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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2021/apr/13/sea-level-rise-climate-emergency-harold-wanless

If seas rise 20 feet over the next 2,000 years, our children and their descendants may find ways to adapt. But if seas rise 20 feet or more over the next 100 to 200 years — which is our current trajectory – the outlook is grim. In tha…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/13/why-poorest-millionaires-should-stop-worrying-about-wealth-tax

The ultra-rich have been so relentless in making their case — or having hired guns make it for them — that they’ve managed to largely shed their tax burden in recent years even as they’ve grown spectacularly, exorbitantly, astrono…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/13/republican-party-must-be-purged-nazis-and-fascists

Today the libertarian—and petro-billionaires that Ronald Reagan welcomed to the party so completely own it that no Republican is willing to admit that climate change is real, that the American people actually like Social Security and Medicare, or t…[Read more]

https://www.dailyposter.com/p/the-grassroots-battle-to-change-americas

For the first time ever, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is joining forces with major unions on a national campaign. On March 7, DSA, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Union of Painters and Associated Trades (IUPAT) launched an effort…[Read more]

https://www.ozy.com/good-sht/the-ancient-water-tech-that-could-save-lima/259298/

From afar, they appear to be silvery serpents zigzagging down the Andean highlands. Up close, though, they turn out to be ancient stone ditches. Known as amunas, these vestiges of pre-Incan technology are now being restored and put back into use. And they might even…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/06/italian-business-owner-to-sue-us-treasury-over-blacklist-error

Alessandro Bazzoni, who owns a graphic design company in Sardinia, has been unable to trade since 19 January, when his business was slapped with sanctions as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on blacklisted Venezuelan crude o…[Read more]

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/4/12/22379501/boston-dynamics-spot-pee-beer-michael-reeves

The latter example comes from the talented, imaginative, piss-focused YouTuber Michael Reeves, who managed to get his hands on a unit before using his tech expertise and dirty mind to turn Spot into the ultimate drinking buddy. With some quick code and a…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/68827-noam-chomsky-on-biden-vs-trump-his-new-book-and-why-manufacturing-consent-qis-much-easier-nowq

This is why I’ve always admired Chomsky a great deal, even if I sometimes disagree with his politics (or his takes on sports for that matter). Unafraid of criticism, few people of his stature in A…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e43y/scientists-turned-spiderwebs-into-music-and-its-hauntingly-beautiful

Spiderwebs are some of the most alluringly complex natural phenomena that you are likely to encounter on a morning walk. Spiders use the minute vibrations in their webs to perceive their environment, so what might it sound like if we could…[Read more]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/elon-musks-neuralink-we-taught-a-monkey-to-play-pong-with-its-mind/

The narrator said an iPhone can be paired with the Neuralink devices in the monkey’s brain to observe it. It’s connected “just as you might pair your phone to a Bluetooth speaker”. g

The devices read regions of the monkey’s motor cortex to observe…[Read more]

https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2021/04/12/new-york-protest-demands-end-to-u-s-ukraine-war-in-donbass/

On April 10, anti-war activists rallied at the U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Center in New York’s Times Square to demand justice for 5-year-old Vladik Shikhov, killed April 3 by a Ukrainian drone strike on his Donetsk village. They called for a…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/68810-clean-energy-bonanza-bidens-budget-tries-to-undo-trumps-damage

While Trump’s 2020 budget proposal didn’t mention the word “climate” once, Biden’s plan mentions it 146 times. It asks Congress for $14 billion “across nearly every agency” to advance clean energy and zero out U.S. emission…[Read more]

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https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/68795-its-a-very-scary-proposition-gun-makers-decry-bidens-plan-to-end-liability-protections

During remarks announcing new executive actions to curb gun violence Thursday, Biden took a detour as he imagined being able to ask God to immediately change one gun law, and it wasn’t eliminating…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/68797-will-biden-cancel-student-loan-debt-as-college-costs-spiral-heres-what-hes-considering

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., have said they believe the president has the authority to cancel $50,000 in loans, and they urged him to do so…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/68798-are-we-finally-ending-the-reagan-thatcher-era-of-government-is-evil

They’ve ruled under the ideology that private, profit-making corporations are always superior to the government, even when it comes to providing critical public services to the people. That anything getting in the way of their…[Read more]

Sanders Calls on Democrats to Pursue Big Legislative Agenda Without Republicans

Sanders’ remarks came as the Democratic leadership is weighing how to proceed with the roughly $2.3 trillion infrastructure package President Joe Biden unveiled last month, a proposal that will serve as a starting point for c…[Read more]