Debt limit deal passed in the Senate now awaits Biden’s signature. Another DC drama fest comes to a close. Losers in the deal are the poor, student debt holders, the IRS, and our planet. Winners include the uber-rich, Big Oil, and business-as-usual.
Part of the debt limit deal ensures students will start paying their loans again at the end of the summer. And, Manchin will get his pipeline.
In a separate attack on student debt holders, the U.S. Senate voted to block Biden’s student loan relief package. Biden says he’ll veto.
The U.S. economy adds 339,000 jobs in May, way beyond economists’ expectations.
Hundreds of Gannet newspaper journalists are set to walk off the job in protest of the company’s leadership and deep job cuts.
A new report shows that the world’s wheat supply may be vulnerable to crisis due to climate change.
Demonstrating once again that our justice system is built for the rich, the Sacklers will not face any personal liability for the billions they made fanning the flames of the opioid crisis.
Eugene DePasquale announces he will run for Attorney General.
New Jersey closes sections of the NJ Turnpike due to wild fires.
And Philadelphia was covered in haze this week for the worst wildfires in Nova Scotia’s history.
Mike Gambone has a great review in the Bucks County Beacon of a new book on the John Birch Society by Matthew Dallek.
And teens in Fort Wayne, IN point the way. After their play, “Marian, or The True Tale of Robin Hood” was canceled by their school, the teens raised money and put it on anyway. “Marian” is a “gender-bending take on Sherwood Forest’s beloved bandit,” .was canceled because of its LGBTQ content.
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