Lawyers, Not Persuaders The anti-labor law firm Littler Mendelson’s reputation is a premier example of the limitations in existing labor law.

Starbucks repeatedly has followed the counsel of its attorneys, and it repeatedly has lost in court. If the Department of Labor enforced its reporting rules, union busting employers would have less incentive to follow bad advice.

Oil Refineries Are Leaking Cancer-Causing Benzene Into Residential Neighborhoods The EPA’s benzene monitoring and control program has failed to rein in the worst offenders.

Communities must be empowered to monitor environmental toxins, so that citizens can be informed and protect their communities against industries that profit at the expense of life.

ProgCode's EnviroTrack project can be part of the solution.

AMLO Is Reducing Poverty in Mexico Since coming to office in 2018, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made tackling inequality a key tenet of his Fourth Transformation. Millions have been lifted out of poverty, and the...

AMLO's implementation of universal reform policies measurably reduced poverty in Mexico. His only notable policy failure resulted when following piecemeal US solutions to healthcare.

Read Kurt Hackbarth's excellent analysis in @jacobinmag.bsky.social.

‘Criminal liability for librarians’: the fight against US rightwing book bans Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward, which helped block a controversial Arkansas law, says attacks will continue

The motivation behind book bans is always to keep a population ignorant and vulnerable.

After helping prevent extinctions for 50 years, the Endangered Species Act itself may be in peril Fifty years after the US Endangered Species Act took effect, officials say 99% of the animals and plants it protects have survived.

Corrupt politicians don't care about biodiversity. They're compensated by the petrochemical companies and land barons who destroy life.

Big waves becoming more common off California as Earth warms, new research finds Oceanographer Peter Bromirski at Scripps Institution of Oceanography used a unique approach to gather historical data from the past 90 years to track the increasing height of the surf.

Captains of industry are too busy counting profits to notice the coming tidal wave.

Stop letting them control governments.

Only votes in favor of Sanders's amendment to cut military spending by 10% (excluding health care, personnel, and Ukraine aid)

Baldwin (D-WI)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Paul (R-KY)
Sanders (I-VT)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

A Peanuts panel in which Linus is saying: No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

Libraries close, books are banned, and knowledge becomes contraband. The system fights against its own destruction.

But educating ourselves and each other is the beginning of revolution.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CvJj5sDScgP

New York Libraries are facing a $36.2 million budget cut.
Today is a day of action. This is a link to the social media tools page:
https://investinlibraries.org/dayofaction
Please post about it. Tell people. Make your voices heard.
#NocutstoLibraries

all damn day

Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis

Consider the possible reasons that government leaders aren't talking to the public about this.

Lawsuit says US environmental agency ignores harm of biofuel production New suit charges that the EPA disregards ethanol production’s impact on endangered species as it is directed to study under law

Government continues to ignore Science and bows to fossil fuel interests.

Precious farmlands and wetlands are wasted to produce the very fuels which push the planet temperature to unsustainable levels.

White House Deal for​ Voluntary AI Safeguards Called 'Great Step' But 'Not Enough' Advocacy groups and experts are pressuring Congress and federal regulators to "put meaningful, enforceable guardrails in place."

"Voluntary safeguards" from an industry which influences government policy through campaign donations?

No profiteer invests millions in tech and then "volunteers" to cut the profits they intended to make from the asset.

Get money out of politics.

This looks like a great place to create positive change!