Dave Garcia is Director of Policy and Community Building at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. On Monday, March 6, he spoke out about the Supreme Court choosing not to address the rights of Gavin Grimm.
If the amount of food wasted around the world were reduced by just 25% there would be enough food to feed all the people who are malnourished, according to the UN.
Hard to believe, but for reasons that I cannot discern, seventeen (17) Republican Congressional members have signed a "resolution" calling out Trump and his new EPA chief on their views that human caused climate change is not proven. Color me surprised and skeptical, but also hopeful.
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(Edit: Evidently the article I linked from Counterpunch was unlabeled satire that I didn't catch. Fake news if you will which Counterpunch should be a little leery of since they're on the oligarchy's fake news list. Doesn't change my opinion of Trump's mental state though.)
Tomorrow we hit the federal debt ceiling.
I always considered the federal debt ceiling to be just political theater, nothing more.
The Treasury Department can move money around so that the debt ceiling is meaningless for months.
But then I spotted these charts.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Sen. Rand Paul introduced the Stop Arming Terrorists Act on Friday.
The stock market has been on a record run. So should you jump on the bandwagon?
Consider a few charts measuring stock values in different ways.
Residents of Casa Ruby, a LGBT youth community center and shelter in Washington, D.C., were preparing to turn on a movie on Sunday afternoon to distract themselves from the cold late-winter day.
But before they could settle down in their warm, safe space, a visitor stood up, assaulted a staff member, threw a brick, shattered the glass door, and threatened to return to kill someone.
