Food and Water Watch brought the suit. Here they are praising the ruling: www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2024/09/25/h...

Historic Court Decision in Fluoridation Toxicity Case Orders EPA to Act

Federal Court Ruling is First to Require Stronger Fluoride Regulation Under Toxic Substance Law

“a peripatetic career on the fringes of the tech industry”

Today JD Vance said he wanted to kill the National Labor Relations Act and the headline Semafor ran was that he's sad about union decline www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

For New York mag, I wrote about the slop economy nymag.com/intelligence...

a lot of americans just seem to believe, to their bones, that nothing truly bad could ever happen to them, and so their choices don’t really matter

It's dizzying to think about how easily and noiselessly you can be plucked from your life and entered into a system built to manufacture the justification of your murder and no amount of love or evidence, no visibility, no mobilization of a community formed under your name can save you

Missouri's governor and the man he appointed AG are being allowed to kill a man, Marcellus Williams, over the objection of the prosecutor in the office that prosecuted the case — with innocence and racism questions at issue — and the Supreme Court's conservatives said, "Sounds good to me."

SCOTUS conservatives won't keep Marcellus Williams alive

Missouri is scheduled to execute Williams tonight despite a serious innocence claim. The three liberal justices would grant him a stay of execution.

Look at you attracting angry 12 year old readers!

As a reminder of what a travesty this is, the people most closely involved don't actually want the state to carry out this execution: the victim's family, the members of the jury, the PROSECUTOR. There is no reliable evidence that Mr. Williams committed the crime.

This closing quote from NYT Fredric Jameson obit: “It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism,” he wrote in “The Seeds of Time” (1994). “Perhaps that is due to some weakness in our imaginations.”