Новости за 31.05.2022

“You suck. And that’s what I’m going to say when I find you and shove it in your mouth.”

So, the new con job is mental health. Suddenly, Republicans are raising a hue and cry about getting serious about mental health. Really? How dumb do they think people are?

In the fall of 2020, a story broke on the front page of the Los Angeles Times. It featured a striking image of a barrel sitting on the floor of the ocean, emitting an eerie, phosphorescent glow. Over the past decade, the story explained, scientists had discovered thousands of barrels of acid sludge, a by-product of the manufacturing process for the notorious pesticide DDT, sunk off the coast of California. Enormous quantities of DDT waste had seeped out of the barrels and into the surrounding environment. Читать дальше...

By nearly every objective measure, the Biden economy is thriving. The unemployment rate is a very low 3.6 percent. Corporate profits were up 25 percent in December 2021 over the year before, and they continued to rise during the last three months of 2021. Average hourly wages are up 5.5 percent over April 2021 on a nominal basis, and the rate at which workers quit their jobs—a key measure of their confidence about securing a better one—has never been higher. Writing in The New York Times earlier this month... Читать дальше...

On Capitol Hill, the youthful activists of the Sunrise Movement were personae non gratae in official Washington. It was November 2018, and the progressive climate group had staged a viral sit-in protest in Nancy Pelosi’s office to demand the incoming House speaker embrace its Green New Deal. But at a D.C.-based climate nonprofit’s holiday party the next month, the twentysomethings leading Sunrise were embraced as the guests of the hour.