Wednesday Wandering — Soft Drinks, Austerity, Bernie On Jeb, DDF Mailers, King v. Burwell, Housing Discrimination

(I just spent an hour and a half constructing this list, then pressed Undo to retract a small copy-paste, and the Blogger editor "disappeared" (v.t.) the whole damned thing. So here is the reconstruction. I don't know that there's a moral of this story; to the best of my knowledge, Blogger editor doesn't provide any backup facility, but there's always Select All|Copy just before any Undo...)

• Jeff Ritterman, M.D., Truthout: Four Decades of the Wrong Dietary Advice Has Paved the Way for the Diabetes Epidemic: Time to Change Course

When the food manufacturers started removing the fat from our food, the taste went with the fat. The answer: Add sugar and lots of it.

• Laura Gottesdiener and Eduardo García, TomDispatch, via Truthout: US Austerity Politics: One State's Attempt to Destroy Democracy and the Environment

Something is rotten in the state of Michigan. ...

• Tool at Kos: Bernie Tells Jeb Bush to Pound Sand

Today Senator and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told Jeb Bush to go pound sand on social security. In no uncertain terms Sanders reiterated his stance that "NO we will not cut Social Security." This has been Sanders stance that payments from Social Security should be increased by raising the FICA cap. ...

• Andrew Satter at Center for American Progress: 8 Important Facts About the King v. Burwell Decision

... If the U.S. Supreme Court rules against the Affordable Care Act in the King v. Burwell case later this June, more than 6.4 million Americans who receive health insurance through the federal exchange could lose their coverage.

Here are 8 important facts about what such a ruling would mean for many Americans. ...

• Michele L. Jawando & Julia Gordon at Center for American Progress: The Supreme Court Could Strike Down a Key Provision of Housing Discrimination Law

In a ruling later this month, the U.S. Supreme Court could rule against a vital, long-standing tool for fighting housing discrimination against people with disabilities, families and women with children, people of color, and same-sex couples. ...

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