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Three mule deer wandered up to a brand-new bridge near Grass Lake, in the far north of California, and walked across it. The bridge was built just for them, and other animals, and a trail camera caught them taking advantage of it. Remarkably, the bridge was not even finished being built when they used it.…Continue reading The Kind of People Who Build Bridges for Animals
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For years, the only way to fight against the weedkiller Roundup has been in a courtroom. Individuals who asserted that their lives had been forever altered by cancer from the weedkiller sued its maker, Bayer, which purchased the chemical’s original manufacturer, Monsanto, by the tens of thousands. At times, juries agreed with the plaintiffs and…Continue reading Kennedy Is in the Room. But Whose Science Is on the Table?
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$53.5 billion. That is what twenty of the world’s largest grain, fertilizer, meat, and dairy companies paid their shareholders over 2021 and 2022. The United Nations estimates that it would cost about $51.5 billion to feed the 230 million most desperate, hungry people on earth. So a single slice of the food industry handed out…Continue reading $53.5 Billion: A Food System That Feeds Its Investors
By Jefferey Jaxen As the country mostly shuts down during the coronavirus crisis, the U.S. Department of Labor’s latest jobless numbers are unsurprisingly bad. Breathless headlines about unemployment zipped across news feeds Thursday, showing 6.6 million Americans filed new claims. In the week ending March 21, 3.28 million claims were filed, bringing the two-week total…Continue reading Unemployment: The Other Health Crisis
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By Jefferey Jaxen The idea of a country-wide shutdown order from the Trump administration appears to be a nonstarter. As reported last week, states have moved individually to enact various levels of ‘stay at home’ orders. At the time of this writing [Saturday, 3/28/20, 5pm EST], 24 states, or over half of the U.S. population,…Continue reading COVID 1984: Is Big Brother Here To Stay?
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*UPDATE 3/23: Senate expected to vote on third coronavirus response bill *UPDATE 3/23: Michigan orders stay-at-home order to residents *UPDATE 3/22: Delaware and Louisiana have both ordered statewide stay-at-home orders By Jefferey Jaxen Sunday, March 22, 2020’s editorial will forgo normal reporting and instead be a situation report. The coronavirus outbreak has dominated another week of…Continue reading Coronavirus Situation Report: America Braces For A New Week Of Uncharted Waters
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Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom, in a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump, said experts were projecting that roughly 56 per cent of Californians, or about 25.5 million people, were expected to contract the coronavirus over the next eight weeks. Newsom’s claim comes in contrast to worldwide coronavirus cases at just over 256K. Shorty after,…Continue reading CA Gov. Newsom Issues State-Wide Stay-At-Home-Order
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By Jefferey Jaxen Another week, another increase in reported cases of coronavirus in the United States. The inadequacy of early measures and responses by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—combined with their continued, testing rollout failure—can be seen as a major contributor to coronavirus case expansion, beyond whatever virulence the coronavirus inherently…Continue reading All Eyes on U.S. Government Response to Coronavirus
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Recently, the media outlet Collective Evolution sat down for an exclusive interview with The HighWire host Del Bigtree to talk about the Informed Consent Action Network’s latest and biggest legal action to date against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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