Ted Fickes
Sigh. Another social platform. That will make it all better. I write a newsletter, of course, work on community and content strategy and walk the dog a lot.
Eyewitness describes wolf’s final hours in a rural Wyoming barcoloradosun.com Bar patron described what happened when a man brought a gravely injured wolf into the Green River Bar in Wyoming.
The Commercial Surveillance Marketing Storm Driving the Albertsons and Kroger Deal | TechPolicy.Presstechpolicy.press Transactions that undermine competition, privacy, and expand commercial surveillance should not be permitted, says Jeffrey Chester.
Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreakwww.washingtonpost.com Florida surgeon general Joseph A. Ladapo failed to urge parents to vaccinate their children or keep unvaccinated students home from school as a precaution.
Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it's the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasyreligiondispatches.org This month, a $100 million advertising campaign and website have been launched nationwide to help a particular figure rebrand. In the current climate, just who, do you think, might warrant such a mass...
New Baltimore Sun owner insults staff, says paper should mimic Fox45www.thebaltimorebanner.com Baltimore businessman David Smith told Sun staff he had not been a regular newspaper reader for decades.
The Baltimore Sun explores the question of whether there can be a worse newspaper owner than Alden G...www.niemanlab.org Its new owner, Sinclair executive chairman David D. Smith, has pushed local TV news hard to the right. Will he do the same with newspapers — a medium he's called “so left wing as to be meaningless...
Petrochemical glut makes new plastic cheaper than recycledwww.ft.com Surge in manufacturing in China and US leads to oversupply of products such as polyethylene
Fossil Fuel Giants to Lavish Shareholders With Record Paydays as Climate Crisis Deepenswww.commondreams.org "The global energy crisis has been a giant cash grab for fossil fuel firms," said one campaigner. "And instead of investing their record profits in clean energy, these companies are doubling down on o...
Collateral Damage (Published 2013)www.nytimes.com Promoting their opening to China, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger countenanced mayhem in South Asia.
On Substack Nazis, laissez-faire tech regulation, and mouse-poop-in-cereal-boxesopen.substack.com My advisor in college was named Paul Dawson. Dawson was a legend, a master of his craft. He taught an 8am, 200-person intro to politics course that kept the entire room dialed-in for the full two hour...
The Thousands of Local Elections That Will Shape Criminal Justice Policy in 2024boltsmag.org Counties across the nation are electing DAs and sheriffs next year. <i>Bolts</i> guides you through the early hotspots.
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From Fracked Gas in Pennsylvania to Toxic Waste in Texas, Tracking Vinyl Chloride Production in the ...insideclimatenews.org Appalachia’s fracking boom is fueling the expansion of American plastics manufacturing, including production of vinyl chloride, the carcinogen used to make PVC that burned in East Palestine, Ohio.
Surging U.S. Oil Production Brings Down Prices and Raises Climate Fearswww.nytimes.com American oil production is hitting record levels, delivering economic and foreign policy benefits but putting environmental goals further out of reach.
How wealthy countries evade responsibility for their fossil fuel exportsthebulletin.org Oil, gas, and coal exports are not counted when countries tally their greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement. This allows wealthy nations to report progress on emissions reduction goals, w...