If you’d like some insight into what’s happening in the airline industry and how it affects its customers, I recommend the video linked here.
Please note that the trends that former labor secretary Robert Reich identifies here cross over into other consumer-facing sectors of our economy, e.g., food and paper goods.
Brilliant work.
In response to the meme here, Eddy Oriente Balzola writes: Not when they act like thugs. Otherwise, respect indeed.
I haven’t spent a dime in a Home Depot in decades.
I hope readers feel and act the same.
This from writer/journalist Jake Sherman.
It’s hard to be shocked by any element of Speaker Mike Johnson’s behavior, and his protecting a criminal is just one example.
Here, Frederick Douglass provides us one of the best justifications for investment in quality education.
We’re raising a generation of people who are going to be unable to compete in the global economy, and have tendencies towards racism, violence, and all the other components of Trumpism.
The author of the meme here makes a good point.
But we need to consider cruelty and callousness as well.
Stupid and/or mean. Preferably both.
The thought expressed here represents a serious challenge for humankind, and it’s precisely the mechanism that keeps Trumpism so firmly rooted in place. The MAGA crowd is organized in lockstep around the principles of hate, violence, and exclusion.
As MLK put it, “Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
It’s not an easy task.
A reader notes: Bravo! Hats off to Alberta Canada for standing up against the climate change insanity being foisted on them by their federal government.
Alberta is Canada’s largest oil producing province, providing 79.2% of Canadian oil production.
But I’m sure that’s a coincidence.
Here’s a video that challenges Republicans to speak up as to which side of the truth they stand on.
“Any (GOP politician) one who says that the election was stolen is lying to America.”
Doesn’t get any more direct than that.
One reason that gun laws are so difficult to enact here in the U.S. is Americans’ belief that offering “thoughts and prayers” to the victims’ families is a worthwhile response to having their little child’s body blown to bits by a psychopath with an AR-15.
The author of this very clever cartoon seems to agree with me on this point.
