Billionaires Are Investing in Anti-Aging. Cool, But Who Will Invest in Antibiotics?: In January 2022, the biotech start-up Altos Labs came out of stealth mode and publicly affirmed its existence. Altos raised $3 billion in seed money, which is thought to… https://t.co/SBYC2uEYxK
The Processor Chip Industry Is Another Ugly Capitalist Oligopoly: When Intel announced plans to build a new $20 billion semiconductor plant in Ohio last month, President Joe Biden hailed it as a step toward reducing the United States’ dependence on… https://t.co/MIOXnT6QlG
Unequal Justice: How the Highest Court Is Advancing Voter Suppression: The Supreme Court is turning back the clock on election law. https://t.co/tug4nxZFnh
VIDEO: How Biden Caved On Student Debt Lawsuits: In this week’s Daily Poster/Breaking Points conversation, Julia Rock discusses the impact of her reporting on the Biden admin fighting student debtors in court. https://t.co/5ceMaQNDgA
Charles Koch Is Trying to Gut the EPA’s Power to Limit Carbon Emissions: Dark money groups bankrolled by billionaire Charles Koch are lobbying the Supreme Court to limit environmental regulators’ power to reduce carbon emissions, according to filings… https://t.co/TcM4IU6hak
The Corporatization of Psychedelics Would Be a Disaster: A psychedelics renaissance is emerging in America, a second wave following the first of the ’60s and ’70s. Today’s psychedelic reboot, however, leaves behind the countercultural stuff of lore in… https://t.co/9FvCUarje1
Workers Have Made Shocking Allegations of Racism at One of Elon Musk’s California Factories: On February 10, California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the state-level equivalent to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, filed a… https://t.co/9czZZGu9iz
Abolish LA Rams Owner Stan Kroenke: You didn’t have to be a Cincinnati Bengals fan to cringe at the sight of Stan Kroenke reveling in his own glory on national television Sunday night. The LA Rams players had just exhausted themselves on the field to win… https://t.co/bvaU5Z6zJB
Workers Should Demand Higher Wages Right Now: With inflation running at levels not seen in at least a decade, many on the right are arguing — as they did back in the 1970s — that the problem lies with greedy workers arguing for wage increases in line… https://t.co/bQCmBdBtvy
Koch Machine Pressing Supreme Court To Crush EPA: Dark money groups funded by the fossil fuel billionaire are lobbying justices to block the agency from limiting greenhouse gas emissions. https://t.co/xUhMedlVbw
How the Left Stopped Fascists From Organizing in Australia: If there was any doubt before, 2021 made it clear that leftists in Australia have to take the threat of the far right seriously. The media exposed the extreme right’s activities nationwide, as… https://t.co/u1rECZdwfF
DSA Has a Chance to Take Another Leap Forward in New York Politics: Come June, the New York City chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has another prime opportunity to add one of their own to the state senate. Kristen Gonzalez, a 26-year-old… https://t.co/bu1txPONNl
Erik Prince and an Army of Spies Keep Meddling in US Politics: Spooks, spooks everywhere. The US political landscape has been so overrun with spies and other denizens of the evermore sprawling national security state that most people have scarcely… https://t.co/tYDSYcGpt8
The GOP’s Cancel Culture Warriors: The radical right wing increasingly lives in an echo chamber and a bubble of its own making, where critical voices are hushed and critical theories are attacked https://t.co/UM61MHKW5G
Why the Starbucks Union Drive Matters for All Workers: The Starbucks union drive is the most exciting new organizing campaign in the United States. A mere two months after two Starbucks locations in Buffalo, New York, voted to become the first unionized… https://t.co/emq6snyTqS
Keep Capitalists Off the Moon: At its best, futurist thinking represents a flourishing of the human imagination. Emboldened by the invention of new technologies, artists at the turn of the twentieth century envisioned a world largely free of everyday… https://t.co/gq9of1mt2X
First-Person Singular: Why Schools Must Teach About Racism: Growing up, I attended a small, private Catholic school in Camden, New Jersey. Although the school was different from the local public schools, what I did find to be similar was what was taught… https://t.co/MjuI6reyfk
Democrats Are Ditching Class, and It’s Costing Them Working-Class Voters: More than a year into Joe Biden’s presidency, it’s clear that the president is not, as some had anticipated, the “second coming of FDR and LBJ.” His signature infrastructure bill,… https://t.co/emu1WNPVeW
Climate Warriors Get A New Weapon: Despite corporate opposition, Biden’s SEC issued a directive helping climate activists hold corporations accountable. https://t.co/c8IJy5aWUv