The New York Times has done an analysis of the striking degree of overlap between the incendiary rhetoric of right-wing media provocateurs and the language used by the Texas man who confessed to killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso. How the El Paso Killer Echoed the Incendiary Words of Conservative Media Stars … Read more
Two conclusions regarding this Administration’s anti-immigration policies can be reached with last weeks I.C.E. raids in Mississippi and today’s release of the pending Executive Order on changing the guidelines for Legal Immigration. They are: Illegal Immigrants can be charged and detained away from their families while the employers who broke the law hiring them (and … Read more
Axios recently reported that “17 countries use more than 80% of their available water supplies every year, meaning droughts or increased water demand for agriculture and growing cities could leave them at risk of crisis, according to the World Resources Institute.” Last year, the nearly 4 million people who live in Cape Town, South Africa … Read more
According to a new United Nations climate report release last week, agricultural practices and people’s diets will need to change as rising temperatures diminish the earth’s ability to absorb dangerous emissions. UN panel calls for changes to farming, diets to stave off climate change: The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on … Read more
On July 26, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler filed a petition in federal court to obtain secret grand jury material underlying former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, arguing the panel needs the information as it weighs whether to pursue impeachment of President Donald Trump. You can read the petition here. The Judiciary committee’s filing says the panel … Read more