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The Broken Recycling System

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Brett Christophers has an excellent essay at the London Review of Books, going over a number of new books writing about waste and recycling and making the point that the recycling system in hopelessly broken because we let corporations control too much of their own behavior...

Burn!

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This used to be a decent country. The 12- and 13-year-old students scowled at the burning pile of comic books outside St. Rita’s Parochial School in Louisville. Several leaned over.

Joe Ely, RIP

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Word from his family is that the great Joe Ely has died. He had Lewy's body dementia and Parkinson's, so it wasn't totally surprising, but it's still an enormous loss.

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The Hilarity of Dead Africans

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Republicans love dead Black people: By the third week in February, they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID’s work. Created in 1961 to foster global stability and help advance American interests, USAID was the largest humanitarian donor in the world. In just a...

Tne broligarchs

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Krugman discusses the dire trend of anti-democratic billionaires burning money to turn real media outlets into MAGA propaganda networks: Yet, ominously, Trump and Trumpism have powerful allies that had no.

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Raised a Cain

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The story gets yet more depressing: Rob Reiner’s son Nick was arrested on suspicion of murdering his parents after the Hollywood legend and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their Brentwood home Sunday. Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said that officers responded...
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