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Fossil Fool

Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Substack
How Europe took Trump for a ride

Confront or Cave? Federal Pressure Splits the Building Trades

Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Keith Brower Brown Labor Notes
One week into President Donald Trump’s first term, top building trades officers were chumming it up in the Oval Office, celebrating a reboot of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. But when Trump returned to office this year, things were very different.

The Ideology of Artificial Intelligence

João Camargo Common Dreams
The AI hype is essentially propaganda, the main purpose of which is to accelerate layoffs, to fuel financial speculation, and to divert investment and resources toward a new jump into the abyss by economic and political elites.

The Drying Planet

Abrahm Lustgarten, Graphics by Lucas Waldron, Illustrations by Olivier Kugler for ProPublica ProPublica
As the climate warms, new data shows huge swaths of land across the globe are quickly drying, threatening humanity’s supply of fresh water.

‘People Don’t Want To Be Complicit in War Crimes’

Janine Jackson FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
People are starting to really see that direct line between themselves as US taxpayers, and where and what their money is being spent on, and just how it’s actually being used to abuse, assault and murder Palestinians.