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https://crosscut.com/opinion/2021/10/congress-public-debt-and-end-neoliberalism

In fact, federal spending, per capita and adjusted for inflation, has continued to rise more or less steadily since 1970. State and local expenditures per capita increased 91% between 1977 and 2018. Not only that, despite some wilder swings of late, total government…[Read more]

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/722/548/077/hershey%E2%80%99s-mars-and-nestl%C3%A9-still-use-child-slavery-to-produce-their-chocolate/

https://theintercept.com/2021/10/16/daniel-baker-anarchist-capitol-riot/

On Tuesday, a Florida judge sentenced Daniel Baker, an anti-fascist activist, to 44 months in federal prison for social media posts that called for armed defense against possible far-right attacks on the state’s Capitol in the wake of the January 6 riots. Baker, a 3…[Read more]

https://www.dailyposter.com/health-care-lobbyists-admit-their-big-scam/

The insidious details were spelled out by the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) in a letter responding to a federal rule aiming to limit surprise billing. Though FAH’s comments defend the group’s own for-profit interests, the filing from FAH president and CEO Chip Kah…[Read more]

Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the murder of a Kennedy. He could spend less time in prison than this California man

The longer a person lives, the more medical care they need. This is as true for prisoners as anyone else. In Magee’s case, his care will come from an overburdened and understaffed p…[Read more]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-factory-became-ensnared-ukrainian-060037351.html

In recent weeks, the world has learned incredible new details about corruption, illicit financing and money laundering by the super-rich, thanks to the Pandora Papers. The papers are a tranche of nearly 12 million documents, revealed by an international group of…[Read more]

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https://www.vox.com/22709379/moderate-versus-progressive-democrats-climate

After months of discussion and debate, Democrats are at an impasse on a raft of infrastructure legislation that could make or break President Joe Biden’s effort to fight climate change. The rift, as it’s framed in countless news stories, is between progressives who wan…[Read more]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/15/2058232/-New-study-shows-vaccine-refusal-s-staggering-cost-in-human-life?detail=emaildkre

COVID-19 was the top cause of death in the U.S. for a period in late 2020 and early 2021, beating out the usual reliable No. 1 of heart disease. But by June, COVID-19 had dropped below cancer, accidents, stroke,…[Read more]

America’s Instinctive Fascism Creeps On

Come out to a red state (I’m writing from Iowa, trying to get used to people not wearing masks in grocery stores after a month in heavily masked Chicago) to catch a whiff of what’s afoot. Half of Trump Party (the GOP) voters would support seceding from the union. Mor…[Read more]

https://newrepublic.com/article/163911/mississippi-basic-income-democrats-child-tax-credit

The Magnolia Mother’s Trust is the longest-running basic income experiment since the Nixon era, and is among the first to try out the idea on a city level. But unlike recent programs in Stockton, California, or Newark, New Jersey, which select from a w…[Read more]

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/opinion/op_ed_commentaries/sen-bernie-sanders-lets-stand-together-to-protect-working-families-opinion/article_a3c7ca4e-ed65-522b-9693-a9dc32076187.html

This reconciliation bill is being opposed by every Republican in Congress as well as the drug companies, the insurance companies, the fossil fuel industry and the…[Read more]

Using microbes, a New Zealand start-up extracts solid gold from e-waste

When it recovers gold from electronic components, the company grinds circuit boards, RAM sticks, processors, and other metallic parts into sand-like powder, which goes through a leaching process that results in a liquid that holds all…[Read more]

https://www.rsn.org/001/sanders-isnt-caving-to-manchin.html

But he has increasingly tried to ramp up public pressure on Manchin as progressives lose patience with their colleagues, who they view as out of step with most congressional Democrats.

After Manchin held a press conference last week to reiterate that he supports a $1.5 trillion plan,…[Read more]

Here I sit with a broken heart
Popped six pills and my truck won’t start.

Underneath it–
If your pills were worth a f*ck
You’d get out and haul that truck.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/15/new-study-reveals-poor-low-income-voters-were-crucial-toppling-trump-2020

Released by the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC:NCMR); the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice; and Repairers of the Breach, the study shows that of the 168 million Americans who…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/15/climate-crisis-cop26-bill-mckibben

One is the continuing astonishing fall in the cost of renewable energy and the batteries with which to store it. This trend was evident by the time of Paris, but still new enough that it was hard to trust it: we still thought of wind and sun as expensive, a…[Read more]

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/576259-means-testing-is-the-wrong-approach-to-medicare-expansion

The debate over Medicare expansion has hurled a bad idea back into the public square: means-testing seniors’ health care benefits. This is something seniors’ advocates have long opposed, because it would hurt beneficiaries and und…[Read more]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/14/2058171/-Completely-unprompted-Trump-insists-at-GOP-donor-event-that-he-s-not-into-golden-showers

Oh, yes. As every publicist knows, the best way to handle a PR crisis is to bring up the awful thing you desperately want people to forget about five or more years after the fact. This is the stable-iest,…[Read more]