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2026-27 Season Preview: Sacramento Kings
Zach LaVine, Keegan Murray and Malik Monk return as the Kings look to establish a new identity. • Last Season: 22-60 (14th in West, missed postseason) • Key Additions: Darius Acuff Jr., Alex Karaban, Emanuel Sharp, Ben Simmons • Every Kings move this offseason As the Kings continue to double down on youth, it’s time for the returning core to apply what they learned from departed veteran leaders Russell Westbrook (retired) and DeMar DeRozan (released, signed with Denver).
Sense and feasibility in development finance
Sense and feasibility in development finance New Zealand's development finance market in mid-2026 has capital available but deal flow remains slow. Geopolitical tension, rising build costs and rate uncertainty are weighing on confidence. Only projects with credible sponsors, sound structures and realistic exits are attracting funding. For mortgage advisers working with developer clients, knowing which lender suits which deal matters more than ever.
Bold Ideas, Emerging Leaders: Roosevelt Network Emerging Fellows Journal 2024
In this collection of undergraduate papers, student authors from the Roosevelt Network Emerging Fellowship program engage deeply with research that embraces the intersections of policy, power, and narrative change to develop around-the-corner policy ideas that could fundamentally change their communities.
How to Galvanize Americans Stuck in Their Cars on Climate Original
The morning commute on Interstate 395 in Washington, D.C., was interrupted twice last month by the climate activist group Declare Emergency. As activists sat across highway lanes blocking traffic, drivers got out of their cars to confront the protesters. “We gotta go to fucking work!” one driver yelled. “We got kids to feed!” Another suggested the activists take their complaints to the White House. When police eventually cuffed and removed the protesters from the scene, the crowd cheered.
SRS Museum showcases artifacts from nuclear site's Cold War era
The Savannah River Site Museum in Aiken is a small, nonprofit museum with much information to share about the nuclear defense complex located south of the city. Retiree Walt Joseph founded this museum, along with the Savannah River Site Heritage Foundation, in 2015.
Flood Inc. - Dissent Magazine
Flood Inc. The adaptation framework has been used to privatize public services, extract resources, and muster new reserve armies of labor. People, not capital, should determine how to reconfigure their lives in the face of climate change. Casey Williams ▪ Summer 2022 The Great Adaptation: Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe by Romain Felli, trans. David Broder Verso, 2021, 192 pp.
South Africa’s electricity workers can teach us about winning a Green New Deal
This story originally appeared in Jacobin Magazine on April 23, 2022. It is shared here with permission. South Africans have something Green New Deal boosters in the United States only dream of: a nationalized electricity sector. Unlike the investor-owned utilities supplying , South Africa’s state-owned electric utility, Eskom, has a mandate to supply electricity as a “basic right” and, by 2050, to fully decarbonize. For now, though, Eskom’s power comes almost entirely from coal.
South Africa’s Electricity Workers Can Teach Us About Winning a Green New Deal
South Africans have something Green New Deal boosters in the United States only dream of: a nationalized electricity sector. Unlike the investor-owned utilities supplying , South Africa’s state-owned electric utility, Eskom, has a mandate to supply electricity as a “basic right” and, by 2050, to fully decarbonize. For now, though, Eskom’s power comes almost entirely from coal.
Above Photo: Members of the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa rally Nov. 17, 2018, against government plans to close five coal-fired power stations and offer contracts for privatized renewable energy. (IndustriALL). Can South Africa Transition From A Reliance On Coal To Clean Power While Maintaining Jobs?
Amid Rolling Blackouts, Energy Workers Fight For Clean Public Power In South Africa
Reader donations, many as small as just $5, are what fund the work of writers like this—and keep our content free and accessible to everyone. If you support this work, will you chip in to help fund it? It only takes a minute to donate. Click here to make a tax-deductible donation. The lights went out around Johannesburg on a Monday morning in November 2021, not to flicker back on until early that Friday in some areas.
Illinois Enacts Comprehensive Climate and Clean Energy Legislation | JD Supra
In September, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the omnibus, 956-page climate and energy legislative package titled the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (the “CEJA”). The CEJA has an immediate effective date.
Poet Claudia Delfina Cardona on Her Debut Poetry Chapbook
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Scientist Online: Entomologists' Experiences Engaging With School Audiences Through Skype in the Classroom
Introduction Americans' confidence in scientists has steadily increased in recent years, yet research shows those who trust science often have an existing high level of science knowledge and politically tend to be Democrats (Funk et al., 2019). A science communication myth exists that the public is uneducated and scientifically illiterate, and that simply supplying information will solve the science knowledge gap (Nisbet and Scheufele, 2009).
Climate v. Culture
The Homeland Issue The Gullah Nation gears up for the fight of its life By Casey Williams 5/30/2017 ST. HELENA ISLAND — On a stormy evening in October, 2016, Queen Quet hunkered down in her mother’s farmhouse on St. Helena Island, South Carolina to ride out Hurricane Matthew. Heavy rains battered the house, and wind whipped through the trees outside.
Hummer Returns In 2021 As An EV - And A GMC
All of the air is being sucked out of the automotive universe with upcoming all-electric pickups like the Rivian R1T, Ford F-150, and Tesla’s angular Cyber Truck. And then, there’s the onslaught of electric SUVs like the Tesla Model X, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Rivian R1S, and Mercedes EQ. Lincoln just announced Rivian, of which Ford took an ownership stake, will build it an electric SUV. As General Motors was being out-Hummered by the competition, it realized it has a Hummer of its own.
This Changes Everything, Again
NOVEMBER 13, 2019 THE DECADES-LONG fight against “climate denial” is over. The facts are in; the paths forward are clear, even if we can’t know precisely where they’ll end up. Some conservatives still refuse the science of planetary warming, but they’re struggling to keep up the act. Others see climate change as a threat to property and patrimony — or else a chance to cynically stoke xenophobic fears.
The Overwhelming Hugeness of Climate Change
Ditching fossil fuels will take a lot more than “going green” Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto/Getty Within 30 years, parts of Miami will be under water. The coral reefs will mostly be dead. Swaths of West Africa will dry up and become infertile. Such are the predictions of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose most recent report details with terrifying precision what’s likely to happen if we keep burning planet-warming fossil fuels.
Apple’s ‘Recycled’ Macs Aren’t What They Seem
Photo: Apple Apple is washing itself green. The tech company announced Tuesday that it will build its new MacBook Air and Mac Mini computers using “100 percent recycled aluminum.” The move is part of a goal Apple set in 2017 to use only renewable or recycled materials in its products.
The EPA Will Not Ban a Pesticide That Can Harm Kids’ Brains
Here’s what you need to know Credit: fotog/Getty The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decided on July 18 to keep the pesticide chlorpyrifos on the market, despite numerous studies linking it to brain disorders in children.
Fiat Chrysler Seeks Merger With Renault To Weather Gathering Storm
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles sign at Chrysler World Headquarters and Technology Center, Auburn Hills, Michigan. Courtesy Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Analysis While many of us were grilling hotdogs and enjoying the Memorial Day Holiday, Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s board was submitting a proposal for merger with the French automaker, Renault. Renault’s board is considering the details within and will respond by next week.
The “Great Dying” Has Begun. Only Transforming the Economy Can Stop It.
In their careful way, scientists are calling for an end to capitalism as we know it Photo: Architect/Getty Images Extinction has threatened Earth’s plant and animal life several times over the planet’s multibillion-year history. During the mass extinction event called the “Great Dying,” around 250 million years ago, 96% of all marine species died out — gone forever. Life is once again headed for total collapse.
The Socialist Case for Automating Our Jobs Away
Let robots do the drudge work. Give workers a basic income. Credit: imaginima/E+/Getty For decades, you’ve been told to fear automation. Robots are stealing factory jobs; self-checkouts are gutting the service sector; artificial intelligence will replace even the most skilled laborers with whip-smart algorithms. The economy will grow, but you’ll be out of work. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks it doesn’t have to be that way.
Why declaring a climate-change “state of emergency” would be a disaster
My emergency is realer than yours. That’s the line coming from prominent Democrats, including presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, as lawmakers stake out positions on the moment’s defining issues: migration and climate change. President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border has provoked predictable backlash from liberals.
For-Profit Firefighting Was Terrible for America. Climate Change Is Bringing It Back.
While residents of Paradise, California fled down freeways choked with ash and hollowed-out cars, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West rested easy this week. Like many wealthy Californians, the ultrarich couple hired a private firefighting force to protect their $60 million mansion from the devastating wildfires, which have left at least 56 people dead. The rich have been recusing themselves from wildfires for years.
Apple’s ‘Recycled’ Macs Aren’t What They Seem – Member Feature Stories – Medium
Apple is washing itself green. The tech company announced Tuesday that it will build its new MacBook Air and Mac Mini computers using “100 percent recycled aluminum.” The move is part of a goal Apple set in 2017 to use only renewable or recycled materials in its products.
The Overwhelming Hugeness of Climate Change – Member Feature Stories – Medium
Within 30 years, parts of Miami will be under water. The coral reefs will mostly be dead. Swaths of West Africa will dry up and become infertile. Such are the predictions of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose most recent report details with terrifying precision what’s likely to happen if we keep burning planet-warming fossil fuels.
Tesla’s Union Battle Is About the Future of Our Planet
Workers at Tesla are fighting for a little more power. And Elon Musk is hitting back, hard. Tesla’s billionaire CEO has been accused of using shady tactics to squash a union drive at Tesla’s auto plant in Fremont, California, which was named one of the most dangerous car factories in the country in 2016. Employees say Musk discouraged them from forming a union, sometimes through his Twitter account, and then illegally retaliated against workers who tried to organize.
What Happens When the Alt-Right Believes in Climate Change
LAST SEPTEMBER, as record-breaking hurricanes thrashed the Caribbean and southeastern US, the white nationalist magazine American Renaissance asked its readers a question: “What does it mean for whites if climate change is real?” In its bombastic response, the magazine bucked two decades of conservative dogma to offer an ethno-nationalist take on planetary warming.
The state locked them up. Now they’re North Carolina’s elite firefighting force. – Scalawag
Nate Manwarren had never flown to a fire before. And as the canary yellow helicopter circled a mountain blazing with wildfires, the 32-year-old firefighter worried, just for a second, that he might tumble through the open door and into the smoldering forest below. Minutes later, the chopper touched down at the base of Wolf Knob, a stubby mountain 12 miles west of Asheville, North Carolina. It was the fall of 2016, and more than 30 wildfires were blazing through the region's broadleaf forests.
Why Hundreds of Georgia Bus Drivers Just Staged a Massive Sickout
Robbie Brown loved her students. For 18 years, she drove them in her yellow bus to and from schools in DeKalb County, Georgia. And then, last Friday, two police officers showed up at Brown’s house with a letter. She’d been fired. Brown is one of at least seven drivers sacked after staging a “sickout” to demand better pay and benefits.
Georgia school bus drivers join labor revolt in public education – Scalawag
Robbie Brown loved her students. For 18 years, she drove them in her yellow bus to and from schools in DeKalb County, Georgia. And then, last Friday, two police officers showed up at Brown's house with a letter. She'd been fired. Brown is one of at least seven drivers sacked after staging a "sickout" to demand better pay and benefits.
Apocalypse How? What Novels Screw Up About Climate Change
If you live somewhere other than under a large rock, the premise of The Tangled Lands will sound familiar: A declining empire owes its former splendor to a miraculous energy source. Now, emissions from that source threaten to destroy the empire. Everyone’s freaking out. The story is (maybe too) obviously an allegory of climate change.
Apocalypse How? What Novels Screw Up About Climate Change
If you live somewhere other than under a large rock, the premise of The Tangled Lands will sound familiar: A declining empire owes its former splendor to a miraculous energy source. Now, emissions from that source threaten to destroy the empire. Everyone’s freaking out. The story is (maybe too) obviously an allegory of climate change.
West Texas: The Future of Texas Energy Resilience
We West Texans know about oil markets. Their boom and bust cycles have forged our resilient West Texas spirit. In recent times, however, we have also come to know renewables, as corporations have made large wind and solar investments in the area. The U.N. Paris climate accord, which seeks to decrease emissions from coal, natural gas, and oil-burning plants, has played a role in incentivizing the energy transition from carbon-emitting sources to cleaner, renewable options.
In cities across the South, Socialism is on the ballot
From Texas to Florida, voters are supporting candidates across the broad spectrum of the left: progressive Democrats and committed socialists who want to reduce wealth inequality, return power to workers, and chip away at structures of oppression. On a warm evening in September, Vincent Fort rose from his pew at Saint Philip AME church in Atlanta, and lifted a clenched fist into the air. Claps and hollers tore through the packed assembly.
Toyota Celebrates Five Million Indiana-Built Vehicles
On September 20, a very special Toyota Sequoia Platinum full-size SUV rolled off the line of Toyota’s plant in Princeton, Indiana. It was the plant’s 5 millionth vehicle. Five million of anything is impressive, and it would have been difficult to imagine the milestone when the first vehicle rolled out in 1998. Toyota team members Sandra and Andres Chaparro were there to see it. “It really seems like yesterday we opened the plant and started our journey with Toyota,” the Chaparros said.
Anti-Racism Activists Accuse Durham Bar of Being Racist | News
On Tuesday night, Durham activist Takiyah Thompson and several friends walked into Central Park Tavern on Rigsbee Avenue and tried to order drinks.
Opinion | Has Trump Stolen Philosophy’s Critical Tools?
The Stone April 17, 2017 Truth is pliable in Trumpland. In March, the president fired off a tweet accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower. Republican members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, dismissed the claim. But the Trump team doubled down, writing off media reports and insisting that evidence of wiretapping would soon surface. It didn’t.
Texans Receive First Notices of Land Condemnation for Trump's Border Wall
The ribbon left by the DHS in 2008 to note where the border wall would enter on Aleida Flores’ land still remains. Jen Reel The week before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Yvette Salinas received a letter she had been dreading for years: legal notice that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to build a border wall on her family’s land in Los Ebanos.
Auto industry adapts to growing influence of female buyers
Women are fueling the red-hot auto industry, long dominated by men. They influence more than 80 percent of automotive purchases and drive more than 50 percent of autos sold annually in the United States. Since 2012, women held more driver's licenses than men did. Now more than ever, women hold great sway over the auto industry, from the features in how cars are designed to the other end of the car-buying spectrum at the dealer relationship.
From design to dealerships, women are driving auto industry
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5 things to know about Michael’s Law
Starting July 1, Michael's Law will go into effect and prevent those under the age of 21 from working as a bouncer. The law will also tighten regulations on bars and will require counties to report alcohol license violations in a more timely manner. Michael's Law was created after Michael Gatto, a Georgia Southern University student, died at a bar in Statesboro after a fight with a bouncer. Below are five things to know about the law and how it will affect Athens when it goes into effect July 1. 1.
Welcome To Cadillac House
Taking a page from Apple and Tesla, Cadillac is on a quest to subject customers to a full immersion of its brand. In this case, we’re talking about Cadillac House, a 12,000 square foot permanent space at the company’s New York City headquarters that will hold showings of vehicles and exhibits in partnership with organizations like the Council of Fashion Designers of America. The public was welcomed from June 2.
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