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The past half year has seen a steady stream of disturbing reports about serious human rights abuses tied to industrial fishing. First came a long expose about forced labor at sea tied to hundreds of Chinese fishing ships that supply many of the biggest...
by The Outlaw Ocean Project
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While following the Donald Trump election campaign finance trial yesterday, I was struck when Stormy Daniels said she did not want to sleep with Mr. Trump. After repeatedly rebuffing Mr. Trump’s advances, including greeting her in silk pajamas, she...
by ReasonaBill
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Listen to our archived episodes: Pandora|LibSyn|YouTube Support the show: Patreon|PayPal: 1x or monthly|Square Cash * David Waldman and Greg Dworkin fight ignorance and injustice on today’s KITM. Well, most of the KITMs, actually, but today is a good...
by Scott Anderson
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Ted Cruz is scrambling to reinvent himself ahead of reelection bid A personality makeover and better choices on when to go on vacation certainly couldn’t hurt the guy. Judge pauses trial for Trump son's graduation. Trump sneaks in a fundraiser too...
by Daily Kos Staff
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A lot of hoopla is being made this week about former Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan saying publicly that he won’t vote for Trump. That’s all well and good, but what really bothers me is that he did not say that he would vote for Biden....
by davidkc
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The recent administrative hold on a shipment of munitions meant for Israel has gotten AIPAC and congressional republicans hopping mad. The influential pro-Israel US lobby group described the move, confirmed by defence chief Lloyd Austin earlier, as a...
by Alf513
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...It’s that Donald Trump is losing 20+% of the Republican vote to a woman who isn’t white. To Democrats, voting for a woman might not be a huge deal. Voting for a brown person may not be a huge deal. Voting for a woman who is brown or a brown person...
by ultrageek
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I am currently the Camp Host at Steinaker State Park in Utah, 8 miles north of Vernal, UT. As such, when I am at the park, I am on duty, even though today is one of my days off. At 6:00 am, a camper knocked on my door and said there was an owl hanging...
by woolibaar
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The Guardian reports that continued exchange of fire between the IDF and Hamas near the Rafah crossing with Egypt has led to the hasty evacuation of extremely ill and injured patients and staff from al-Najjar Hospital, one of the few health facilities...
by AvoidAmnesia
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Jake Tapper challenged North Dakota Governor, a Trump sycophant seeking the vice presidency, as he defended Trump’s claim that Biden is buying welfare votes. Jake Tapper exposes Trump sycophant Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts (Video —...
by Egberto Willies
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The large Mineral Gallery of the Cashmere Museum in Cashmere, Washington includes an exhibit of Washington minerals.
by Ojibwa
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Monday, May 6 Harvard Pro-Palestine Encampment At the Harvard Square T station, around 200 excited kids carrying signs, wearing kaffiyehs, or bearing small Palestinian flags are heading for a high school demonstration on Boston Commons. A girl with a...
by AliceT4
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Journalists have always faced risks of violence when carrying out their work. For war correspondents, the perils are obvious, with many of those who are killed covering a conflict as a result of being collateral damage. Embedded in regular armies or...
by Meteor Blades
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Reposted from Dark Skies on the Horizon This weekend Tom Cotton appeared on ABC’s This Week and claimed that some of the J6 Rioters were “just wandering around” the Capitol. "It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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Back around 2007 the private health insurance industry worked to get state insurance regulation boards to allow the insurance industry to pre-approve treatment they would pay for. California was the main state, and the only one I can find published...
by pecanjim
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Hello, Peeps. Lets take a look at some embarrassing times in petâs lives, shall we? I donât know if any of you have pet doors but if you do you may have had a critter try to go through it who ...
by Ice Blue
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One of the ways news coverage gets slanted is the weekend effect. Politicians are well aware of it. If there’s a story or press release that could be problematic, one way to minimize its impact is to time it so it appears late Friday or over the...
by xaxnar
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By David Glenn Cox Through the closed door and the courtroom artist, it is hard to grasp the tenor of the case against Donald Trump. All the ingredients are there, a strict Judge, a persistent prosecutor and a sullen defendant. Sketches and quotes. It...
by This Carbon Based Life
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This cartoon I drew years ago was inspired by some of Matt Groening’s old Life in Hell comics. It’s a fun format to create — I’ve done a few cartoons like this — but it takes forever! Worth it, though. Over the years, at least a half-dozen...
by Barry Deutsch
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I lived in Maryland for most of my life. Occasionally I wrote to my congressional representatives, and I always voted even though I knew it didn’t make much difference in safely blue Maryland. For the 2008 election I wrote postcards for Virginia and...
by JamieG from Md
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