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"With this decision, the Supreme Court's extreme right-wing supermajority has struck a tremendous blow to our fundamental freedoms."
After a much-publicized study this year found high levels of a toxic chemical class in food wrappings, many of us are eyeing that pizza or to-go salad in a new light.
Experts warn, though, that we shouldn’t just be concerned about exposure from packaged food. The compounds, PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, appear to be widespread in our food supply . PFAS have contaminated dairy and beef farms in Maine and Michigan, and recent testing from the consumer wellness site Mamavation found evidence of the compounds in organic pasta sauces, canola oils and nut butters.
A recent article from the New York Times titled “How Useful are Supplements?” does more to obfuscate and confuse than to educate, so much so that real knowledge about the science of supplements would lead you to fail the article’s 13-question quiz.
"We will not rest until the last state has joined the treaty, the last warhead has been dismantled and destroyed and nuclear weapons have been totally eliminated from the Earth."
Here is the end of the ACIP's discussion today of drugs for moneypox, and CDC's criminal lie about Jynneos' safety
They have the nerve to even say that the demand exceeds the supply. I mean yeah, the past two years have shown to our generation that with enough terroristic messaging and attacking people on every sensory front (see this torture manual), you can temporarily disable the innate self-preservation instincts in very intelligent people by creating an emotional “cytokine storm” that floods the gates of rational thinking and makes people act against their interests… but even so, at this point, nobody cares for the stupid moneypox. (I think I am going to just use that word.)
Investigative journalist Sam Husseini joins Thaddeus Russell to discuss the likelihood that COVID-19 was the result of a secret part of U.S. foreign policy, and to begin building a movement that will stop governments from endangering humanity.
Warning of the heightened threat of nuclear war in a "world rife with geopolitical tensions and mistrust," United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday called upon nuclear nations to join the scores of countries that have adopted a landmark treaty banning atomic weapons.
On June 14th, in Philadelphia, President Joe Biden gave a speech before leaders of the AFL-CIO. This is the role Joe Biden was hired to play, the hardscrabble “Scranton Joe” persona who gets the common working person. He addressed an issue very much on the minds of ordinary folk.
The history of pesticide manufacturing and use in the U.S. reveals an enduring legacy of environmental racism against communities of color and their collective action for environmental justice.
This report introduces people to historical case studies which show that agrochemicals have shaped these themes in U.S. history through a brief overview of pesticides, people, and places.
