Progressive search for action

22+ min ago (402+ words) Canadian author Margaret Atwood turned 86 last week and is unafraid of speaking out about her southern neighbor. The Guardian served a host of fans the opportunity to swap words with the author of "The Handmaid's Tale," which is now an acclaimed streaming series. And in those exchanges Atwood shared the same lingering trepidation that molded her emblematic series into the rallying cry that it is today. When asked by a fan what she would do were she American, Atwood answered: "now, this very minute, I'd be worrying a lot about my country. Is it a democratic world leader on a steep slide into autocracy?" Another fan asked why we keep electing "psychopaths" to office, to which the author of the "Book of Lives" said sometimes voters get waylaid by bad information. When asked if women and human society would ever…...

25+ min ago (1177+ words) WaPo: Drug Boat Survivors Were Killed The Washington Post reported that after a September drug boat strike left two survivors clinging to wreckage, the United States of America did a second strike that blew them apart in the water. Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 07:33 AM | 17 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to "kill everybody" in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, according to two sources.[image or embed] #1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-28 01:52 PM | Reply Our president is a disgusting human being. The chains he has forged in life are long and heavy. I expect that the White House will be occupied by his ghost. Provided he does not tear the place down. #2 | Posted…...

28+ min ago (1269+ words) Your Vox Membership goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership, we'll give one to someone who can't afford access. It's a simple way for you to support Vox's journalism and share it with someone who needs it. The entire stock market, and therefore the entire economy, depends on it maintaining pretty impossible growth metrics. As the price of almost everything has increased, and American workers' wages have all but stalled, politicians like President Donald Trump have tried to ease our minds by telling us that the economy is "doing great" and that the stock market is booming. "Record high, record high, record high," Trump said at an event earlier this month in Florida. Still, despite what has been a good year for the stock market, it's hard to find a day in which a podcaster, influencer,…...

28+ min ago (586+ words) So, if you didn't get enough on Black Friday, you've got another chance. We put together everything you need to know to successfully shop Nordstrom's Cyber Monday Sale. Related story PSA: Vuori Dropped a Free Limited-Edition Holiday Tote Offer Just In Time for Black Friday Shopping With that said, we rounded up a few of our favorite deals from Nordstrom's Cyber Monday Sale. Check those out below. Valentino's Liquirosso 2-in-1 Lip & Blush Stick is a multi-use product that can help "blur the lines." This was designed to be super easy to use, and offers an easy-to-wear, buildable formula for you to create the exact look you want. It also doesn't hurt that the packaging is so luxe. Get it today in three shades for 40% off. Looking for a holiday gift that's sure impress? Nordstrom's Cyber Monday Sale has you covered…...

29+ min ago (371+ words) In Maryland, Jonathan White " a former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official " is waging a longshot campaign to unseat two-term Rep. Glenn Ivey via a Democratic primary. And according to Washington Post reporter Dan Diamond, his core message is that fellow Democrats aren't doing enough to fight back against the second Trump Administration.President Donald Trump was serving his first term when White, then serving in HHS, became an outspoken critic of Trump's family separation policy with immigration. White didn't hold back, yet he managed to keep his HHS position. And he continued to serve in HHS during former President Joe Biden's four years in the White House. But having recently resigned from the agency, White is putting his energy into his congressional campaign.Diamond reports, "His primary challenge in Maryland's 4th District is a reflection of a deeper…...

38+ min ago (374+ words) With every year that passes, more and more communities across the country are taking action to address the shocking amount of pollution and noise from gas lawn equipment," said Kirsten Schatz, clean air advocate at the Colorado Public Interest Research Group, called CoPIRG. Gas-powered leaf blowers aren't just annoying; they're bad for public health. Closing the windows can't shut out their low-frequency roar, which can be louder than the World Health Organization's recommended limit of 55 decibels up to 800 feet away. The unwanted sound can lead to high levels of stress, along with disturbing people's sleep and potentially damaging hearing over time. Leaf blowers' two-stroke engines also churn out a noxious blend of exhaust: fine particulate matter, smog-forming gases, and cancer-causing chemicals like benzene and formaldehyde. By one estimate, running a gas-powered leaf blower for an hour emits as much smog-forming…...

57+ min ago (1682+ words) Neo learns the truth in The Matrix (1999) Earlier this week, the number one most-read story in the Financial Times was headlined, "Nvidia shares fall on signs Google gaining upper hand in AI." It turns out that Google's AI software/product is doing about as well as its competitors but isn't using Nvidia's "must have" AI super-chips, shocking the market. But even with that, we ain't seen nothing yet: get ready for the Moores' Law shock and a few others that seem increasingly inevitable. For months now, the tech world has been drunk on the language of inevitability. AI will transform everything. AI demand for electricity will double America's power consumption. AI data centers will be the new steel mills, the new auto plants, the new engines of prosperity. Wall Street has inflated this into a bubble so big that it's…...

58+ min ago (303+ words) That's right. It's morning happy hour, re-ran from last year. Greetings, Wonketteers! I'm Hooper, your bartender, and here is your SPECIAL BLACK FRIDAY cocktail! Let's toss in one more morning or after-dinner drink to get you past the leftovers. Have some Irish Coffee with me. Here's the recipe. 2 oz Irish whiskey 1/2 oz brown sugar syrup (1: 1 brown sugar/water) 4-5 oz fresh coffee 1 oz heavy cream, lightly whipped Fill a glass coffee cup to the rim with hot water. In a separate tumbler, add the Irish whiskey and brown sugar syrup. Stir until combined. Discard the hot water, add the whiskey/syrup mixture, and top with hot coffee. Float the cream on top of the coffee using the back of a bar spoon. When I look at Joe's original recipe, though, I see some interesting details that separate it from the quick…...

58+ min ago (631+ words) He would say hurtful things to me in front of my children," recalled Tabeth. He would threaten to kill me, saying he would burn the house with me inside. He would say this all the time and for the longest time I could remember." These abuses'and many more like them'went unseen for far too long. Yet in rural Zimbabwe, services to support survivors of gender-based violence are often out of reach. Survivors often must travel long distances to seek help, and when they do, they risk facing stigma and blame from the very responders who are meant to protect them." But today, for survivors like Tjedza, Clara and Tabeth, the years of fear and silence are over. An initiative in Zimbabwe's Bubi District, known as Women at the Centre, is improving access to essential protection and support services'and improving the…...

58+ min ago (503+ words) And how did she decide on the three girls? Well, "one of them had the same birthday as me. So that's how we kind of said "Those girls!'" Below, see what Hart had to say about her work with World Vision, how she encourages her teen sons to give back, and their family's "brain breaks!" So, what did she do? Well, "last year, I opened up the gift catalog, which is my favorite way to start the season, to look at how I'm gonna gift people. I decided to do a school latrine." She added, "There are medical supplies in there. There are goats. There are chickens. There's stuff for domestic US kids with backpacks and things that children and families all across the world need." Now, the charity work doesn't end with the mission trips; it's in everything Hart…...