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Qasim Rashid, Esq.:
9 Facts on Labor Day Legacy Media Won’t Mention
- Americans are suffering worse economic inequality today than we did prior to The Great Depression.
- According to the GINI Index, which measures economic inequality, the United States ranks last among developed nation on Earth.
- The so-called “right to work” laws are not just anti-worker, they’re pro racist.
- If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation and corporate productivity, it would be at least $27 per hour today.
- The Reagonomics myth of “trickle-down” economics has been nothing more than a scam that has, since 1980, redistributed an astonishing $79 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
- we already have a proven way to fix this. From 1940 to 1980, the wealthiest Americans paid marginal tax rates of 70-94%.
- Wage theft is the largest form of theft in the United States Today.
- The collapse of unions has enabled the rise of oligarchs.
- Billionaires don’t create jobs, they exploit workers by driving out small businesses, driving down wages, and driving up their own corporate profits.
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Laura Millan, Thomas Gualtieri, Sabrina Nelson Garcinuño @ Bloomberg:
Energy storage is needed to back up [Spain’s] boom in renewablesSpain’s big bet on renewables got started early, if slowly. By the mid-1990s, the industry was still so low-tech that when a turbine blade broke at what was then Spain’s largest wind farm, José Manuel Entrecanales would bring in a windsurfer friend to repair it with the same equipment he used to fix surfboards.
“It was an extremely rudimentary and artisanal business,” said Entrecanales, now chairman and chief executive officer at Acciona SA, one of Spain’s largest developers of renewable projects. “The business was barely profitable, but for us, renewables were a business opportunity and a backdoor to access the electricity sector.”
Today, renewables account for about 60% of electricity on the Spanish grid, compared with about 50% across the European Union and one-third globally. That bold bet has lowered Spain’s power bills — which are now cheaper than they were before the latest Middle East conflict or the invasion of Ukraine — and put the country on track to meet its 2030 renewable targets. Spain is both ahead of the clean-power curve and the fastest-growing major economy in Europe, proof that deploying green energy at massive scale isn’t at odds with growth.
(Laura Millan, Thomas Gualtieri, Sabrina Nelson Garcinuño @ Bloomberg more…)
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – September 7, 2026Since yesterday, President Donald J. Trump has been posting on social media at a frantic pace, showing AI images of himself with President George Washington on his own account and, on the official White House account, a video of himself as the DC Comics Green Lantern superhero. …
… Trump posted images of Space Force uniforms that mimic those of Starship Troopers, whose design the director of that 1997 film claimed was meant to invoke Nazis.
…He posted multiple images of himself changing maps or of new maps …
…He acknowledged complaints about the fact he has pocketed more than two billion dollars from rapid-fire stock trading since taking office a second time. …
…It seems likely that he and his aide Natalie Harp, who is apparently behind much of his social media, think trolling the country is a good way to keep attention focused on Trump rather than on rising inflation, corruption, or the war in Iran.
…… while at some level Trump might think he is being clever by keeping the focus on himself, what he is really doing is demonstrating that he is no longer even trying to govern and is instead retreating into a world where he simply does whatever he wants without regard for the country.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Thom Hartmann:
Has the Media Normalized the GOP’s Voter Suppression Right Before Our Very Eyes?
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Jennifer Rubin:
57 Days to the Midterms
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Paul Krugman:
Neo-Nazis and the Impotence of Trumponomics
(Paul Krugman more…)Noah Berlatsky:
Trump’s colonialist Venezuela fever dreamPillaging resources like this is the stuff of fascist regimes.
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Sara Ruberg @ Banner:
ICE agents violently clash with Frederick protesters after 2-day stakeout in neighborhood
(Sara Ruberg @ Banner more…)
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Climate Solutions Explorer
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Apocalypse Early Warning System
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Mike Ludwig @ truthout: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount.
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
- August 31: Pierre Damas Bel
- August 1: Edwin Lopez-Cornejo
- July 19: Jose Chajon-Raxon
- July 14: Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran
- July 13: Joan Sebastian Guerrero
- July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
- June 4: Mamuka Artmeladze
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
April 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide - January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
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Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
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ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
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