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The “weathering” phenomenon: Why America is being exhausted by fearmongers who delight in hate

The “weathering” phenomenon: Why America is being exhausted by fearmongers who delight in hate

Posted by | Jun 8, 2023

A woman called into my radio program recently, sobbing. She was both terrified and angry about the way the GOP is scapegoating queer youth and the impact it is having on her daughter and her friends. “My daughter is gay and some of her good friends are trans and she’s terrified. She has a friend in Florida who just tried to commit suicide. I just want to tell everybody, please, this is just the beginning. I’ve been saying this since Trump came into power. That it’s just starting. “I don’t feel safe. My kids go out … and the fact...

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Bipartisan lawmakers seek to fast-track federal funds for a Las Vegas-to-California bullet train

Bipartisan lawmakers seek to fast-track federal funds for a Las Vegas-to-California bullet train

Posted by | Jun 6, 2023

A bipartisan congressional group from Nevada and California asked the Biden administration in late April to fast-track federal funds for a private company to build a high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area. All six of Nevada’s elected federal lawmakers and four House members from California sent the letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. They said they were on board with a proposal from Brightline West to spend more than $10 billion to lay tracks along the Interstate 15 corridor. Traffic jams on the interstate often stretch for 15 miles (24 kilometers) near the...

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Why social media is seen as the best platform to reach a younger generation with news content

Why social media is seen as the best platform to reach a younger generation with news content

Posted by | Jun 4, 2023

If young people are spending so much time on social media, it stands to reason that is a good place to reach them with news. Operators of the News Movement are betting their business on that hunch. The company, which has been operating for more than a year, hopes to succeed despite journalism being littered with years of unsuccessful attempts to entice people in their 20s to become news consumers. The brainchild of former Dow Jones executives, the News Movement is using a staff of reporters with an average age of 25 to make tailored news content for sites...

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A Party of Business: The false Conservative belief that what’s good for the rich is what’s good for America

A Party of Business: The false Conservative belief that what’s good for the rich is what’s good for America

Posted by | May 27, 2023

As predictably as the sun rises and sets, every commentator or politician on the Sunday political talk shows say, without being challenged, that the Republican Party understands and supports business better than the Democrats. All my life, in fact, I have been told by the media that the GOP is the “party of business.” It may have once been true when I was a very young child, but today it is a lie — and has been so in a huge way since the neoliberal Reagan Revolution. Republicans kill economies; Democrats rescue and build them Between 1933 and 2020...

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Reggie Jackson: Remembering that the Declaration of Independence was a “Woke” Manifesto

Reggie Jackson: Remembering that the Declaration of Independence was a “Woke” Manifesto

Posted by | May 26, 2023

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are...

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Supreme Court power grab: How to dethrone America’s self-appointed political royalty

Supreme Court power grab: How to dethrone America’s self-appointed political royalty

Posted by | May 26, 2023

America was never intended to have kings or queens, unaccountable to the people, ruling for life. But that is what we have, because Congress and the White House never seriously pushed back against a power grab executed by the Supreme Court itself. It is time to reduce the Court’s power in a way that agrees with the Constitution. We’ll almost certainly have to wait until the next time Democrats control the House, Senate, and White House, but that could happen in another 20 months, so we need to start planning now. I am proposing Congress change the rules of...

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