January 9, 2024, 4:20 pm 49 comments in the last 7 days.
Learning to Live With COVID-19 .

The COVID-19 virus continues to claim at least 1,200 lives each week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show the latest surge continued nationally through the final week of 2023.

June 3, 2023, 6:13 pm 4 comments in the last 7 days.
Disconnecting War from Its Consequences.

Twenty-two years ago, Congress put sanity up for a vote. Sanity lost in the House, 420-1. It lost in the Senate, 98-0. Barbara Lee’s lone vote for sanity remains a tiny light of courageous hope flickering in a chaotic world.

April 21, 2013, 5:25 pm 2 comments in the last 7 days.
Burma Riots: Video Shows Police Failing to Stop Attack.

The footage shows a mob destroying a Muslim gold shop and then setting fire to houses. A man thought to be a Muslim is seen on fire. It was filmed last month, when at least 43 people were killed in Meiktila.

February 12, 2025, 6:18 pm 1 comments in the last 7 days.
Closing Gitmo in the American Heart.

Gitmo, of course!! It’s the freest place “we” have – by which I mean the American government, a.k.a. Donald Trump. No rules apply there, be they international humanitarian law or the U.S. Constitution. It’s a dumping ground, a black hole.

March 25, 2024, 6:26 am 1 comments in the last 7 days.
rewilding LA: Matilija Dam History and Ecosystems.

Gina "Tracker" Quinone (Chiricahua Apache) knows what it feels like to lose access to traditional lands, a devastating and heartbreaking loss, stripping away connections to a homeland that exists only in memory. Filmmaker/Journalist Robert Lundahl documents this loss of land and culture across the West.