With COP26 negotiations in full throw this week, the climate is probably the highest up the global agenda it’s ever been. And as the world slowly emerges from the global pandemic, more people are talking about re-writing the rules of trade, not just to unblock the clear inefficiencies made manifest by the Evergreen Suez-blocking debacle, […]
Republican Political Consultant Under Fire For Trolling About Burning Kid’s Pokémon Cards
On Thursday, former Republican National Committee communications strategist Liz Mair expressed disappointment that fetid hellhole Twitter had gotten pretty boring recently. “I’m starting to consider tweeting deliberately crazy and offensive stuff just …
2012 exit polls and the post-2012 narrative
“The popular narrative after 2012 that Obama won due to historic mobilization of young and non-white voters was completely wrong and the resulting consequences of that narrative have led to massive strategic errors that have put American democracy at r…
Spencer Ackerman
Spencer Ackerman who reported on the Chicago Police Black Site in Holman Square in 2015 (Previously) has a new book out: Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump. He went on Seth Myers to talk about Obama era missteps a…
Life inside of a US detention center
(cw: physical and sexual abuse)
Earlier today, Project South released their collaborative report, Medical Abuse of Immigrants Detained at the Irwin County Detention Center [pdf full text], detailing the results of their investigation into and eventual…
Building back better means hiring more workers skilled through alternative routes
When I arrived in the U.S., I applied to countless IT jobs, from customer service to computer repair. Every company rejected me before they even gave me the chance to show what I could do.