Every industry always resists the adoption of regulations which will add costs, however slightly. Any ship on the Great Lakes without the most modern technology to prevent the spread of invasive species, should be retired, and immediately. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/01/g...

Evidence of the benefits of vaccines keeps accumulating … www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/h...

Naked racism: "The photograph of Ms. Levy Armstrong...the hallmarks of brazen disinformation from the top level of government: smearing and humiliating one citizen in order to influence public opinion, while sending a warning to other critics. " www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

“I am Renee Good, I am Alex Pretti, I am Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, I am Keith Porter,” she said. “This needs to stop now. How many more lives must be lost before meaningful action is taken?” www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/03/b...

Trump has unleashed an army of trigger-happy brutes upon our communities … chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Think there's no difference between the parties? This is the true meaning of national security. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/03/i...

Think there's no difference between the parties? Read this article detailing the lawsuits brought by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul against the Trump regime -- starting with the challenge to the executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinoi...

Personally, I find Reader Supported News indispensable ... especially as RSN often lets you read things that would otherwise be behind a paywall. www.rsn.org/001/meet-the...

Letter NYT Jan 7: "It is unbelievable and unconscionable how this administration is fomenting misinformation, fear and distrust. I hope we do not see tragic outcomes for children who are not immunized... Immunizations are one of the most singular achievements in modern medicine." -Michael Lapkin

Dr. Philip J Landrigan: Even low doses of glyphosate-based herbicides (ubiquitously used "Roundup") cause leukemia in rats. A 2000 study claiming the stuff safe is "scientific fraud". "People have developed cancers, and people have died, because of this fraud." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...

From The New Yorker's piece on Willie Nelson: "Farm debt is back near its peak in the eighties-higher, by some measures-and rural suicide rates have climbed sharply. 'The tariffs are killing farmers...including small family farmers, who get killed the worst.'" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The subhead - "Scientists Alarmed by Shifts to Fossil Fuels and Away From Global Cooperation" - is the understatement of the year.

I'm a card-carrying member ... what's in YOUR wallet?

From an essay on Hannah Arendt in the Times: "A free country is one in which people can criticize their government without fear of government retaliation. She maintained that dissent was as essential to democracy as consent was." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...

Feminist heroine of the day ... (and note her death from TB at age 23 ... that's the world that Trump and the Republicans are returning us to ...) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...

If you're free, do drop on by this evening for Karen Battaglia's "Mid-Winter Warm Up". Karen's running for the state senate in district 32. From 5 to 8pm tonight, Thursday, at 140 Cass Street, just west of the Woodstock Square. www.mchenrydems.org/mid_winter_k...

Tom Nichols from The Atlantic-“one truth in Trump’s unhinged messages...is that the United States is now led by someone who cannot contain his thoughts or emotions, and who still thinks of the men and women of the U.S. military as little more than his own toy soldiers.” www.rsn.org/001/trumps-o...

The outrage here should be directed at the management of Commonwealth Edison, the beneficiary of this corruption … www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/31/m...

Our multi-billionaire oligarchic rulers are highly divorced from reality, as evidenced by an insane rush pushed by Bill Gates to build a nuclear reactor using highly flammable liquid sodium metal and without any “containment” structure. beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/12/28/t...

When Republicans are in power, everything gets worse … From the Times on Christmas Eve: “Student Loan Borrowers in Default Could See Wages Garnished” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/b...

Obit of the month, for sure … Betty Reid Soskin, age 104, born Betty Charbonnet, the family from New Orleans with French, Spanish and African roots. Her great-grandmother Leontine Breaux Allen was born into slavery. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

The Chicago Tribune points out "Building a new wind farm now costs 45% less than operating a coal plant with the same capacity... Solar energy is almost as cost-competitive. Renewable energy now generates more electricity nationwide than coal." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/13/t...

Next time the trumper's talk to you about the Constitution, I give you permission to laugh ... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

Yet another manifestation of the economic devastation being wreaked by Trump and his enablers ... www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Two can play at this game, and Trump’s tariffs have severely damaged our economy … The full headline from the print edition: “Beijing suspends exporting goods world relies on - rare earth products - escalation hits tech and auto industries and the military” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...

#Trumpflation means mortgage rates are about to go higher, further raising the cost of housing and everything else ... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...

Heaven help us ... www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/18/m...

Measles, anyone? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...