Saturday, December 20, 2025

Tag: pandemic

The Feds gave a former White House official $3 million to...

Zach Fuentes, former deputy chief of staff to President Trump, won the contract just days after registering his company. He sold Chinese masks to the government just as federal regulators were scrutinizing foreign-made equipment.

Demanding greater say in COVID-19 safety policies, just 9% of Walmart...

Labor rights group United for Respect released new polling data regarding Covid-19 precautions as employees demanded to be able to serve on Walmart’s board of directors.

While pushing for corporate legal immunity, McConnell vows to block extension...

“Cutting back federal assistance at the height of the crisis would mean self-inflicted disaster, devastation, and additional deaths. That must not happen.”

Coronavirus reminds you of death – and amplifies your core values,...

Recognizing that the coronavirus poses the same existential threat for all of us helps underscore that humanity is a group we all belong to.

Fundamentalist pandemics

Whether in America or Iran, fundamentalist religion often made for dismally bad public policy during the first wave of COVID-19.

Capitalism, contagion, and moral hazard: A cure worse than the disease?

Experience in this unprecedented health crisis is conclusive: Absent an impartial referee there is nothing to prevent a mythical free market from decaying into crony capitalism and causing irreparable damage to society, economy, and a badly battered political system.

Secretive right-wing nonprofit plays role in COVID-19 organizing

Steve Moore and FreedomWorks have been helping coordinate on-the-ground lockdown protests.

Over there is now over here

The world, in other words, has turned upside down.

Who is “essential” to our COVID-19 world

A military spouse’s perspective on fighting this pandemic...

The IRS Gets More Complex Under COVID-19

“ The IRS provides no information as to whether it has received and reviewed my 2019 return, and if for some reason the USPS failed to deliver my 2019 return, the IRS will judge my eligibility using the 2018 return.”

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Trump ramps up denaturalization push with 2026 quota targeting naturalized citizens

Internal USCIS guidance reportedly calls for 100 to 200 denaturalization referrals per month, signaling a sharp escalation that experts say collides with legal limits and historical practice.

How the charter school industry’s newest scheme could be ‘the death of public schools’

A charter school “shitstorm” in Florida shows how the industry intends to take over public education.

House vote advances SPEED Act as 11 Democrats join Republicans to weaken NEPA protections

Climate and frontline groups warn the permitting bill would gut public oversight, fast track polluting projects, and undermine one of the nation’s foundational environmental laws.

Trump’s ‘warrior dividend’ raises questions about funding, housing support, and care for service members

The president announced $1,776 checks for about 1.5 million troops before Christmas, but reporting shows the money was repurposed from congressionally approved housing funds rather than a new benefit.

Holiday shoppers are flexing political power through big boycott campaigns 

Genocide in Gaza, raids on immigrants and attacks on DEI have spurred urgent calls to boycott companies like Home Depot, Target, Chevron and Microsoft.