“Holy shit, a real masks-off moment,” said one professor. “The divide between church and state is already falling. The divide between church and political group will disappear.” “This is another dark day for our democracy.” That’s what American Humanist Association (AHA) executive director Fish Stark said in a Tuesday statement responding to a move from U.S. President […]
While the agency and outside meteorologists say the NWS provided timely and accurate forecasts, the fatal flooding is generating fresh alarm about cuts and open positions. As the official death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas ticked above 100 on Monday, concerns over vacancies as well as job and potential funding cuts at the National Weather Service continued to […]
“Not only is it necessary to impose a stronger burden of justice on billionaires, but more importantly, it is possible.” Seven Nobel laureates on Monday published an op-ed advocating for “a minimum tax for the ultrarich, expressed as a percentage of their wealth,” in the French newspaper Le Monde. “They have never been so wealthy and yet contribute […]
“It’s a job killer, a planet killer, and an economy killer,” Sen. Ed Markey said of Republicans’ so-called Big Beautiful Bill. While welcoming that U.S. Senate Republicans are removing a provision that would have forced the sale of public lands from their budget reconciliation package, Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists this weekend condemned other attacks on […]