“You have to be all sorts of twisted to think ‘making poor people more comfortable’ is a bad thing.” The grassroots organization People for Bernie on Tuesday advised the Democratic Party to take a page from an unlikely source—right-wing Vice President Mike Pence—after Pence told a rally crowd in Florida that progressives and Democrats “want to […]
“Anyone who thinks that the only lesson to be learned was the need to improve what we were already doing, or to refine existing systems and regulations, is denying reality.” Vatican News/YouTube In his third encyclical Sunday morning, Pope Francis denounced free market capitalism and the “magic” theory of trickle-down economics, saying the coronavirus […]
NOAA Fisheries Affiliate Vladimir Burkanov discovered an albino fur seal on a recent research trip to the remote island of Tyuleny in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia. The reddish-gold pup has very light colored eyes and pink flippers. It was born in July on the island, which supports a large fur seal colony. The […]
Former Trump staffers previously revealed the president’s desire to buy Greenland from Denmark, a proposal one Danish official called “final proof that he has gone mad.” A former Homeland Security official said this week that in addition to suggesting the U.S. sell Puerto Rico as the island territory was struggling to recover after Hurricane Maria, President […]