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When Nobody Comes to Fix the Bridge

1 day ago | truthdig.com | Jeb Lund

Two things happened this week. First, the Atlantic hurricane season began. Then David Richardson, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said that he didn’t know there was a hurricane season. Naturally, I thought of the Roman Empire.
Turkish Workers: You Don’t Want a Strongman

3 days ago | truthdig.com | Jane Slaughter

Related The End of Erdoğan? What has happened to workers in Turkey since the country voted to concentrate power in one man, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, should be a warning flashing red to workers elsewhere.
Elon Musk’s Government Legacy Was Enacting Project 2025

4 days ago | truthdig.com | Joe Fassler

Elon Musk’s time in the federal government is entering a new phase, the White House has confirmed. But the work he began at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the hastily renamed agency he’s used to make legally questionable changes within the federal government, will clearly continue. “DOGE is a way of life. Like Buddhism,” he said, in an April 30 press conference. “Is Buddha needed for Buddhism? Was it not stronger after he passed away?”It was typical Elon, tactless and grandiose.
The Budget Bill Is Poised to Transform How America Eats

4 days ago | truthdig.com | Ayurella Horn-Muller

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Early this month, after some equivocation, President Donald Trump briefly endorsed the idea to hike taxes on the wealthiest Americans in his budget proposal to Congress. Economists were quick to point out the meager impact a new millionaire tax bracket would have on the ultra-rich, particularly in the context of other proposed tax cuts that would offset any pain points for them.
Chile in Their Hearts, and Ours

1 week ago | truthdig.com | Peter Kornbluh

In October 1999, the Clinton administration released a tranche of formerly secret records on the case of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, two U.S. citizens executed by the Chilean military following the Sept. 11, 1973, military coup. Part of a larger “Chile Declassification Project” ordered by President Bill Clinton after Gen.
A Rogan to Call Their Own

1 week ago | truthdig.com | Jeb Lund

To history students of a certain bent, there’s nothing more fascinating than the idea of being a fly on the wall for history’s great mistakes. Any square can daydream about witnessing John Hancock sign his John Hancock, but what about lurking in the meeting that resulted in the Maginot Line? Imagine watching people decide that heavy fortifications should stop before reaching the French-Belgian border — you know, the one the Germans marched over last time.
The Reemergence of Social Darwinism

1 week ago | truthdig.com | Robert Reich

Cut Medicaid to give billionaires a huge tax cut. But why? They say they want a smaller government, but that can’t be it. Most seek a larger national defense and more muscular homeland security. Almost all want to widen the government’s powers of search and surveillance inside the United States — expunging undocumented immigrants, “securing” the nation’s borders. They want stiffer criminal sentences. Many also want government to intrude on the most intimate aspects of private, intimate life.
How Bad Does It Have to Get Before the DNC Declares an Emergency?

1 week ago | truthdig.com | Norman Solomon

Midway through this month, Democratic Representative Hakeem Jeffries sent out a fundraising text saying that he “recently announced a 10-point plan to take on Trump and the Republicans.” But the plan was no more recent than early February, just two weeks after President Trump’s inauguration.
Don’t Call It a Payback

1 week ago | truthdig.com | Siddhant Adlakha

“It Was Just an Accident” will be released in 2025 by NEON in North America and Mubi internationally. Jafar Panahi’s journey to the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize is a gloomy fairytale that culminates in his latest, most incendiary work. A story of formerly incarcerated characters who kidnap the man they believe tortured them in captivity, “It Was Just an Accident” (or “Un Simple Accident”) is a riveting and amusing rebuke of the Iranian regime.
The Beef Industry Is Quietly Rewriting Climate Education

1 week ago | truthdig.com | Gabriella Sotelo

In order to reduce climate pollution, we have to talk about food. Food production accounts for roughly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and meat, particularly beef, is the biggest contributor to that share. Cattle produce vast amounts of methane, and raising them demands enormous quantities of land, water and feed. Yet as the scientific consensus around beef’s environmental impact has evolved, so too has the meat industry’s strategy for how we think about solutions.