Mandarin ducklings fly through the air!

EcoWatch

January 1, 2019

Mandarin ducklings have to jump 3.5 meters through the air when they’re just 24 hours old! 🦆

Nature is absolutely breathtaking.

Mandarin ducklings fledge the nest

Mandarin ducklings have to jump 3.5 metres through the air when they're just 24 hours old! 🦆BBC Springwatch

Posted by BBC Earth on Thursday, June 7, 2018

6 Reasons for Hope in Trump Times.

Robert Reich

January 1, 2019

As we begin the new year, here are 6 reasons for hope.

6 Reasons for Hope in Trump Times

As we begin the new year, here are 6 reasons for hope.

Posted by Robert Reich on Monday, December 31, 2018

Making Thousands a day scamming folks credit cards!

VICE News

January 1, 2019

A credit card scammer explains how he makes thousands in one day.

Making Thousands a Day from Credit Card Scams

A credit card scammer explains how he makes thousands in one day.

Posted by VICE News on Tuesday, December 18, 2018

What Are America’s Priorities?

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders

January 1, 2019

Watch this Danish conservative economist help prove the point about how all people should have quality health care, higher education and child care in a civilized society.

What Are Our Priorities?

Watch this Danish conservative economist help prove the point about how all people should have quality health care, higher education and child care in a civilized society.

Posted by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, January 1, 2019

$1 trillion in stock buy backs provide no real benefit to the economy.

Robert Reich
December 30, 2018

This year corporations spent a record $1 trillion buying back shares of their own stock. These massive buybacks only pad the bonuses of corporate executives and wealthy investors, and provide no real benefit to the economy. They must be outlawed.

Trump's Stock Buyback Bamboozle

This year corporations spent a record $1 trillion buying back shares of their own stock. These massive buybacks only pad the bonuses of corporate executives and wealthy investors, and provide no real benefit to the economy. They must be outlawed.

Posted by Robert Reich on Sunday, December 30, 2018

Black Lung Epidemic

VICE News posted an episode of VICE News Tonight
December 29, 2018

This Kentucky politician couldn’t provide evidence to support his law that requires black lung diagnoses to come from pulmonologists.

That doesn’t make a difference to coal miner Michael Sizemore, who still has black lung despite being diagnosed by a radiologist.

The Law That Will Make It Harder For Coal Miners To Get Black Lung Benefitsa

This Kentucky politician couldn't provide evidence to support his law that requires black lung diagnoses to come from pulmonologists.That doesn't make a difference to coal miner Michael Sizemore, who still has black lung despite being diagnosed by a radiologist.

Posted by VICE News on Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Lessons we should have learned from the financial crisis that caused the Great Recession

Robert Reich

December 29, 2018

After another wild week in the stock market, here are the 3 biggest lessons we should have learned from the financial crisis that caused the Great Recession. We didn’t, to our continuing peril.

What America Should've Learned from the 2008 Financial Crisis

After another wild week in the stock market, here are the 3 biggest lessons we should have learned from the financial crisis that percipitated the Great Recession. We didn't, to our continuing peril.

Posted by Robert Reich on Saturday, December 29, 2018

No Justice in our bail system!

NowThis

December 29, 2018

Our bail system has less to do with justice and more to do with economic slavery for people of color (via Color of Change, illustrations by Molly Crabapple)

John Legends Explains Why the Bail System Needs to Change

Our bail system has less to do with justice and more to do with economic slavery for people of color (via Color Of Change, illustrations by Molly Crabapple)

Posted by NowThis on Friday, December 28, 2018

Nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money went to ICE’s for-profit prisons this year

Robert Reich

December 28, 2018

Nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money went to ICE’s for-profit prisons this year, where undocumented immigrants work for as little as a dollar a day. Privatization meets forced labor.

Trump's Cruelty Industry

Nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money went to ICE’s for-profit prisons this year, where undocumented immigrants work for as little as a dollar a day. Privatization meets forced labor.

Posted by Robert Reich on Thursday, December 27, 2018

Video of trump’s speech to the troops!

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

Video of trump’s speech to the troops! Sets the record straight on WWII and Vietnam.

"I'd have done the Christmas bombing by Thanksgiving."

EXCLUSIVE video of Trump's speech to the troops. Sets the record straight on WW2 and Vietnam.

Posted by GZERO World with Ian Bremmer on Thursday, December 27, 2018