LOTS OF POSTS IGNORED BY BLOGGER.....
OR REMOVED ON THEIR WHIM!
ALL POSTS ARE AVAILABLE ON
MIDDLEBORO REVIEW AND SO ON
BLOGGER DOESN'T LIKE TRUTH OR FACTS!
BLOGGER DOESN'T LIKE FUND RAISERS AND DELETES
POSTS THAT INCLUDE FUNDRAISING THAT 'VIOLATES THEIR
UNDEFINED COMMUNITY STANDARDS SO ALL 'FUND RAISING'
IS DELETED - CONTRIBUTE AS YOU ARE INCLINED TO SUPPORT
IMPORTANT ISSUES! THESE ARE NOT SOLICITATIONS
Donald Trump is different in many ways from the Republican presidents who preceded him. But there’s one way he’s exactly the same. |
|
|
Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than the government claims. Just ask the Goodmans. |
The inspiration for Brian Goldstone’s recent Pulitzer Prize–winning book, There Is No Place for Us, can be traced in part to this 2019 TNR feature about an Atlanta woman, Cokethia Goodman, whose family became homeless even as she worked full-time. In the story of the Goodman family, the intimate, novelistic attention that distinguishes Goldstone’s work is on full display—as is an uncompromising indictment of the structural forces to blame for their suffering. |
|
|
The justice has significant—and familiar—conflicts of interest in an upcoming Big Oil case. The question is: Will he recuse himself? |
By Aaron Regunberg excerpt:
In April 2023, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who holds stock in seven oil and gas companies, recused himself from voting on a cert petition brought by fossil fuel giants Suncor and ExxonMobil in Suncor v. Boulder County. Boulder is one of dozens of parallel lawsuits being pursued by municipal and state governments seeking damages for decades of Big Oil deception regarding the climate harms that these companies knew their fossil fuel products would cause. Suncor and Exxon hoped that Boulder would allow them to circumvent Alito’s recusal obligations—as their lawyers admitted in an earlier Supreme Court filing, which stressed that the suit was “uniquely positioned” because it had just two defendants and thus was “less likely” than other cases to “present recusal issues.” But Alito did, rightfully, recuse, and without his vote the cert petition failed. |
As the Department of Health and Human Services encourages "deprescribing" of certain medications, the impact on mental health treatment could be severe. |
By Grace Segers excerpt: Earlier this month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. kicked off Mental Health Awareness Month with the launch of several initiatives to reduce the prescription of antidepressants. Kennedy announced the plan—which includes new clinical guidelines, training for physicians, publishing new research on prescription trends, and changes in insurance billing—at a daylong mental health summit at the Make America Healthy Again Institute.
“Psychiatric medications have a role in care, but we will no longer treat them as the default. We will treat them as one option, used when appropriate with full transparency and with a clear path off when they are no longer effective,” Kennedy said at the summit.
|
The president went on a Sunday posting spree featuring some very weird images. |
A recent shadow docket decision suggests that the court isn’t hungry for further legal restrictions on abortion. But there are two familiar holdouts. |
|
|
Costs are still going up—but you wouldn’t know it from the chart Donald Trump’s team shared. |
|
|
|
|
In Yesteryear, an influencer wakes up in the nineteenth century to find it’s nothing like Instagram. |
The man, who said he voted for Donald Trump three times, called the president a "liar" and a "con man." |
A new poll from The New York Times and Siena University shows that the president is massively unpopular—and that voters hate the Iran War. |
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent |
Donald Trump desperately wants the world to recognize his world-historical defeat of Iran. In an extended tirade, Trump raged wildly at a New York Times reporter, insisting his victory is absolute. He claimed the Times is failing, accusing the journalist of being a "fake guy" and declaring his coverage betrays America: "I actually think it’s treason." This is revealing: His insistence on having won reveals that Trump doesn’t get that military force alone can’t force open the Strait of Hormuz—meaning he doesn’t grasp the situation at the most fundamental level, perhaps his biggest failing of all. We talked to political scientist David Faris, who’s been writing well on this fiasco. We discuss why Trump got so little out of China, why his failures abroad mean more authoritarianism at home, why the voters are our only recourse left, and why Trump suffers from "dictator envy." |
|
|
The president’s "settlement" with the IRS appears set to give him a slush fund of $1.7 billion to dole out to allies. How unconstitutional is it? Jamie Raskin counts the ways. |
|
|
|
|
Our mailing address is: The New Republic, 1 Union Sq W Fl 6 , NY , New York, NY 10003-3303, United States |
|
|
