29% of households have jobs but struggle to cover basic needs: They are ‘one emergency from poverty,’ one expert says
Jessica Dickler,  Reporter  -  CNBC

_Stephan: America’s grotesque wealth inequality is one of the major trends destroying our social wellbeing, and threatening our democracy. This is one of the reasons low income people are thinking about voting for Trump, or not voting at all. This trend has been … ⌘ Read more

How a Few Secret Donors Are Fueling the New Right-Wing Infrastructure
Isabela Dias,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: As a result of the rigging of the U.S. tax system by Republicans America has seen the rise of the oligarch, mostly fascist men who are actively and openly trying to take control of the government and end democracy. The story of the Bradley Impact Fund, recounted in this report, is one of the ways they are doing this. The only thing … ⌘ Read more

New book details Steve Bannon’s ‘Maga movement’ plan to rule for 100 years
Martin Pengelly ,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: This is what the TCP Republican Party has in mind to end American democracy and turn the country into a christofascist pseudo-democracy like Orban’s Hungary. If you vote for a single Republican this is what you are voting for.

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Taxing Fossil Fuel Companies Could Be ‘Powerful Tool’ to Cut Emissions and Promote Climate Justice, Report Finds
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Good news. Here is an example of restructuring the tax system not only in the U.S. but other rich nations as well could help humanity prepare to deal with climate change. It seems to obvious, but the strangle hold the rich have on the U … ⌘ Read more

Companies aim to release more treated oilfield wastewater into rivers and streams
Martha Pskowski and Dylan Baddour,  Staff Writers  -  Texas Tribune | Inside Climate News

_Stephan: This is what greed for profit above all other considerations looks like, and it pretty much defines the carbon industries. We are not going to be able to deal effectively with climate change as long as corporations like the two reported on in this article are allo … ⌘ Read more

The meat industry’s war on wildlife
Kenny Torrella,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: Under the Biden administration, and the Trump administration before that, and the Obama administration before that the Department of Agriculture which is the submissive servant of Big Agriculture, as it is called, has been destroying the earth’s matrix of life in America so you can eat steaks. It is a horrible policy mistake that has been going on for a generation and it is leaving the U.S. in a growing cri … ⌘ Read more

91% of Europe’s cities are looking to nature-based solutions to fight climate change
Rosie Frost,  Staff Writer  -  Euro News

_Stephan: I have been looking at how The Great Schism Trend is affecting cities in the U.S. as the climate changes. The first thing that stands out is how poorly many urban centers in Red states are preparing for what is happening. The second thing that stood out for me was how poorly America is doing overall. You woul … ⌘ Read more

Prison officers traumatized by rate of executions in US death penalty states
Ed Pilkington,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: One of the things that stands out for me about states governed by Republicans is the sheer nastiness of their governance. Take the authorization of government murder of prisoners. Only five states – Texas, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Alabama – authorize such killings and, of course, they are all Red stat … ⌘ Read more

QAnon Was Born Out of The Sex and Moral Panic That Took Down Backpage.com
Trevor Aaronson,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Here is the best article I have seen on what I see as an alarming obsessive right-wing trend, the child sex trafficking conspiracies. Do you remember the conspiracy about Hillary and Bill Clinton running with other Democrats a child sex trafficking operation in the Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C.,  otherwise know … ⌘ Read more

Mass Graves in Khan Yunis Reveal Unspeakable Horror of US-Backed Gaza Invasion
Seraj Assi ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: What I am seeing on college campuses today remains me more than anything of the anti-Vietnam war rallies of the of the late 60s early 70s. What Hamas did was a war crime, no question, but what Israel under Netanyahu has done is far worse. The way I see it Netanyahu like Trump, a fellow fascist, has destroyed his country … ⌘ Read more

Cybersecurity Researchers Find a New Ransomware Threat – Be Careful Where You Upload Files
Selcuk Uluagac,  Professor of Computing and Information Science, Florida International University  -  Raw Story / The Conversation

_Stephan: The internet is becoming an increasingly dangerous world, as this article describes. Why? Because governments have not really comprehended or been willing to develop regulatory approaches that do not impact f … ⌘ Read more

How the Trump trial is playing in Maga world: sublime indifference, collective shrug
David Smith ,    -

_Stephan: I had the most informative email exchange this morning with a MAGAt, a man I have never met, who wrote to tell me I was being very unfair and biased against Trump. I was making him out to be a criminal. I responded by saying to him This is a man who is a convicted rapist, who has multiple fraudster convictions and is under indictm … ⌘ Read more

With US Workers on the March, Southern States Take Aim at Unions
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As this article describes, in the Southern Red states the Republicans are doing everything they can to undercut and stop unionization. It is part of The Great Schism Trend that is transforming the United States into two quite different countries. It surprises me that many hourly workers vote Republican because the Republican Party for deca … ⌘ Read more

56 Companies Responsible for Half of Global Plastic Pollution That Researchers Could Trace
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Materialism and greed are destroying the earth’s matrix of life, and plastic pollution is a major factor in this. Just 56 companies are responsible for over 50% of the branded plastic items that are creating this pollution, led by the Coca-Cola Corporation. Think about that for a minute. … ⌘ Read more

‘Where are they supposed to sleep?’: US supreme court appears divided on key homelessness case
Diana Ramirez-Simon, Dani Anguiano, Isabeau Doucet and agencies,  Reporters and news agencies  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: When I read this report what I thought about was: Have we become this debased and sad a country that we can’t even house the almost a million people who have nowhere to live, nowhere to sleep, except outdoors on the … ⌘ Read more

‘Doesn’t Care if Pregnant Women Live or Die’: Alito Slammed Over Emergency Abortion Remarks
David Badash,  Senior Editor  -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: What I have taken away this week from the coverage of the Supreme Court is how corrupt, fascist, and anti-women, the male clique of the Supreme Court has become. These are not justices interested in the law and the wellbeing of American society. These men are political hacks who believe they themselves are above the law, and have the power to determine what … ⌘ Read more

Kristi Noem: It’s a ‘tragedy’ not to force rape victims to give birth
David Edwards,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: South Dakota has a population in 2024 of just 858,469, less than a third of the population of Seattle, Washington, and they chose the loathsome TCP/Republican Kristi Noem, who recently garnered a lot of attention for shooting a puppy she said she “hated”,  to be their governor. She also thinks women or girls who are raped or the victims … ⌘ Read more

This Whole King Trump Thing Is Getting Awfully Literal
JAMELLE BOUIE,    -

_Stephan: Jamelle Bouie asks, “Trump has asked the Supreme Court if he is, in effect, a king. And at least four members of the court, among them the so-called originalists, have said, in essence, that they’ll have to think about it.” I agree with what he has said. What I heard yesterday is the christofascist clique on the court actually do support the president as a king above the law. You also h … ⌘ Read more

Alabama lawmakers advance bill that could lead to prosecution of librarians
Kim Chandler,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Yet another Great Schism Trend sad story about a declining Red State. Alabama already has a semi-literate population and awful social outcome data on everything from childcare to racism, and they are about to make things worse. They are attacking not just their public and school libraries, they are also threatening libra … ⌘ Read more