"It's time to treat the destruction of our climate as what it really is—a crime."
Climate change and environmental destruction will prevail as long as money prevails as the god that national leaders (and almost all the rest of us) worship, or don’t know how not to worship.
The lowest earners "were already not going to get very much under the prior version," wrote Matt Bruenig. "But now they aren't going to get anything."
"Veterans see first-hand the cost of war and it is imperative that we work to minimize the Pentagon's carbon footprint."
"The story of the midterm elections will be whether Biden chooses to spend the next 12 months focusing on speechifying pablum or substantive corporate accountability."
"With every passing day, more people in this country are being blocked from accessing abortion care and our leaders in the Senate must act."
It doesn’t pay to be right about America’s wars, especially from the start. Nobody cares. Nobody remembers.
"The U.S. must use its vast legal powers to force or compel Moderna to share the tech and help boost global production of the vaccine."
"As long as Trump and his co-conspirators walk free, American democracy is in danger."
"Agreed at COP26 is an inadequate agreement that allows coal to continue for nearly 20 more years."
Nothing is more important to the future of the republic and to the future of the Democratic party than voting legislation.
It seems to me that the HBO comedian wanted to make a joke about what a racially biased test question might look like—and whiffed at it pretty terribly.
"One sad, greedy man, cannot stand in the way of lifesaving climate legislation."
"After being hunted down, cornered, and shot for being a Black man in a white Georgia neighborhood, Ahmaud Arbery is again denied justice."
"These terms mean that over 4,000 to 6,000 families can get their lives back," said the president of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance.
Ben van Beurden's doubling down on fossil fuels came a month after he was directly confronted over his company's role in the climate emergency.
"The flood of disinformation unleashed by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook is drowning audiences around the world."
According to the Pentagon's assessment, the military "followed all rules and then killed an entire family," said one critic. "Might the rules, or the whole drone project, need a review?"
"This public money needs to be urgently redirected into a just energy transition."
"The rapid rebound in emissions as economies recover from the pandemic reinforces the need for immediate global action on climate change."
Like our billionaires at home, foreign oligarchs and despots are sheltering untold sums from taxation across our country.
Republicans should heed Churchill's warning about appeasing authoritarians: "Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, it will eat him last."
"We've had enough of these theatrics," declared an Indivisible activist, calling on Democrats to "remove the filibuster from the Senate Republicans' obstructionist toolbox."
"Democrats have already cut trillions of dollars of vital aid for American families from their reconciliation plan, so to add a significant tax cut for the wealthiest Americans in its place would be adding insult to injury."
If we can't even do the easy things, has the very concept of progress in America died?
