Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Friday, June 28, 2024
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Midweek Reading
The Continuing Phony Debate on “Free Trade”Mocking anti-vaxxers’ COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes — but may be necessaryNew Climate Maps Show a Transformed United StatesCould Being Cold Actually Be Good for You?Stop calling workers “low skill”Fauci Caught on Hot Mic Calling Republican Senator a ‘Moron’ After Heated ExchangeCannabis compounds can stop the virus that causes COVID-19 from entering human cells by binding to the spike protein and blocking it from infecting people
Friday, November 26, 2021
Weekend Reading
The Butcher of HavannaCovid Killed More Americans in 2021 Than 2020, and the GOP Death Cult Is Mostly to BlameThe Truck Driver Shortage Doesn’t Exist. Saying There Is One Makes Conditions Worse for DriversSt. Jude Hoards Billions While Many of Its Families Drain Their SavingsTurns out, Harvard students aren’t that smart after allHuman History Gets a Rewrite
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Monday, September 7, 2020
Holiday Reading
The Fed has a new approach to inflation: What it means for your savings, credit-card debt — and your mortgage rate
U.S. Debt Is Set to Exceed Size of the Economy Next Year, a First Since World War II
Black-Scholes Option Pricing is Wrong
10 Crucial Things That Result From Einstein’s Theories of Relativity
U.S. Debt Is Set to Exceed Size of the Economy Next Year, a First Since World War II
Black-Scholes Option Pricing is Wrong
10 Crucial Things That Result From Einstein’s Theories of Relativity
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Weekend Reading
Trump’s Business More Fraudulent Than Previously Known
Fox News Is Now a Threat to National Security
Capitalism has distorted our understanding of community — and it’s making us vulnerable to manipulation
A Recession Hasn’t Arrived (Yet). Here’s Where You’ll See It First.
Fox News Is Now a Threat to National Security
Capitalism has distorted our understanding of community — and it’s making us vulnerable to manipulation
Lowest Tax Burdens by Nation (US is 4th lowest)
Zielinski's Ex-Staffer Now Opposing His Mayoral Bid
We should all be appalled by Donald Trump's tweet about Greta Thunberg
‘Tax the Rich’ is no longer just a political sloganZielinski's Ex-Staffer Now Opposing His Mayoral Bid
We should all be appalled by Donald Trump's tweet about Greta Thunberg
A Recession Hasn’t Arrived (Yet). Here’s Where You’ll See It First.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Weekend Reading
The U.S. Only Pretends To Have Free Markets
So We're Supposed To Treat Donald Trump With Respect, After All This? Oh, Hell No
Elizabeth Warren's Plan To Pay For Medicare-For-All, Explained
Elizabeth Warren Proves She Does Her Homework With Impressive Plan To Fund Medicare For All
Senator Warren's Answer On Taxes And Medicare For All Is Exactly Right
How Elizabeth Warren Can Address The Medicare For All Question
The Happy, Healthy Capitalists Of Switzerland
Upgrade The New Deal, Riemer Declares
Everyone Deserves Clean Water
For Elizabeth Warren, The Wealth Tax Is About More Than Money
United States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than Education
Thousands Of Scientists Around The World Declared A Climate Emergency And Warned Of "Untold Suffering"
The Debate Over Whether The Very Rich Pay Lower Taxes Than You, Explained
Unions Are Pushing Members To Run For Office - And It's Paying Off
We Get It, Rich Guys Are Not Into Elizabeth Warren
If Corporations Are Being Run To Maximize Returns To Shareholders, Why Are Returns So Low?
Did Warren Pass The Medicare Test? I Think So
Only A Global Green New Deal Can Save The Planet
Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistencies
If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? Turns Out It's Just Chance
So We're Supposed To Treat Donald Trump With Respect, After All This? Oh, Hell No
Elizabeth Warren's Plan To Pay For Medicare-For-All, Explained
Elizabeth Warren Proves She Does Her Homework With Impressive Plan To Fund Medicare For All
Senator Warren's Answer On Taxes And Medicare For All Is Exactly Right
How Elizabeth Warren Can Address The Medicare For All Question
The Happy, Healthy Capitalists Of Switzerland
Upgrade The New Deal, Riemer Declares
Everyone Deserves Clean Water
For Elizabeth Warren, The Wealth Tax Is About More Than Money
United States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than Education
Thousands Of Scientists Around The World Declared A Climate Emergency And Warned Of "Untold Suffering"
The Debate Over Whether The Very Rich Pay Lower Taxes Than You, Explained
Unions Are Pushing Members To Run For Office - And It's Paying Off
We Get It, Rich Guys Are Not Into Elizabeth Warren
If Corporations Are Being Run To Maximize Returns To Shareholders, Why Are Returns So Low?
Did Warren Pass The Medicare Test? I Think So
Only A Global Green New Deal Can Save The Planet
Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistencies
If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? Turns Out It's Just Chance
Sunday, November 3, 2019
It's Time For Real Change
Nancy Pelosi Is Worried 2020 Candidates Are on Wrong Track
Pelosi claims these are fringe, liberal, San Francisco, pipe-dream policies. "What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi said.
Being a Midwesterner, I have to inform Pelosi she is way off. In what has been referred to as the Rust Belt, deindustrialization has decimated many good paying jobs, left workers with less and less of a voice, and left many without decent health care or the hope of a stable retirement.
Most Midwesterners would be happy to see the playing field tilted in favor of workers rather than corporations and the rich.
As the article stated, "The speaker’s concerns reflect those of many Democratic leaders and donors who believe that left-wing policies will alienate swing voters and lead to defeat."
Translation - big moneyed donors like their power and wealth and they don't want to give any of either up.
Pelosi and the current Democratic leadership need to 'grow a pair' or get out the way. We can't keep pushing climate change policies down the road; we can't keep taking from workers and giving to the already wealthy; all citizens deserve good health care; all citizens should be able to retire with dignity; we should all expect clear air and drinking water; our elections should be free, fair and representative. If you don't have the spine or passion to fight for real change for the majority of Americans, you don't belong in politics.
Pelosi, Bill Clinton and the triangulation-gang got us to this point. Always capitulating and cutting deals, slowly moving the Democratic party more and more to the right. So much so, that the difference between the parties became almost indistinguishable. Many former Democrats started voting for the Republicans - "Heck, they're not so different and the Republicans will cut taxes, so I might as well vote for them."
These triangulators made the Democratic party the Republican-light party. Yet, we're supposed to let them keep driving the car? These Pelosi Democrats are the ones who've been in power as wages have stagnated, unions have been destroyed, elections have been stolen and the standard of living for most working Americans has stagnated. They have betrayed their Democratic base and the liberal policies that made this country great in the first place.
It's time for real change. A new generation of Democratic leaders needs to take the wheel.
Those liberal ideas that fire up the party’s base are a big loser when it comes to beating President Donald Trump.Pelosi believes most American don't want or don't support: improved health care (Medicare For All), improved infrastructure, public elections, taxing corporations and the rich, green (environmentally friendly) policies, getting rid of the electoral college, a higher minimum wage, and improved labor policies. Just to name a few of the Sanders/Warren policy prescriptions.
Pelosi claims these are fringe, liberal, San Francisco, pipe-dream policies. "What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi said.
Being a Midwesterner, I have to inform Pelosi she is way off. In what has been referred to as the Rust Belt, deindustrialization has decimated many good paying jobs, left workers with less and less of a voice, and left many without decent health care or the hope of a stable retirement.
Most Midwesterners would be happy to see the playing field tilted in favor of workers rather than corporations and the rich.
As the article stated, "The speaker’s concerns reflect those of many Democratic leaders and donors who believe that left-wing policies will alienate swing voters and lead to defeat."
Translation - big moneyed donors like their power and wealth and they don't want to give any of either up.
Pelosi and the current Democratic leadership need to 'grow a pair' or get out the way. We can't keep pushing climate change policies down the road; we can't keep taking from workers and giving to the already wealthy; all citizens deserve good health care; all citizens should be able to retire with dignity; we should all expect clear air and drinking water; our elections should be free, fair and representative. If you don't have the spine or passion to fight for real change for the majority of Americans, you don't belong in politics.
Pelosi, Bill Clinton and the triangulation-gang got us to this point. Always capitulating and cutting deals, slowly moving the Democratic party more and more to the right. So much so, that the difference between the parties became almost indistinguishable. Many former Democrats started voting for the Republicans - "Heck, they're not so different and the Republicans will cut taxes, so I might as well vote for them."
These triangulators made the Democratic party the Republican-light party. Yet, we're supposed to let them keep driving the car? These Pelosi Democrats are the ones who've been in power as wages have stagnated, unions have been destroyed, elections have been stolen and the standard of living for most working Americans has stagnated. They have betrayed their Democratic base and the liberal policies that made this country great in the first place.
It's time for real change. A new generation of Democratic leaders needs to take the wheel.
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Weekend Reading
The Oceans We Know Won't Survive Climate Change
Tax Aversion And The Legacy Of Slavery
How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism
Amid Trade War, Farmers Lean On New Crop: Hemp
Federal Judge In Trump Tax Case Picks Apart DOJ Rule Barring Indictment Of President
How To Get Away With Gerrymandering
For The First Time In History, U.S. Billionaires Paid A Lower Tax Rate Than The Working Class Last Year
Federal Deficit Estimated At $984 Billion, Highest In Seven Years
No More Half-Measures On Corporate Taxes
How A Brief Socialist Takeover In North Dakota Gave Residents A Public Bank
Tax Aversion And The Legacy Of Slavery
How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism
Amid Trade War, Farmers Lean On New Crop: Hemp
Federal Judge In Trump Tax Case Picks Apart DOJ Rule Barring Indictment Of President
How To Get Away With Gerrymandering
For The First Time In History, U.S. Billionaires Paid A Lower Tax Rate Than The Working Class Last Year
Federal Deficit Estimated At $984 Billion, Highest In Seven Years
No More Half-Measures On Corporate Taxes
How A Brief Socialist Takeover In North Dakota Gave Residents A Public Bank
Reject The Status Quo
Billionaires shouldn't exist. You might be bright, make good financial moves, or even invent magnificent stuff. You shouldn't be able to hoard generational wealth at the expense of the country that allowed you to do such.
Big tech, and other mega-companies, should be made to pay their fair share and not be allowed to dodge taxes.
Our elections should be fair and free from private money influence. Citizens United needs to be overturned.
Climate change should be a priority.
American infrastructure needs immediate attention. From clean water, to clean energy, we need a massive rebuilding of our country's infrastructure to remain relevant and competitive.
These are some of the things Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have been campaigning for during this election cycle.
If the majority of citizens actually want change that benefits the majority of citizens, these are the two candidates that will fight for and deliver such change. None of the other candidates have shown such consistent, principled and passionate convictions regarding these issues.
Anything less, the status quo will carry on.
Big tech, and other mega-companies, should be made to pay their fair share and not be allowed to dodge taxes.
Our elections should be fair and free from private money influence. Citizens United needs to be overturned.
Climate change should be a priority.
American infrastructure needs immediate attention. From clean water, to clean energy, we need a massive rebuilding of our country's infrastructure to remain relevant and competitive.
These are some of the things Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have been campaigning for during this election cycle.
If the majority of citizens actually want change that benefits the majority of citizens, these are the two candidates that will fight for and deliver such change. None of the other candidates have shown such consistent, principled and passionate convictions regarding these issues.
Anything less, the status quo will carry on.
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Sunday Reading
Trump's Tax Cut Is Failing Spectacularly As The GOP's Prediction Go Down In Flames
The Solution To The Country's Debt And Deficit Problem
The Oceans We Know Won't Survive Climate Change
The Cost Of America's Oligopoly Problem
43 Percent Of White Students Harvard Admits Are Legacies, Jocks Or The Kids Of Donors And Faculty
Bernie Sanders Proposes A Wealth Tax: 'I Don't Think That Billionaires Should Exist'
A New 'Report Card' On America's Diet: It's Not An 'F' But...
Beer Made Milwaukee Famous. Can Water Quality Keep The Legacy Alive?
Rethinking State Economic Policies
Comparing Wisconsin And Minnesota
The Solution To The Country's Debt And Deficit Problem
The Oceans We Know Won't Survive Climate Change
The Cost Of America's Oligopoly Problem
43 Percent Of White Students Harvard Admits Are Legacies, Jocks Or The Kids Of Donors And Faculty
Bernie Sanders Proposes A Wealth Tax: 'I Don't Think That Billionaires Should Exist'
A New 'Report Card' On America's Diet: It's Not An 'F' But...
Beer Made Milwaukee Famous. Can Water Quality Keep The Legacy Alive?
Rethinking State Economic Policies
Comparing Wisconsin And Minnesota
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Weekend Reading
There Is No Labor Shortage
We Don't Have Labor Shortage. We Have A Pay Shortage.
Fighting Climate Change May Be Easier Than We Think
Heavy Job Loss Since The 1970s Hit Milwaukee's Black Community The Hardest. Here's Why.
The Case Against The Electoral College In Stronger Than Ever
Journal Sentinel Slams "Liberal" News Site
David Koch's Monstrous Legacy
I Helped Create The GOP Tax Myth. Trump Is Wrong: Tax Cuts Don't Equal Growth.
Humans Versus Earth: The Quest To Define The Anthropocene
New Inequality Numbers Are A Gift To Campaign Sloganeers
No, Productivity Does Not Explain Income
How Trump's Foxconn Deal Conned Wisconsin Out Of Billions
The Financialization Of The American Elite
The 'War On Cars' Is A Bad Joke
Social Security Does Not Add To The Federal Deficit
Brazil, The Amazon, and Global Warming: It Ain't Quite What The Media Tell You
The Trump Vs. Obama Economy - In 15 Charts
We Don't Have Labor Shortage. We Have A Pay Shortage.
Fighting Climate Change May Be Easier Than We Think
Heavy Job Loss Since The 1970s Hit Milwaukee's Black Community The Hardest. Here's Why.
The Case Against The Electoral College In Stronger Than Ever
Journal Sentinel Slams "Liberal" News Site
David Koch's Monstrous Legacy
I Helped Create The GOP Tax Myth. Trump Is Wrong: Tax Cuts Don't Equal Growth.
Humans Versus Earth: The Quest To Define The Anthropocene
New Inequality Numbers Are A Gift To Campaign Sloganeers
No, Productivity Does Not Explain Income
How Trump's Foxconn Deal Conned Wisconsin Out Of Billions
The Financialization Of The American Elite
The 'War On Cars' Is A Bad Joke
Social Security Does Not Add To The Federal Deficit
Brazil, The Amazon, and Global Warming: It Ain't Quite What The Media Tell You
The Trump Vs. Obama Economy - In 15 Charts
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Wisconsin Reading
GOP Redistricting Edge Moderated Democrats' 2018 Gains
WEDC Awards $7.5 Million In Tax Credits To Amazon For Wisconsin Projects
The Arrogance Of Robin Vos
Scott Walker Has A New Job
Scott Walker To Head 'Slow Moving Coup' To Repeal-And-Replace U.S. Constitution
Great Lakes States Are Warming Faster Than The Rest Of The Country, More Flooding Is In Store
WEDC Awards $7.5 Million In Tax Credits To Amazon For Wisconsin Projects
The Arrogance Of Robin Vos
Scott Walker Has A New Job
Scott Walker To Head 'Slow Moving Coup' To Repeal-And-Replace U.S. Constitution
Great Lakes States Are Warming Faster Than The Rest Of The Country, More Flooding Is In Store
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Weekend Reading
Shopko Creditors: $117 Million In Dividends Paid To Owners 'Fraudulent,' 'Illegal'
401(K)s Versus 403(B)s
Sigh....No, Tax Cuts Won't Boost Growth
Supreme Court Sides With Union Giving Milwaukee County Employees $6.8 Million Pension Benefit
Make Corporations Pay For Green New Deal
The Rapid Decline Of The Natural World Is A Crisis Even Bigger Than Climate Change
Study Finds Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution And Who Breathes It
Here's What Republicans And Billionaires Really Mean When They Talk About 'Freedom'
Wisconsin Judge Blocks Republicans' Lame-Duck Power Grab
Study Cited In Wisconsin Debate On Expanding Medicaid And Taking Federal Money Called 'Garbage'
Make America Great Again By Raising The Minimum Wage
401(K)s Versus 403(B)s
Sigh....No, Tax Cuts Won't Boost Growth
Supreme Court Sides With Union Giving Milwaukee County Employees $6.8 Million Pension Benefit
Make Corporations Pay For Green New Deal
The Rapid Decline Of The Natural World Is A Crisis Even Bigger Than Climate Change
Study Finds Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution And Who Breathes It
Here's What Republicans And Billionaires Really Mean When They Talk About 'Freedom'
Wisconsin Judge Blocks Republicans' Lame-Duck Power Grab
Study Cited In Wisconsin Debate On Expanding Medicaid And Taking Federal Money Called 'Garbage'
Make America Great Again By Raising The Minimum Wage
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