Public libraries are a critical county service, providing education and entertainment to all without prejudice. Recently, small but highly vocal groups of ideological partisans have attempted to impose their views on the public by censoring titles held by local libraries. American Booksellers for Free Expression, a group founded in 1990 to combat literary censorship, has… The post From Book Challenges…Read More

At a casual glance, the chart above probably looks like an ordinary graph of wealth inequality in the United States. It captures all kinds of crucial trends that define economic life in this country — for example, that the bottom quintile has negative wealth (they’re in debt), and that 45% of the country are making less than the national cost…Read More

This week, we got word that the Justice Department is finding it impossible to move forward on the autopen case against former President Joe Biden. See, current President Donald Trump thinks Biden didn’t use the autopen correctly. Specifically, Trump believes that Biden was so out of it that the autopen was used to sign pardons that he was unaware of.…Read More

At what point does a book become unreadable? When the reader can think of quite literally anything – however degrading, however painful – rather than sit down and read it. By the time I reached chapter two, “Let’s Be Careerist, Bitches!”, of Zoe Strimpel’s latest non-fiction offering, Good Slut, I had scrubbed the toilet, cleaned the gutters, submitted to a…Read More

This story contains discussion of suicide. If you or someone you care about may be at risk of suicide, contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988, or go to 988lifeline.org. Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide,…Read More

A political row erupted this week. Comments by former Conservative cabinet minister Suella Braverman about Gibraltar’s post-Brexit arrangements prompted a heated response from the territory’s chief minister, Fabian Picardo. Braverman, who left the Conservative Party to join Reform UK in January, claimed the Rock is “now British in name only” following a draft UK-EU treaty setting out plans for a…Read More

Joining us this week for Te Kaupapa Election ’26 – Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast is host Matthew Tukaki, Labour MP… Source link thedailyblog.co.nzRead More

Sunday: We Celebrate International Women’s Day Join us Sunday at 4pm EST/1pm PST for a jam-packed Progressive Town Hall. RSVP Now! We’ll open the Town Hall  with a discussion of the US/Israel War of Agression against Iran, with a special focus on how PDA can help build a powerful and impactful Anti-war movement ASAP.  PDA Advisory Board member Rev. Rodney Sadler, who is running for…Read More

Democratic members of Congress are facing renewed pressure to oppose any Trump administration funding requests to help bankroll its illegal, open-ended war on Iran after congressional Republicans — along with a handful of pro-war Democrats — voted this week to defeat efforts to end the assault, which is costing US taxpayers roughly $1 billion per day. In a statement after…Read More