| | | The Hoover Dam is losing its reason for being. | | If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser. | | | | |  | | | | We're Inching Towards Actual Violence Over Access to Water | | | | The Hoover Dam is estimated to have lost a quarter of its customary hydroelectric power. Worse, the lower Colorado River, without which the country would have a lot of new deserts, is at a crisis stage, and the federal government may have to take serious action that will affect the region's farmers—Charles P. Pierce guarantees you it will set off the Bundy-ite fringe. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Nike's Best Sleeper-Hit Sneakers Are On Sale Right Now | | | | Sometimes it feels like the universe is looking out for you. It's a rare thing, but it happens. Take, for instance, what's going on over at Mr Porter right now. Amidst the ten-thousand-plus items on sale there sits a sleeper-hit pair of sneakers from Nike. The sneakers in question are a pair of Blazer Low '77s in white, gray, and green. They're not quite neutral, but will go with pretty much any outfit you can conjure this summer, from big shorts and a camp-collar shirt to slim chinos and a tipped polo. Plus, because they're low-tops, they're perfectly suited to the warmer months ahead. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | This Pride, Find Cool Merch That (Actually) Benefits the LGBTQ Community | | | | Not to be all "corporations have sullied Pride by monetizing a movement," but... corporations have sullied Pride by monetizing a movement. And that's a gross thing to do, considering that it means profiting off a group of people whose civil rights are still being toyed with and stripped away, depending on who's in office. This June, with rainbows and pastels popping up every which way to Sunday, it's good to know where your money is going and who is using it for a cause that actually helps the queer community. We put together a roundup of companies who are either donating 100 percent of their profits to LGBTQ-centric organizations or have demonstrated a history of supporting the LGBTQ community throughout the years. Drink your juice, don the rainbow, and have one hell of a Pride 2021. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | The 40 Best Father's Day Gifts You Can Dig Up on Amazon | | | | You buy your multivitamins and socks on Amazon. Why not a thoughtful, actually good present for dad? Of course, the site is rich with Father's Day gag gifts, but you can absolutely find cool stuff tailored to his interests as well. Here are 40 gift ideas for dads—from award-winning tech to cheap (but great!) finds—we recommend you throw into your digital shopping cart. It certainly doesn't hurt that most of them will arrive before it's too late. You'll sure as hell brighten his Father's Day when you arrive bearing one of the following. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | America's Oligarchs Are Operating in Financial Disneyland | | | | Sometimes you get the feeling that a lot of our discussions around taxes basically amount to reassigning state rooms on the Titanic. There's broad support for raising taxes on the rich, but they are often not playing the same game as the folks in steerage. Raising the top income tax rate back up from 37 to 39, as President Biden has proposed as part of his American Families Plan, is basically nonsense. These unofficial aristocrats do not make their money on wages like commoners, and that top tax rate does not apply to them. If you needed this driven home, ProPublica was kind enough to do so with a stunning new report on how the ultrarich pay taxes—or not. It doubles as an X-ray machine into the body politic of the Second American Gilded Age, where rampant inequality might just be taking our country apart at the seams. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |
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