seeing a significant decrease in university enrollment, a trend that is also beginning to happen in the U.S. This trend has all kinds of implications for our country's universities and colleges._
_Stephan: This is a story of evil greed, companies that put their profit above human decency. I am going to try and find out the names of these companies and what they sell, so you and I can not buy their products._
_Images released by the US labor depar ... ⌘ Read more_
Hitler-promoting antisemites will speak at Trump’s Miami hotel alongside Eric Trump, Lara Trump, and other Trump personalities
ERIC HANANOKI, - Media Matters
_Stephan: The Republican Party is openly becoming a White Supremacy, anti-semitic, male-dominant Neo-Nazis cult. Here is the proof of that statement._
_Christofascist ... ⌘ Read more_
New cars, once part of the American Dream, now out of reach for many
Rachel Siegel and Jeanne Whalen, Reporters - The Washington Post
_Stephan: I haven't bought a car since 2013 and realized as I read this story, I have not been paying enough attention -- other than the conversion to EVs -- to the trend going on with automobiles. This is just a very personal example of how wealth inequality is altering our society. America is a car culture, and when someo ... ⌘ Read more_
With each horrific shooting, Texas’ governor looks more inept
LZ GRANDERSON, Columnist - Los Angeles Times
_Stephan: I listened to Abbott look at the camera with a straight face and say the mass killings in Texas are the result of mental illnesses issues, not guns, and he wanted to focus on mental health as if the world didn't know that not long ago he cut $200 million from Texas mental health programs. Gregg Abbott is trying as hard as he can to become the Texa ... ⌘ Read more_
Texas mall shooter wore neo-Nazi symbol and shared ‘white-supremacist content online’: report
Maya Boddie, Staff Writer - AlterNet
_Stephan: I have spent the last two days listening to various news channels talk about the latest mass murder in Allen, Texas and what I find very notable about all of it is, first, the soulless crap I hear Republicans saying and, second, how little of the conversation and commentary focuses on the fact ... ⌘ Read more_
The demographics of gun ownership
, \\- Pew Research Center
_Stephan: This research is a bit out of date, but it is the latest authoritative data I can find. Although more Black men are arming themselves than in previous years, it is still the case that White men are the largest gun-owning demographic. And, most relevantly, most of the mass murders being committed are being done by White male MAGAts 18-34. What the data also shows is that the main reason Americans now own guns is not for ... ⌘ Read more_
Over 500 Former Government Officials Are Now Lobbying for Defense Contractors
Taylor Giorno, - truthout
_Stephan: I have direct personal experience with this. When I was in government as Special Assistant for Research and Analysis to the Chief of Naval Operations, I was approached several times by Defense Contractors, and I watched this happen with several others. I was a GS-15, roughly equivalent to a colonel in the army or a captain in the N ... ⌘ Read more_
Utah’s Suicide Pact With the Fossil Fuel Industry
, \\- Mother Jones
_Stephan: Yet another story about a Republican-controlled state, and the direction the party is choosing to take the state. This report, as the title gives it, is about "Utah's Suicide Pact with the Fossil Fuel Industry." I'll leave it at that._
_The White River in Northeastern Utah emerges from the Colorado mountains into the Uin ... ⌘ Read more_
Obesity in children is rising dramatically, and it comes with major – and sometimes lifelong – health consequences
Christine Nguyen, California Health Equity Fellow, University of Southern California - The Conversation
_Stephan: This report begins, "In the past two decades, children have become more obese and have developed obesity at a younger age. A 2020 report found that 14.7 million children and adolescents i ... ⌘ Read more_
Without Indigenous History, There Is No U.S. History
NED BLACKHAWK, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University - Time Magazine
_Stephan: The Republican Party, led by people like Gregg Abbott and Ron DeSantis and funded by uber-rich christofascist oligarchs is trying to gut the integrity of public education, and public colleges so that they don't teach instead they indoctrinate. In terms of history this means no teaching about what was do ... ⌘ Read more_
Fewer pronouns, more guns: Ron DeSantis’s plan to turn the US into Florida
, \\-
_Stephan: I tell you frequently that Republican governance is always inferior to Democratic governance, and that this can be verified by wellbeing social outcome data. I know that sounds like partisan politics but it is not. It is the measure of wellbeing for the people who live in Red states, compared with the wellbeing of people living in Blue states. Look at the chart ... ⌘ Read more_
Florida Lawmakers Don’t Know What They’re Doing With ESG
Molly Taft, - Gizmodo
_Stephan: I am seriously studying what is going on in Florida and Texas because in both states the Republicans are trying the same thing. To gerrymander themselves so they cannot be defeated, and to recreate Viktor Orban's model of goverment in Hungary: Christofascist anocracy. What surprises me is how docilely the voters of Florida and Texas are going along._
The gender spectrum is an understanding that gender ... ⌘ Read more
The Link Between Highly Processed Foods and Brain Health
, \\- DNTUZ
_Stephan:_
_Yet more evidence about what happens when one eats a highly processed food diet. This research reports the negative effects of such a diet on cognitive ability and emotional state. It occurred to me as I read this that people in Red states, particularly in the South, where people tend to eat more processed foods might have become MAGAts because of such a diet._
_Arizona Neo-Nazis MAGAt Republican Representative Paul Gosar_
Rep. Paul G ... ⌘ Read more
Yes, other countries have issued travel advisories for the U.S.
Megan Loe, - Verify
_Stephan:_
_As I watched reports this morning about yet another mass shooting, I wondered how other countries were reacting to the endless gun killings occurring daily in the United States. So I went look, and I wanted to be sure I got solid fact-based information. This is what I found, and it is horrifying._
_Electric car charging stations in the U.S. Credit: gerenme / iStock / Getty_
Last year was a good year for the electric vehicle market. Of new cars sold in 2022, electric cars made up 14%, or around ... ⌘ Read more
The Great Resignation . . . Of Election Officials
Michael Waldman, - Brennan Center for Justice
_Stephan:_
_This trend is what I see as the greatest threat to a successful election in 2024. The election workers, most older, who do their work as an act of patriotism, and the MAGAts have been threatening them and making them afraid. It is an attack on the functioning structure that makes our elections work._
_Texas_ _MAGAT Republican Governor Greg Abbott Credit: Eric Gay / AP_
On Friday, a man in Cleveland, Texas, killed five o ... ⌘ Read more
Colorado governor signs 4 major gun bills, drawing White House applause
John Frank, Reporter - Axios
_Stephan:_
_In Florida and Texas, and other Republican-controlled Red states the gun policy is to let anyone with no training walk around as they like carrying a concealed weapon. In the Blue states something quite different is going on in the Blue states. Here's what just happened in Colorado. What do you think the death by gun violence data from eac ... ⌘ Read more_
Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions
Stefan Gössling and Andreas Humpe, Western Norway Research Institute \\| Munich University of Applied Sciences - Cleaner Production Letters Journal
_Stephan:_
_Here is yet another peer-reviewed research paper on the effects wealth inequity is have on climate change. I see more and more of these data-based research studies, few receiving any media attention, and all making it clear that the very wealthy by their ... ⌘ Read more_
Kicked off Medicaid: Millions at risk as states trim rolls
AMANDA SEITZ and ANITA SNOW, Reporters - Associated Press
_Stephan:_
_Yet another story about a horrible trend in our horrible healthcare system. Because of what the Republicans are doing millions of families with young children are going through the process of losing Medicaid. Because of the corruption of the U.S. Congress, as a result of Citizens United, we are the only nation in the developed world wit ... ⌘ Read more_
The Polite Disdain of John Roberts Finds a Target
JAMELLE BOUIE, Columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan:_
_It is astonishing how cavalier Chief Justice John Roberts is. One of the things coming out of this trend is the revelation that the Justices essentially see themselves as above the law operating under their own standards that suit their personal interests. No one else in government thinks that, or would say things like this._
_Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch
Credit: Erin Schaff / Getty_
A nearly $2 m ... ⌘ Read more
Clarence Thomas Didn’t Recuse Himself From a 2004 Appeal Tied to Harlan Crow’s Family Business
Lauren Steussy, - Reader Supported News / Business Insider
_Stephan:_
_And here is the latest on Clarence Thomas. His corruption without any consequences, with stories breaking week after week, should offend every American. And as the polls are showing it has. Look at the dramatic drop in respect and sense of the court's fairness. Al ... ⌘ Read more_
Analysis: Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth
, \\- Carbon Brief
_Stephan:_
_This is the assessment by Shell, one of the largest carbon energy corporations in the world, showing that to meet the planetary temperature increase to 1.5C/2.7F fossil fuel growth must end immediately. Do you think that will happen, that they will give up striving for maximum profit? No, neither do I. The fossil fuel industry' ... ⌘ Read more_
