This new post by @desmog.com nicely expands about my earlier @thebulletin.org piece (thebulletin.org/2024/08/proj...) on #Project2025 and the assault on global climate action:
Brian Niccol of Starbucks took home the award for the most nonsensical disparity between CEO and employee income: He earns $95,801,676, while the median salary for a Starbucks employee was a mere $14,674. trib.al/BjhK3uN
Schatz: We don’t know for sure, but the likely bombing of an elementary school with one of our Tomahawk missiles is not a one-off mistake. It is the result of a change in policy so that the United States has way looser rules of engagement — way more tolerance for civilian harm.
The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017 to 2025.
The top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
What happens when a mad king discovers that the war he launched is not going to go the way he envisioned it? Asking for a friend.
“You just suggested that Iran got its hands on a U.S. Tomahawk and BOMBED ITS OWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL on the first day of the war.
You are the only person in your government saying this.
WHY ARE YOU THE ONLY PERSON SAYING THIS?”
PEDOrump’s answer:
“Because I just don’t know enough about it.” 😲🙄🤬
Video footage published by Bellingcat appears to show a Tomahawk missile striking a compound adjacent to the school.
BREAKING: As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the war with Iran, according to sources familiar—far higher than the Pentagon’s publicly disclosed figure of just 8 seriously wounded troops. The true toll of this war is already far worse than the public has been told. (Reuters)
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.
That's $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
Thousands of lives lost.
People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
"The Price of Safety: Stories of Abortions Denied, Careers Disrupted, and States Left Behind" details the human and economic toll of abortion bans. The anthology uses stories from patients, doctors, business leaders, and others to show the real-world consequences of abortion bans.
The SAVE Act is a major attack on voting rights. It is not a genuine voter ID reform, but rather an attempt to suppress turnout in future elections.
Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones.
We’re barely a week into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in.
Everything is for sale.
In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing
Worst president ever:
Trump’s War Is Destroying the Global Economy
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
How We’re All Now Paying the Price for the Myth of Trump’s Competence
• The administration’s war with Iran is setting a mountain of taxpayer dollars on fire every day—mostly because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
trib.al/dNKJJYI
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed...
"How will you pay for it?"
The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts...
"How much do you need?"
It doesn't have to be this way.
Make America White Again. That's what it's always been about.
It’s been downhill ever since
“It is up by 42% since hostilities began. American motorists are already paying over $3.40 for a gallon of petrol on average, around 50 cents more than on February 27th. In Europe prices of natural gas, of which the Gulf normally ships lots in liquefied form, are 92% higher than before the war.”
If you want to understand how Trump's self-created crisis in Iran fits into his foreign policy, revisit our deep-dive into our End Times president.
Make no mistake: the AI boom, and data center construction it requires, is nothing more than a massive giveaway to Big Tech oligarchs at the expense of our environment and our states’ public resources.
Our leaders should put communities before Big Tech's bottom lines.
This is what ecocide looks like.
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
News: Sources say that Trump has been receptive to officials and allies privately encouraging him to send US troops into Iran.
This comes as Lindsey Graham has reportedly gone to Israel and coached Netanyahu on how to push Trump to take action in Iran.
Gas prices spiked well above the $3 mark this week as strikes between the U.S. and Iran escalated amid the de facto shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'
people.com/trump-says-i...
War has the perverse effect of pushing the climate story down the news agenda. But, journalists cannot fully & fairly cover a war this carbon-intensive, destabilizing, and consequential if its climate dimensions are treated as optional add-ons rather than core fact.
www.thenation.com/.../iran-war...
He doesn’t care about you. He never has.
