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Bernie Sanders: This Is an Existential Threat

July 22, 2022

Massive heatwaves. People dying. More drought. Given the extreme weather, it is incomprehensible that Congress is incapable of acting.

This Tech May Be a Geothermal Energy Breakthrough

July 22, 2022

Geothermal energy has the potential to power the world. A gyrotron heat ray that melts rock (this is real!) might unlock this potential and make it a better renewable energy source than solar and wind.

"The Committee Telling Josh Hawley To Go F Himself"

July 22, 2022

Stephen Colbert and Chris Hayes discuss the Jan. 6th Committee footage of Senator Josh Hawley fleeing the insurrection scene of the violence during the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol.

July 22, 2022

After Hearing 8: Watchdogs Say Trump ‘Must Be Prosecuted’

Jake Johnson Common Dreams

"Trump did what he did—and refused for hours to stop the violence—because it was part of a determined, months-long plan to carry out a coup. This was a crime."

July 22, 2022

Is Georgia Where Democracy Lives—Or Dies?

Maya Wiley The New Republic

A Georgia prosecutor may bring Donald Trump to account. At the same time, Georgia Republicans are trying to rig this year’s elections.

July 22, 2022

Where Is the Supreme Court’s “Ordered Liberty” Going?

Stephanie Guilloud Truthout

The abortion ban map is a Southern map. The Supreme Court's 'ordered liberty' judicial vision is rooted there too. But the South is also the birthplace of the Freedom Movement and emancipatory visions.

July 22, 2022

Hollow Men: All the Cowards of Jan. 6

Juan Cole Informed Comment

Much of the Republican Party has been reduced to quivering protoplasm, whimpering under the lash of Trump’s whiny invective.

July 22, 2022

Friday Nite Videos | July 22, 2021

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"The Committee Telling Josh Hawley To Go F Himself." This Tech May Be a Geothermal Energy Breakthrough. Bernie Sanders: This Is an Existential Threat. Hallelujah: A Journey, A Song. The 60,000 Year Old Artefact Rewriting Neanderthal History.

July 21, 2022

Ghana’s Unions and Left Reject Bailout Talks With the IMF As Economic Crisis Spirals

Tanupriya Singh People’s Dispatch

Ghana initiated talks with the International Monetary Fund to seek a bailout amid a major economic crisis. The Socialist Movement of Ghana and trade unions reject this, arguing it will do nothing to alleviate the economy's structural problems.

July 21, 2022

The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet

Jane LaTour New York Labor History Association

Many books describe organizing drives and some capture the transformative impact these campaigns can have on the participants. The empowerment that happens when a worker decides to engage in collective action, and this book documents that reality...