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Who Were Milwaukee’s ‘Sewer Socialist’ Mayors?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-13/who-were-milwaukee-s-sewer-socialist-mayors

That fact made the rounds again this week when the Democratic Party chose Milwaukee to host the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Many pundits, especially on the right, were quick to say the DNC selec…[Read more]

I need to send off a note to Rep. Jayapal about this. It would never have occurred to me in a million years to ask about her caste background.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/indias-engineers-have-thrived-in-silicon-valley-so-has-its-caste-system/

In more than 100 job interviews for contract work over the past 20 years, Kaila said he…[Read more]

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/01/11/astronomers-measure-enormous-planet-lurking-far-its-star

“Taking 218 days to orbit a star is an order of magnitude longer than most giant exoplanets we’ve measured,” Dalba said. “Kepler discovered thousands of planets, and only a few dozen had orbits of a couple hundred days or longer.”

Giant planets t…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/67402-trumps-sanctions-caused-20-billion-in-damages-to-cuba

“There is a palpable damage to the Cuban people’s wellbeing because of measures that were exactly taken to cause harm,” Tablada said, assuring her country hopes to improve relations with the US under the Biden administration.

The…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9deg/instacart-says-it-will-lay-off-all-of-its-unionized-workers

The decision to terminate the employees who unionized with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1546 in Skokie in early 2020 is part of a larger series of layoffs that Instacart announced on Tuesday. The news was buried in a blog post and…[Read more]

Keystone XL pipeline canceled. Here’s what it means for the future fight against fossil fuels

“We only achieve huge wins like this by speaking out together,” Madonna Thunder Hawk of the Lakota People’s Law Project said in a statement. “Rescinding KXL’s permit is a promising early signal that the new admin…[Read more]

Building Back a Better Medicare Program

A key win-win would be action on prescription drug pricing, a policy goal that the Trump Administration pursued aggressively, but with limited success. Some drug price containment strategies can be achieved through Executive branch regulatory actions, but such…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/21/countering-fascism-come

Perhaps the racism and craziness are stunning enough for Biden to realize that centrist cliches and corporate obeisance are no longer adequate counters. They no longer hold their own against the possibility of fascism to come.

Timothy Snyder puts it this way in the New York…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/21/clean-house-every-last-trumpist-biden-urged-keep-firing-spree-going-sacking-social

“Donald Trump’s cronies at the Social Security Administration are undermining our Social Security system—including underpaying tens of thousands of beneficiaries,” advocacy group Social Security Works tweeted Thursday m…[Read more]

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/joe-biden-inauguration-democrats-socialism

The problem is that our most important goals can’t be accomplished through the pressure group strategy. For example, Biden said on the campaign trail that he would veto Medicare for All. There’s no plausible scenario where he would willingly support nationalizing the sam…[Read more]

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/01/bernie-sanders-health-care-covid-19

There’s certainly every indication that Sanders intends to use his new role and the increased prominence that comes with it both proactively and aggressively. The senator dropped at least one significant hint to that effect in a recent interview, which saw him revive the i…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/67398-qthe-horror-the-horrorq-an-epitaph-for-trumps-nazi-presidency

How, you might ask, can he represent this coup by the super-rich as ‘giving’ power ‘back to’ ‘the people’? The people wouldn’t even be allowed on the grounds of the gated communities where Trump’s officials live.

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https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/67376-monarch-butterfly-population-moves-closer-to-extinction

The Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental organization that focuses on the conservation of invertebrates, recorded about 29,000 butterflies in its annual survey last winter. That was not much different than the tally the winter…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/20/people-are-demanding-action-incoming-senate-budget-chair-bernie-sanders-lays-out

Addressing critics who say such a sprawling legislative agenda is impractical given existing Senate obstacles such as the legislative filibuster, Sanders said Democrats can utilize the budget reconciliation process—which r…[Read more]