Two tribes sought emergency order to stop oil flow while suit plays out but DC court ruling means controversial pipeline could start work Monday So much for the protests. Source: Dakota Access … Continue reading Dakota Access pipeline: appeals court refuses tribes’ request to stop oil flow

Forcing young, mostly healthy Americans off their parents’ coverage could help Republicans make good on their promise to salvage the health care system. The under 26 provision has contributed to one of … Continue reading How to fix Obamacare with this one weird trick

A new poll found he is the most popular politician in America. But instead of embracing his message, establishment Democrats continue to resist him The polls show him ahead of every other … Continue reading Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party

Neoliberalism: defining human beings by the market as if everything we do is mediated through the market, not just in the economic sphere but in every aspect of our lives. That human life is defined by competition … Continue reading Neoliberalism, Climate Change, Migration: George Monbiot conversation

By outsourcing key intelligence work, the government has made classified material more vulnerable. Apart from the usual cry that Wikileaks is working for the Russians… this article concludes that the problem is … Continue reading Why does WikiLeaks keep publishing U.S. state secrets? Private contractors.

Mmt: US debt is a myth Mike Norman explaining that the “US debt crisis” is a complete myth Source: MMT: US debt is a myth Continue reading US debt crisis is a myth

“We’re not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money.” The EPA — which would lose about $2.6 billion according to the budget blueprint — … Continue reading For once, I promise you won’t believe what the Trump administration said about climate change

President Donald Trump is proposing historically deep budget cuts that would touch almost every federal agency and program and dramatically reorder government priorities to boost defense and security spending, although it’s likely … Continue reading Trump Plans Historic Cuts Across Government to Fund Defense

House of Representatives Tuesday (Postponed) H.R. 132: Arbuckle Project Maintenance Complex and District Office Conveyance Act of 2017 Authorizes the S.o.I to move land from Arbuckle Project (OK) to Arbuckle Master Conservancy District H.R. 267: Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park Act of 2017 Replaces map size of park from before … Continue reading Congress Votes! – Week of 3/13/17

It was the first time a president has called for ending the endowments, which were created in 1965 under President Lyndon B. Johnson. Great. Next up, eliminate music lessons in school… and … Continue reading Trump Proposes Eliminating the Arts and Humanities Endowments

   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory worked for five years to digitize thousands of reels of film before they fell apart. Maybe by releasing these we might not be so hung-ho on starting … Continue reading Hundreds of films of nuclear bomb blasts films declassified, uploaded to YouTube

Throughout the campaign, polls showed Bernie would outperform Hillary in the fall. Still, the DNC cheated on her behalf. And they sleazily lined up the superdelegates for her. She never considered him … Continue reading The Splitting Up of the Democratic Party: Why It’s Probably Coming Sooner Than You Think