No U.S. Troops in Haiti: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Military Mission Would Not Help Country

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• A Certain Weeping: Beyond Bin Laden’s Wildest Dreams
  Along with grief and loss, the anniversary of 9/11 brought home for many the "incalculable cost" of the quarter century of carnage it unleashed - the militarizing "beyond all sanity," the othering of "everyone who isn't 'them,'" the lying, fear-mongering, inflicting of terror that's left America hollowed out from forever wars now mostly against imaginary […]
• Statement: don’t trust the AI bros. But take the danger of AI seriously.
  AI “doomerism” is going mainstream. This week the heads of major frontier AI companies ratcheted up their rhetoric about how dangerous the technology they are building is, calling for a “pause” on AI development.Digital rights group Fight for the Future, which has run many of the highest profile campaigns against the use of AI for […]
• EPA to Allow Power Plants to Accelerate Global Warming
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce today that it will stop regulating carbon dioxide released by power plants burning fossil fuels, according to reports. If allowed to go into effect, the second largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would be allowed to grow unchecked. In response, David Arkush, director of […]
• Trump Administration Will Roll Back Climate Rules
  According to published reports, the Trump Administration will finalize rules to rollback carbon pollution standards for power plants, as soon as today.Following is reaction from Meredith Hankins, federal climate legal director at NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council):“With millions of Americans facing wildfires, heat waves and deadly storms fueled by climate change, the Trump administration is […]
• Trump Moves to Strip EPA of Authority to Limit Power Plant Carbon Pollution
  According to reporting, Donald Trump’s administration will propose to repeal the Endangerment Finding for power plants today – a move that would permanently strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants under the Clean Air Act. This action would strip EPA of one of […]
• RootsAction and Progressive Democrats of America Announce Campaign Urging AOC and Ro Khanna to Run for 2028 Democratic Presidential Nomination
  Two national activist groups, Progressive Democrats of America and RootsAction, announced today that they will launch a campaign soon after the November midterm elections calling for Reps. Ro Khanna and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to enter the race for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.“As the prospective field comes into view, it’s crucial to have a strong progressive […]