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Catalyzing $1.7 trillion in private investments Venture capitalist @NickHanauer (of TED talk infamy and Pitchfork Economics) draws attention to the transformational nature of the Biden administration’s infrastructure plans. Readers of a certain age may recall a time before interstate highways and the impact of that national project. “Buckle up, America. I’m just back from dozens of meetings at the Whitehouse and Capitol Hill. The amount of investment headed for the American economy is beyond anything we have every [sic] experienced,” Hanauer tweeted. Hanauer adds, “In two years, the Biden administration made up for most of the last 50 years of policy malpractice. Between CHIPS, IRA, and INFRASTRUCTURE, and the anti monopoly EO’s, we are going to get done what we should have been doing all along.” Hanauer retweets Jay Turner who follows environmental politics and policy at Wellesley College. Turner follows investments in the electric vehicle (EV) supply chain. “The Congressional Budget Office estimates that it will inject $374 billion into the clean technology sector over the next decade,” CleanTechinca reports.

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A protest against kidnappings in Port-au-Prince. Photo by Jean.

Jean Marseille recorded these dispatches on his phone while surviving on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from October through December 2022. As the chaos that followed the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 devolved into further lawlessness, Jean witnessed first-hand a city in free fall.

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‘We always knew we could rely on the UK’, says Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Merezhko. ‘But it has changed over the last year, for the better’. Published in conjunction with the Kyiv Post

Messaging app Signal has announced that it will withdraw its services from the UK if it is forced to undermine encryption through proposals in the Online Safety Bill.  Dr Monica Horten, policy manager, freedom of expression, said:  “The spy clause in the Online Safety Bill will give Ofcom the power to ask private companies to […]

The UK gives more to bioenergy firms than any other country in the world, reports Rachel Donald

“The news that changes have been made to the works of best-selling children’s author Roald Dahl has been met with anger from leading writers, including Booker prizewinner Salman Rushdie, who branded the changes ‘absurd censorship.’” — CNN

We here at Puffin Books understand that our edits to Roald Dahl’s stories can be a bit jarring. But if you take a moment to scan through all the changes made, you’ll laugh at the furor over such minor tweaks. We certainly aren’t going to do anything drastic to a childhood classic. That’s why we want to make it clear that James still has sex with the giant peach.

While it’s never wise to make predictions about elections this far in advance, it seems all but guaranteed that the Labour Party will win the next one. This has much less to do with any deep fondness felt by the public for Keir Starmer, and much more to do with the at first slow and […]

Former BBC journalist and producer Patrick Howse explores why the BBC’s reluctance to tell us when we are being lied to is well past its sell by date

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: The Flash, Doctor Who, Star Trek: Picard, The Last of Us, SNL, Welcome to Derry, HBO Max, Succession & more!

An exclusive poll for Byline Times finds only a minority of voters would choose to remain in the UK if given the option to emigrate to another country

This rule will deny thousands of migrants fleeing persecution their right to seek asylum at the United States’ southern border.

The post Biden’s Border Crackdown Explained – A Refugee Law Expert Looks at the Legality and Impact of New Asylum Rule appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Spain's golden visa program has helped to attract thousands of affluent Latin American politicians and business owners to Madrid, but its days may be numbered, at least in its current form.

A judge denied a restraining order against initial construction of the $90 million militarized police training complex.

The post Forest Defenders Vow Resistance After Court Green-Lights Phase I of “Cop City” appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Will President Biden, Congress and other Americans recognize the massive war crimes committed against the Iraqi people with appropriate declarations and actions on March 19, 2023?

The post Ralph Nader: The 20th Anniversary of the Sociocide of Iraq by Bush/Cheney appeared first on scheerpost.com.

If we don’t care about prisoners on any normal day, then why would we care about them when a pandemic is spreading through the system?

The post John Kiriakou: Covid & the Way of Death in US Prisons appeared first on scheerpost.com.

By Jenny Brown / Labor Notes French workers have shut the country down with general strikes three times in the last month to defend their time. They’re protesting a proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. It’s enough to make you cry. Here, the Social Security retirement age was ratcheted up to […]

The post Beware the Time Thieves appeared first on scheerpost.com.

When everyday life is marked by oppression and violence, can a martyr’s death truly be an act of freedom and resistance?

- by Umar Lateef Misgar

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Our educational house most definitely is burning, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders told a town hall on America’s teacher pay crisis at the U.S. Capitol earlier this week.

The post The Lesson We Need to Teach Our Nation’s Rich appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Because statistical analyses need a causal skeleton to connect to the world, causality is not extra-statistical but instead is a logical antecedent of real-world inferences. Claims of random or “ignorable” or “unbiased” sampling or allocation are justified by causal actions to block (“control”) unwanted causal effects on the sample patterns. Without such actions of causal […]

Nobody is trying to impinge on a politician’s right to freely practise their religion – but they cannot use that religion to shield themselves from important questions, writes Nathan O'Hagan

I had a little exchange on twitter and Mastodon yesterday on reading habits. The initial cause of the exchange was the claim that book reading is in decline, and I asked for some evidence of this, which my interlocutor duly provided in the form of a link to a survey of British readers by Booktrust […]

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