Clarence Thomas took $267,000 from a health insurance executive, then issued rulings that made health insurance companies more money, while harming millions of Americans. This is a bribe. This isn’t complicated. Expand the Supreme Court. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, has received at least $352,000 in 'contributions' from the oil and gas industry since 2019. And during that time, he switched from being a clean energy advocate to a climate change denier. Funny that. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Incredibly, during Prime Day week in 2019, nearly 45% of Amazon's warehouse workers were injured. Amazon is a $2 trillion corporation owned by Jeff Bezos worth $215 billion. Corporate greed at Amazon is off the charts. It must be held accountable.

There's no rational reason other than greed for Ozempic to cost nearly $1,000 in the United States while that same exact drug can be purchased for a fraction of the price in other countries. It's long due time for the pharmaceutical industry to stop ripping off Americans.

Shell quietly backs away from pledge to increase ‘advanced recycling’ of plastics theguardian.com/business/artic…

You know how people are worried about foreign investors buying up US farmland? There's a company that helps them do that! It's like Uber for buying US farmland. And who's one of its key investors, profiting off of every sale? J.D. Vance. businesswire.com/news/home/2022…

Give poor people $1,000 every month, for three years. No strings attached. What will they spend the money on? Huge and rigorous study finds that the biggest increase is in “Supporting Others”: helping family and friends.

The US insurance crisis is fascinating. The real, underlying problem is climate change rendering parts of the country increasingly uninhabitable. But we don't wanna talk about that. So we're pretending there's some bureaucratic or accounting fix. fortune.com/2024/06/26/hou…

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath fastcompany.com/3062989/50-rea…

Raising a child costs, on average, $26,000 per year. Telling people to have kids while opposing paid leave, universal healthcare, childcare, school lunch and pre-k; free public college, and a living wage is “sociopathic” and “psychotic.” JD Vance is pro-kids, but anti-family.

The new significant wave. It's hard to believe the we're well into our 5th year of this virus and not taking the requisite steps to gain control. Including updates on the new boosters and #LongCovid. In Ground Truths (link found in my profile)

higher prices + flat profit = inflation companies colluding to raise prices + record profit = price gouging It’s not inflation when companies collude to exploit customers. Workers wanting a living wage aren’t the problem. Greedy CEOs are. popular.info/p/how-hotels-a…

We know Covid is associated with a higher subsequent rate of autoimmune diseases. A new report from >1.7 million Singaporean adults concludes "Booster vaccination appeared to mitigate the risk of long-term autoimmune sequelae." jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

The NYPD spent $150 Million *extra* last year to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They owed just $104,000. $150 million could buy free fares (at going rate) for 95,000 poor New Yorkers per year. Instead four people shot, including an officer.

This and every other (college) town ...onwardstate.com/2024/09/20/add…

WHOA! Activists projected these huge images across NYC last night with the message that it’s time to #MakePollutersPay for climate damages!

Who else agrees that Trump is Putin’s puppet? #WeStandWithUkraine

From Hurricanes Helene and Milton being supercharged to record-breaking floods across Asia and Europe, climate impacts are intensifying. Understanding why they’re happening is more critical than ever. And it starts with education. Read more: talkingclimate.ca/p/the-escalati…

FYI: Billionaire LA Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who decided the paper would not publish its endorsement in the presidential election, paid no federal income tax for 5 consecutive years, ProPublica found in 2021: propublica.org/article/when-y…

Los Angeles is burning. Fossil fuel companies laid the kindling. Soon the world will stop caring. If we don't demand better from the rich & powerful who can do more than anyone to slow the climate crisis, the fires will change nothing. My Los Angeles Times column: latimes.com/environment/ne…