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The only reason we can exist, today, is because one tiny imperfection in the early Universe allows the stars to grow hundreds of times as massive.

Net neutrality is one of the defining workers’ rights and civil rights issue of our time. We all know the internet is driving changes in culture, politics and the economy. It is also one of the key spaces where workers can organize—and where mass movements for racial and economic justice blossom and build power.

There are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery. -Mother Jones

With friends in the White House, and a pending $49 billion merger, Big Tobacco is back. The US remains the “world’s largest tobacco profit pool” outside of China, with “exciting” prospects for “long term growth”. Mergers and acquisitions have allowed the deadly industry to squeeze huge profits from customers, increasingly the poor, less educated and marginalized, and the supply chain, contract farmers, and workers, including children, who work for poverty wages.

With its surreal twist on death, birth, and reincarnation, the poet Philip St. Clair reminds us that some memories we don’t ever want to hear again.

Because Republicans have been so successful in keeping many of their residents from getting insurance, they think the country should trust them to overhaul heath care.

One of the world’s best-performing economies, Sweden, has already adopted a carbon tax. And the Swedes have simultaneously sustained their strong growth without US-level emissions.

“We thought that building a Trump Tower next to an Agalarov tower [in Moscow] — having the two big names — could be a really cool project to execute”

If presidents could self-pardon, they could engage in monstrously wrongful and criminal conduct with impunity.