"The vast total captured by petrostates and fossil fuel companies since 1970 is $52tn, providing the power to “buy every politician, every system” and delay action on the climate crisis, says Prof Aviel Verbruggen, the author of the analysis."
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Joe Biden is starting to remind me of George McClellan. He doesn't want to fight with the army he has, and turns losses into retreats.
Biden's response to Dobbs has been... nothing. And that's unacceptable.
My latest in @thenation
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Promoting the con that affluent people's security depends on locking up and punishing poor people instead of working to make a society where people aren't poor and can get the care they need is the real crime.
Hello future my old friend, I hope @voxdotcom @NYMag @vulture tech kids help me talk to you again. @Bankoff - we could rock that world with art around the clock o’clock. Sister Jerry Wendy
“This is how much money I make for the week,” a mom said as she paid her child's fine.
Tonight, from the IL superintendent: "If you did not grow up poor or have never lived paycheck-to-paycheck, it can be difficult to understand the hardship a $250 fine can place on a family."