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“…51% of the parties who filed amicus briefs calling for an end to a federal abortion right have political connections to Ginni Thomas, raising concerns about a possible conflict of interest at the highest levels of the US judiciary.” Read on The Guardian
While it faces hurdles before passage, the so-called Inflation Reduction Act would invest $369 billion into renewable energy and other measures to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Leah Stokes, a professor of environmental politics who advised Senate Democrats on the legislation, says that while the bill is not perfect, it…
In last month’s Oklahoma v Castro-Huerta, the court tore up centuries of legal precedent and Native sovereignty Read it on The Guardian.com
On this week’s episode of the Campbell Conversations, Grant Reeher speaks with Mark Rupert, an Emeritus Political Science Professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship, about the rise of far-right groups and their general role in the nation. Watch or Read it Here
How did false claims of election fraud make their way to the center of American politics? FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the plot to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Watch Full Documentary on YouTube.com
How A Nativist Interpretation Of The Religion Seized Our Institutions But the problem isn’t Catholicism itself …it’s a nativist, nationalist, racist, sexist Catholic authoritarianism that now holds sway among the majority of lifetime appointees to the highest appellate authority in the republic. Read it on The Nation
This week Dustin Czarny sits down with Rachel May for State Senate. We talk about her past two terms as Senator, how her district has changed during redistricting, and her environmental positions. Watch Here
By Lanessa Owens-Chaplin of NYCLU New York is adding protections against environmental racism, most notably in the form of a recently enacted constitutional amendment. The codification of New York’s “green amendment” creates a safety net for future environmental protections that may be under attack by the majority conservative Supreme Court.…
by Rebecca Solnit The emotional toll of the climate crisis has become an urgent crisis of its own. It’s best met, I believe, by both being well grounded in the facts, and working towards achieving a decent future – and by acknowledging there are grounds for fear, anxiety and depression…