Liza Featherstone

New York

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Contributing Writer at The Nation

Journalist. Essayist. Teacher. Socialist. Mom. Columnist @jacobinmag, @newrepublic. Contributing @thenation. Author @ORBooks. Member @UAW7902 @UAWRegion9A.

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Why Billionaire Trumpers Love This Dire Wolf Rubbish

1 week ago | newrepublic.com | Liza Featherstone

Some ofthe media headlines have been breathless. Time magazine hailed “TheReturn of the Dire Wolf.” Onthe venerable news magazine’s cover, the word “Extinct” is crossed out. “Thisis Remus,” the cover declares, above the image of a large white canid. “He’s adire wolf. The first to exist in 10,000 years.
Why Billionaire Trumpers Love This Dire Wolf Rubbish

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Liza Featherstone

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Why Billionaire Trumpers Love This Dire Wolf Rubbish

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Liza Featherstone

Some of the media headlines have been breathless. Time magazine hailed “The Return of the Dire Wolf.” On the venerable news magazine’s cover, the word “Extinct” is crossed out. “This is Remus,” the cover declares, above the image of a large white canid. “He’s a dire wolf. The first to exist in 10,000 years.
“Stop the Oligarchs” Is a Winning Message

2 weeks ago | znetwork.org | Liza Featherstone

It’s clear that Americans don’t like oligarchs. When the broad left is campaigning against oligarchy and oligarchs, we are on solid ground. Politico reported Wednesday that Donald Trump has told members of his inner circle that Elon Musk will soon step down from his White House duties.
“Stop the Oligarchs” Is a Winning Message

2 weeks ago | jacobin.com | Liza Featherstone

It’s clear that Americans don’t like oligarchs. When the broad left is campaigning against oligarchy and oligarchs, we are on solid ground. Politico reported Wednesday that Donald Trump has told members of his inner circle that Elon Musk will soon step down from his White House duties.
Welcome to the Pro-Death Administration

3 weeks ago | rsn.org | Liza Featherstone

From climate change to nuclear weapons to lethal disease, the Trump administration seems to have decided that preventing mass death isn’t really government’s business anymore. Perhaps, in retrospect, the most important turning point in the evolution of the contemporary far-right elite occurred in April 2020, just a month into a pandemic that would ultimately become a mass extinction event, killing more than seven million people worldwide.
The Trump-Musk Doctrine: Death Is Okay!

3 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Liza Featherstone

Perhaps, in retrospect, the most important turning point in the evolution of the contemporary far-right elite occurred in April 2020, just a month into a pandemic that would ultimately become a mass extinction event, killing more than 7 million people worldwide.
Welcome to the Pro-Death Administration

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Liza Featherstone

Perhaps, in retrospect, the most important turning point in the evolution of the contemporary far-right elite occurred in April 2020, just a month into a pandemic that would ultimately become a mass extinction event, killing more than seven million people worldwide.
Trump’s Cuts Are Unmaking American Greatness

4 weeks ago | jacobin.com | Liza Featherstone

The losses we now face as Americans are dizzying and hard to even track, much less emotionally process — so much so that it’s easy to lose track of what’s at stake in the fight with oligarchs Elon Musk and Donald Trump: some of the greatest working-class achievements of the twentieth century. Oddly for someone currently laying waste to those achievements, Trump has an instinctive grasp of how much they matter.
RFK Jr Is Running Away From the One Thing He’s Ever Been Right About

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Liza Featherstone

As recently as last year, denouncing plastics was a key partof RFK Jr.’s political identity. Running for president as an icon of thehealth-conscious, he called plastic pollution a “crisisfor human health and the environment.” He promised to support aninternational plastics reduction treaty and to limit the domestic production ofplastic. He castigated President Biden for failing to fix the problem. Heespoused ambitioussolutions to the problem, alarmingthe plastics industry.