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from CommonDreams
LEFT BIAS, HIGH, U.S. based progressive news website
"It is truly groundbreaking," Greta Thunberg said of the growing concentration of the heat-trapping gas. "And I don't mean that in a good way."
The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide surged past 420 parts per million for the first time in recorded history this past weekend, according to a measurement taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory on the Big Island of Hawaii. When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research station "began collecting CO2 measurements in the late 1950s, atmospheric CO2 concentration sat at around 315 PPM," the Washington Post reported. "On Saturday, the daily average was pegged at 421.21 PPM—the first time in human history that number has been so high."
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
In Texas, COVID cases continue to fall. Meanwhile, many other states are fighting a resurgence of the virus despite state attempts to tame it.
Governor Cuomo’s part in hiding nursing home data is execrable, but one key principle of economics explains why it isn’t surprising.
Politicians don’t make profits or losses from the successes and failures of their policies. In other words, they don’t have “skin in the game.” The money spent comes from the taxpayer, so if it is used poorly, the taxpayer is the primary loser. Unlike a business owner, politicians don’t get financially rewarded by being good stewards of scarce resources.
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
It’s been a lousy spring for Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore’s rogue prosecutor. First, the IRS placed a tax lien for $45,000 on her house for three years of unpaid taxes. Second, Baltimore’s Office of the Inspector General conducted a wide-ranging investigation into her activist-sponsored travel, accounting irregularities, and unorthodox gift-acceptance practices, and issued a written report critical of her actions. Soros has provided the infrastructure to recruit, fund, elect, and defend rogue prosecutors. Mosby remains in a league of her own because of her eyebrow-raising behavior both in her official and personal capacities. The U.S. Attorney’s office will, at some point, decide whether there is enough information to take legal action against Mosby, criminal or civil in nature.
If the problem of “woke capitalism” wasn’t apparent before, the battle over Georgia’s new election integrity law has drawn it out into the open. The law, which adds voter ID requirements to absentee voting, extends some early voting, and places some restrictions on activist activities at polling places, has been billed by Democrats and President Joe Biden as Jim Crow 2.0. Regardless of the merits of the law or the offensive absurdity of comparing it to the actual rampant voter suppression under Jim Crow, it’s clear that opposition to the law is coming almost entirely from the left. This issue is being used to seek to persuade Americans to support HR 1, a bill before Congress that would effectively amount to the federal takeover of elections.
Our nation’s capital was always meant to be unique. The founders wanted it to be a federal district, existing beyond the confines or influence of any one state. H.R. 51 would require Congress to ignore the plain command of the 23rd Amendment. Even those who support D.C. statehood admit district residents enjoy special benefits due to where they live and would enjoy an outsize influence in Congress.
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from Huffington Post
LEFT BIAS, MIXED, news and commentary site headquartered in New York City
A familiar-looking bottle appeared in a picture with the former president.
Ex-President Donald Trump faces accusations of hypocrisy after he was pictured with what appeared to be a Diet Coke bottle on his desk, days after he urged supporters to boycott Coca-Cola for opposing Georgia’s new voting restrictions. Twitter users spotted what appeared to be a bottle of Trump’s favorite soda behind the telephone in this photo that former Trump aide Stephen Miller shared to hype a “terrific meeting” with the grinning former president at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
“If true, Matt had engaged in the very practice he’d defended me from,” the former congresswoman and revenge porn victim wrote for Vanity Fair.
Former Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.), whom Rep. Matt Gaetz defended when she was the victim of leaked nude photos, said Monday that the Florida Republican must resign if the sexual misconduct allegations against him are true. The ex-congresswoman, who resigned in October 2019 in response to the leaked photos and allegations of a sexual relationship with her staffer, wrote an op-ed in Vanity Fair detailing her now-ended friendship with Gaetz and her reaction to reports that he is under federal investigation for allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old girl and paying for her to travel with him across state lines.
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from NationofChange
FAR-LEFT BIAS, MOSTLY FACTUAL, news and activism NPO based in Albuquerque, NM
“I think we need a grassroots movement that makes it clear to Joe Manchin... that the progressive agenda is what the American people want,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Senate Democrats late Monday received a green light from the chamber’s parliamentarian to pass additional bills through the arcane budget reconciliation process this year, good news for the party’s efforts to approve a multi-trillion dollar infrastructure package in the face of unified Republican opposition. But several conservatives in the Senate Democratic caucus, with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W-Va.) leading the pack, are threatening to stand in the way of the infrastructure proposal unless they get what they want—namely, a smaller tax hike on corporate America. In an appearance on a local radio show Monday, Manchin said he and “six or seven other” Senate Democrats “feel very strongly” about reducing the corporate tax rate proposed in President Joe Biden’s opening infrastructure bid from 28% to 25%, up from the current rate of 21%.
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from The Press of Atlantic City
Newspaper based in Pleasantville, New Jersey
Schools are designed to teach students, but ever since the pandemic hit, it’s been parents who have learned some hard lessons. They may welcome the fact that districts are finally beginning to open up, but many are also taking a more active role in their children’s education. And states have been responding, with multiple legislatures undertaking one of the biggest expansions of school choice in history.
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from Rolling Stone
Republicans are so laser-focused on preventing people from voting in Georgia that they’re attacking baseball, Coca-Cola, and other corporations and institutions
Georgia was one of the most reliable conservative strongholds in the nation before it voted for President Joe Biden last November and then, two months later, a pair of Democratic senators. The state’s still-very-Republican legislature has since been doing all it can to make sure this never happens again, and last month passed a restrictive new voting law aimed squarely at discouraging people from participating in democracy. People aren’t happy. Neither are a lot of pretty prominent corporations. Coca-Cola and Delta, both based with their corporate headquarters in Atlanta, have spoken out against the law, while Major League Baseball pulled its All-Star Game out of Atlanta.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from The Stanford Review
A Harry Potter-themed Stanford dorm panics over “transphobic, anti-semitic, and racist” J.K. Rowling
From a writer for the Stanford Review, a plea for a return to critical thinking and real dialog on campus. And and end to the current moral panic.
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