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Braving the still raging coronavirus and the potential for being tear-gassed and bloodied by unprovoked cops showing their skill with billy-clubs, in cities large and small, hundreds of thousands of mostly masked Americans turned out Saturday to express…

This is the real virus, systemic racism. It was exposed by the Cover-19 crisis. It’s like Trump, it makes everything worse.

Today I received an email from the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas (where I apparently stayed many years ago, back when the world was different). Their president and COO proudly announced that, as of today, they are open for business and welcoming eager…

The pandemic has created an almost infinite number of questions. One of the biggest faced by our country, our states, and our localities is how to start “reopening.” Most states mandated widespread closures of businesses and other public institutions in…

A new poll from Data for Progress shows state Sen. David Carlucci, who was a founder of the turncoat group that voted to keep the GOP in control of the New York Senate, with a narrow lead in the June 23 Democratic primary to succeed Rep. Nita Lowey in the 17th…

The impeached, popular vote-losing U.S. president stomped around one of just two manufacturers of the nasal swabs required to test patients for the novel coronavirus on Friday, predictably refusing to wear a mask. Shortly after he left, all of the swabs…

This is the 646th edition of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue). Here is the May 30 edition. Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.…

It’s highly unfortunate, considering the level of confusion that already exists concerning COVID-19, and the amount of misinformation, scams, and deliberate lies being fed into the system, but two major papers that each received significant publicity in…

The Oregon GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, Jo Rae Perkins, decided to let her “Q light” shine on a Facebook livestream earlier this week—and it was a doozy.…

Fox News believes in one thing: the current white supremacist status quo in our country. That stance, inherently racist, is also tied to a faux free market capitalism rooted in anti-democratic and pro-autocratic beliefs in how the world best works. The…

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