Coffee Reads 12/5/24

Sharing a few personal picks today to save new subscribers some time!

Diane’s Blue Forum 👩‍💻

Dec 05, 2024

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Indigenous peoples snubbed at plastic pollution summit

Last week’s United Nations plastic treaty negotiations were supposed to result in a global treaty to safeguard frontline communities from the plastic waste crisis…

2 months ago · 29 likes · 1 comment · Arielle Samuelson

Today's Edition Newsletter

Thank you for a job well done!

2 months ago · 250 likes · 54 comments · Robert B. Hubbell

Tapping the Brakes

Thank you again for all your heartfelt words and kind thoughts. They are most appreciated during a very difficult time. My life and my mission go on, laser-focused on providing, to the best of my ability, reasoned analysis on an incoming administration that seems hell-bent on self-inflicted wounds…

2 months ago · 1963 likes · 292 comments · Dan Rather and Team Steady

Blue Citizen Diane

Introducing Blue Citizen Diane

2 months ago · Diane’s Blue Notes

December 5, 2024

Contact all members of Congress…

2 months ago · 8 likes · 1 comment · Joe Katz

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

It Feels Like Chaos Out There

Yesterday it was South Korea, where there was continuing news that President Yoon may be forced out of office after his attempted power grab, despite the resignation of his Defense Minister. Today, it was France, where a vote of no confidence means the conservative Prime Minister appointed by increasingly unpopular President Macron just 91 days ago will…

2 months ago · 1432 likes · 152 comments · Joyce Vance

Letters from an American

December 4, 2024

In 1883, as the Republican Party moved into full-throated support for the industrialists who were concentrating the nation’s wealth into their own hands while factory workers stayed above the poverty line only by working 12 hours a day, seven days a week, Yale sociologist William Graham Sumner responded to those worried about the extremes of wealth and …

2 months ago · 1679 likes · 286 comments · Heather Cox Richardson

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