Coronavirus Is Not Just a Health Crisis—It’s an Environmental Justice Crisis
A family leaves Sunday church services surrounded by chemical plants in Lions, Louisiana.Andrew Lichtenstein/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. More than 50 years ago, despite a storm that was brewing…
Should You Keep Taking Your Blood Pressure Meds?
Hauke-Christian Dittrich/DPA via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Like millions of other middle-aged guys, I have high blood pressure. This is a problem: Scientists are baffled by how the coronavirus attacks the body — killing many patients while barely affecting others. But some are tantalized by…
California Is Going to Pay Restaurants to Deliver Meals to At-Risk Seniors
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In a March 22 op-ed, published just after the coronavirus had forced much of the US economy to shut down, Washington, DC, chef and emergency-food activist José Andrés proposed an elegant solution to two looming problems: Have the federal government pay idled…
Trump’s Energy Department Recommends Throwing Money at Uranium Mines
Signs on the gates of an abandoned uranium mine in Red Water Pond, Navajo Nation. Washington Post/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Thursday morning, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced “an array of policy options to restore America’s leadership in nuclear energy” by reducing the nation’s dependence…
People in Maryland Flooded an Emergency Hotline to Ask If They Should Take Trump’s Advice on Disinfectants
Michael Reynolds/CNP/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Trump’s absurd suggestion that injections of disinfectants could help cure the coronavirus wasn’t, as he later suggested, a harmless stroke of sarcasm. More than 100 people in Maryland have earnestly called the state’s emergency management hotline asking about the…
Friday Cat Blogging – 24 April 2020
This is what things look like when we settle into bed for the night. Hilbert adores Marian and pretty much follows her around all day. At night, he jumps up on her stomach and starts begging to be brushed. Sometimes he gets it, sometimes he doesn’t.