When the Brook Trout Leaps – By Anonymous – The slender dew-tipped grasses are trembling in the breeze, The east is blushing rosy red beneath the Sun’s caress, The wild rose bends to kiss the stream—but only Nature sees, And the reed-harps play weird music just above the water cress. The quail is calling loudly…
Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Perp Walked in New York and Charged for Fraud
By Glynn Wilson – “Sloppy” Steve Bannon was perp walked in handcuffs in front of the press into state court in New York on Thursday and charged with money laundering, fraud and conspiracy for his role in defrauding donors of millions of dollars in a fake online fund raising scheme to allegedly build a wall…
The Tragedy of North Birmingham, Alabama
By Max Blau – Graphics by Shane Loeffler – ProPublica By the spring of 2020, the century-old industrial plant on Birminghamâs 35th Avenue was literally falling apart. Chunks of the metal doors fronting several of the 1,800-degree ovens â which heat coal to produce a fuel called coke â had broken off and tumbled to…
Trump Appointed Federal Judge Grants His Wish for a ‘Special Master’ in the Case of Seized Classified Documents
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — Is it past time to put aside this false notion that the legal system, the Department of Justice and the courts in the United States are above politics? In unprecedented breaking news announced by a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump, she announced…
What’s Past May be Prologue, but Sometimes You Have to Charter New Ground
Stay Tuned to See if Trump Will Face the Music, or Not… Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — Down in Washington, D.C. at the National Archives a team of investigators are combing through all the classified documents seized by the FBI in the recent raid at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Outside the…
New York Cop Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison For Assaulting Police at Capitol on Jan. 6
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A retired New York cop was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison this week for assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It’s the longest sentence given to any Capitol riot subject to date. Thomas Webster,…
President Biden Goes on the Offensive Against Violent Extremism
Staff Report – PHILADELPHIA, Pa. â Speaking in prime time outside Independence Hall where American democracy was forged, President Joe Biden went on the offensive Thursday night by issuing an unprecedented warning of a “clear and present danger to democracy,” declaring that our democratic values are under assault by forces of extremism loyal to “pseudo-fascist”…
Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Scandal Lawsuit Settled for Undisclosed Sum
Staff Report – As the legal and financial heat continue to rain down on Mark Zuckerberg at Meta-Facebook, the tech giant has caved at the last minute and agreed to settle a massive lawsuit seeking billions in damages for allowing Cambridge Analytica to access the private data of tens of millions of users, data used…
Biden Administration Announces $65 Million Investment from Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill in Clean Water Projects, Roads and Trails
Staff Report – The Biden administration announced more than $65 million in spending this week for the U.S. Forest Service to invest in projects nationwide to prepare for climate change by improving roads, trails, fish habitat and water quality. Made possible by President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the first round of a $25.5 million…
President Joe Biden Rides Independent Wave to Higher Job Approval Rating
By Glynn Wilson – Joe Biden is back. With 75 days to go until the midterm elections, old Joe Biden is riding a blue wave back toward presidential popularity with independent, swing voters now that gas prices are going down and the people are finding out about the passage of a historic climate, health care…
A Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Supreme Court
By Andrew Perez, The Lever – Andy Kroll and Justin Elliott, ProPublica.org – An elderly, ultra-secretive Chicago businessman has given the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in U.S. history — worth $1.6 billion — and the recipient is one of the prime architects of conservatives’ efforts to reshape the American judicial system,…
What Humanity Needs: A Shared Narrative for the 21st Century
Biden Administration Launches Major Funding Effort to Create More Outdoor Recreation Opportunities Across America
The FICOR Program Will Also Help Prepare the Country for the Worst Impacts of Climate Change – By Glynn Wilson – ANALYSIS – If you are a long-time nature lover who understands the environmental, biological, economic, psychological and sociological needs to protect and expand green spaces across the country, or a new convert who discovered…
President Biden Signs Historic Climate Legislation
By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden triumphantly signed the signature Inflation Reduction Act on Tuesday in the State Dining Room of the White House, praising the legislation as among the most significant legislative achievements in the history of the country. The ambitious package of bills takes direct aim at tackling global warming and climate…
We Think Therefore We Win
Artemis: We Are Going Back to the Moon, Onto Mars…
Democrats in the United States Senate Unite on Sunday to Pass Historic Climate Legislation, Lower Drug Costs and Tax Corporations
By Glynn Wilson – If you care about democracy and the planet, you should be singing “Hallelujah” on Sunday night as a historic package of bills addressing the climate and energy emergency passed in the United States Senate on Sunday by a vote of 51-50, legislation that will also reduce the price of prescription drugs…
On Leaving Alabama and the Future of Humanity and Nature
NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals Star Formation in the Cartwheel Galaxy
First Capitol Insurrectionist to Go On Trial Sentenced to Seven Years in Federal Prison
By Glynn Wilson – Guy Wesley Reffitt, the first Trump insurrectionist to face trial in the massive criminal investigation into the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, was sentenced by a federal judge on Monday to more than seven years in federal prison, the longest sentence to date. Judge Dabney L. Friedrich handed down a…