Future Timeline

It is like the Steve Miller band song: "Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future."

To the question of how and why is Trump's support so strong compared to Biden's, one must look toward the information silos to which the American public sequesters itself. For example, look at the relative ratings of the cable news networks: (TV Newser) Fox News in primetime had 2.135 million total ...

Reproductive Rights Advocates Close in on Abortion Ballot Measures in Missouri and South Dakota by Julia Lurie May 4, 2024 Introduction: (Mother Jones) Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures need...

I sure hope this poll (see below) has underestimated Biden's support and that other polls showing a slight Biden lead are more accurate. (Rasmussen Reports) General Election: Trump 48, Biden 36, Kennedy 8, West 1, Stein 1 Trump +12 Sample size: 1,205 Likely Voters Poll taken April 29, 2024 to May 1,...

What Is the Largest Mammal Ever to Walk the Earth? by Maddy Chapman May 1, 2024 Introduction: (IFL Science) Since the demise of the dinosaurs, mammals have thrived. Without their scaly peers around, their numbers exploded, they diversified, and they got bigger – but just how big? We know that the b...

A world with fewer children? May 3, 2024 Introduction: (Eurekalert) In the 1992 dystopian novel “Children of Men,” later adapted to film, humanity faces the chilling reality of a world without children, a global infertility crisis that threatens to extinguish the species. While this apocalyptic vis...

The 1% Move Report for May 3, 2024 Introduction: (Morgan Stanley) What Happened in the Markets? • The S&P 500 increased 1.3% Friday to end the day at 5,127.79, having gained 7.5% thus far in 2024. • Ten of the 11 S&P 500 sectors were higher on the day, as Information Technology (+3.0%) and ...

Cholera is Making a Comeback — and the World Doesn’t Have Enough Vaccines by Ellen Ioanes May 2, 2024 Introduction: (Vox) Amid a global resurgence of cholera, the world is fighting with one hand tied behind its back. The global stockpile of the oral cholera vaccine — a supply whose needs are diffic...

Corporate Profiteering Schemes That Drive Inflation Detailed at Senate Hearing by Brett Wilkins May 2, 2024 Introduction: (Common Dreams) Progressive policy experts took aim at corporate greed and profiteering during a Thursday U.S. Senate hearing on "shrinkflation," the process of reduci...

The DEA Is Finally Reclassifying Pot as Less Dangerous by Julia Métraux April 30, 2024 Introduction: (Mother Jones) On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing that cannabis be reclassified from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a class...