While safer winter driving is certainly important, throwing tons of salt on the roads comes with side effects, some of which are costly and impact human health in a different way than a head-on collision.
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
In end-stage capitalism, betting on starvation — and war — for profit is a thing.
Rubio: "Let me explain to you guys, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics"
Ummmm….
Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”
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We need to grow/produce more local food, but southern New England spends more time watching farmland be covered with pavement, unaffordable homes, and ground-mounted solar panels than helping farmers feed themselves and the 12 million people who live here. ecori.org/were-eating-...
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Longtime editor of the Valley Breeze, Ethan Shorey, steps down.
Betting on starvation shouldn't be a thing. ecori.org/snake-eyes-c...
Republicans are desperate. The war in Iran is his excuse to remain in power and they are plotting to stay in power at all costs.
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Prediction markets are now taking bets on the timing of potential U.S. military escalation — even nuclear conflict.
More than $500 million has already been wagered on prediction platforms over the timing of U.S. attacks on Iran.
WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?
NOEM: Yes
WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?
NOEM: No.
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Priorities.
He said that “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.” www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2026/03/mrff...
Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.
NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it.
We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."
The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:
Even by his standards Alito’s opinion in NY redistricting case last night was totally unhinged. If he’s writing majority opinion in Voting Rights Act case that’s very very bad news www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
it's really uncanny how major news orgs can write about mergers like this without once mentioning these companies' long, long histories of monopolistic and anticompetitive behavior. It's somehow just not viewed as useful context!
Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."
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Just a reminder that Trump didn't just bumble us into an unnecessary war -- he deliberately created the conditions that he's now screaming about
Renewable energy (solar and wind) prices aren't impacted by war.
