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More women are working now than at any time in U.S. history
Emily Peck, - Axios
_Stephan: This is good news and bad news. Women who want a job are working. But because the United States has such appallingly poor child care as a society that many working women have a very hard time getting child care for their kids. As a culture we just can't seem to make fostering wellbeing important._
_Stephan: Fascism is arising in countries around the world, and Israel, under Netanyahu, has joined the trend. As a country it is also, in my view a nation guilty of crimes against humanity. I am not the only one with this view as polls show. Israel is becoming a pariah nation, and now it is sabotaging journalism, a classi ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump’s bombardment of dishonesty: Fact-checking 32 of his false claims to Time
Daniel Dale, - CNN
_Stephan: Several readers wrote me to ask my views on the Time Magazine cover article about Trump, and I have seen commentators talking about it all day on various television channels. I read the interview, thought it was crap, and then found this CNN fact-check which shows it was just what I thought it was. It is indeed nothing but a sequence of ... ⌘ Read more_
Tyson Foods Dumped Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Slaughterhouse Pollutants Into U.S. Waterways, Report Finds
Paige Bennett, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: Yet another example of a corporation choosing greed for profit over integrity and fostering wellbeing. What can you do about something like this? The answer is simple, and it can be very effective. Do not ever buy anything produced by the Tyson F ... ⌘ Read more_
Are electric vehicles safer than gas-powered cars? Maybe for the passengers—but not for everyone else.
Jingwen Hu, Professor, Michigan Transportation Research Institute, University of Michigan - Live Science
_Stephan: Here is the best report I have found after considerable research on the safety of EVs. It is clearly an evolving technology, but moving in the right direction which, I think, is good news._
![](https://www ... ⌘ Read more
Mandatory evacuations ordered in Texas after heavy rain and floods
Phil Helsel, Staff Writer - NBC News
_Stephan: This flooding in Texas, I think, should be taken as a warning as to what climate change is doing, and how it is going to get worse and worse. Texas under the Republicans is not preparing properly, but then nor is much of the rest of the country, particularly the Red States. It is a sad business to watch because it is going to cause so much mis ... ⌘ Read more_
Employers added 175,000 jobs in April, as labor market growth slows
Lauren Kaori Gurley, Reporter - Microsoft Start / The Washington Post
_Stephan: Here is the latest on the labor market and, as the report describes it, "marks the 27th consecutive month that the unemployment rate was below 4 percent. This was last recorded during a low-unemployment period between 1967 and 1970, and again for a longer period between 1951 and 1953." Sadly, I don't think Bide ... ⌘ Read more_
An AI tool used in thousands of criminal cases is facing legal challenges
Tim Stelloh, - NBC News
_Stephan: Ai is becoming a factor in a wide range of public sectors with very little public discussion in Congress as to how this should be regulated. In this report, you can already see how AI is becoming a major factor in criminal cases in courts all over the country. As time goes on and the AI technology continues to develop I predict this is going ... ⌘ Read more_
Congressman Henry Cuellar in court accused of receiving $600,000 in bribes
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_Stephan:_
_Democrat Representative from Texas 28th District Henry Cuellar: ‘Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people of South Texas.’ Credit: Mark Schiefelbein / AP_
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The US justice department on Friday accused the Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar an ... ⌘ Read more
Why Florida banned a kind of meat that doesn’t really exist
Kenny Torrella, Staff Writer - VOX
_Stephan: More corruption of the political process. We are one of the most corrupt developed nations in the world, and this is yet another example of an existing industry trying to block an emerging technology in order to ensure its continuing profits even though it does damage to society's wellbeing._
_Credit: Rogelio V. Solis / AP_
A [carbon dioxide pipeline rupture](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gassing- ... ⌘ Read more
U.S. Loses Soft Power Edge in Africa
BENEDICT VIGERS, - The Gallup Organization
_Stephan: The geopolitical status of the United States, as this Gallup survey illustrates, is declining. Our international policies, largely because of the way the Congressional Republicans are controlling funding, and because of the choices being made by the Biden administration are causing a loss of confidence in America. Other world leaders see The Great Schism Trend as it is happening, and the very rea ... ⌘ Read more_
Abortion Bans Push Some in US to Travel to Mexico for Reproductive Health Care
Alejandra Marquez Guajardo , Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University. - truthout
_Stephan: With abortion essentially illegal in what was the old Confederacy, states now controlled by TCP Republicans, are seeing a dramatic decrease in the quality of female healthcare. Concurrently Mexico is becom ... ⌘ Read more_
In Rafah I saw new graveyards fill with children. It is unimaginable that worse could be yet to come
James Elder, UNICEF’s Global Spokesperson - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: It is my opinion that the Biden administration has committed a grievous error, or more accurately continued an American practice that over the last half-century has resulted in the murder of millions of people, to our great and everlasting shame. To ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Work Until You Drop Dead’: House GOP Plan Takes Ax to Social Security, Healthcare, Civil Rights
David Badash, Senior Editor - New Civil Rights Movement
_Stephan: If you are on Social Security. Medicare, Medicaid, or a fertile woman and you vote for Republicans this is what they tell us they are going to do to degrade your wellbeing. There is no secret plan, it is all very explicit, and yet I know millions of Americans are going t ... ⌘ Read more_
US Republicans vote to remove wolf protections
, \\- Agence France-Presse
_Stephan: The people of the 3rd District of Colorado should be ashamed of themselves for electing an ignorant slattern like Lauren Boebert, and it is a measure of the nasty incompetence of the Republican Representatives in the House that they followed her lead._
_A quarter of a million wolves once roamed from coast to coast befo ... ⌘ Read more_
29% of households have jobs but struggle to cover basic needs: They are ‘one emergency from poverty,’ one expert says
Jessica Dickler, Reporter - CNBC
_Stephan: America's grotesque wealth inequality is one of the major trends destroying our social wellbeing, and threatening our democracy. This is one of the reasons low income people are thinking about voting for Trump, or not voting at all. This trend has been ... ⌘ Read more_
How a Few Secret Donors Are Fueling the New Right-Wing Infrastructure
Isabela Dias, Staff Writer - Mother Jones
_Stephan: As a result of the rigging of the U.S. tax system by Republicans America has seen the rise of the oligarch, mostly fascist men who are actively and openly trying to take control of the government and end democracy. The story of the Bradley Impact Fund, recounted in this report, is one of the ways they are doing this. The only thing ... ⌘ Read more_
New book details Steve Bannon’s ‘Maga movement’ plan to rule for 100 years
Martin Pengelly , Reporter - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: This is what the TCP Republican Party has in mind to end American democracy and turn the country into a christofascist pseudo-democracy like Orban's Hungary. If you vote for a single Republican this is what you are voting for._
_Stephan: One of the things that stands out for me about states governed by Republicans is the sheer nastiness of their governance. Take the authorization of government murder of prisoners. Only five states -- Texas, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Alabama -- authorize such killings and, of course, they are all Red stat ... ⌘ Read more_
QAnon Was Born Out of The Sex and Moral Panic That Took Down Backpage.com
Trevor Aaronson, - The Intercept
_Stephan: Here is the best article I have seen on what I see as an alarming obsessive right-wing trend, the child sex trafficking conspiracies. Do you remember the conspiracy about Hillary and Bill Clinton running with other Democrats a child sex trafficking operation in the Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C., otherwise know ... ⌘ Read more_
Mass Graves in Khan Yunis Reveal Unspeakable Horror of US-Backed Gaza Invasion
Seraj Assi , Staff Writer - truthout
_Stephan: What I am seeing on college campuses today remains me more than anything of the anti-Vietnam war rallies of the of the late 60s early 70s. What Hamas did was a war crime, no question, but what Israel under Netanyahu has done is far worse. The way I see it Netanyahu like Trump, a fellow fascist, has destroyed his country ... ⌘ Read more_
Cybersecurity Researchers Find a New Ransomware Threat – Be Careful Where You Upload Files
Selcuk Uluagac, Professor of Computing and Information Science, Florida International University - Raw Story / The Conversation
_Stephan: The internet is becoming an increasingly dangerous world, as this article describes. Why? Because governments have not really comprehended or been willing to develop regulatory approaches that do not impact f ... ⌘ Read more_
How the Trump trial is playing in Maga world: sublime indifference, collective shrug
David Smith , -
_Stephan: I had the most informative email exchange this morning with a MAGAt, a man I have never met, who wrote to tell me I was being very unfair and biased against Trump. I was making him out to be a criminal. I responded by saying to him This is a man who is a convicted rapist, who has multiple fraudster convictions and is under indictm ... ⌘ Read more_
With US Workers on the March, Southern States Take Aim at Unions
Jessica Corbett, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: As this article describes, in the Southern Red states the Republicans are doing everything they can to undercut and stop unionization. It is part of The Great Schism Trend that is transforming the United States into two quite different countries. It surprises me that many hourly workers vote Republican because the Republican Party for deca ... ⌘ Read more_
56 Companies Responsible for Half of Global Plastic Pollution That Researchers Could Trace
Paige Bennett, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: Materialism and greed are destroying the earth's matrix of life, and plastic pollution is a major factor in this. Just 56 companies are responsible for over 50% of the branded plastic items that are creating this pollution, led by the Coca-Cola Corporation. Think about that for a minute. ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Where are they supposed to sleep?’: US supreme court appears divided on key homelessness case
Diana Ramirez-Simon, Dani Anguiano, Isabeau Doucet and agencies, Reporters and news agencies - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: When I read this report what I thought about was: Have we become this debased and sad a country that we can't even house the almost a million people who have nowhere to live, nowhere to sleep, except outdoors on the ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Doesn’t Care if Pregnant Women Live or Die’: Alito Slammed Over Emergency Abortion Remarks
David Badash, Senior Editor - New Civil Rights Movement
_Stephan: What I have taken away this week from the coverage of the Supreme Court is how corrupt, fascist, and anti-women, the male clique of the Supreme Court has become. These are not justices interested in the law and the wellbeing of American society. These men are political hacks who believe they themselves are above the law, and have the power to determine what ... ⌘ Read more_
Kristi Noem: It’s a ‘tragedy’ not to force rape victims to give birth
David Edwards, Senior Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: South Dakota has a population in 2024 of just 858,469, less than a third of the population of Seattle, Washington, and they chose the loathsome TCP/Republican Kristi Noem, who recently garnered a lot of attention for shooting a puppy she said she "hated", to be their governor. She also thinks women or girls who are raped or the victims ... ⌘ Read more_
This Whole King Trump Thing Is Getting Awfully Literal
JAMELLE BOUIE, -
_Stephan: Jamelle Bouie asks, "Trump has asked the Supreme Court if he is, in effect, a king. And at least four members of the court, among them the so-called originalists, have said, in essence, that they’ll have to think about it." I agree with what he has said. What I heard yesterday is the christofascist clique on the court actually do support the president as a king above the law. You also h ... ⌘ Read more_
Alabama lawmakers advance bill that could lead to prosecution of librarians
Kim Chandler, Reporter - Associated Press
_Stephan: Yet another Great Schism Trend sad story about a declining Red State. Alabama already has a semi-literate population and awful social outcome data on everything from childcare to racism, and they are about to make things worse. They are attacking not just their public and school libraries, they are also threatening libra ... ⌘ Read more_
The “feminist” case against having sex for fun
Eric Levitz , Staff Writer - Vox
_Stephan: A woman who told me she has been reading SR for 20 years sent me this article telling me, "You cover trends, but this is a trend I haven't seen you say a word about, but I live in Texas and I see this trend blossoming everywhere." I read the piece and did some research on it in the conservative media, and realized she is right. I find it hard to believe this kind of thinking is taking pow ... ⌘ Read more_
Preparing to Fight AI-Backed Voter Suppression
Mekela Panditharatne, Counsel for the Brennan Center’s Elections & Government Program - Brennan Center for Justice
_Stephan: I am increasingly concerned that AI misinformation is going to destroy a fair election in November. Here is an article describing what I mean but, happily, it also offers some solutions. We will have to see if the President, Congress, or state legislatures take this issue seriously._
_Credit: Adobe_
Clean energy, like so many commodities in this country, is [neither distributed evenly nor equally](https://grist.org/indigenous/a-transition-to-clean-energ ... ⌘ Read more
The stunning rebirth of the American labor movement
Robert Reich, Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California - AlterNet
_Stephan: It has always surprised me that so many working-class men and women vote Republican. Anyone who takes some time to do a few Google's quickly discovers that the two things that created the middle class in the United States were the unionization of workers, and the federal ... ⌘ Read more_
The world can cut plastic pollution by 80% by 2040, the UN says. Here’s how
Laura Paddison, Reporter - CNN
_Stephan: Here is yet another example of how profit, no matter the damage it does is the defining priority of most of today's human cultures. Here also is a possible solution to that damage. This, of course, is what the U.S. Congress ought to be working on, instead of the nonsense they now waste their time and our social wellbeing on._
Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort them, says charity
Dan Milmo, Global Technology Editor - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I have been tracking the trend of using AI to create fake porn that is used to humiliate or blackmail children, and sharing with you my outrage that the media is not properly covering this crisis, nor is the U.S. Congress even talking about it. This disgusting trend is going to affect an entire generation of ... ⌘ Read more_
No Soft Power Shake-Ups for Now
JULIE RAY, Managing Editor for World News - The Gallup Organization
_Stephan: Here is well-conducted research on global leadership. For the seventh year in a row Germany receives the highest approval rating. That's one thing that stood out for me. The other is that Biden is finally improving the world's assessment of the U.S.. The third is how really poorly criminal Trump was rated by the other countries of the world._
_Cr ... ⌘ Read more_
Universities Are Making Billions Gatekeeping Your Meds
HELEN SANTORO, - The Lever
_Stephan: College debt people know because they experience it, or know someone who does. But few seem to realize how the universities and the pharmaceutical industries are linked in greed. This is a part of the American Illness Profit System that few Americans seem to know about. This is also an aspect of the transition of universities in this country from education centers to profit o ... ⌘ Read more_
Idaho Goes to the Supreme Court to Argue That Pregnant Women are Second-Class Citizens
Jordan Smith, Staff Writer - The Interccept
_Stephan: America's horrible illness profit system that passes for healthcare in this country is the worst and most expensive in the developed world. And, as this article describes, it has been made even worse in states where Republicans are in control, relegating pregnant women in those states to second-cl ... ⌘ Read more_
Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient
Evan Bush, Reporter - NBC News
_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for years about the Matrix of Consciousness, and that all living beings have a measure of consciousness (See SR Archive and search on "Science slowly Accepts the Matrix of Consciousness.) I used to have fellow scientists, including parapsychologists tell me I was nuts; I was ... ⌘ Read more_
Expert won’t rule out Octopus Paul’s psychic ability
Amy Simmons, Reporter - ABC News (Australia)
_Stephan: On my Seaview expedition, at sea diving every day in the Caribbean, I developed a relationship with an octopus, one might even call it a friendship. I have never forgotten our interactions, and it was one of the things that made me recognize the reality of the Matrix of Consciousness. Once humanity accepts the Matrix it is going to require a very profound revision ... ⌘ Read more_
Do immigrants help or hurt the US economy? The answer might surprise you.
Stephen Humphries , Staff Writer - Christian Science Moniitor
_Stephan: The TCP Republicans are so pathetically and nastily stupid about immigration. The facts are that our economy would be in shambles were it not for immigrants. Read some facts. Oh, and do I need to say every human being in the United States without exception is either an immigrant or the descendant of an immi ... ⌘ Read more_
GOP operative loses appeal of conviction for funneling Russian money to Trump campaign
Travis Gettys, Senior Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: Listen to Marjorie Taylor Greene and you can hear a sitting Republican Congress member openly spew Russian propaganda on the House floor and in her interviews. The TCP/Republican Party has become a band of agents in Putin's attempt to influence the American election._
![](https://www.schwartzreport. ... ⌘ Read more
The U.S. just changed how it manages a tenth of its land
Maxine Joselow, Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: More good news from the Biden administration, although the TCP/Republicans who whore for the carbon industries are trying to cripple what Biden's Bureau of Land Management has done. If Trump were re-elected Biden's positive wellbeing changes would all be reversed, so keep that in mind when you vote, and remind your friends and family. The wellbeing of al ... ⌘ Read more_
The lowly light bulb is the Biden administration’s latest climate-fighting tool
Gautama Mehta, Contributing Writer - Grist
_Stephan: More good news from the Biden administration, this time from the Department of Energy. These small changes don't get much attention, basically none on television, and very little in newspapers, but it is small things like changing the efficiency of light bulbs that can have big effects on the wellbeing of society ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Just Die’: Colorado Elections Chief Who Took on Trump Sees 600% Spike in Threats
Andrew Perez, Adam Rawnsley, Ryan Bort, Asawin Suebsaeng, Staff Writers - RollingStone
_Stephan: This is why it is so important that the jurors in criminal Trump's latest trial remain anonymous. MAGAt world goaded on by Fox Propaganda and other MAGAt media are already trying to rig the trial of their leader and, as this article describes, these people are violent ... ⌘ Read more_
EDs Refused to Treat Pregnant Women, Leaving One to Miscarry in a Lobby Restroom
, \\- MedPage Today / Associated Press
_Stephan: This is what healthcare for pregnant women in Republican-controlled states has come to. I find it horrifying that the politicians, overwhelmingly White men with no medical training, would choose to treat the women in their states with this vicious absence of care. If I were a pregnant woman I would move to a Democr ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden administration restricts oil and gas leasing in 13 million acres of Alaska’s petroleum reserve
Becky Bohrer and Matthew Daly, Reporters - Associated Press
_Stephan: Here is some good news from the Biden administration. I see it as another sign that the Democrats are serious about dealing with climate change, and are taking steps to end the carbon energy era. This will also preserve the ecology of Alaska and, thus, co ... ⌘ Read more_
Criminalizing the Unhoused Costs More Than Housing Them
FARRAH HASSEN , - truthdig
_Stephan: As I have been telling you for the 33 years I have been doing SR, of the options available in any situation fostering wellbeing is always the most efficient, most productive, most decent and, as this report confirms once again, the cheapest alternative. The fact that over and over American governance does not pick the option that fosters wellbeing is a measure of our societ ... ⌘ Read more_
There’s a thriving Russian black market for Elon Musk’s Starlink terminals, with the tech being sent far beyond Ukraine
Mia Jankowicz, - Business Insider
_Stephan: This is an appalling story showing Elon Musk to be a modern-day Benedict Arnold. I think he should lose his citizenship and be denied the right to do business in the United States. Americans made him a multi-billionaire, and he is now working t ... ⌘ Read more_
The economic commitment of climate change
Maximilian Kotz, Anders Levermann and Leonie Wenz, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany \\| - nature
_Stephan: I am beginning to see in the science literature a really serious analysis of the economic damage that is going to be wrought by climate change, and it is alarming. This paper in nature is quite technical but I decided to bring it to your attention to make this point. While the Republican/TCP cretins in ... ⌘ Read more_
Nobody “Earns” a Billion Dollars. We Need a Wealth Tax.
C.J. Polychroniou , Staff Writer - truthout
_Stephan: As this interview report says, "The planet is getting hotter and the richest 1 percent of humanity accounts for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66 percent. Indeed, the interconnection between climate change and economic inequality has emerged as a central theme in serious economic analyses and a focal point of climate activism." Much of this is a result o ... ⌘ Read more_
The Car Fueled Entirely by the Sun Takes Huge Step Towards Production
Andy Corbley, Founder and Editor of World At Large - Good News Network
_Stephan: Here is the next generation of EVs. This is very good news. Add roads that charge vehicles, and humans seriously move out of the carbon vehicle era._
_Credit: Aptera / X_
One of the most hotly anticipated concept cars in recent ... ⌘ Read more
Another House Republican to quit citing Capitol Hill ‘dysfunction’**
Kathleen Culliton, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Never in the last century have so many people of one party walked away from a career in Congressional public office. I don't think anything could make it clearer that the TCP have taken over the Republican Party and those in the House have no interest in actually governing to foster wellbeing. They have other agendas, other priorities, an ... ⌘ Read more_
There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There’s 764
ALI WINSTON, Contributing Writer - Wired
_Stephan: On balance, I am not sure the internet is a positive influence in society. I see more and more stories about White supremacists organizing violence, the fake porn of barely pubescent girls circulated through their schools, the scamming of the elderly, and the weaponization of lies to manipulate voters. Then, today, I came across this one. And while all this dam ... ⌘ Read more_
Bioengineered Corneas Stand to Cure Blindness For Millions of People Around the World
Andy Corbley, Staff Writer - Good New Network
_Stephan: Here is what looks like wonderful good news. As a person who has worn glasses or contacts since I was 8 years old, I immediately reacted with positive thoughts when I read this report. I will stay in touch with this emerging technology and keep SR readers up to date._
LONDON, U.K. — For the first time in almost two decades of polling, the United States now lags behind most of the other leading industrialized na ... ⌘ Read more
World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts
Phoebe Weston, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Today I did my podcast for Friday focused on how materialism is destroying the earth's matrix of life. I covered a lot of material that few people, except those doing the actual research, know about or talk about. Here is yet another example of what I mean. We are creating a tragedy over which future generations will condemn ... ⌘ Read more_
Most Student Loan Borrowers Have Delayed Major Life Events
STEPHANIE MARKEN, - The Gallup Organization
_Stephan: Because America has become a society that has only one social priority, profit, we have distorted all of our values. Here is but one of many examples. Because of this distortion college has become a profit source instead of something society wants everyone to have a chance at. For those who are able to go debt is an issue shaping their lives. Seventy ... ⌘ Read more_
Zelensky Issues Dire Warning as Putin Pushes Forward
Brendan Cole, Staff Writer - Newsweek
_Stephan: Because of the TCP/Republican Putin supporters in the House the United States is destroying its international reputation and putting itself at grave risk by blocking the support Ukraine needs. I am ashamed of what these cretins are doing to our country, and you should be too._
_ ... ⌘ Read more_
Zelensky Issues Dire Warning as Putin Pushes Forward
Brendan Cole, Staff Writer - Newsweek
_Stephan: Because of the TCP/Republican Putin supporters in the House the United States is destroying its international reputation and putting itself at grave risk by blocking the support Ukraine needs. I am ashamed of what these cretins are doing to our country, and you should be too._
 are dying at a much higher rate, particularly in Red states, than men and women their age in Blue states, and this is happening in part because Red states have not expanded Medicaid. And yet, th ... ⌘ Read more_
What’s the Happiest Country on Earth?**
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_Stephan:_
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The latest World Happiness Report has some unhappy news for Americans.
For the first time in the report’s 12-year history, the U.S. didn’t earn a spot among the top 20 happiest countries in the world. It’s No. 23 — down from a 15th- ... ⌘ Read more
Tradwives, stay-at-home girlfriends and the dream of feminine leisure
Monica Hesse, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: American culture is in turmoil. This is an article on "tradwives" as they are called, women who seek and prefer a 1950s lifestyle where their husbands work and they stay at home, and they are happily submissive to their husband's will. This article describes the movement but does not really focus on what I think is the real reason this tr ... ⌘ Read more_
Sinking Cities Spell Slow-Motion Disaster for Critical Infrastructure
, Mother Jones -
_Stephan: With increasing frequency, I am seeing reports of what climate change is going to cause, and am struck by how many things no one considered are going to be impacted. Here is an example of what I am finding when I research climate change, and what I mean by the surprising effects it is having._
_The April 8 eclipse as seen from Pinnacle Mountain State Park outside Little Rock, Ark. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth / Inside Climate News_
Yesterday, all eyes pointed toward the sky as millions of people ... ⌘ Read more
Indoor farms are remaking the produce market — at a cost to the planet
Anna Phillips, Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: This article caught my attention, and I bring it to yours because it makes very clear that new technologies designed to cope with climate change are not always the initial successes they are originally thought to be, and it requires further changes in subsequent generations of the technology to get the benefit being sought. All ... ⌘ Read more_
The inadvertent geoengineering experiment that the world is now shutting off
James Temple, Staff Writer - MIT Technology Review
_Stephan: This is yet another example of the subtle complexities humanity faces as we attempt to deal with the processes of climate change we have set in motion that threaten our existence. It is becoming ever more clear as well that you don't want to live in a state controlled by the TCP (former Republican Party). The ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Open season to kill’: GOP leader wants to ‘deputize’ civilians with guns in case of emergencies
Maya Boddie, Staff Writer - AlterNet
_Stephan: In yesterday's SR I tried to give you a sense of the growing zeitgeist of civil violence I am seeing in a wide spectrum of media. This is particularly a White male Republican (what I now call TCP) phenomenon, and it is getting worse each day as we move closer to the November election. Here ... ⌘ Read more_
Stamp prices poised to rise again, for the 2nd time this year
Kate Gibson, Reporter - CBS News
_Stephan: The price of stamps is going to go up for a second time in a year even as mailings are going down. This is all part of the Dejoy plan to make the USPS a profit-making organization instead of a public service._
_Forever stamp Credit: USPS_
When it comes to stamps, the word “forever” o ... ⌘ Read more
Major mail delivery delays raise concerns about voting in the 2024 elections
Shannon Pettypiece, Staff Writer - NBC News
_Stephan: One of the major mistakes the Biden administration has made during Biden's tenure, one that has surprised me since it is so obviously a problem, is what Louis Dejoy, a Trumper, has done to the U.S. Post Office. What has happened to America's oldest national institution is a scandal you rarely hear or read about. But, ... ⌘ Read more_
The rich are getting second passports, citing risk of instability
Robert Frank, Reporter - CNBC
_Stephan: The rich are laying plans to abandon the country their wealth and their funding of christofascist politicians and policies has driven into a crisis that may end what the United States has been for over two centuries. I think that should be taken as a very significant alarm bell._
![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot- ... ⌘ Read more
Team Human vs. Team Posthuman—Which Side Are You On?**
ÉMILE P. TORRES , Contributing Writer - truthdig
_Stephan: I am very concerned about AI, and I think you should be as well. I don't think we are headed down the road of The Matrix movies, but I do think AI is a major threat working to end our democracy. AI has become the key to the weaponization of misinformation in a nation where a majority of the population is only marginally literate and gets what news they do get f ... ⌘ Read more_
UN Climate Chief: We Have ‘Two Years to Save the World’ From Climate Crisis
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: The people who actually study climate change, who know the facts, are getting more and more alarmed. Here is an example of what I mean. We are about to have a national election that will define our state and federal governments. Do you see climate change as a major discussion amongst the candidates? You do no ... ⌘ Read more_