Archives

• No Thom Hartmann, Y2K really was a problem
• American Society is sick and its prognosis is terminal
• A Scientific Examination of God(s)
• The History of Neoliberalism, and the Hubris of Economic Philosophy (a book review)
• We are having the wrong debate over yet another bloody mass shooting in America
• The Mentality of Rightwing Extremism, and the Merger of Christianity with Racism
• Addressing the Confusion over Free Speech
• An Assessment of Congress’ January 6th Report
• Over 500 UFO reports have been received by the US government, unclassified report says
• An Untold Story of Cutthroat Politics and Renegade Operations in the U.S. Government (a book review)
• America’s Psychosis and the Republicans’ long descent into Fascism (a book review)
• Mainstream Media criticized for saturation coverage of Queen’s death, and rightly so
• The Shaky Foundation supporting America’s Legal System is exposed
• No Climate for Children
• Can Democracy be Saved, and what happens if it’s Destroyed?
• The Battlecruiser – The Worst Strategic Blunder in Naval History
• A Plan to Replace the Party System in Politics
• You say you want a revolution; well, what exactly do you mean? (a book review)
• The Most Important Book you will never read:  Hannah Arendt’s ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism’
• One Nation, Divisible, with Liberty and Justice for Few – How the U.S. could split up
• Excerpt from my Memoirs – The Nature of Us and our Future
• Excerpt from my Memoirs – Some Unforgettable Moments
• Excerpt from my Memoirs – The Plane Crash (actually, an emergency landing)
• Excerpt from my Memoirs – The UFO Phenomenon
• The legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the ineptitude of liberals, and a farewell to our readers
• Trump’s Vicious Circle: The more he alienates voters, the more tyrannical he must be to win
• FBI warning on Russian interference, Trump’s “herd immunity” doctor, William Barr goes full-Nazi, + more
• State of the Race: Realty exposes the futility of a flailing, failing, would-be dictator
• Trump’s disinformation campaign linked to Russia, American values poll, and a long-lasting pandemic
• Historical Analogue: Why we are reliving the nightmare of 20th century fascism, plus news headlines
• Racists, Neo-Nazis, Holocaust Deniers, Christian Theocrats, and Trump Cultists Beware: Come Here at Your Own Risk, Don’t Dare Try Me
• Smoky, with a 10% chance of Ash: Our Electoral College map snapshot for September, plus today’s news
• Russian election meddling, Trump muzzles Fauci, Dems’ voter advantage, 2020 hottest year on record
• New whistleblower complaint, more Woodward book revelations, expose Trump’s threat to America
• Woodward book on Trump, Senate report on mail delays, DOJ intervenes in libel suit, plus new polling
• Pandemic, Racism, and Dictatorship highlight the final stretch of the 2020 election campaign
• Sunday Focus: Historically steady polling indicates that voters have already made their election choice
• Michael Cohen book details Donald Trump’s racism, authoritarianism, and embrace of Vladimir Putin
• DHS report: White Supremacy is greatest terror threat. Ex-FBI agent: Trump is a National Security threat.
• The un-American, traitorous U.S. President exposed
• The Siberian Candidate, and the Constitutional definition of Treason
• Melania’s troubles, Trump’s cover-up, Navalny’s poisoning, Kenosha visit, pandemic and election news
• Donald Trump’s reelection strategy just isn’t working
• Why You Should Stop Freaking Out About the Election
• Rosenstein kneecapped Mueller in 2017, Fascism rising in U.S. and Europe, Trump pushes herd immunity
• Trump conceals Russian interference in the U.S. 2020 election, protest updates, and much more news
• Racial injustice protesters March on D.C. as White Supremacists are emboldened by Trump and police
• IOTD …. “🙏🏽 ‘Images of the Day, Remembrance Edition – Victims of Ignorant Hate’ 🙏🏽 …. “!!
• Actions speak louder than Words: The stark hypocrisy of Trump and Police was on display this week
• Kenosha gunman, sports boycotts, CDC pressured, more GOP oppose Trump, DHS employees warned
• In the News: Voting Rights Updates From Around America
• GOP Convention and Trump’s corruption, plus pandemic, protest, international, and climate news
• Postmaster General, FDA Commissioner caught lying in service to Trump as NY probes his business
• Monday Kickoff: Louis DeJoy back on hot-seat after USPS changes Trump and GOP pushed for
• The Portrait of a President, and the Day of Reckoning for a Nation
• Trump’s desperation, Fox News exposé, Navalny poisoning update, COVID-19 news, and court rulings
• Biden’s speech, DeJoy’s testimony, Trump’s fears, Facebook’s plan, FDA sidelined, and Russian poisoned
• Obama warns America, “Kompromat” on Trump, Putin opponent poisoned, Bannon arrested, and more
• Trump collides with democracy as his authoritarian impulses are stymied by political realities
• A riveting DNC convention, another ex-Trump official turns on him, the illegality of sabotaging the USPS
• Monday Focus: The Rebirth of Fascism and the Destruction of Democracy
• Words of Wisdom … But Will We Listen?
• Saturday Headlines: Voter suppression, coronavirus pandemic, disinformation campaigns, and more
• “Say I Slew Them Not” Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and the U.S. Response to COVID19
• Friday Roundup: Will the U.S. suffer the fate of Belarus?
• Biden/Harris campaign launches with pointed speeches while Trump admits to sabotaging the Post Office
• The Road to Trump Began Here: Jackie Robinson and the 1964 GOP Convention
• Biden’s pick, Trump’s shtick, states pushback, election results, and our new Electoral College map
• America’s last chance to save democracy and itself from fascism and racism
• Supplemental coverage of Trump’s executive orders on pandemic, plus today’s news headlines
• A very dangerous game: The politics behind President Trump’s executive orders on pandemic relief
• ODNI acknowledges the obvious: Russia is interfering in the U.S. 2020 election to help Donald Trump
• Trump and GOP reelection plans differ in tactics, but not in strategy
• Coronavirus pandemic news, primary election results, new ICE documentary, and much more
• More Trump shenanigans, and our Tuesday News Roundup
• Sunday Topic: Why are there Black Churches and White Churches in America?
• The travails of Barr and Trump, Stephen Miller, Portland, election interference, Vindman, and civil war
• Headwinds meet Trump strategies on the election, protests, pandemic, immigration, and criminal allies
• U.S. economy shrinks sharply as coronavirus pandemic stalls recovery and Republicans dither
• Barr testimony, troop withdrawal, divided Republicans, racial injustice protests, and pandemic news
• Tuesday Catch-up: A warning to racial injustice protesters
• The Week’s Best Cartoons: Trump’s Goons
• Revisiting the “F” word, and why it is of paramount importance today
• President Trump cancels Republican convention amid bad polls and growing defiance
• Pandemic pressures Republicans, Trump’s goon squad, U.K. scandals, and headlines
• COVID-19 deaths soar as Trump causes more anguish for Americans and his own political party
• The Defenders of Democracy counterattack against the Tide of Authoritarianism
• Moms shield protesters in the Battle of Portland, Pandemic spurs battle-lines over School Reopening
• State of the Race: The biggest poll number you’ve never seen, plus our new Electoral College snapshot
• Trump deploys paramilitary secret police to trigger urban violence as a reelection strategy
• COVID-19 record, a sycophant governor, GOP falls deeper, Mary Trump, and a crackdown in Portland
• New Polling and Headlines: The Electoral Landscape disfavors Trump and Republicans
• PUTIN’S RIGOROUS IMPERIAL AMBITIONS
• Donald, Ivanka, Mary, and Republicans – i.e. madness, sociopathy, family dysfunction, and party disunity
• CDC chiefs blast Trump for undermining its coronavirus guidelines, plus today’s other news
• Monday Kickoff: The ‘Wrath of Khan’ or just an ignored lunatic barking at the Moon?
• Sunday Topics: Roger Stone, a big blue wave, COVID-19 records, Betsy DeVos, and racial injustice news
• Justice gets stoned by Trump
• Friday Roundup: Trump hits new low as COVID-19 hits new high while the GOP contemplates its future
• President Trump’s taxes, troubles, traitorousness, and weakness
• Previews of Mary Trump’s tell-all book details a pathological President raised by a sadistic father
• A Year from Hell: The rest of 2020 looks very bad for America, but even worse for Trump and the GOP
• Sunday Topics: The Grim Reaper, Putin’s fraud, Trump’s alienation, and police reform/racial injustice news
• The Week’s Best Cartoons: 4th of July Edition
• America’s domestic and international collapse is the consequential result of a flawed cultural ethos
• Russia’s $100K bounty, GOP to sidestep Trump veto, SCOTUS delays Mueller info, and much more news
• Russian bounties and raging pandemic further damage Trump/GOP hopes, plus election and court news
• America’s traitorous president covers-up for Putin, plus an international news roundup
• Bullshit and White Power: President Trump’s reelection headwinds grow stronger
• Why Trump won’t resign
• Besieged from three sides, the Dictator embraces a dictator
• Second day of peak COVID-19 infections strike as Trump once again tries to rob Americans of healthcare
• Why Republicans, not just Trump, must be defeated in November
• As pandemic surges back to crisis levels and officials testify against him, Trump falls further in the polls
• Tuesday Updates: Congressional testimony, world leaders sideline Trump, U.K. cover-up, and more
• Monday Briefing: Today’s news review plus our first 2020 election map snapshot
• Sunday Focus: Low rally attendance in Tulsa shadows Trump as he denies firing top U.S. Attorney
• Trump henchman tries to oust U.S. Attorney for SDNY, while another seizes U.S. media organizations
• Candidate unpopularity and U.S. presidential elections, plus a sobering projection of pandemic deaths
• Bolton nukes Trump, SCOTUS upholds DACA, Atlanta cops charged, pandemic and int’l news
• America’s shredding social fabric: Albuquerque shooting illustrates police bias in racial justice protests
• SCOTUS rulings, Trouble in Trumpland, COVID-19’s revenge, and Police kill another black man
• Trump tones-down the bombast: Examining the relationship between Dictators and the Military
• Friday Roundup: Trump feeds racism but forces supporters to sign waivers while pandemic rattles America
• Forced to choose sides, Republicans recoil from Trump’s image as a Confederate, a Fascist, and a Racist
• Unleashing the Pandemic, Suppressing the Vote, Reforming the Police, and Undermining America’s Allies
• Change is happening in America and around the World: What’s driving it, and who is resisting it
• Monday in America: Police under fire, Racist symbols fall, Trump’s secret soldiers, Pandemic still rages
• Sunday Focus: The Numbers tell the Story
• The warlike culture of police is personified by Trump and the GOP, but America is rejecting it
• Darkness descends on Fortress Trump
• Mattis speaks out, DoD resists Trump, Cops charged with murder, White supremacist agitators arrested
• Collapse or Redemption: America at the crossroads between Dictatorship and Freedom
• The Tyrant threatens state governors, orders police to illegally evict peaceful protesters for a photo-op
• The Coward in his Bunker: Donald Trump and the legacy of oppressors’ fear of The People
• The Fires of Racism, Rage, Rowdiness, and Political Opportunism
• The Voice of the Unheard: America’s violent protests are reminiscent of the tumultuous 1960s
• Distrust, Disorder, and Violence: This is what happens when the Rule of Law is destroyed
• Ravings of Right-Wingers: Trump and GOP don’t stand on principle, they stand on privilege
• Headlines: Coronavirus pandemic, Trump shenanigans, Murder and Racism, Courts and Investigations
• CARNAGE
• Sunday Discussion: Human life takes a backseat to economic survival, human pride and stupidity
• Pandemic spreads across South, Midwest as CDC succumbs to Trump’s political pressure
• America’s preventable coronavirus death toll, another second-wave warning, and new election analysis
• Numbers don’t lie, but Trump and GOP-controlled states are lying about the numbers (at their own risk)
• Monday Kickoff: Pandemic impacts, Trump’s blame game, Pompeo scrutinized, GOP election hopes
• The Cowardice of a Bully: Trump fires another Inspector General when he hoped no one was looking
• The unreal myth about Trump, and his very real desperation about getting reelected
• Whistleblower speaks, CDC sidelined, Wisconsin shocker, Trump setbacks, Burr searched, economy woes
• Making sense of yesterday’s complicated Supreme Court deliberations and Congressional testimony
• Meanderings of a Manic Mind: Today’s news on the coronavirus pandemic and President Trump
• Trump goes berserk over media exposing his lies and corruption, ex-DOJ officials slam Barr, and more
• Sunday Supplement: Pandemic updates, DOJ controversy, Trump attacks vote-by-mail, and GOP fears
• The gravesite of American Exceptionalism
• Trump is “lava level mad” over infection but gloats with Putin over Flynn case while Barr rewrites history
• Trump silences CDC, suppresses information, pressures governors and industry to reopen the economy
• Whistleblower exposes Trump’s corruption of U.S. pandemic response, and the value of a human life
• Big Trouble Ahead: The projected pandemic numbers don’t look good
• Monday Kickoff: Trump can run, but he cannot hide
• All the King’s Horses: Why COVID-19 is befalling America and its President
• Pandemic spreads to rural white America posing another political problem for Trump and the GOP
• Thursday Juxtaposition: Fauci details promising drug treatment as Trump rips his reelection campaign
• Trump’s latest executive order, and how the war against coronavirus is being undermined by extremists
• The surprising reason why President Trump and the GOP have fallen so precipitously in the polls
• Pandemic statistics, social isolation forecast, food supply disruption, the disbelieving preacher, & more
• Sunday Sarcasm, and today’s news
• President Trump’s malfeasance rises to the surface as Republican hopes for the election fade
• A disturbed mind on public display: Trump sinks further into the quagmire of a deadly pandemic
• U.S. unemployment jumps again, whistleblower slams Trump, and the disasters of Republican presidents
• Pandemic updates, and a thought for the day
• The Hospital Supply war, Southern Governors, Trump’s Dog-whistle, the Oil Crash, and the Rite Flight
• Public panic should be going down as new coronavirus cases drop, but here’s why it isn’t
• Sunday headlines, and why President Trump’s political strategy is making Republicans so nervous
• Too hard and too complicated: Trump’s political motives are endangering Americans
• Friday Focus: Reopening the economy, and the problem of testing
• The world as we know it might never be the same. How coronavirus is doing what humans could not.
• Coronavirus and the 3 questions facing humanity
• GOP voter suppression plan fails, Governors blast & bypass Trump’s “authority,” plus pandemic updates
• Coronavirus updates, Trump versus reality, Voting issues, and Putin attacks America
• Sunday Topics: The pandemic, Trump’s response, and the politics surrounding it all
• Coronavirus testing in the U.S., and President Trump’s bias against states’ medical supply needs
• As his reelection chances dim, President Trump reprioritizes the economy over public health
• Unemployment claims, pandemic updates, Kansas Republicans, and comparing state pandemic responses
• U.S. coronavirus cases surpass 400,000 dwarfing every other country
• Trump goes on the warpath, Republican-controlled supreme courts curtail democracy in Wisconsin
• Face masks, shields, and anxiety spread across America as its president retreats into delusion
• Trump fires Intelligence IG, pandemic politics, coronavirus updates, supply mismanagement, + other news
• Friday Roundup: Trump’s death forecast, Kushner’s ignorance, National Stockpile’s secrecy, and more
• Bad News: Skyrocketing Unemployment and Escalating Pandemic Deaths foretell a gloomy April
• President Trump’s Coronavirus Report Card – April 1, 2020
• Job losses, stopping lies, worker strikes, fleeing rich, arrested pastor, Mueller rpt, court rulings, and more
• The Agony and the Infamy: The World braces for an Escalating Pandemic
• Deaths, guns, failures, federalism, bravado, reality shows, rent, elections, crackdowns, and crackpots
• Analysis of Trump’s political strategy in a worsening pandemic
• U.S. passes China with most coronavirus cases, U.K. PM tests positive, Trump obstructs relief efforts
• Unemployment soars as Congress acts to stave off economic collapse while Trump fiddles on pandemic
• Trump’s gambit: Sacrificing lives in the hope that it would save the economy is a fool’s errand
• President Trump in a Pandemic: Why does everybody hate me?
• Sunday Focus: The Exploitation of a Pandemic
• Coronavirus Updates: No commentary, just two songs and today’s news
• Trump’s Pandemic Failure: First he denied it, then he tried to steal the headlines, now he’s covering it up
• Coronavirus News: Our Overstressed Civilization
• Economics and Politics in a Pandemic: Trump’s shotgun strategy misses the target
• America Needs to Vote By Mail … Now
• Trump in the crosshairs, the irreverence of youth, pandemic updates, and other news
• We are now in Panic Mode: What’s happening and where are we heading
• Sunday Roundup: Pandemic updates, court rulings, and political news
• Nightmare on Grocery Street: Panic buying and distressed workers as pandemic crisis hits home
• A New Reality: Coronavirus slaps the face of ignorance and complacency
• Failure of Leadership: Trump’s brief but baffling national address on coronavirus triggers more anxiety
• March 10th primary results, my analysis of the Democratic race and voter turnout, plus other news
• How the biggest baddest bully is being felled by a tiny little bug
• Carnage in the Markets: Coronavirus bites Capitalism’s Achilles Heel
• No Bridge over Troubled Waters: The lunatic at the helm of America’s coronavirus response
• Anecdotes from a Pandemic: How coronavirus is affecting everyday life in Washington state
• World News Roundup: Coronavirus, Syria, Afghanistan, and Climate Change
• The good news, the bad news, analysis and questions about the Super Tuesday results
• Democrats confront their self-hatred on Super Tuesday, plus coronavirus and other big news stories
• Pre-Super Tuesday analysis, coronavirus deaths top 3000, court rulings, and international news
• Biden turns Dem primaries into a two-man race, coronavirus deaths, and international news
• Coronavirus information, updates, and a historical perspective
• Coronavirus defies Trump as World Health Organization raises global threat level to ‘very high’
• Stock market dives as Trump puts Pence in charge of silencing government health experts on coronavirus
• Tip of the Iceberg: Coronavirus pandemic illuminates the global chaos we were warned about
• Market jitters undercut Trump’s downplaying of coronavirus threat to help his reelection chances
• Cat Tales: PBS Nova documentary helps us understand our enigmatic feline friends
• Bernie’s blowout victory in Nevada, plus my pledge to Democrats and all Americans
• Bernie and the Beasts: Analyzing the dynamics of the 2020 election maelstrom
• Trump purges top Intelligence officials to conceal Russian meddling in 2020 election
• Roger Stone is sentenced to prison, Trump’s bribe to Julian Assange, and today’s other news
• Trump begins his barrage of self-serving pardons, and more news
• Documentarian Ken Burns warned Trump’s rise would be ‘Hitler-esque’—here’s what else he said
• The insatiability of Trump’s megalomania, and today’s loaded news roundup
• Two must-see stories from 60 Minutes: Australia’s wildfires, and Trump’s ongoing collusion with Russia
• Americans push back against a Trump dictatorship amidst a crackdown on white supremacists
• To be or not to be – that is the question facing the U.S. Department of Justice and all Americans
• Friday Focus: Barr under the microscope, defending against Trump attacks, and more DNC shenanigans
• Federal prosecutors feel pressure from Trump, former W.H. Chief of Staff speaks out, plus more news
• Trump’s march towards dictatorship/fascism speeds up as Americans exercise what’s left of democracy
• Trump’s retribution, racists plead guilty, global health concerns, and more political earthquakes
• Fake News is a Lie
• Novel Corona Virus: Nature Strikes Back
• Saturday Focus: The Democrats, plus this weekend’s news roundup
• What We Do Next Now That Impeachment Is Done
• Mitt Romney stands alone in Impeachment vote, Iowa caucus fiasco worsens, and the Winds of Madness
• Humpday Headlines: the SOTU and the SNAFU
• Dems stumble out of the gate, today’s headlines, and my editorial rant
• GOP’s Sham Impeachment Trial: No witnesses, no evidence, no justice, and maybe worse to come
• The shakedown is working: Key Republican will block witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial
• A shakeup and a shakedown for Republicans in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump
• Tuesday Topics: Bolton, Impeachment, Pompeo, Bibi, Immigration, Ocean acidification, and more
• Monday Kickoff: Another Impeachment Bombshell
• Sunday Focus: The Bloated Beast, and this weekend’s news stories
• Friday Roundup: Impeachment news, International news, and Domestic news
• The State of the World, plus an Impeachment Trial update
• Impeachment trial update, new Giuliani scandal, Russian meddling, Davos news, climate refugees, & more
• GOP begins sham impeachment trial, intelligence agencies withhold info from Congress, and other news
• Sunday Focus: ‘Gun Rights’ as a euphemism for Fascism and White Supremacy
• Saturday Supplement: Parnas interview exposes Devin Nunes, today’s Women’s March, and much more
• Part-two of Lev Parnas’ interview with Rachel Maddow, plus today’s other news
• Dropping the Bomb: Lev Parnas’ interview with Rachel Maddow complicates Trump’s impeachment trial
• Giuliani’s surveillance, Iran’s anger, Putin’s power grab, China’s violations, and much more news
• Impeachment trial preview, Russia still hacking to help elect Trump, more news, and some court rulings
• Monday morning briefs: What’s happening this week, and what happened over the weekend
• Saturday Supplement: More on assassination rationale, Iran-U.S. de-escalation, plane crash, + other news
• House votes to limit Trump’s war powers, Soleimani assassination rationale falls apart, and more news
• The disastrous briefing of Congress by White House officials on the Soleimani assassination
• Iran’s attack provides a lesson in rhetoric, and today’s news
• Dissecting John Bolton’s announcement that he’d testify at Senate impeachment trial, plus other news
• John Bolton says he’ll testify in Senate impeachment trial if subpoenaed
• Trump’s Iran gamble: When you get in over your head, you can’t stop the water from drowning you
• Sunday Focus: A madman runs amok
• Trump versus Iran: An anxious world wonders what will happen next
• Iranian general assassinated, impeachment evidence revealed, and Trump’s support of right-wing dictators
• 2019 comes to an end: Angry Iraqis storm U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, plus today’s other news
• Monday Briefs: Trump wields U.S. military might against Iran, and Giuliani implicated in coup attempt
• Saturday Supplemental: Court rulings, effect of Trump tariffs, and international news
• Friday Roundup: An evil fighter, a race warrior, the fall of farmers, domestic and international news
• Evangelicals start having ‘the discussion’ about Trump, and today’s other news
• Monday Topics: Understanding Putin, and are women really political peacemakers?
• The integrity of the 2020 election, the exploitation of social media, and you
• Post impeachment fallout and a Friday news roundup
• Impeachment Day: A preview, what comes next, what it all means, plus today’s news
• Impeachment updates, Americans worry about losing their rights, and today’s other news
• American Democracy–Down for the Count?
• Analysis of Tories’ crushing win over Labour in U.K. election, plus this weekend’s news headlines
• 2019 Arctic Report Card warns of California-sized algal blooms and imperiled livelihoods
• Civil war inside the Department of Justice, latest polls, another dubious executive order, plus headlines
• Impeachment charges, Trump welcomes Russian, court nullifies ad transparency law, Ukraine ceasefire
• Impeachment update, DOJ report refutes conspiracy theory, SCOTUS rulings, Trump defends Saudis
• Intellectual devolution: How narcissism and hubris are destroying civil society
• Domino effect could heat up Earth by 5 degrees Celsius — despite Paris climate deal
• Lev Parnas’ plea deal, the Russians are coming, court rulings, GOP governor defies Trump on refugees
• Trump defense strategies are crumbling, Giuliani and the Russians, retirements from Congress, and more
• In depth coverage of yesterday’s impeachment testimony from legal scholars, plus today’s headlines
• As NATO teeters on the edge of disunity, Europe’s leaders mock the American buffoon
• Impeachment report moves forward, new evidence is detailed, ranking Republican is implicated
• Lots of news on impeachment, court rulings, the Mueller investigation, and much more
• First evidence that Antarctica’s thinning ice shelves are causing more ice to move from the land into the sea
• Monday Kickoff: Georgia governor defies Trump, China retaliates, Trump ads taken down, data breach
• The assault on public health and welfare, the price of defending Trump, and protests across Europe
• Groups inspired by Greta Thunberg plan Black Friday climate strikes
• Donny throws Rudy under the bus, plus impeachment news and other headlines
• McGahn must testify, Trump subpoena stayed, Giuliani and Nunes investigated, democracy’s breakdown
• Monday Kickoff: Impeachment news, Trump versus the U.S. Navy, big Hong Kong vote, and more
• Compromising Possible Opponents: The Nazi Alliance With, and Later War Against the Churches, a Lesson for Today
• Senate Republicans are pushing fake theory intelligence officials had warned them was planted by Russia
• SecState In Limbo?
• Latest impeachment developments, and the criminal indictment of Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu
• Gordon Sondland: I worked “at the express direction of the president” – Axios
• Sondland implicates Trump, Giuliani, Pompeo, and others in quid pro quo scheme to coerce Ukraine
• Impeachment witnesses give firsthand accounts of President Trump’s attempted coercion of Ukraine
• Republicans are suffering from the kryptonite of Donald Trump
• Commentary from convalescence
• Book Review: Under the Tamarind Tree
• NOTICE: The Secular Jurist will be inactive for a while
• New impeachment revelations, Bannon testifies against Roger Stone, and intel agencies’ election plans
• Impeachment news, more on Barr’s defiance, Trump is blasted, an exposé on white supremacy, and more
• Barr rejects Trump, Pence in crosshairs, Taylor’s testimony, Stone’s trial, and other news
• 2019 Elections: The Big Results
• Election shows GOP weakness under Trump, Sondland changes impeachment testimony, plus more news
• “Functionaries Ready to Believe and Act Without Asking Questions” Trump’s Orwellian Administration
• Hot Potato: Appeals court rules on Trump taxes, punts on his ‘blanket immunity’ claim
• Sunday Topics: New Mueller revelations, impeachment developments, and other news
• Los tres fascistas: The twisted machinations of Boris, Nigel, and Donald (plus today’s news blurbs)
• Impeachment, Mueller, Trump, climate, corporatization of journalism, cartel runs wild, and other news
• Impeachment news, Trump’s Russia pick, White House pressured automakers, Twitter stops ads, and more
• Fish or Cut Bait: Impeachment revelations and worsening poll numbers may force GOP to dump Trump
• First White House official testifies in impeachment inquiry, plus other news
• Republicans adrift, youth voter surge, House of Rep. news, lawsuit targets racists, CA blackout, int’l news
• Sunday Focus: the anticipated rise of global unrest is here, plus impeachment updates
• DOJ must release secrets, Impeachment news, IGs slam DOJ, Giuliani’s butt-dial, Graham’s dilemma, more
• How the U.S. Supreme Court might rule on Trump’s ‘blanket immunity’ claim, plus today’s news
• Thursday Updates: Impeachment, Trump-related news, Climate/environment, international news
• Trump argues in court for blanket immunity, the new geopolitics in the Middle East, and lots more news
• U.S. envoy: Trump tied Ukraine aid to Biden, DNC investigations
• Trudeau holds on, Netanyahu fails, and Trump weakens
• Monday Focus: Elections in Canada, Switzerland, and concerns in the U.S.
• Sunday Supplement: Trump backs-off G-7 venue as fissures emerge in Republican solidarity
• The Ecstasy and the Agony: The story of Gertrude and her mate
• Friday Roundup: Syria/Turkey/Kurds, Impeachment, Giuliani, Trump in Texas, and more
• Mick Mulvaney says aid to Ukraine was held up to investigate Democrats
• A Madman struggles with reality and his own failures, plus other news
• Wednesday Topics: Turkey, Impeachment, Trump, a biased judge, international and domestic news
• Tuesday Topics: Impeachment, Syria, right-wing extremism, trade war, policeman arrested, other news
• The geopolitical fallout of Trump’s withdrawal from Syria, impeachment and international news, + more
• Marie Yovanovitch prepared remarks to Congress
• Yovanovitch testimony, Giuliani probe, Israel-U.S. relations, Trump updates, California laws, climate news
• Friday Focus: Impeachment, Giuliani, Trump, and other news
• Turkey invades Syria as GOP outrage intensifies, plus impeachment updates and other news
• Turkey’s attack, Russia’s meddling, Mueller’s secrets, Trump’s orders, Court actions, Gun deaths, + more
• Tuesday Headlines: Trump is losing Republican support because of Impeachment and Syria
• Monday Kickoff: Trump’s taxes, Supreme Court news, Syria and other international stories
• Coal and the Price of Prosperity
• Sunday Topics: The second whistleblower, the cowering GOP, and the suspicious murder of a witness
• Saturday Morning Cartoons 10/5
• Weekend News Roundup: The Rebranding of the Republican Party
• FEC chief on Trump’s self-incrimination, House impeachment inquiry ramps-up and gathers evidence
• Mad genius or sheer stupidity: President Trump openly impeaches himself
• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Scandals — A Guest Post By John Fioravanti
• As Trump and his henchmen fume, the impeachment inquiry moves forward
• More bombshells hit the Trump Administration, plus lots of other important news
• The Impeachment heat is on: A president in panic, a party in crisis, and a foreign leader in between giants
• Democrats Ask China For Help In Winning 2020 Elections
• DEM inquiry, FEC’s veil, deportation ruling, border wall funding, LAPD goof, Odessa shooter, Bibi update
• Whistleblower fallout spotlights Volker, Pompeo, Senate Republicans, Ukraine, Giuliani, NRA, + other news
• White House panic, how Trump learned of whistleblower, Mitch’s options, Putin’s worry, & U.S. inequality
• Day-3 of Impeachment Inquiry: Whistleblower complaint released ahead of congressional testimony
• Here we go… Impeachment hits the fan
• Wednesday Focus: The Impeachment Inquiry
• Big News Tuesday: Impeaching Trump, Proroguing Parliament, and Hearing Greta
• Monday Kickoff: A hemorrhaging megalomaniac, and a dying planet
• Saturday Morning Cartoons 9/21
• Humankind’s winning percentage on climate, plus other news to close out this week
• Friday Discussion: Speculating on Secrets, and Breeding like Roaches
• Whistleblower’s secret, Pompeo’s slip, Cameron’s concern, Feds’ cut, gun violence’s toll, and other news
• Republicans Concede That the NRA is Weak
• Bibi in trouble, Lewandowski “testifies,” Kavanaugh impeachment, Trump attacks California, & more news
• A plotting racist sheriff and a dead transgender woman highlight police recruiting troubles, + other news
• Monday Kickoff: The Wall, the Scam, the Ploy, the Strike, the Election, and the Attack
• Sunday Topics: Kavanaugh accusation, Newsom veto, LAPD spies, Sackler scandal, Border Patrol morale
• Something to Think About …. “🤔 And …. ‘EQUAL Justice for ALL’? 🤔 …. “!!
• The third Democratic debate was more of the same with fewer faces and less competition
• SCOTUS order on asylum, Piketty’s new book on inequality, groundbreaking law on college sports, + more
• Bolton ousted, GOP wins in N.C., U.S. median income stagnates, Boris’ move unlawful, other court news
• How a stupid ‘weather forecast’ turned into a full-blown political scandal, plus today’s other news
• Asylum ban blocked, spy extracted, refugees denied, NOAA investigation, gun control poll, climate news
• Sunday Topics: the Storm, the Blob, the Bloom, the Heat, the Challenge, the Evidence, the Lesson, & more
• U.S. tourism drops, GOP to cancel primaries, Trump coerces NOAA, Dem controversy, and health concerns
• Friday Roundup: The Blob, and other news monsters
• Boris fails, Republicans are dropping like flies, Trump news, court news, and climate news
• Boris rebuffed, Bahamas devastated, Hong Kong backtracks, S. Africa riots, Canada defends, and U.S. news
• The Feds and racism, Odessa shooter, Straight Pride arrests, war crimes report, and Boris’ gamble
• Texas guts gun laws after mass shooting, China imprisons Muslims, Bibi courts Zionists, Trump tax cut
• As democracy dies, the last embers of resistance flare up in Hong Kong, Russia, and U.K. – but not in U.S.
• Hong Kong arrests, climate news, V.A. deaths, a message to white supremacists, and more news
• Trump deregulates methane, ends automatic citizenship, deports sick immigrants, plus other news
• Boris’ Brexit maneuver, Andrew’s hot seat, Trump redirects funds, atheists banned, and climate news
• Opioid ruling, Brazil rejects aid, heat deaths rise, election concerns, new Epstein intrigue, and other news
• Trump allies fear their white supremacist image, and that’s why they’re threatening journalists
• A crazy day, turnabout of a Trump supporter, water cannons, a baby’s life, racial bias, pessimism in America
• China retaliates, Trump causes market fall, floating nukes, Koch dies, anti-immigration and racism news
• The “The Second Coming of God” The President’s Legitimization Of Race Hatred
• A dangerous precedent, a deep crisis in democracy, and Trump’s megalomania is running amok
• Italy collapses, top cop resigns, health agencies silenced, longer detentions, more cuts, and world wildfires
• Thoughts On Gun Violence In America
• Tuesday in the News: U.S. missile test, China, Climate, White supremacy, and Gun Control
• NY Cop Daniel Pantaleo Who Killed Eric Garner Has Been Fired
• That Wayward Missile
• Monday Focus: Capitalism tries to save itself
• Sunday Topics, Glaciers, bunkers, blasts, demonstrations, racial hatred, credentials, and NRA’s Russia ties
• The water is so hot in Alaska it’s killing large numbers of salmon
• Conspiracy theories grow wildly in darkness, plus the news for this Saturday
• Water cutbacks, voting machine ruling in Georgia, worker abuse by Trump admin., and other news
• Hottest month, Epstein autopsy, discrimination allowed, Biblical warfare, protests, bans, and Trump ratings
• China reportedly mobilizes its military on the Hong Kong border, plus other news for this Wednesday
• Tuesday Thoughts …. “🤔 Watch What They Do, Not What They Say 🤔 …. “!!
• Hong Kong chaos, Trump attacks endangered species, poor brown people, and backtracks on trade war
• Airport closed, radioactive explosion, trade war, ecological grief, a dismal election, and a branded racist
• Hong Kong, Moscow protests continue, Oslo Mosque shooter, Trump attacks judges, a KKK policeman
• The end of Jeffrey Epstein, the end of the EPA, and the end of another Trump administration official
• The Disunited States of Fear
• A Freudian slip, more GOP woes, lots of international news, and an update on yesterday’s IPCC report
• IPCC report released, more travel warnings, Kashmir reels, Trump fumes, ICE raids, McConnell blocked
• Putting America’s problem of White Supremacy in the proper perspective, plus other news
• Tuesday Potpourri: Travel warnings, irreconcilable differences, scientist quits, Asia tensions, Mitch tweets
• The aftermath of this weekend’s mass killings, plus updates on the Dayton and El Paso shooters
• As mass shootings cause a crisis of death in U.S., climate change is causing a deadlier crisis for the world
• Dare Call it What it Is: Race Hatred Blessed By the President
• Retirements and ‘Electoral Time Bomb’ worry GOP ahead of 2020 election, plus today’s other news
• Trump hits China and ends missile treaty, mass surveillance, Moscow Mitch, GOP turmoil, voter purges
• Second Democratic debate (part 2) was, in a word, cutthroat
• Second Democratic debate (part 1) was much better than the first debate
• The “city killer” rock that no one warned us about
• 2 mass shootings, Trump fires Coats, Putin foe poisoned, Feds to cut interest rate, Earth Overshoot Day
• Climate Change isn’t funny anymore
• SCOTUS usurps Congress, Morales folds, McConnell under fire, violent protests, and God in public schools
• Arctic burns, economy slows, Boris rejected, Barr executes, McConnell nixes, Trump news, and more
• Watch “Boris’s Britain.” on YouTube
• Rosselló resigns, Putin opponent jailed, McGahn pursued, asylum ruling, Trump veto and lawsuit, + more
• Wednesday catch-up: FBI domestic terrorism arrests, and today’s other news
• Mueller testimony coverage (UPDATED)
• Turbulent Tuesday: Boris wins, P.R. roils, FBI warns, House moves, crops bake, and Trump angers the world
• To Prorogue, pro & con.
• Monday Kickoff: Racists sentenced, Equifax pays, budget deal emerges, Dems angered, lawsuits slapped
• The Mueller Report on Humanity
• Borowitz Report …. “🚀 Nation apparently Believed in Science at Some Point 🚀 …. “!!
• Saturday’s Topic: The beauty of speaking truth to power, and the rest of today’s news
• Trump Must Go
• Friday Roundup: The ugly truth about racism in America, plus other news to close out this week
• Humpday News: Collusion, Impeachment, Contempt, Michael Cohen, Trump’s statements, and more
• What 2019’s Hottest June Ever Recorded Says About the Climate Crisis
• Racists and Neo-Nazis, Trump’s warmongering hits a snag, world poverty rises, S. Asia floods, and more
• Trump’s anti-immigration roundup raids go “poof!”
• Sunday Topics: Vandalism, disaster, crisis, murder, detention, and flight
• Earth’s Climate Emergency: Break down the walls!
• Saturday Roundup: House of Rep. votes, international news, court rulings, and a racist declaration
• Trump folds again on census, Acosta resigns, Mueller testimony delayed, ICE raids, and more
• Antarctica’s ice is degrading faster than we thought, and there may be no way to stop the consequences
• Going off the rails, squirming, raging, quitting, stripping, dealing, watching, reeducating, and planting
• Midweek Madness: Court dramas, political intrigue, economic worries, international tensions top the news
• Trump gets snippy with the U.K. and Jeffrey Epstein comes back to haunt him, plus today’s news
• Monday’s Theme: Trump tarnishes everything he touches
• Sunday News: Epstein arrested, racist rally, U.K. envoy rips Trump, Amash on GOP, Mex. targets migrants
• The heat is on: Climate threats, racists flock to D.C., Trump pressures DOJ, abortion wins, Amash leaves
• Trump surrenders, border crisis intensifies, U.S. pride drops, Libyan war crimes, Japan resumes whaling
• Trump whips out his tanks: The projection of power from an insecure mind (and today’s news)
• Monday Kickoff: We will have to fight fascism sooner or later
• Sunday News Roundup: Trump keeps losing in court
• E.U. bakes, nuke deal revives, wall loses, abortion wins, DeVos repeals, war prevails, felons pay, Dems fold
• A disappointing debate (plus other news)
• Big SCOTUS decisions on census and gerrymandering, first Democratic debate, and G20 news
• Mueller to testify, government secrecy, Supreme Court news, China-Canada tiff, NRATV, and ICE insight
• In ‘climate apartheid’, rich will save themselves while poor suffer: U.N. report
• Between a rock and a hard place: Australia at the center of Sino-American trade war
• The climate crisis and the end of the golden era of food choice
• Turkey’s election and spat with U.S., U.S. Supreme Court rulings, leaked info on Trump transition team
• Sunday Discussion: To believe or disbelieve, that is NOT the question
• U.S. Navy pilot testifies to Congress about UFOs and goes public, plus news headlines for this Saturday
• Trump’s feint, unsanitary conditions at the border, the privatization of police, and today’s other news
• News from the judicial system and the U.S. Senate, my comments on UFOs, and some Trump updates
• Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted
• Hot Seats: murdering Saudis, missing Russians, a defiant aide, a vile propagandist, a negligent utility
• Open letter to Robert Mueller
• Trump channels his inner Hitler, DOJ intervenes in Manafort case, business backlash against tariffs, more
• SCOTUS rulings, Trump’s lack of accountability, E.U. defense project, 15 American rivers are drying up
• World News Sunday: the latest from Hong Kong, Israel, Russia, India, Gulf of Mexico, and the U.S.
• Why this, Why now? The Attacks on Tankers in the Gulf of Oman
• Saturday Morning Cartoons 6/15
• Emails show Trump official consulting with climate change deniers to challenge scientific findings: report
• New report sparks debate over the end of civilization and possibly the human species (and today’s news)
• Why the Supreme Court is key to the partisan fight over the U.S. Census (plus other news)
• House Oversight votes to hold Barr, Ross in contempt | TheHill
• Battle over subpoenas heats up, Trump’s brutal poll numbers, a GOP tax cut admission, lots more news
• Dean’s testimony, Nadler’s ins. policy, Cummings’ contempt vote, Pelosi’s shaky alliance, and more news
• Barr avoids contempt, Mueller avoided duty, more on rising Leftism, South’s economy slumps, more news
• Three islands disappeared in the past year. Is climate change to blame?
• Contrary to popular belief, Americans are moving Left (and other news)
• Mex. bows to Trump, Climate rpt withheld, Mueller updates, Election security blocked, G20 hits tax evasion
• Trump lets Saudis build U.S. weapons, more on Trump-Russia ties, Dems force out candidate, abortion poll
• Math hates Young People
• Left wins in Denmark, Asylum corners Trump, Dems silence climate debate, Pelosi’s plan, Abortion news
• Sudan crackdown, Darwin shooting, Abortion fight, Judge flips, Senators irked, FBI grilled
• Tuesday News Roundup (no theme)
• Sunday Topics: Impeachment poll, Trump is triggering a geopolitical realignment, Dems’ internal troubles
• Saturday Morning Cartoons 6/1
• Maher satirizes Mueller, DOJ defies judge, Dem warns intel agencies, DHS sending agents to Guatemala
• Despite the Foreboding Feelings I Have, I Will Fight “We have to show the world that not all of us are like him. Otherwise, this will always be Hitler’s Germany.”
• As Trump opens another trade war, international tensions rise in Asia, Middle East, Europe, and America
• Snippy Snarkets … er … Snarky Snippets
• Blow strikes Dems, GOP plot exposed, Trump courts elites, China halts soy imports, Netanyahu fails, & more
• Hump Day roundup: Mueller speaks, and the other news for this Wednesday
• Live For Today???
• Mueller’s draft indictment, politics at water’s edge, the rise of dark forces, robocall outrage, SCOTUS news
• The Center holds on for dear life: The E.U. parliamentary elections, and Democrats’ strategy in the U.S.
• Sunday Topics: Trump subpoena deal, Labor Sec. to face victims, and white supremacist refuge in the NW
• Trump’s dictatorship escalates, courts reject border wall and anti-abortion law, impeachment divides Dems
• Theresa May resigns increasing likelihood of hard Brexit, and today’s other news
• Republicans aren’t just climate deniers. They deny the extinction crisis, too
• Yet another Trump temper tantrum shows why his rhetoric belies his fears, plus other news
• Pelosi’s problem, Tillerson’s meeting, Barr’s concession, Treasury’s memo, N.Y.’s prosecution, and more
• Tuesday Topics: McGahn is a no-show, Court rejects Trump, Dems’ infighting over impeachment, and more
• My first thoughts on the 2020 election, plus other news
• Indian election, Austrian gov. collapses, Republican calls for impeachment, reverse Mexican migration
• Dems selling-out again, Flynn’s duplicity, Australian election, and other news
• Musing on Potential War With Iran
• EUROPE AT THE CROSSROADS
• Michael Flynn and Felix Sater updates, Middle East ponders war, Gay marriage in Asia, Whale deaths
• Abortion Before Roe v Wade Risky Business
• Perturbed Earth: Why is Heat-Trapping Methane on the Rise?
• GOP anti-abortion moves, latest Trump news, secrecy over election hacking, and a broken nuclear coffin
• So long, Tim Conway. Thanks for making me laugh.
• War clouds, SCOTUS rejects precedent, Money trumps justice, Russian agent, NRA leak, and more
• Sunday Topics: SNL mocks Republicans’ worship of Trump, and a disturbing act by the S.F. police
• Saturday Morning Cartoons 5/10
• Obstructing the Obstruction
• Friday Roundup: GOP infighting over Trump Jr., plus other news you should know
• Contempt of Congress and the Democratic strategy to defend the Constitution from Donald Trump
• Amidst another school shooting, Trump wages war against Dems, Journalists, China, Iran, and Immigrants
• Trump News Tuesday: A lesson in how to destroy democracy
• A Climate of Medievalism
• The streets aren’t burning right now, so is it still okay to have children?
• An in-depth discussion on climate, plus a weekend roundup of news blurbs
• Democrats accuse Trump administration of trying to ‘obfuscate the white supremacist threat’
• Barr doesn’t show-up for congressional hearing and faces contempt charges, plus other news
• Barr squirms, Democracy reels, Abortion attacked, Assange sentenced, Shooter kills, and NASA fails
• Tuesday Topics: Frustrations, Flips, and Flight
• Former U.S. deputy attorney general: If Trump was not president, he would be indicted
• Socialists win Spain election, far-right emerges as player
• Humankind, 2050
• Sunday Topics: Synagogue shooting, Abortion ruling, Barr defies Dems, Immigration, and Bolsonaro
• FBI election warning, Trump’s contempt of Congress, NRA infighting, Rosenstein’s duplicity, and more
• When Is It Terrorism?
• Friday Roundup: Trump’s anti-Mueller move, NRA woes, Debt Ceiling issue, Courts rule against Trump again
• 1956: The Year That Was
• Trump is a risk, Wimpy Dems, Border blues, Voter suppression, Police misconduct, UFOs, Rohingya, Forests
• ‘Don’t tell Trump,’ Judge blocks rule change, GOP turmoil for 2020, Voter turnout data, Permafrost study
• Anti-immigrant militia planned to assassinate Obama and Clinton, plus latest from Sri Lanka
• Street Fighting Against Climate Change in a Tesla Model 3
• Sri Lanka update, Ukraine election, Trump targets Iran, NYC climate bill to hit Trump Tower
• Easter Fires: Bombings, Religious division, Vigilantes, Police stops, Hate crimes, Arrests, Capitalist misgivings
• Mueller report fallout: How institutional cowardice led to civil war
• Friday Recap: Aftermath of the Mueller report, and escalating Climate Change in the north
• Mueller rpt released, Travel restrictions, Press Freedom rank., Church membership falls, Big Bang news
• E.U. retaliates, Trump veto, Southwest water cutbacks, Wetlands deregulation, Opioid and drug busts
• Thousands join Extinction Rebellion protests across London
• Climate Change and the Pinkertons
• And The Winners Are …
• Trump administration sabotages major conservation effort, defying Congress | Environment | The Guardian
• Assange facts, Trump’s retribution, Transgender ban, Egypt quits coalition, Patten sentence, Russia’s target
• Assange arrested, a Trump is ousted, Brexit delayed, big elections, church burnings update, and much more
• Bibi wins, Barr testifies, Hicks questioned, more DHS purges, border contracts, racism study, executions drop
• So many animals are going extinct that it could take Earth 10 million years to recover
• Trump attacks baseball, Trade war with the E.U., GOP is shocked, Trump is ignored on climate, and more
• Trump fires DHS chief, provokes Iran, troops flee Libya, nuke deal is probed, and retaliates against journalist
• Barr protecting Trump, Netanyahu’s annex, Saudi nuke program, new NAFTA trouble, death penalty waning
• Weekend Roundup: Suspicious fires, a sword attack, Lost Cause memorial, court rulings, and Trump attacks
• Protests hit Barr, Antiwar vote hits Trump, Hate hits states, Death hits border, Canada worries, and more
• Barr under fire, Mar-a-Lago probe, Kushner named, Nuke option, School lunches, Environmental news
• Warming seas are wrecking Great Barrier Reef’s ability to regrow.
• Defining Nazism, White Supremacy in the news, Nuke threat, Chicago and Pennsylvania election results
• Disaster fight, Mueller mystery, Flint can sue, AGs back ACA, SCOTUS feud, Rosenstein’s ally, Canada temps
• Monday Wakeup: Israel’s Trump, W.H. whistleblower, Dems up to their old tricks, and SCOTUS news
• The Biggest, Nastiest Sea Monsters of All-time
• “Fault Lines” – Poem by St. Lucian Poet Kendel Hippolyte
• Sunday Catch-up: News stories over the weekend you might’ve missed
• Investigative bias, Trump loses, Nominee withdrawals, Comey memos, nuke option, guilty plea, and more
• Experts demand action after ‘staggering’ climate report
• Barr’s obstruction, Trump Admin’s secret dealings, WI court fight, AZ legislator resigns, Brexit quagmire
• The DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE: Satire and News for today
• Fight over Mueller report, Sater’s money laundering, Trump attacks ACA and abortion, and SCOTUS news
• Politics, not facts, shroud AG William Barr’s summary of the Mueller report
• Wikipedia pages across Europe go ‘dark for a day’ in protest to new EU copyright laws | Daily Mail Online
• The Amendment That Almost Killed the Electoral College
• David Attenborough warns of ‘catastrophic future’ in climate change documentary
• Barr’s letter on Mueller rpt, Trump stops new sanctions, Nominee hates Fed. Reserve, FEMA exposed victims
• Special Counsel Robert Mueller submits his report on Russian collusion to AG William Barr
• Midwest floods, AIPAC controversy, Trump’s executive order, GOP power grab blocked, Brexit delay, + more
• Jared Kushner used WhatsApp to message foreign contacts in White House: Cummings
• The Electoral College … Keep, Abolish, or Circumvent?
• Where villages once stood, Africa now has an inland ocean
• In New Zealand, broad support for ban on assault weapons following massacre
• Taping Trump, Mueller targeted Cohen, Trump’s poor court record, Americans oppose pardons, Google news
• Trump’s mental state, Feds raided Trump fundraiser, Brits examine Cambridge Analytica, Deportation ruling
• The Three Levels of Guilt: Is President Trump a white supremacist?
• The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption by Dahr Jamail
• Sunday Commentary: Fetal heartbeats, migrating jellyfish, and a broken neck
• Trump isn’t fooling anyone, and his hypocrisy reveals fear of the Mueller Report
• New Zealand’s gun laws come under scrutiny in the wake of a deadly domestic terrorist attack
• ‘Devastating’ Arctic warming of 9-16°F now ‘locked in,’ UN researchers warn
• President Trump’s First Veto Came After a Historic Rebuke From Congress
• Friday Roundup: Extremism strikes New Zealand, Student climate walkout, Israel’s land grab, and other news.
• Congress rebukes Trump, U.S. grounds 737, Feds probe Cohen-Giuliani, DOJ inaction on election fraud
• Breaking: House Judiciary Chairman says former acting AG Whitaker didn’t deny discussions with Trump
• N.Y. prosecutors indict Manafort on new charges just minutes after he was sentenced in the Mueller probe
• Manafort sentence, 737 and Trump, Big college scandal, Polarization in schools, Planned Parenthood ruling
• Selling access to Trump, NY AG probe, EPA destroyed records, Court unseals docs, NRA troubles, Russia rpt
• King of Debt …
• The Death of Recycling, and other news
• Capitalism’s Achilles’ Heel: Economic Growth and the Population Problem
• Friday Roundup: Manafort sentencing, Jobs report, WA AG warns rural sheriffs about gun control law
• States with stricter gun control regulations have fewer mass shootings: study
• U.S. border agents had list of reporters, lawyers, activists to question
• Wednesday Headlines: Trouble in Trumpland
• Tuesday News Briefs for March 5th 2019
• BuzzFeed story revalidated, GOP rebellion, Media manipulation, Pardon inquiry, Ethics alarm, SCOTUS news
• Methane in the atmosphere is surging, and that’s got scientists worried
• Ruined crops, salty soil: How rising seas are poisoning North Carolina’s farmland
• A Good Week For The Toon-ists!
• Why Mexico’s left-wing president is helping Trump, India-Pakistan update, Big Pharma execs under fire
• Warm Air Pulsing into Arctic, Ice Melting
• Australia’s record heat, Elect. College is white supremacy, GOP warns Trump, Kushner’s security clearance
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be indicted on corruption charges
• Trump-Kim summit suddenly collapses in Vietnam, and the other news of the day
• My analysis and commentary of Michael Cohen’s public congressional testimony
• What will Cohen say today? – and other news
• Tensions rise in Kashmir, Evidence of Obstruction, Electoral College move, and a tough parental question
• Australia’s Farmers Struggle With Its Hottest-Ever Drought | Time
• Monday Kickoff: Trump rebuked on National Emergency, Giant iceberg to break off, Two judicial rulings
• A Danger to the Republic: Neo-Nazis and other Militants Embedded in the U. S. Military
• Voter-id struck down, Move against Planned Parenthood, Manafort sentencing, Commentary on antisemitism
• Friday Roundup: Woes, gags, shame, tears, suits, racists, and shortages
• Is it Mueller time?, Cohen will testify, Foreign trolls attack Dems, The hostile nexus of Trump supporters
• ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ puts words to a future you don’t want to live in | Grist
• News Briefs for a Hump Day
• More Obstruction of Justice, Congress warned about Trump, Nuke tech to Saudis, WV folds on teacher strike
• Pence’s crickets, Trump indictment, Stone’s apology, Mitch’s puzzle, big lawsuit, NC election, WV strike
• Dark Sunday: McCabe’s ’60 Minutes’ interview exposes Trump’s collusion with Russia to the American people
• Sunday Editorial: Rays of Sunshine and Words of Caution
• Weekend Roundup: Stone’s communications, Manafort’s sentencing, Trump lawyers lied, and other news
• Today’s quote from Ann Coulter tells you everything you need to know about President Trump
• Judge issues partial gag order in Roger Stone case
• McCabe book: Trump pushed back on officials using Putin claim that North Korea couldn’t fire long-range missiles
• Budget deal passes Congress without border wall, Trump declares “national emergency” to appease his base
• Manafort’s bad day, McCabe’s tell-all, big House and Senate news, DHS guts task force, Teachers’ strike ends…
• Why Billionaires???
• The basic science for how climate change triggers severe cold weather in wintertime
• Budget deal reached, Nat. Enquirer update, Russia investigation, GOP defies UT voters, Aussie gov. rebuffed
• Monday Wake-up: Tax refunds hit GOP, Mueller investigation focus, Denver teachers go on strike
• Social Democrats vs. Fascists
• “You feel so overwhelmed”: Fed reports $1 trillion increase in debt
• Today’s Topics: Polarization in Europe, Trump breaks law, Rosenstein memo revelation, Questions @ SCOTUS
• Friday Roundup: Whitaker testifies, Bezos accuses National Enquirer of blackmail, SCOTUS abortion ruling
• A fearful Trump lashes out at Dems two days after he threatened them in SOTU speech, plus other news
• Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s testimony delayed
• A border fence did not lower crime rates in El Paso. In fact, crime went up a bit.
• Magnetic north just changed. Here’s what that means.
• Trump Tuesday: Feds subpoena his inauguration, GOP defies him, His “willful ignorance” and “executive time”
• Mexico Denies Entry to U.S Lawyers & Journalists Working with Migrants
• Trump Sought a Loan During the 2016 Campaign. Deutsche Bank Said No.
• Saturday Potpourri: INF treaty, Trump’s emergency, His legal fund, His mini-me, and other news stories
• Senate rebukes Trump’s plan to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria, Afghanistan
• Self-Defense as a justification for Assault
• A break in Jury Duty: Today’s thoughts
• BLOG NOTICE: Jury Duty may put The Secular Jurist on temporary hiatus
• The disturbing truth about low unemployment figures in the U.K. and U.S.
• Why new political dynamics won’t allow another government shutdown over Trump’s border wall
• 2018 was the fourth-warmest year on record, Berkeley Earth scientists find
• Who is Roger Stone? GOP operative worked on campaigns from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump
• Friday Roundup: Gov. shutdown, Trump’s favors, Russia sanctions, Intelligence warning, Venezuela crisis
• Trump associate Stone arrested, faces obstruction charge
• Competing Senate bills to end government shutdown both fail to overcome filibuster
• In the News: Michael Cohen, Trump’s ego, Opinion polls, Khashoggi probe, Uninsured rate, Age bias ruling
• Air traffic controllers’ union issues dire safety warning over shutdown
• Michael Cohen postpones congressional testimony, claims ‘threats’ from President Trump and Rudy Giuliani
• Today’s News: Gov. shutdown, Storm troopers, Mueller, Giuliani, N.C. seat, Church and State, Teachers’ strike
• Anastasia Vashukevich “released” from Russian jail, but her story is a warning for all free people
• Pentagon Confirms Climate Change Is A National Security Threat, Contradicting Trump
• Panties in a bunch: Mueller responds to BuzzFeed story
• Friday Roundup: Gov. shutdown, Russia sanctions, Trump’s mania, Manafort’s dealings, Massive data breach
• Smoking Gun: Trump has his Nixon moment
• In sharp reversal, Giuliani now claims: ‘I never said there was no collusion between the campaign’ and Russia
• Trump admitted ‘getting crushed’ by Democrats after watching shutdown coverage
• Will We Ever See Mueller’s Report on Trump? Maybe.
• Cohen Hired IT Firm to Rig Early CNBC, Drudge Polls to Favor Trump
• Senate rejects effort to block Trump on Russia sanctions
• My perspective on AG nominee William Barr, and today’s news
• Breaking with Trump, some Republicans vote to take up Russia sanctions resolution
• UK Parliament overwhelmingly rejects May’s Brexit deal
• What’s happening today, and other stories
• Artificial Intelligence revisited
• China Sentences Canadian, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, to Death
• Court News: Trump’s birth control rules, acting Attorney General Whitaker, troops’ burn-pit illnesses
• Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration
• The “Banner Of Critical Independence” and Modern Anti-Intellectualism
• Bombshell aftermath, new poll on Gov. Shutdown, Sandy Hook court ruling, Trump attacks on Healthcare
• F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia
• Friday Roundup: What will Trump do?
• Fiat Chrysler Reportedly Settling Emissions Cheating Claims, Paying $650 Million
• Texas landowners prepare wall fight; Trump to visit border
• Democracy in Europe ‘has declined more than any other region’ | Euronews
• MSM’s shame, Manafort’s collusion, Mueller’s mystery case, Redistricting, Russia sanctions, FEMA aid cutoff
• Filing: Manafort lied about sharing poll data with Russian
• In a theater of the absurd, a madman takes the stage
• Know Nothings, Racism, Walls and Trump
• Bolton Puts Conditions on Syria Withdrawal, Suggesting a Delay of Months or Years
• U.S. Supreme Court rejects Exxon in climate change document fight
• What’s driving Trump’s megalomania to shutdown the government over a border wall
• Mueller’s office may have dropped a hint about the mystery grand-jury subpoena case that has Washington enthralled
• Antarctic ice melts to January record low
• Jerry Falwell Jr. and the Christian Nationalist Church Of Trump
• Mitch McConnell is now in the spotlight after new Dem House passes bills to end government shutdown
• Somalia orders top UN envoy to leave
• The sound of sharpening knives
• Meet the Press just modeled what it looks like to take climate change seriously | Grist
• The Generals dump on Trump, and a ‘kick in the stomach’ to blue-collar workers
• Exclusive: Russian Ex-Spy Pressured Manafort Over Debts to an Oligarch
• Is the Michael Cohen ‘Prague’ Story True?
• New Jersey AG has obtained evidence of possible crimes at Trump’s golf club — and Mueller, FBI are involved in probe
• Foreign cyberattack hits newspapers across the country, preventing distribution, source says
• Snyder signs bill to make Michigan ballot drives tougher
• Hoyer says House will not seat a North Carolina Republican amid questions about integrity of election
• Japan Embraces Commercial Whaling, Pulls Out Of Global Alliance That Banned It
• Friday Focus: Public opinion on Trump, Cohen’s Russia meeting, Middle East update, NC GOP overrides veto
• MSNBC beats Fox in key ratings for first time in 17 years
• ‘Deportation bus’ politician jailed after being indicted on insurance-fraud charges
• Iraqi lawmakers demand US withdrawal after Trump visit
• Donald Trump’s Personal Reason for the Government Shutdown; To Delay Emoluments Case
• CBP orders medical checks after second child’s death
• Under the radar: Buzzfeed wins lawsuit over Steele Dossier detailing links between Trump and Russia
• Mattis pushed out early, key U.S. envoy resigns, the President’s Twitter storm, cracks in Trump coalition
• Dow drops 150 points, S&P 500 on the cusp of a bear market
• Supreme Court halts fines against mystery company possibly linked to Mueller investigation
• Saturday blurbs: Trump’s ire, Asylum ruling, NC election fraud, VA privatization mess, Intel rpt on midterms
• The Crisis we feared is near
• GOP leaders weigh protecting Trump from primary challenge
• Trump Administration to Lift Sanctions on Russian Oligarch’s Companies
• Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria gets angry response from Republicans
• Mueller’s mystery case update, GOP ignores Trump’s border wall threat, Criminal Justice reform bill advances
• Trump Foundation agrees to dissolve with judge to oversee dispersal
• The GOP’s Trump dilemma is a no-win situation
• Former Michael Flynn Business Associates Indicted in Turkey Lobbying Case
• Mueller’s mystery witness, more W.H. turmoil, Ivanka implicated, GOP extremism, Senator resigns, ACA ruling
• Migrant girl dies, Indicting Trump, Judge leaves GOP, DoD bills Saudis, Emission Standards, Pension Ruling
• Senate votes to condemn Saudi crown prince for Khashoggi killing, end support for Yemen war
• Federal prosecutors probing Trump inauguration spending -WSJ
• A Case for Indictment, a must-see video on the Rise of Extremism, Facebook’s fake news, Butina pleads guilty
• Britain’s May wins confidence vote, remains PM
• National Enquirer Parent Cooperates on Trump Hush-Money Probe
• Judge gives ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen 3 years in prison
• Trump rants about border wall, Kushner advises Saudis, ex-Senators issue warning, Maria Butina plea deal
• Laughter ridicules U.S. climate policy on the world stage
• U.S. top court, Kavanaugh spurn Planned Parenthood defunding case
• Where’s the Trump presidency headed?
• Fight against greenhouse gases stalls as emissions soar to new record
• ‘Siege warfare’: Republican anxiety spikes as Trump faces growing legal and political perils
• Huawei arrest: This is what the start of a tech Cold War looks like
• James Fields Found Guilty of Murdering Anti-Racism Protester Heather Heyer in Charlottesville
• Appeals court denies Trump bid to reinstate asylum ban
• “Individual-1” is now officially an un-indicted co-conspirator protected only by DOJ policy and politics
• Friday Roundup: Oil Prices, Mueller investigation, Trump, Clinton, N.C. Election Fraud, and a Bomb Threat
• Greenland’s ice sheet melt has ‘gone into overdrive’ and is now ‘off the charts’
• Don’t condemn white nationalists, Veterans Affairs’ diversity chief was told after Charlottesville, emails show
• Mixing Business with Politics: add Turkey to Trump’s expanding list of corrupt foreign dealings
• Manafort Discussed Deal With Ecuador to Hand Assange Over to U.S.
• Trump associate Roger Stone invokes Fifth Amendment, won’t give Senate documents or testify
• Michael Flynn: Mueller recommends no prison time for ex-Trump adviser
• Tuesday News Barrage: Sorry folks, but all this is really important
• David Attenborough: collapse of civilisation is on the horizon #auspol #qldpol #ClimateStrike #Cop24 #ExtinctionRebellion #StopAdani #TheDrum #QandA Huge Wake Up Call!
• What the hell is Putin up to now?
• What Qatar’s quitting OPEC means for the oil cartel
• “Yellow vest” protesters knock wind out of French business, economy
• Wisconsin Republicans forge ahead with power-stripping bills
• Israeli police say there’s enough evidence to indict Benjamin Netanyahu in a third corruption case
• Judge rules against administration in ‘sanctuary cities’ case
• Love can’t be forced: the Trials and Tribulations of the G20 Summit
• Deutsche Bank, Russian money laundering, and Trump’s finances
• The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow
• As Trump chased money and power, Mueller followed the money trail of corruption
• U.S. Life Expectancy Dropped for the Third Year in a Row. Drugs and Suicide Are Partly to Blame
• 2018 Is On Track To Be the Fourth Hottest Year On Record, Scientists Say
• Senate advances Yemen resolution in rebuke to Trump
• Mueller investigation update: Manafort has been informing Trump, Corsi emails released, Trump obsessed
• Mississippi elects racist Senator (by a smaller margin), while Democrat pickups in the House near 40
• Manafort’s secret meeting with Assange, and speculation about his failed plea deal
• Dance of the Dictators: Trump fires tear gas at migrants while Putin attacks Ukrainian ships
• Sunday News: Mexico rebukes Trump, Brexit update, WikiLeaks controversy, and Australian elections
• Amazon’s European workers go on strike for Black Friday
• Spain to back Brexit deal after UK agrees to Gibraltar terms
• Trump fails to end New York lawsuit over his charity
• Major Trump administration climate report says damages are ‘intensifying across the country’
• Stone associate Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with special counsel
• Fact-checking Trump’s rationale for defending Saudi Arabia in Khashoggi killing
• Kelly and Nielsen opposed border order in fiery West Wing debate
• Chief Justice John Roberts denounces Trump’s criticism of a federal jurist as an ‘Obama judge’
• 85,000 young children may have died from starvation in Yemen, report says
• Judge blocks Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban
• Trump Wanted to Order Justice Dept. to Prosecute Comey and Clinton
• Trump says U.S. will stand by Saudi Arabia, despite CIA’s conclusion about Khashoggi killing
• In blow to Trump’s immigration agenda, federal judge blocks asylum ban for migrants who enter illegally from Mexico
• Rising seas threaten Norfolk Naval Shipyard, raising fears of ‘catastrophic damage’
• Final Post-Midterm Assessment with Statistics
• Trump Administration a ‘Shitshow in a Dumpster Fire,’ Says George Conway About Turning Down Justice Department Appointment
• The Mississippi Magnolia (and other racist matters)
• Turks reject any U.S. “legal favor” to ease pressure on Saudis over Khashoggi
• Julian Assange has been charged, prosecutors reveal in inadvertent court filing
• Neo-Nazi Harassment Not Protected by First Amendment, Judge Rules
• Violence breaks out as first wave of migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana, Mexico
• Topic of the Day: Russia and the Republicans (and other news)
• Five days of fury: Inside Trump’s Paris temper, election woes and staff upheaval
• Kyrsten Sinema becomes first Democrat to win a Senate race in Arizona in 30 years
• Sunday political news updates
• Pushing the Bully off his Pedestal
• More post-election analysis, protect Mueller protests, and new criticisms of Trump’s AG appointment
• Trump, a Constitutional Crisis, and Ethics in America
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions Is Out
• Not a Blue Wave, but Dems win control of U.S. House of Representatives and gain some Governorships
• Federal Officials Shut Down Sales of ‘Ruinous’ Health Insurance Plans
• How Republics Die: William Shirer’s “The Collapse of the Third Republic” and its Relevance Today
• To Trump or not to Trump, that is the question for America
• ‘Trump has hijacked the election’: House Republicans in panic mode
• U.S. Supreme Court ends fight over Obama-era net neutrality rules
• U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It.
• Democrats hold 7-point edge in final national NBC/WSJ poll
• Majority of Americans support term limits for Supreme Court justices, new poll finds
• U.S. top court rejects Trump administration bid to halt climate trial
• An assessment of next week’s midterm elections
• U.S. archivists release Watergate report that could be possible ‘road map’ for Mueller
• World’s oceans have absorbed 60% more heat than previously thought, study finds
• Sources: Justice Department investigating Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke
• Mueller probes Roger Stone’s interactions with Trump campaign and timing of WikiLeaks release of Podesta emails
• Plot to Smear Mueller Unravels as F.B.I. Is Asked to Investigate
• Why this is happening (the rise of political populism and extremism)
• Coastal Pacific Oxygen Levels Now Plummet Once A Year
• They look like cops, but they’re not. And they’re all over Michigan.
• White nationalist accused of violence at political rallies surrenders to FBI
• Merkel to Quit as Party Chief as Her Chancellorship Wobbles
• Jair Bolsonaro declared Brazil’s next president
• Mail bomb suspect made numerous references on Facebook to Russian associates and echoed pro-Kremlin views
• Suspect in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting charged with 29 counts in deaths of 11 people
• Trump, the Pied Piper of a sick America
• Mueller has evidence suggesting Stone associate knew Clinton emails would be leaked
• Bombs Sent to Biden and Robert De Niro, Latest in Wave of Explosives Sent to Trump Critics
• Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker thinks ‘we’re in a hell of a mess’
• Tuesday Commentary: Supreme Court order, Trump’s plans, State voting impediments, and Christian suckers
• Trump Organization Business Partner Signed a Deal with Saudi-backed Fund Weeks Before Journalist Disappeared
• Trump Administration Eyes Defining Transgender Out of Existence
• Alaska governor Walker suspends reelection campaign
• The world has a question for the White House: When do murders matter?
• Russian woman charged with attempted meddling in upcoming U.S. midterms : NBC News
• 107,000 purged from Georgia voter rolls for not voting in past elections: report
• Judges consider state court’s power over Trump in lawsuit
• EU top court tells Poland to suspend supreme court measure
• Something’s happening here: New Voter Registrations are way up across the nation
• Tornadoes are spinning up farther east in US, study finds
• Mitch McConnell Calls to Cut Social Security, Medicare
• Canada Makes Marijuana Legal, and a National Experiment Begins
• NYPD to pursue charges against 9 members of far-right Proud Boys for violent brawl
• Ex-Senate aide pleads guilty to lying to the FBI in leak probe
• what are we like?
• Quote of the Day: Reaction to the Trump Administration’s elimination of Science at the EPA
• Voters say they are more likely to cast ballots in this year’s midterm elections
• Chief Justice John Roberts Requests Ethics Investigation of Brett Kavanaugh’s Hearing Conduct
• E.P.A. to Disband a Key Scientific Review Panel on Air Pollution
• Michael made history as one of the top four strongest hurricanes to strike the United States
• Australian law allows religious schools to reject gay students, PM says
• Gun Control Advocates Sue U.S. for DOJ Communications With NRA
• Category 4 Hurricane Michael roars nearer to Florida coast
• Watch “What Earth Will Look Like In 2040” on YouTube
• U.S. top court rebuffs appeal of Kavanaugh ruling nixing climate rule
• Jair Bolsonaro wins Brazil vote but not outright victory
• Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040
• The Kavanaugh court is the one conservatives have worked decades to build
• Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, and Us
• Mental Health Experts Demand Psychological Assessment of Kavanaugh for Drinking, Instability
• GOP operative who sued Trump says FBI referred hacking of her email to Mueller
• UN court tells US to ease Iran sanctions in blow for Trump
• Suburban California white supremacists at center of Charlottesville hate conspiracy case
• 11 Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation Into Trump’s Wealth
• New FRONTLINE documentary tells the story of Trump’s collusion with Russia
• Uncovered Text Messages Nail Kavanaugh For Tampering With Witnesses And Lying Under Oath
• Flake: FBI must do a ‘real investigation’ of Kavanaugh
• My Monday Rant: Stop the BS about shark attacks!
• READ: Yale classmate’s full statement on Kavanaugh
• Indonesia tsunami and earthquake kill 384, leave hundreds injured
• Trump Agrees to Open ‘Limited’ F.B.I. Investigation Into Accusations Against Kavanaugh
• Sen. Jeff Flake Shifts and Indicates He Can Only Support Kavanaugh After FBI Investigation
• Jeff Flake stands silently as women confront him over Kavanaugh decision: ‘My assault doesn’t matter’
• Trump’s EPA Considers Merger That Could Quell Voice of Scientists
• Judge orders release of Trump, Pence emails on Carrier Corp.
• American Bar Association calls for FBI investigation into Kavanaugh allegations, delay in confirmation votes
• Watching the Kavanaugh meltdown
• The Right To Remain Silent …
• Breaking News: MSNBC reports Senate Judiciary Committee is investigating a new 4th Kavanaugh accuser
• New research shows the world’s ice is doing something not seen before
• Michael Avenatti says his new client has allegations against Kavanaugh
• Trump boasts of America’s might, draws headshakes at UN
• Michael Avenatti says new Brett Kavanaugh accuser will come forward before Thursday
• Senate Judiciary panel’s top Democrat calls for delay in Kavanaugh hearing after new allegation
• US, China clobber each other with biggest sets of tariffs yet
• NBC News/WSJ poll: Democrats hold the advantage in November’s elections
• Details of Thursday hearing for Kavanaugh accuser to be set
• Saturday Sarcasm: Rosenstein, Kavanaugh, FEMA Head, Brexit, and Le Pen
• DOJ Convinces Trump To Back Off Declassifying Secret Russia Probe Documents, For Now
• Deputy AG Rosenstein Denies NYT Report That He Discussed Secretly Recording Trump
• Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen cooperating with Robert Mueller
• Trump’s de facto Ideology
• How Putin’s Oligarchs Got Inside the Trump Team
• Editorial: This political tug of war over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh could hurt Dems
• Trump rolls back pollution rules for drilling on US lands
• Supreme Court refuses to block dark money court ruling
• Mine safety official warned administration violating law, putting miners in danger
• Probe of FEMA Chief Referred to Federal Prosecutors
• Republicans fear reversals in November due to accusation against Supreme Court nominee
• Trump’s order to release classified Russia documents is an act of desperation to obstruct justice
• Odds and Ends: Home ownership data reveals Middle Class woes, GOP donor quits, rise of the Knife lobby
• Brett Kavanaugh and His Accuser Say They’re Willing to Testify
• Kiddies back to school: How our local teachers strike was resolved
• Bombshell: Manafort flips!
• Toons, Toons, and More Toons …
• Tentative deal reached between Manafort and special counsel: Sources
• Former El Salvador president sentenced to 10 years in prison
• German spy chief passed info to AfD: report
• Betsy DeVos Loses Student Loan Lawsuit Brought by 19 States
• ICE took $169 million from FEMA, TSA, other programs to fund migrant detention
• News Jumble: E.U. copyright law, Vaping epidemic, Paddling children, and NASA commercialization
• ‘Shipwreck’: GOP grows fearful about losing Senate as candidates struggle, Trump support tumbles
• Report: Trump moves nearly $10 million from FEMA budget
• Activists Rally at Protests Worldwide to Demand Urgent Action on Climate Change
• Ex-Senate Aide: Kavanaugh Should Be Impeached for Lying Under Oath About Stolen Democratic Memos
• Woodward: Trump ‘detached’ from reality, jeopardizes national security
• U.N. makes a bold move to protect marine life on the high seas
• Florida Republican Ron DeSantis quits Congress as governor race tightens
• Sweden faces political impasse after inconclusive election
• Trump to provide written answers under oath in Summer Zervos defamation lawsuit
• Thousands of mental health professionals agree with Woodward and the New York Times op-ed author: Trump is dangerous : The Conversation
• Saturday News: Trump’s coup plans, Care Center charged with human trafficking, Pipeline Co. found guilty
• Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in jail for lying to FBI in Mueller probe
• After Scaling Back Student Loan Regulations, Administration Tries to Stop State Efforts
• Trump administration to circumvent court limits on detention of child migrants
• Thursday Roundup: Threats in Senate, Trump rage, Putin’s friend, Blackwater mistrial, homosexuality in India
• What is the 25th Amendment?
• I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
• If Donald Trump was your _______________ (fill in the blank), what would you think of him?
• The Psychology of Politics and the Fate of Trump
• Crazytown: Furor over Kavanaugh confirmation hearings as new book exposes insane Trump White House
• Reuters Myanmar reporters jailed for seven years in landmark secrets case : Reuters
• Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers
• Marines Move to Tackle Racial Extremists in the Corps
• As Florida’s toxic red tide stretches on, residents report health problems
• California advances new Police Transparency and Net Neutrality bills
• New poll shows public turning against Trump
• Manafort Ally to Cooperate With U.S. After Guilty Plea
• AP sources: Lawyer was told Russia had ‘Trump over a barrel’
• Open Letter to Members of the U.S. Congress
• Prosecutor: 20 guns found in home of man who threatened Boston Globe
• Kiddies, Teachers, and Bureaucrats: How a victory for Schools and Teachers turned into a Labor Strike
• Pew report on religious types shows what Americans of different faiths have in common
• We’re killing ourselves: New study shows U.S. leads world in gun-related suicides
• Primary Finale: Establishment loses big in Florida governor race, holds the field in Arizona senate race
• The Trump intrigue deepens: A secret meeting, and a stolen briefcase
• Almost half of Americans can’t pay for their basic needs
• ‘Hate in the streets’ has no place in Germany: Merkel
• U.S. court says North Carolina gerrymander is illegal, seeks new congressional map
• Manafort Sought Plea Deal In Next Trial
• Editorial: Lamenting the absurdity of the Anti-Anti-Trump Left
• Sunday news catch-up: In memorial of John McCain, and other important stories
• Critics fear Trump’s attacks are doing lasting damage to the justice system
• Trump Organization CFO Granted Immunity by Prosecutors in Cohen Investigation
• AP: National Enquirer kept damaging Trump stories, hush money papers in safe
• Michael Cohen’s allegations are corroborated, and a state criminal investigation probes Trump’s business
• How CBS, Fox and NBC plan to handle the national anthem during NFL broadcasts in 2018
• KKK figure sentenced to eight years for firing gun at Virginia rally
• Duncan Hunter Indicted for Misuse of Campaign Funds
• Trump’s company approved $420,000 in payments to Cohen, relying on ‘sham’ invoices, prosecutors say
• Bad news for Trump: Details of Michael Cohen guilty plea, and Paul Manafort found guilty on 8 charges
• Trump’s Former Fixer, Michael Cohen, Reaches a Plea Agreement Over Payments to Women
• Trump administration proposes rule to relax carbon limits on power plants
• Trump Speechwriter Fired After Revelations of His Links to White Nationalists
• Boston Globe Reports Bomb Threat as President Trump Assails the Paper
• Humanity’s last near-extinction shows how it might survive the next one
• McGahn, White House Counsel, Has Cooperated Extensively in Mueller Inquiry
• The Senate Stands Up To The Bully …
• Lies and cover-ups: Catholic church in Pennsylvania had ‘playbook’ to keep priest abuse secret, FBI said
• What would E.T.s think of us?
• Did Manafort’s Lawyers Just Commit A Serious Violation In Its Closing Argument?
• FIFA Rids Itself Of Corruption . . . By Eliminating “Corruption” From Its New Ethics Code and Allowing Prosecution Of Critics
• Two key takeaways from yesterday’s primaries, plus a lie caught and a Freudian slip at Trump White House
• ‘It can’t get much hotter … can it?’ How heat became a national US problem
• Avenatti’s ‘swagger’ stirs Iowa Democrats
• Lawmakers impeach all 4 W.Va. court justices over spending
• Chris Collins, Indicted for Insider Trading, Wrote Bill That Could Help His Company
• FBI agent Peter Strzok fired over anti-Trump texts
• Rally by White Nationalists Was Over Almost Before It Began
• The Shadow Rulers of the VA
• Anti-racist protesters and activists march through the streets of Charlottesville
• ‘Not the enemy of the people’: 70 news organizations will blast Trump’s attack on the media
• Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million in world’s first Roundup cancer trial
• This map shows what white Europeans associate with race
• Friday Roundup: More Trump mania, and total chaos on the West Virginia Supreme Court
• How Identity Politics Makes the Left Lose Its Collective Identity
• Thursday Potpourri: Space Warfare, White Privilege, Geopolitics, Nukes, Evolution, and Einstein
• New York GOP Rep. Chris Collins arrested on insider trading charges
• I Have Been Permanently Banned from Twitter
• New FRONTLINE series “Documenting Hate” exposes the perpetrators behind Charlottesville
• Tuesday’s Elections: Cautious optimism for Democrats
• EPA Allowing Asbestos Back into Manufacturing
• Losing Earth & Hothouse Earth
• Now the Trump administration wants to limit citizenship for legal immigrants
• Study warns of looming potential for runaway global warming
• Stone Cold: Mueller Wins Key Legal Challenge To His Authority As Special Counsel
• At least 40 shot and four killed in a night of Chicago gun violence
• Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring
• Portland police say 4 were arrested in protests
• U.S. Senate news: More sanctions against Russia, poll shows Bernie Sanders is its most popular member
• Trump’s EPA formally launches attack on California’s fuel-economy rules
• Dealing With “Christian” Political Extremists: My Recent Experience
• Ghost and the machine: Officials fear a new era of untraceable firearms
• Michigan Supreme Court rules that redistricting proposal can appear on ballot
• Acting in the Name of God: Sessions Commissions Religious Tyranny Task Force
• Tuesday Roundup: News on Supreme Court, Climate, Tariffs, Manafort, Koch Brothers, and Russian selloff
• Trump Administration takes the first steps towards implementing theocracy in America
• A Personal Discovery: The Satanization of Science
• Russian Infiltration Of Word Press Blogs
• Cohen Reportedly Ready To Testify That Trump Knew Of The Planned Russian Meeting In Trump Tower
• Julian Assange’s Asylum to be Rescinded
• Police Chief in Miami Suburb Instructed Officers to Arrest Random Black People and Charge Them With Multiple Burglaries
• The Media’s Failure to Connect the Dots on Climate Change
• House moves to impeach Rosenstein, Mueller investigating Trump for obstruction of justice
• Heat Waves and Climate Change: Connecting the dots for the layperson
• White House Under Fire Over Editing Of Transcript and Video Of Press Conference In Helinski
• The Irony Of It All …
• A reminder to Americans about how Adolf Hitler rose to power
• Former Trump aide Bannon sets up group to undermine EU
• Trump to Seek Repeal of California’s Smog-Fighting Power
• The Birds!!!
• Alabama-based League of the South launches Russian-language page to promote ‘Southern nationalism’
• Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model
• Sinclair Acquisition of Tribune In Doubt After Allegations Of Sinclair Hiding Key Information From The FCC
• No-deal Brexit: EU warns its citizens to prepare for the worst
• Putin appears to be targeting U.S. officials who worked to sanction Russia
• “An Almond Don’t Lactate”: Feds Move To Block The Use Of “Milk” For Almonds
• Why Homo sapiens might not survive: One word says it all
• There Are Wildfires Burning in the Arctic Circle Amid Sweden’s Record-Breaking Heat Wave
• Trump Nominee Is Behind Anti-Union Legal Campaign
• What’s in the mind of a megalomaniac?
• As Tensions With U.S. Worsen, Europe Courts New Partners
• TREASON!
• Donald Tusk calls on Europe, China, US​​ and Russia to ‘prevent global chaos’
• Over a billion people struggle to stay cool as Earth warms
• Is Global Warming Making Us Stupider?
• In Town With Little Water, Coca-Cola Is Everywhere. So Is Diabetes.
• Exxon Mobil joins exodus of firms from lobbying group ALEC
• More info on the DOJ indictments against Russian meddlers
• Mueller’s Timeline: How the Russian Hacks Unfolded
• Daniels Charge Dismissal Deepens Doubts About Police Sting Operation In Columbus
• Under the Radar: Examining Trump’s Executive Order on Administrative Law Judges
• Allies wonder if West can withstand Trump presidency
• How many humans can Earth support?
• UK prime minister fights to stop Cabinet exodus over Brexit
• Beauty and the Breast
• A Troubling Supreme Court Nomination on the Anniversary of the 14th Amendment
• Trump administration takes another major swipe at the Affordable Care Act
• In remembrance of Ed Schultz – a true Progressive champion
• Onward Christian soldiers!… to the battlefront of politics
• Global temperature rises could be double those predicted by climate modelling
• These Are The Scandals That Brought Down Scott Pruitt
• Religion as a Tool in Social Dominance Theory
• Iustitia Interruptus: The failure of America’s judicial system
• Poland Purges Supreme Court, and Protesters Take to Streets
• Record-Low Number Say They’re ‘Extremely Proud’ to Be American
• China issues U.S. travel warning amid trade tensions
• So long Harlan Ellison, writer of my favourite hour of TV ever… The City on the Edge of Forever
• Leftist Wins Mexico Presidency in Landslide With Mandate to Reshape Nation
• Sunday topics: Religious indoctrination/nationalism, NSA surveillance, Europe’s anti-immigrant pressure
• It Is Happening Here, Trump Is Already Early-Stage Mussolini
• What Exactly IS Freedom?
• Truth? Justice? The American Way?
• Beware of the Trolls
• U.S. charges hundreds in major healthcare fraud, opioid crackdown
• We’ve Found $16.1 Million in Political and Taxpayer Spending at Trump Properties
• CBS News interview with ICE whistleblower interrupted by gov’t agents
• Sens. Collins and Murkowski become early focus of Senate’s court fight
• Takeaway from Tuesday’s Primaries: the Center doesn’t hold
• U.S. Supreme Court rules against unions over non-member fees
• The first layoffs from Trump’s tariffs are here
• Supreme Court upholds Trump’s travel ban and border policy, bolsters practices of anti-abortion centers
• Two more Supreme Court rulings on Gerrymandering
• Refusing service, the breakdown of civil society, and a profound failure of leadership
• America’s millennials are waking up to a grim financial future
• ‘I think I was being sent a message’: U.S. warned U.N. official about report on poverty in America
• How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country
• Poll finds nearly a Nixon level of support for impeaching Trump
• U.S. top court rules warrants required for cellphone location data
• What Next???
• Koko The Gorilla Dies; Redrew The Lines Of Animal-Human Communication
• U.S. top court lets states force online retailers to collect sales tax
• ‘Today I renounce my membership’: Longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt announces he’s leaving his party
• House GOP plan would cut Medicare, Medicaid to balance budget
• Ruling on Gerrymandering opens U.S. Supreme Court to speculation about its functional role
• How some elite charter schools exclude minorities
• Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas
• US expected to quit UN human rights panel over perceived anti-Israel bias
• A Very Soylent Spoiler Alert
• Major Study of Drinking Will Be Shut Down
• Prosecutors recover 16 pages of shredded Cohen documents: court filing
• IQ Scores Are Falling And Have Been For Decades, New Study Finds
• In Today’s Struggle for Principle with Trump there Will be No Republican Stephen A. Douglas
• Analysis: Report Gives Trump an Opening, but Undercuts His Narrative
• Manafort Sent to Jail After Judge Cancels House Arrest
• Psychologist warns Trump’s mental state is rapidly deteriorating — and he may be ‘on the boundary of psychosis and reality’ : Raw Story
• Maine Gov. Threatens Not to Certify Primary Results over Ranked-Choice Voting
• Judge Approves AT&T’s $85 Billion Merger with Time Warner
• Fun Stuff: A review of an old sci-fi classic, Godzilla vs Monster Zero
• Trump and Kim agree to play nice, and all the other children cheered
• In Targeting Reporter, Justice Dept. Backs Trump’s Anti-Press Rhetoric
• Supreme Court upholds Ohio voter registration purge policy
• The West is in crisis, despite Trump’s glowing assessment
• Documents Show Political Lobbying in Census Question About Citizenship
• Oceans Are Heating Up #ClimateChange #auspol #qldpol #StopAdani
• NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars
• Climate Change Indicated in Forced Migration of 1.7 Million from Mekong Delta
• Some U.S. states taking electoral maps out of politicians’ hands
• France’s Macron threatens rare rebuke of U.S. at G-7, Trump fires back
• Trump Can Indeed Pardon Himself . . . And We Should Now Never Speak Of This Again
• Former Tulsa Sheriff Found Guilty Of Violating Elliott Williams’ Civil Rights
• Court: Trump Must Appear For Seven Hour Deposition In Defamation Case
• 4 winners and 2 losers from the first set of this week’s primary elections
• Washington State Suing Facebook and Google for Violating Election Laws
• Mueller Accuses Manafort Of Witness Tampering And Seeks Jail
• Gingrich says Trump pardoning himself would be “arrogant statement of power”
• Another Euro Member Heads for Turmoil After Nationalist Win
• Supreme Court backs Christian baker who spurned gay couple
• Walking While Male
• California bans travel to another state based on its ‘discriminatory’ LGBT adoption law
• Texas high court rules state must reveal supplier of execution drugs
• America’s poor becoming more destitute under Trump: U.N. expert
• Canada is slapping tariffs on $12.8 billion of US goods — here are the states that stand to lose the most
• A Courtside View of Scott Pruitt’s Cozy Ties With a Billionaire Coal Baron
• What Does Trump EPA’s Scott Pruitt Need A Soundproof “Privacy Booth” For?
• “What I’m Going To Do To You Is Going To Be F–ing Disgusting”: Michael Cohen In His Own Voice
• State of Emergency Declared in Oregon Over Bad Water
• Spain’s Rajoy forced out as Socialist rival takes over
• Thursday Potpourri: Obama’s lament, Trump’s pardon, racist candidates, and Virginia Medicaid expansion
• Kratos without Demos?
• How Do Aliens Solve Climate Change?
• Tesla in Autopilot mode crashes into California police car
• Gowdy disputes Trump’s ‘spy’ claim, says FBI acted properly
• U.S. top court rejects challenge to strict Arkansas abortion law
• America will not climb out of the anti-science hole it is jumping into
• Moderate House Republicans use Discharge Petition in defiance of Conservatives’ Anti-Immigration Policy
• Sunday topics: RFK assassination news, FBI gets info on Trump Jr. meeting, Alt-Right infects Canada
• General Data Protection Regulation And Privacy Policy
• Ireland ends abortion ban as “quiet revolution” transforms country
• Traces of opioids found in mussels in Puget Sound near Seattle
• FBI warns Russians hacked hundreds of thousands of routers
• Congress sounds bipartisan alarm as Trump deals on ZTE
• Federal Judge Rules Trump Unconstitutionally Blocked Twitter Users
• Take A Knee …
• Epic Failure: Trump cancels North Korea summit meeting – diplomacy that never was and never had a chance
• House sends bill loosening banking regulations to Trump’s desk
• Ukraine ‘paid Trump lawyer for talks’
• Michael Cohen’s Business Partner Agrees to Cooperate as Part of Plea Deal
• EPA prevents three news organizations from attending conference on water contaminants
• Flat Earthers vs #climatechange sceptics: why conspiracy theorists keep contradicting each other #auspol #qldpol #StopAdani
• High court backs companies over worker class-action claims
• Did the News Media report President Trump’s axing of the NASA Carbon Monitoring System?
• That NASA climate science program Trump axed? House lawmakers just moved to restore it
• NASA’s $10M Carbon Monitoring System Gets Shut Down By Trump Administration As CO2 Levels Rise
• NASA Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil & Gas
• Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election
• Who Is Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the Texas Shooting Suspect?
• Republican candidate for Governor in Oklahoma calls for euthanizing poor people (VIDEO)
• Senate Approves Bill to Restore Net Neutrality Rules
• Trump Administration to Tie Health Facilities’ Funding to Abortion Restrictions
• Reuben Foster’s ex: ‘Lied a lot’ about domestic violence incident
• Earth just had its 400th straight warmer-than-average month thanks to global warming
• E.U. chief: ‘With friends like Trump, who needs enemies?’
• Justice Department and F.B.I. Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica
• Analysis: Ahead of summit, North Korea lobs barbs at Bolton
• Women Score Major Victories in House Primary Races in Pennsylvania
• Asteroid will barely miss Earth today – what would happen if it did hit?
• Supreme Court makes sports betting a possibility nationwide
• U.S. opens its embassy in Jerusalem triggering death and condemnation
• The Race to Save Arctic Cities As Permafrost Melts
• In Canada, Theories Swirl With the Tide as 14th Human Foot Washes Ashore
• Memorable one-liners from Divorce Court
• On Trump Supporters
• Miami man made nearly 100 million robocalls. Now he’s paying a big price: $120 million
• A modern-day Cuban Missile Crisis probably won’t turn out so well this time
• Ohio Primary Election Results provide first statistical precursor for the 2018 Midterms
• Are conservatives more sceptical of climate change? It depends #auspol #qldpol #StopAdani
• How Common is White Nationalism In the Military?
• The U.S. Will Withdraw From Iran Nuclear Deal, Trump Tells Macron
• Poland’s Holocaust law triggers tide of abuse against Auschwitz museum
• What Europe’s Tough New Data Law Means for You, and the Internet
• This Is The Toughest Gun Law In America
• Ex-Kentucky judge sentenced to 20 years in prison for human trafficking
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• Mueller gathers evidence that 2017 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlin
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• Washington state legislators try to shield themselves from public exposure, but governor vetoes it
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• NRA honors FCC chair with rifle for repealing ‘net neutrality’
• Florida lawmakers find a bipartisan “solution” to gun violence and mass shootings
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• Rick Gates, Trump Campaign Aide, to Plead Guilty in Mueller Inquiry and Cooperate
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• Pennsylvania Republicans Plan Another Lawsuit To Fight Fix To Gerrymandering
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• U.N. ‘very high risk’ planet will warm beyond 1.5C #auspol #qldpol #StopAdani #ClimateChange
• Yesterday’s school massacre in Florida raises the question of America’s national sanity
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• Coastlines in Danger: The Rate of Global Sea Level Rise is Accelerating
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• Israeli police to recommend indicting Netanyahu over alleged bribery in two cases: media
• The nation’s top spies said Russia will attempt to undermine the 2018 midterm elections
• State launches Aetna probe after stunning admission
• Koch-backed group fights paid sick leave laws as flu sweeps US
• Trump’s ICE removed a higher number of Africans in 2017, even as overall removals fell
• Florida Keys to raise roads before climate change puts them underwater. It won’t be cheap
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• Carter Page Touted Kremlin Contacts in 2013 Letter
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• WATCH: Bernie Sanders delivers Trump State of the Union rebuttal
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• Tory minister says it’s ‘shameful’ to claim benefit cuts have driven people to suicide
• Accused Swatter Tyler Barriss Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter
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• Oxfam: 82% of Wealth Created in 2017 Went to Richest 1%
• Supreme Court Blocks Redrawing of North Carolina Congressional Maps
• EPA eases path for new chemicals, raising health fears
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• Has #MeToo gone too far? Ansari story sparks debate
• Poll: Majority says Trump’s first year in White House was a failure
• FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump
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• Nearly all members of National Park Service advisory panel resign in frustration
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• Margaret Atwood faces feminist backlash on social media over #MeToo
• Millions more Americans were uninsured in 2017
• Retiring GOP Senator Jeff Flake to give speech equating Trump to despots like Stalin
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• Trump vs. Trump, again: Judge cites presidential tweets as he blocks DACA phaseout
• Trump administration bars oil drilling off Florida after governor’s plea
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Rejects Trump’s Plan to Bolster Coal & Nuclear Plans
• U.S. rivers getting saltier, drinking water at risk: study
• As ‘Fire and Fury’ is published, Europe openly debates: ‘Is Trump still sane?’
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• The vicious Cycle of Tribalism
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• Questions Arise About Swatting Prank That Ends In Death
• Advocates celebrate ‘huge win’ against Trump’s transgender military ban
• US coal mining deaths surge in 2017 after hitting record low
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• Miami residents fear ‘climate gentrification’ as investors seek higher ground
• Trump Justice Department Pushes for Citizenship Question on Census, Alarming Experts
• Judge bans Arizona from enforcing “racist” education law
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• Pew Research Center survey shows declining role of religion in Christmas celebrations
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• US lawmakers are redistributing income from the poor to the rich, according to massive new study
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• Single-payer health care bill passes California Senate, heads to Assembly
• As Trump pulls U.S. out of Paris Climate Accords, ominous changes in Arctic, Antarctic are observed
• This sports metaphor reveals why our social institutions are so corrupt
• Is the United States Heading Towards Tyranny?
• Marjorie Cohn: The Meaning of Assange’s Persecution
• A monumental Fall from Grace
• Merkel warns US, Britain no longer reliable partners
• ‘Final act of bravery’: Men who were fatally stabbed trying to stop anti-Muslim rants identified
• Planting trees will not slow global warming
• The Economics of 7.5 Billion People On One Planet
• So much water pulsed through a melting glacier that it warped the Earth’s crust
• The Basketball Player versus The Dictator
• Analysis | Five startling things Betsy DeVos just told Congress
• CBO on GOP healthcare bill: 23 million more uninsured, 850% higher premiums for the elderly and poor
• Trump Defines New Low Social Norms
• Analysis | Trump to poor Americans: Get to work or lose your benefits
• New study finds the oceans are rising three times faster than they were during the 20th century
• Wikipedia can pursue NSA surveillance lawsuit: U.S. appeals court
• U.S. top court tosses Republican-drawn North Carolina voting districts
• Source says Flynn to invoke 5th Amendment
• Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts
• Assange says ready to talk to UK and US after Sweden case dropped
• Amid Trump Turmoil, Some Begin Eyeing Mike Pence
• Conning the Con Man
• Is It Time to Bring Down Civilization?
• NSA officials worried about the day its potent hacking tool would get loose. Then it did.
• Great White Shark v Killer Whale: The two deadliest sea titans are now waging war on each other
• ‘We Have to Repudiate It’: A City Confronts White Nationalist Protests
• Quote of the Day: There really is something very wrong with this picture
• Divided, we fall: Two current examples of how Cultural Polarization is disuniting Humanity
• Trump’s megalomania is running amok, and it will eventually destroy him
• Deja vu as softer South Korean leader could alienate ally US
• In Wisconsin, ID law proved insurmountable for many voters
• AP Analysis: Trump thrusts US presidency into perilous area
• The Human Ecological Predicament: Wages of Self-Delusion | MAHB
• MIDDLE-AGED WHITE AMERICAN MEN WITH HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION ARE DYING FROM DESPAIR
• Reaching Objectivity: Can we Humans ever attain it?
• Cognitive dissonance: Trump cheers House healthcare repeal bill while praising Australia’s universal system
• Stephen Hawking: Humans have 100 years to find a new planet
• White supremacist activity on the rise on college campuses
• Trump to sign executive order to ‘protect and vigorously promote religious liberty’
• Moving Away From the Pro-Growth Economy | MAHB
• India to Fight Airpocalypse by Making Every Car Electric by 2030
• The Robert Kennedy Assassination: Why the Official Story is a Fake
• 9 Ways to Spot a Sociopath
• 4,000 Canadian families will soon get paid by Ontario for doing nothing
• People Are Seeing U.F.O.s Everywhere, and This Book Proves It
• The Arctic is melting — and South Florida faces more flooding
• The Vulture Stone at Gobekli Tepe – A monument to a cosmic disaster.
• Quote of the Day: A Mea Culpa from the Political Left
• For Democrats, even a rampaging megalomaniac like Trump won’t bring them together
• Anti-establishment fervor dominates 1st round of French presidential election
• Shocking Exposé Reveals Trump Associates & ISIS-Linked Vigilantes Are Attempting Coup in Indonesia
• Dow Chemical urges Trump administration to kill risk study
• Fox News Channel dismisses O’Reilly, its biggest star
• Mother of All Bombs
• I’m a Creationist
• Saturn’s moon Enceladus holds ‘food source’ for potential life
• Quote of the Day: Nah, Right-Wingers aren’t crazy, they’re perfectly normal
• The Trump Administration Lost Again in Court, This Time on Voter ID
• Earth’s melting permafrost threatens to unleash a dangerous climate feedback loop
• Challenging our notions of What Is: Book review of “On the Problem of Good”
• Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte: DHS, Twitter go mum over anti-Trump speech lawsuit
• How do you stop fake news? In Germany, with a law.
• Delusions of Grandeur: Hillary Clinton on why she lost to Trump
• The government is demanding to know who this Trump critic is. Twitter is suing to keep it a secret.
• With ‘nuclear option,’ Senate ends Democratic blockade of Trump court pick
• Appeals Court Rules Civil Rights Law Bans LGBT Job Discrimination
• Thanks Capitalism! | Democratic Socialists of America
• When veterans become cops, some bring war home
• A Pearl of Great Price: book review of “Things I Never Learned in Sunday School”
• The Fires of History Yet Rage — Climate Change and the Authoritarian Assault on Liberal Democracy
• Sanders defends Trump voters: I don’t think they’re racists, sexists or homophobes
• Disabled or just desperate? Rural Americans turn to disability as jobs dry up
• A Halo of Storms and Heatwaves — New Study Confirms that Global Warming is Wrecking the Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream
• North Carolina reached a “repeal” deal for its anti-LGBTQ law. Except it’s not a real repeal.
• Climate change-driven famine poses global security threat
• Felony charges for 2 who secretly filmed Planned Parenthood
• House sends bill to Trump blocking online privacy regulation
• Monday morning rant: Self-driving cars, and the battle between Sloths and Control Freaks
• These haunting photos of the retail apocalypse reveal a new normal in America
• House Republican leaders abruptly pull their rewrite of the nation’s health-care law
• How Broadcast Networks Covered Climate Change In 2016
• Church and State: Are there Limits to Loyalty?
• Saudi Arabia in the news: 9/11 Families file Lawsuit, and its Oil Dominance is Slipping
• Who’s happy, who’s not: Norway tops list, US falls
• The Glowing Waters of the Arabian Sea are Killing off Ocean Life
• The Dance of Death #climatechange #neoliberalism #auspol 
• Healthcare or Wealthcare? 24 Million to Lose Insurance Under GOP Plan While Rich Get Big Tax Breaks
• Ottawa Vibrator Company That Tracked Your Jerking Habits Will Pay $3.75 Million Settlement
• Facts Are Enemies of the People (by Paul Krugman)
• Metaphysical Musings for a Saturday afternoon
• Federal judges find Texas gerrymandered maps on racial lines (and why this ruling is ineffectual)
• Australia’s ‘extreme’ summer a sign of things to come – researchers
• UN: South Africa’s ICC withdrawal revoked after court ruling
• How Africa developed Europe
• White supremacists step up recruiting on college campuses, group says
• Supreme Court: Racism can upend jury verdicts
• Thousands of ICE detainees claim they were forced into labor, a violation of anti-slavery laws
• Desperate herders lose animals, hope amid drought in Kenya
• The Difficulty with Difficult People
• Colorectal cancer rates rising sharply among Gen X and Millennials
• Antarctic Sea Ice Hits New All-Time Record Low
• Justice Department to Reverse Obama’s Hands-Off Policy on Marijuana
• Days After Pruitt Becomes EPA Head, Newly Released Emails Show His Ties to Koch Bros. & Energy Firms
• A huge Antarctic glacier just lost another chunk of ice — and we know because of NASA
• A Mini Lesson on the Essential Difference Between Socialism and Capitalism
• Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050
• Global Arms Sales Reach Post Cold War Peak
• European leaders warn of War #climatechange #auspol 
• Tele Sur TV: European Parliament Approves Massive ‘Undemocratic’ Trade Deal
• On Relationships: The importance of Respecting Boundaries
• Glenn Greenwald discusses the “Deep State,” its feud with Trump, and Democrats’ hypocrisy on leaks
• Storm headed to Oroville Dam area carries 10 inches of rain, revised forecast warns
• Officials were warned the Oroville Dam emergency spillway wasn’t safe. They didn’t listen.
• Personality Profile: Do you know someone like this?
• TPP is Not Dead: It’s Now Called the Trade In Services Agreement (TISA)
• Raids across the US leave immigrant communities and activists on high alert
• Thought of the Day: Dropping the Hammer
• Claims of ‘Homosexual Agenda’ Help Kill Hate Crimes Laws in 5 States
• Ajit Pai Rolls Back Net Neutrality & Consumer Protections
• The EPA Has Started to Remove Obama-era Information
• Europe increasingly sees Trump’s America as its biggest threat
• Quotes of the Day: On our rapidly declining Attention Spans
• Report: FBI Finds White Supremacists Infiltrated Law Enforcement Agencies
• Trump issues Executive Order to arbitrarily cut Federal Government Regulations
• World blasts Trump’s refugee move, although some cheer it
• American Fascism 2017
• Trump Chief Strategist Says Media Should “Keep Its Mouth Shut”
• Quote of the Day: On President Trump’s media blackout order for the EPA
• 2016 warmest on record. #science #climatechange #auspol 
• Human Rights Group Portrays U.S. as Major Threat, Citing Trump
• “Our” Deep State
• Massive Iceberg About to Break Off Antarctica
• Spread by trade and climate, bugs butcher America’s forests
• Democracy in North Carolina
• On Contact: a New McCarthyism with Ellen Schrecker | RT America
• North Carolina is no longer a democracy: report
• Nuclear weapon firms pay to settle illegal lobbying cases
• Texas to cut Planned Parenthood from Medicaid
• The extinction crisis is far worse than you think
• What You Need to Know About Authoritarianism
• Dylann Roof convicted of all counts in church slaughter
• Oklahoma court strikes down abortion restriction as unconstitutional
• Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump
• Trump Picks ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State
• $5 Trillion in Investments Now Pledged to Be Divested from Fossil Fuels
• Methane surge threatens climate goals! #auspol 
• The longest ongoing conflicts in the world
• The Golden Arches Theory of Decline #auspol 
• Canada reaches carbon agreement with provinces
• Like Trump, Europe’s Populists Win Big With Rural Voters
• How Did We Get Here?
• One By One, the Flood Gates of Antarctica are Breaking Open
• The Princes of the Yen
• North Carolina governor race shows why Hillary Clinton was such a poor presidential candidate
• Cornel West: Unlike Bernie Sanders, I’m Not Convinced the Democratic Party Can Be Reformed
• Rise in charter schools linked to draining resources in public schools
• Congress allows rule permitting mass hacking by government to take effect
• Scientists have long feared this ‘feedback’ to the climate system. Now they say it’s happening – Washington Post
• World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Unveiled In India
• Far-Right Terrorist Guilty of Killing U.K. Lawmaker
• Japan PM says TPP meaningless without US as Trump nixes pact
• “Unconstitutional gerrymander”: Federal court strikes down Wisconsin’s GOP-drawn redistricting
• How the Iranian-Saudi Proxy Struggle Tore Apart the Middle East
• In America, the rich outlive the poor by up to 9.5 years, study says
• Finally, A Chance to Remake the Democratic Party
• Europe and The Donald
• 2016 will be the hottest year on record, UN says
• Smugness
• Seething liberals vow revolution in Democratic Party
• Revenge of the Forgotten Class
• The Guardian: It was the rise of the Davos class that sealed America’s fate
• Glenn Greenwald: Why Did Trump Win? Blame the Failed Policies of the Democratic Party
• Hey Dems, don’t say we didn’t warn you because we did
• Lost Cause – Seeing America Through the Losing Candidates’ Map
• This is Voting in 2016: Armed Intimidation Squads, Purged Rolls, 868 Fewer Polling Stations
• Standing on Pedestals: The 2016 Election highlights America’s great fall
• Bridgegate case verdict: Former officials guilty on all counts
• Voters disgusted by state of American politics: Poll
• The ocean is losing its breath – and climate change is making it worse #auspol
• ‘Brexit’ Will Require a Vote in Parliament, U.K. Court Rules
• The Democrats’ Bad Map
• Doubts About the Promised Bounty of Genetically Modified Crops
• Withering Peas: An Unwanted Romance
• Summer in October: Record Heat in Central, Southern U.S.
• ‘Off the charts unbelievable’: Will acquittal of Oregon refuge occupiers embolden extremists, militias?
• World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns #auspol
• Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is officially charged with criminal contempt in racial profiling case
• AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal
• The U.S. Job Recovery Is a Global Laggard
• The AT&T-Time Warner deal would be a disaster for the public interest
• Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
• The internet is still actually controlled by 14 people who hold 7 secret keys
• In Warmest Year Ever, Climate Change Ignored Again at Debate
• Mexican Judge Involved in High-Profile Drug Cases Murdered
• Police Association Apologizes for “Historical Mistreatment of Communities of Color”
• September 2016 hottest on record: NASA
• Millions of Men Are Missing From the Job Market
• Caught in a Storm Surge
• ‘It will be a bloodbath’: Inside the Kansas militia plot to ignite a religious war
• After all-night negotiations, global deal reached to limit powerful greenhouse gases
• Convene world conference on abolition of tax havens, human rights expert urges the GA and next UN Secretary-General
• Court Blasts CFPB, Says Director Has Too Much Power
• A Lesson in Corporatism: Government collusion revealed in recent Airline Industry consolidation
• Real Life in a Song: Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car”
• Amid Media Blackout over Climate Change Links to Hurricane Matthew, Top Scientist Speaks Out
• Oklahoma Supreme Court strikes down restrictive abortion law
• Former Employees Say Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For US Intelligence
• Justin Trudeau gives provinces until 2018 to adopt carbon price plan
• Wells Fargo whistleblower says she flagged fraud years ago
• Alabama Judge Roy Moore was removed from the bench for not issuing gay marriage licenses
• Senate Set to Override Veto on Bill Allowing 9/11 Suits Against Saudi Arabia
• Deal-making and dirty tricks: inside the race for UN secretary general
• Warplanes pound Syria’s Aleppo, U.N. security council to meet
• Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn survives Labour Party leadership challenge
• Education Department Strips Authority of Largest For-Profit Accreditor
• Yahoo confirms data breach affecting at least 500 million accounts
• Ex-Cuomo aide, eight others charged in New York corruption case
• EpiPen maker’s CEO takes bipartisan beating
• Quote of the Day: Senator Elizabeth Warren smacks-down Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf
• Two-Party Tyranny: Ralph Nader on Exclusion of Third-Party Candidates from First Presidential Debate
• Berlin Election Deals Angela Merkel’s Party Another Blow
• Russia Says Syria’s Ceasefire Under Threat After U.S. Airstrikes
• ‘The Sixth Extinction’ now afflicting our oceans is an unfolding story told by two previous mass extinctions
• Warren Wants FBI Transparency About Financial Crisis
• “Much more than periodic voting” – UN Independent Expert calls for more direct democracy worldwide
• Climate change ‘significant and direct’ threat to U.S. military: reports
• Centrist Democrats Team Up with Corporate Lobby to Undermine Overtime Rule
• We, the Plutocrats vs. We, the People: Saving the Soul of Democracy
• In Connecticut, a Wealth Gap Divides Neighboring Schools
• Wells Fargo Exec Who Headed Phony Accounts Unit Collected $125 Million
• California and EPA Poised to Expand Pollution of Potential Drinking Water Reserves
• ‘Mortified’: Inside a $10 million scheme to steal federal funds intended to feed hungry children
• Appeals court blocks Kansas, Alabama and Georgia voter ID rules
• Stat of the Day: Post-9/11 wars cost U.S. Taxpayers $4.79 trillion
• Wells Fargo Fined $185 Million for Creating Phony Accounts and Credit Cards
• ‘Bridgegate’ co-conspirators can remain secret: US appeals court
• Supreme Court Shuts Down Michigan’s Push To Eliminate ‘Straight-Ticket’ Voting
• Fading College Dream Saps U.S. Economy of Productivity Miracle
• Police probing mysterious death of Ferguson protests leader
• Oklahoma Officials Order Fracking Disposal Wells Closed After Earthquake
• The stunning geographic divide in American creativity
• Oil Pipeline Protest Turns Violent in North Dakota
• Married couples more politically split this election, thanks to Donald Trump
• Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun
• Natural Gas Emissions to Surpass Those of Coal in 2016
• Just a song…
• FDA bans antibacterial soaps because they’re not better, cleaner, or safer than regular soap
• In Post-Olympics Brazil, a Political Coup is No Game
• Gov. Jerry Brown, state lawmakers reach last-minute deal on spending cap-and-trade revenues
• Part IV of BuzzFeed’s investigative Free Trade series
• Part III of BuzzFeed’s investigative Free Trade series, plus critique of President Obama’s TPP push
• The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age
• New economic studies verify our 5-year old report about the cause of Middle Class decline
• Apple Ordered to Pay $14.5 Billion in Back Taxes
• Part II of BuzzFeed’s investigative Free Trade series, plus TTIP negotiations update
• BuzzFeed begins Investigative Series on the global corruption of Free Trade
• GM quest for cheaper air bag led to Takata and a deadly crisis
• EpiPens cost just several dollars to make. Customers pay more than $600 for them
• Germany may warn public to stockpile food and water in case of attack: Report
• Gov. Jerry Brown to sign sweeping new climate legislation
• Scientists are linking chemicals produced in the 1970s to increased autism today—not vaccines
• CEO Of Giant Corporation Tells US Government He’s The Boss Of Them
• Retribution as State Policy
• Deutsche Bank Whistle-Blower Spurns $8 Million SEC Reward
• Court’s Ruling in Wisconsin Seen as Victory for Voting Rights
• The NSA hack proves Apple was right to fight the FBI
• Judge in Texas temporarily blocks Obama’s transgender rules
• The worst is coming, folks, I’m sorry to say
• Sunday Questions
• Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka: CNN Town Hall
• President Obama’s last-ditch effort to pass TPP puts Hillary Clinton under the microscope
• Judge Seeks Criminal Contempt Charges Against Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
• “Where to Invade Next” by Michael Moore Is Genius | The Progressive Direction
• Justice Department Plans to Stop Using Private Prisons
• The wealthy have nearly healed from recession. The poor haven’t even started.
• Pennsylvania AG resigns after perjury conviction
• America’s First Offshore Wind Farm Is Nearly Ready
• The Earth Just Experienced the Hottest Month on the Books. Period
• The Conflicted Puppeteer
• “Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart”: NYT Examines Region Since 2003 (VIDEO)
• Trump The Con Man
• Controversial California Water Tunnel Project highlights the Worsening Crisis in the U.S. Southwest
• Image of the Day: Confederate Flag displayed at Donald Trump Rally
• EPA’s science advisers challenge agency report on the safety of fracking
• Court: NC legislature districts violate constitution
• Turkish jets attack PKK in northern Iraq after attacks
• High risk of modern slavery in nearly 60 percent of countries, global index finds
• Appeals Court Prevents Voting Without ID in Wisconsin
• Chris Christie Aide Says Governor ‘Flat Out Lied’ About Bridgegate
• Holy conspiracy, Batman! – the DNC email leak just took a turn for the worse
• Judge orders Glenn Beck to reveal sources for story linking innocent man to Boston Marathon bombing
• U.S. death rate in pregnancy, childbirth raises “great concern”
• Humans have shorter attention span than goldfish, thanks to smartphones
• Dancing with an Imperial Walker
• First Evidence Surfaces of Foreign Money Pouring into U.S. Elections After Citizens United
• Update on Carbon Tax efforts along the West Coast
• New federal charges accuse ex-Sheriff Lee Baca of obstructing justice, lying to authorities
• Why we still fight
• A.N.C. Suffers Major Election Setback in South Africa
• Trump plummets in the Polls as Third-Party support surges
• CNN schedules Green Party forum for Aug. 17
• “When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers”: How Private Equity Profits off Our Daily Lives
• Hillary wants to put TPP in her ‘rear-view mirror,’ but free trade proponents won’t let her
• Silicon Valley Republican Meg Whitman endorses Clinton, calls Trump an ‘authoritarian’ threat to nation
• Judge cuts nearly all of $562-million penalty against PG&E in 2010 Bay Area pipeline blast
• Why the Government is Getting Fed Up with Wall Street All Over Again
• Backlash in Kansas ousts at least 11 conservative lawmakers
• Other News: ND Voter ID law blocked, MA Equal Pay bill advances, Progressive measures on ballot
• Election News: 1st GOP Congressman to vote for Hillary, Bloomberg double-dip, Jill Stein VP pick
• Trade deal’s supporters counterattack
• Pacific Northwest Weighs Response to Risks Posed by Oil Trains
• Egg-head vs Slope-head, and the War on Science (VIDEO)
• The list of Republicans supporting Hillary Clinton keeps growing
• NOAA: mass die-off at marine sanctuary off Louisiana, Texas
• Critics See Efforts by Counties and Towns to Purge Minority Voters From Rolls
• Why Rates Of This Colorectal Cancer Are Rising In Young People
• USDA confirms unapproved GMO wheat found in Washington state
• Courts Crush Voter Suppression Just in Time for Election Day
• More Friday Headlines…
• Weak Spending by Businesses Hinders 2nd-Quarter Growth
• Hillary Clinton and the Choice (commentary on her acceptance speech)
• World’s largest carbon producers face landmark human rights case
• Finding Comic Relief among the 2016 Election Debris
• Last charges dropped in case over Planned Parenthood videos
• State AGs Shut Down ‘GOP Extremist’ Attempt To Block Big Oil Fraud Probe
• Clinton friend McAuliffe says Clinton will flip on TPP, then walks it back
• Stat of the Day: Kuwait hits 54 °C (129.2 °F), possibly highest temp recorded in Eastern Hemisphere
• Texas, facing a lawsuit, makes it easier for U.S.-born children of immigrants to get birth certificates
• The Other Philadelphia: Inside the People’s Fight Against Gentrification & Privatized Education
• More on the Dem Convention: Assange interview, Hillary’s running mate, Anti-Fracking protest
• No Cheesesteaks for Dems in Philly today
• Quote of the Day: From Ohio Attorney sentenced to jail for wearing Black Lives Matter pin in court
• The Sick Donkey of American Politics
• FCC selects Swedish firm to run sensitive national database routing phone calls
• Judicial News: Virginia strikes down restoration of Voting Rights, Alaska invalidates Parental Notification
• Emails Released by WikiLeaks Appear to Show DNC Trying to Aid Hillary Clinton
• News roundup: Trump’s Speech, Hillary’s V.P., Holder’s Move, and Ailes’ Exit
• NBA moving All-Star Game out of Charlotte (North Carolina), cites anti-LGBT law
• The Gay Republican: Living Life in the Crossroads
• U.S. appeals court finds Texas voter ID law discriminatory
• Laboratories of Democracy (HBO) | Real Time with Bill Maher
• Wisconsin Residents Can Vote Without a Photo ID in November
• Police in Cleveland, Dallas, and Milwaukee push back against ‘open-carry’ gun laws
• Turkey widens post-coup purge, demands US hand over cleric
• 1984 Mock Trial: A humorous, yet critical look at Police State tactics in the U.S.
• How the CIA Hoodwinked Hollywood
• Why We Don’t Know Who’s Funding the Republican Convention
• Wearing the President’s shoes
• A brief message to my friends in the Atheist community
• Federal appeals court rejects Navy sonar-use rules
• The Games Politicians Play: Secret 28 Pages of 9/11 Document finally released, redacted of course
• U.S. Finds Itself on Shakier Ground as Erdogan Confronts Mutiny
• BREAKING NEWS: A Military Coup is underway in Turkey
• Empathy Alone Won’t Stop Police Killings
• Christie ally David Samson pleads guilty in United probe
• In Advanced Economies, Two-Thirds of Population Have Seen Incomes Stagnate, Study Shows
• Obama’s trade agenda losing critical support as McConnell calls TPP passage unlikely
• Centrist Dems wary of public option push
• Paul Ryan says TPP won’t pass this year, plus other news of the day
• Human Population Cycle
• Real Life is not a Script: The Dangerous Irresponsibility of America’s Political Establishment
• Three Countries Issue Travel Warnings About Visiting The U.S.
• America in Turmoil: How its Bloody Past might shape its Dim Future
• If those in power can evade justice, there is no justice
• Media coverage: LuxLeaks trial: UN human rights expert deplores conviction of tax whistleblowers
• News Links: FBI investigating Atlanta lynching, another Honduras activist killed, hottest June on record
• Free Trade tops contentious issues in Democratic Party platform process between Clinton, Sanders
• Editorial Notice: This blog is reducing its coverage of police-related violence
• Epigram for August
• Corruption at work in Congress as protesters shower money onto Senate floor against GMO bill
• Bornean orangutan declared ‘critically endangered’ as forests shrink
• Hillary Clinton Booed by Teachers over Charter School Comment
• As Glaciers Melt in Alaska, Landslides Follow
• The Guardian identifies 14 key points from the scathing Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War
• Trump’s anti-trade rhetoric rattles the campaign message of Clinton and unions
• Post Holiday Roundup: Algae Bloom, Clean Coal failure, UKIP Leader quits, CIA exposed, Court rulings
• ‘Welcome To Hell’: Rio Police Warn They Can’t Promise Olympic Protection
• Dropping God’s Bombs
• How Polarized U.S. Politics Are Driving Neighbors Apart
• Inconclusive election result leaves Australian government in limbo
• Irreconcilable Differences: How the Dems’ Clinton/Sanders split looks like a messy divorce
• Hillary’s Centrism: Who needs the Left, anyway?
• Dear Tony Blair: It’s Not the Pitch, It’s the Product.
• In the News: Boris bows out, Congress passes Puerto Rico debt bill, futurist author Alvin Toffler dies
• C-SPAN Videos explain the history of America’s dominant Oil Industry and its rabid Gun Culture
• Mayor de Blasio signs law to make public single-occupancy bathrooms gender neutral
• The Woody Harrelson Video Message the Mainstream Media Does NOT Want You To Watch
• Question of the Day: For Millennials
• Stephen Hawking says pollution and ‘stupidity’ still biggest threats to mankind
• Oakland Votes to Block Large Shipments of Coal
• Clinton Campaign duplicity exposed in process to change the Democratic Party Platform
• Sanders: Wins and Losses in effort to make the Democratic Party platform more progressive
• White Nationalists clash with Counter Protesters in California, 10 people hurt
• Big SCOTUS News: Abortion Law struck down, Gun Control upheld, Corruption Conviction overturned
• Finding the Shiniest Turd: Why the U.S. Electoral Map will change in 2016
• Quote of the Day: Bernie Sanders blasts The Establishment
• Time Warner Cable, Charter Routinely Overcharged Customers, Senate Report Finds
• Hawaii becomes first U.S. state to place gun owners on FBI database
• U.K. Prime Minister to resign, plus in-depth analysis of “Brexit”
• Vote still too close to call, but U.K. “Brexit” election appears to favor leaving the E.U.
• Baltimore Police Officer Goodson Acquitted of All Charges
• Supreme Court deadlocks, thwarting Obama’s immigration actions
• U.S. Supreme Court upholds race-based college admissions program
• The Tax Debate Is Over, and Progressives Won
• After Decades of Protest, Last California Nuclear Plant to Close & Be Replaced by Renewable Energy
• Tennessee Congressional Hopeful Posts ‘Make America White Again’ Board
• New poll of Sanders voters justifies centrist course for Clinton
• Pennsylvania Democrat Chaka Fattah Found Guilty
• Reactions express outrage to Political Inaction on Gun Control, and some brutally honest commentary
• No Surprise, U.S. Senate rejects Gun Control bills despite broad public support for such measures
• Congressional Black Caucus opposes Primary Election reforms (and other astounding Political News)
• In the Birthplace of U.S. Oil, Methane Gas Is Leaking Everywhere
• Sunday Morning Musings: The Kamikaze Crow
• New York becomes 17th U.S. state to call for a Constitutional Amendment to overturn Citizens United
• An Egyptian court just sentenced 2 Al-Jazeera journalists to death
• Gun Control and the Second Amendment: A Closer Look – YouTube
• Quote of the Day: Hate begets hate, and why the Orlando Shooter is like all the rest
• Suspected killer of British lawmaker had ties to neo-Nazi group, watchdog says
• Bathroom laws
• Healthcare company announces plans to leave Kansas, eviscerates Gov. Sam Brownback in open letter
• U.S. Congress again considers Gun Control, but will this time be any different?
• America’s sick Gun Culture is ultimately responsible for the Orlando Shootings
• Images show cause of Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching, 1st extinction due entirely to Climate Change
• Mass Shootings in the USA are not news, it’s a chosen way of life
• Rumblings from the Cheap Seats: Where goes the Progressive Left?
• A Solution Or Another Modest Proposal
• 10th Circuit: Kansas Can’t Block Voters From Casting Ballots
• Jury Convicts Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard On 12 Felony Ethics Charges
• Democrats Will Learn All the Wrong Lessons From Brush With Bernie
• Oklahoma has started using device that can take money out of your bank account and off credit cards
• Ruling on concealed weapons spotlights California’s key role in gun debate
• Fresh Analysis of the new American electorate puts the 2016 Election into clearer focus
• The Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare
• Quotes of the Day: Gloomy World Bank economic forecast, Dolly Parton on NC ‘bathroom’ law
• Hillary makes history, all other presidential candidates woo Sanders supporters
• NASA climate research scientist Tiffany A. Moisan found dead in Princess Anne, Maryland
• Peru Election Hangs in Balance as Kuczynski’s Lead Narrows
• FBI wants access to Internet browser history without a warrant in terrorism and spy cases
• NATO begins largest War Game in eastern Europe since the Cold War
• Puerto Rico primary election update
• NY Gov. Cuomo Signs “McCarthyist” Bill to Divest from Groups Aligned with Israel Boycott Movement
• The day White America cheered for a Black Man (who fought Muhammad Ali)
• 2016 Primary Elections Voter Turnout: Very Weak and Still Declining
• Trump, Ryan, Rove, Hillary, and Bernie – Friday Political News Headlines (that will surely sicken you)
• “I Refuse to Support U.S. Armed Drone Policy”: Army Chaplain Reads Resignation Letter to Obama
• The Demise of Public Education in America highlights the problem with Political Pragmatism
• Frack California!
• TTIP – arbitration courts – an assault on democracy and the state of law
• Report: Gitmo Tribunal Judge “Conspired” with Prosecution to Destroy Evidence
• Death rate in the US climbs for the first time in a decade
• Simulated Global Temperature Change–Updated
• Sunday Morning Musings: The heart and consequences of the Clinton vs Sanders divide
• Great Barrier Reef: UN report lead author ‘shocked’ all Australian references removed
• NOTICE: The Secular Jurist blog is on hiatus
• Stat of the Day: City hits highest temperature ever recorded in India
• Season of the Quail: Falling in Line with Party Leadership – the 2016 Election Campaign moves forward
• Hamburg Judge Enjoins Comedian From Reading Poem About Turkish President (attack on free speech)
• Key Hothouse Gas to Rise at Record Rate, Hit Near 408 Parts Per Million in 2016
• Primary Elections update: It might be 1968 all over again for the Democratic Party
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• Quote of the Day: Retired House Speaker John Boehner rips into Ted Cruz
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• California Appeals Court Reverses Decision to Overturn Teacher Tenure Rules
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• Another Republican brazenly admits Voter Id and other Restrictions are designed to Impact Elections
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• Serbia radical Vojislav Seselj acquitted of Balkan war crimes
• US Businesses Join Backlash Against ‘Anti-LGBT’ Law in NC
• Trump campaign manager charged with simple battery
• U.S. jury finds General Motors ignition switch was defective
• As Detroit schools went broke, principals allegedly took nearly $1 million in bribes and kickbacks
• FBI drops case against Apple in iPhone dispute
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• Why more students are leaving the U.S. for college
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• News of the week: Wall Street crook goes free, CA fines for-profit college, UN genocide verdict
• Florida Governor Signs Law to Cut Funding for Abortion Clinics
• Kevin Turner, N.F.L. Player Who Later Fought the League, Dies at 46
• Chief Justice John Roberts confirms “unfortunate impression” of Judicial System as highly partisan
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• Judicial update: Class Action case against Corporation upheld, challenge to Gun Control law rejected
• Primary Elections update: Bernie bounces back, Trump extends lead, voting problems in Arizona
• Where the Presidential Candidates stand on Israel (and why this is important)
• All Star Science Panel Drops Bombshell Climate Paper
• What Republicans [and Dems like Bill Clinton] did 15 years ago to help create Donald Trump today
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• The undemocratic Democratic Party: Why I can’t vote in this year’s Presidential Primary
• Where Merrick Garland Stands: A Close Look at His Judicial Record
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• Charter Schools Suspend Black and Disabled Students More, Study Says
• Dreamers of the Golden Dream – Does California have the blueprint to fix global warming?
• Presidential front-runners roll on, Trump says there will be ‘riots’ if he’s denied the GOP nomination
• NFL Finally Admits There’s A Link Between Football Injuries And CTE
• Explaining the issue of Trade in plain language
• February breaks global temperature records by ‘shocking’ amount
• A brief comment on yesterday’s violence at the Donald Trump rally in Chicago
• Riskiest Political Act of 2016? Protesting at Rallies for Donald Trump
• ‘It’s madness’: Louisiana grapples with worst budget crisis in a generation
• Why the issue of Trade is so important, and how I failed my country
• Florida mayors beg debate moderators to discuss sea level rise. Local scientists fear mass exodus.
• More Establishment woes: Bernie’s upset win in Michigan, and GOP begrudgingly adopts Cruz
• The Absurd Logic Behind Florida’s Docs vs. Glocks Law
• U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Lesbian Mom Denied Adoption Rights In Alabama
• Presidential Campaigns shift to the Rust Belt, the problem of Free Trade, and the Fortunes of Populism
• Rising Populism around the world is unnerving the Global Elites
• Alabama Sup. Court concedes on Gay Marriage, U.S. Sup. Court blocks Louisiana anti-abortion law
• Global Climate Emergency declared by Scientists at Columbia University Earth Institute
• Witnessing History: The Tumultuous State of American Politics
• Honduras Indigenous Rights Activist Berta Caceres Assassinated (Video & Petition)
• Greenland’s ice melt accelerating as surface darkens, raising sea levels
• The Bully and The Beast: U.S. flexes its military muscles against China in the South China Sea
• New study: The scary difference between non-college educated white Republicans—and the educated
• Anti-Trump Republicans Call for a Third-Party Option
• Quote of the Day: The Republican Party is now synonymous with White Supremacy
• Syria’s Drought Has Likely Been Its Worst in 900 Years
• Texas’ Guns on Campus law: Unintended Consequences or Deliberate Subterfuge?
• After Super Tuesday primaries, this is how the 2016 Presidential Election is shaping up
• This Case reveals why it is Politics, and not Ethics, which determine Judicial outcomes
• Will Democrats run their best candidate against Republicans in November?
• Samantha Bee lets smug liberals have it: “If you didn’t vote in 2010, you built” Trump and Tea Party
• Quote of the Day: When Journalists rebel against the Corporate News Media
• DNC Vice Chair resigns to support Bernie Sanders over concerns about Hillary Clinton’s warmongering
• Racial feud erupts as Republicans fight ‘unstoppable’ Trump
• Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant declares April ‘Confederate Heritage Month’
• Chicago State University sends layoff notices to all employees amid Illinois budget battle
• Protest planned after Salt Lake City police shoot teen
• International Elections: Reformists/Moderates win big in Iran, Centrist Establishment loses in Ireland
• Democrats’ Achilles heel: 2016 Primaries show Low Voter Turnout among the Left
• Prosecutors halt vast, likely illegal DEA wiretap operation
• European Parliament Calls For Arms Embargo On Saudi Arabia Over Yemen War
• Gunman kills three in Kansas workplace, shot to death by police
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• Louisiana Court Order May Shut All But One Abortion Clinic
• Texas academics told to avoid ‘sensitive topics’ if gun law goes into effect
• Apple Faces U.S. Demand to Unlock 9 More iPhones
• Disillusionment with the Royal Democratic Party
• Tyranny of the Majority, Judicial Obstructionism, and an eloquent Lesson in Democracy
• Julian Assange Prays for Oil Prices to Recover
• The U.S. States Where Recession Is Already a Reality
• John Kasich Signed a Bill Defunding Ohio’s Planned Parenthood
• US, Russia announce Syria ceasefire set for Feb 27
• Thought of the Day: Educating the News Media
• Oregon Lawmakers Approve Landmark Minimum Wage Increase
• VimpelCom pays $835m to US and Dutch over Uzbekistan telecoms bribes
• US airstrikes target Islamic State militants in Libya
• Global Recession: A Real and Present Danger?
• Abortion ban linked to dangerous miscarriages at Catholic hospital, report claims
• What happened to the Black Panther Party? Independent Lens documentary tells the shocking story
• The Parmesan cheese you sprinkle on your pasta could be wood
• Apple challenges ‘chilling’ demand to decrypt San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone
• The year of ‘enormous rage’: Number of hate groups rose by 14 percent in 2015
• Which Presidential Debate Moderator asked this question on the Plight of White People?
• Campaigns secretly prep for brokered GOP convention
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• Saudi Arabia, Russia to Freeze Oil Output Near Record Levels
• Trip to Baidoa, Somalia
• Quote of the Day: On the Insane Nastiness of the 9th Republican Presidential Debate
• Turkey shells Kurdish positions in Syria for 2nd day
• Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia dies, direction of U.S. Supreme Court up in the air
• 15 Satirical Cartoons That Speak Volumes About The Human Race
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• Disparity in Life Spans of the Rich and the Poor Is Growing
• Contrasting styles and goals in 6th Democratic Party presidential debate, with zingers and low blows
• Another bad day for Global Markets as Commodity Prices, Consumer Demand drop further
• Government sues Ferguson after city tries to revise deal
• Solar Power runs into political roadblock in America, the Republican Party’s allegiance to Fossil Fuels
• Einstein’s gravitational waves detected in scientific milestone
• Supreme Court blocks Obama carbon emissions plan
• Populist Candidates rout Establishment Opposition in New Hampshire Primary
• Chris Christie just privatized New Jersey’s water. Good luck with that, New Jersey
• John Paul Jones and Black Lives Matter
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• 40,000 starving to death as S.Sudan teeters on famine: UN
• Another incident at New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant, tritium water contamination leak
• Edgar Mitchell – astronaut, UFO proponent, and parapsychology institute founder – dies at 85
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• HSBC Must Pay $470M For Alleged Abusive Loan Practices
• As Syria rebels face rout, allies Saudi, Turkey may send troops
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• Disney faces lawsuits for using H-1B visas to replace American workers
• Chicago Police Have Been Sabotaging Their Own Dashboard Cameras on Purpose
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• Zika Virus Outbreak: WHO Chief Calls Emergency Committee Meeting
• Quote of the Day: Bring back the Guillotine
• Trade Groups Tell Businesses to Keep Quiet on Political Spending
• No more fun in Bundyland – one dead, leaders arrested, refuge sealed off
• Dems blame trade deal as Ford exits Japan
• Sebring, Ohio Lead Poisoning Emergency Could Result In Criminal Charges
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• After 23 years, David Koch resigns from Natural History Museum board amidst protests by scientists
• US authorities distorting tests to downplay lead content of water
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• Quote of the Day: how Anti-Government Fervor leads to calamities like the water crisis in Flint, MI
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• The predictability of Obama’s last SOTU speech, as well as the Republican reaction to it
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• Critics of Obama trade pact seize on Keystone dispute
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• U.S. top court rejects Nestle bid to throw out child slavery suit
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• Scientists Are Beginning to Figure Out Why Conservatives Are… Conservative
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• Quote of the Day: If modern civilization collapses, who do we blame?
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• Whistleblower: USDA suppressed findings about a common pesticide that could endanger bees
• Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice
• Edward Snowden: Europe to drop criminal charges against whistle-blower and offer asylum
• Deciphering the rationale offered by the U.S. in its decision to send ground troops to Syria
• Two KKK members arrested at the University of Mississippi are facing federal weapons charges
• Climate Change: 7 Out Of 10 Americans Now Believe There Is ‘Solid Evidence’ Of Global Warming
• The CNBC Republican Debate: Bring In the Clowns
• Quote of the Day: The Long-Gone American Left
• The unreality of America and the importance of facing facts
• Study Shows More Extensive Coral Damage Related to BP Spill
• Ex-House Speaker Hastert pleads guilty in hush-money case
• Judge blocks Alabama from defunding Planned Parenthood clinics
• Uninhabitable Heat in Persian Gulf by 2100 (Link)
• Boehner’s last hurrah is a victory for sensible government and a defeat for right-wing extremism
• Ex-Im Bank Dispute Threatens G.E. Factory That Obama Praised
• International trade: UN expert calls for abolition of Investor-State dispute settlement arbitrations
• Pay up or go to jail: how a Mississippi town resurrected the debtors’ prison
• Election news: Poland lurches Right, Guatemala elects center-right comedian as President
• Feds confiscate lethal-injection drugs imported by 2 states
• Picking through the bones of democracy
• U.N. Manipulated by Transnational Corporations, New Study Charges
• Federal court torches the DEA over medical marijuana raids and prosecutions
• Iceland sentences 26 bankers to a combined 74 years in prison
• Texas officials raid several Planned Parenthood offices, demand addresses of employees
• Five predominantly black churches in St. Louis hit by arson in the last week
• Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions fall to record low
• Election recap: Canada did move left, but Canadians fell for the ‘hope and change’ illusion
• Fueled by Religious Fanaticism, GOP states pushing legal limits in their hatred of Planned Parenthood
• Polls show centrist Liberal Party favored to win today’s federal election in Canada
• I AM VERMIN
• Word of Life Christian Church members beat teenager to death in cult-like confession ritual
• People are getting shot by toddlers on a weekly basis this year
• California shuts 33 wells injecting oil wastewater into aquifers
• Is Human Warming Prodding A Sleeping Methane Monster off Oregon’s Coast?
• Former Speaker Hastert to plead guilty in hush-money case (VIDEO)
• Trade pact may not come up in House until after 2016 election
• Last night’s 1st Democratic Party debate was missing Statesmen and Journalists
• Black councilman tased by police in city where Sandra Bland was arrested
• Rising seas to displace millions of Americans if warming unchecked
• Suspicion mounts in Turkey as peace activists bury their dead
• There’s only three things to consider in tonight’s Democratic Party debate
• Image of the Day: WTF is wrong with Americans?
• Quotes of the Day: Bernie Sanders rips the Corporate News Media
• Jerry Brown Signs Automatic Voter Registration In California
• Hundreds of thousands protest in Berlin against EU-U.S. trade deal
• Lying politicians, and their reasons for doing the wrong things
• Yes, the CIA Director Was Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up
• Premature Births, At-Risk Pregnancies Linked To Fracking, Data Review Finds
• Freshman killed in Texas Southern University shooting identified; cops still hunting for suspect
• 86 dead from suicide bomb attacks on peace rally in Ankara, Turkey
• Definition of white privilege: Nine people killed, 20 shot, no murder charges, everyone released
• Northern Arizona University shooting leaves one dead and three injured
• Another surprise resignation from Washington, D.C. – Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
• GOP Establishment’s #2 man in the House, Kevin McCarthy, withdraws from the Speaker race
• Conservatives’ solution for Gun Violence is School Militarization, and Michael Moore’s last words
• Anti-vaxxers are super unhappy with the study they funded showing no links to autism
• Why in the hell did it take a random viral video for McGraw-Hill to fix this mistake on slavery?
• We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Graph — Global Sea Level Rise Just Went off the Chart
• Obama’s Syrian Rebel training program in jeopardy due to its tactical and strategic failures
• South Carolina flooding and The Weather Channel Conspiracy?
• ‘Ugly Compromises,’ ‘Swallowing Dead Rats,’ and a ‘Massive Push’ lead to final agreement on TPP
• Era of U.S. Impunity Coming to an End; Attack on Doctor Without Borders Facility Condemned as Possible ‘War Crime’
• Federal lawsuit filed against Kansas Secretary of State for massive voter registration purge
• Police Agencies Defy Critics and Show ‘In God We Trust’
• Quote of the Day: One of America’s political parties is insane
• Republicans on Climate Change (Cartoon)
• Alabama, Birthplace of the Voting Rights Act, Is Once Again Gutting Voting Rights
• Solving a puzzle: First thoughts on the Roseburg, Oregon shooter
• Record El Niño set to cause hunger for 10 million poorest, Oxfam warns
• 13 Reportedly Killed in Shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon
• Mr. Wilkerson goes to Texas
• Government Stays Open; The Folly Continues
• Scientists raise alarm over seal deaths off California coast
• To All Who Have The Courage To Doubt And Ask
• Quotes: Boehner tried to lead a GOP at the ‘limits of crazy’ and ‘at war with its own government’
• Big banks abusing 2012 settlement deal
• NASA finds evidence of recent flowing water on Mars
• Shell Abandons Disappointing Offshore Alaskan Well
• Exit poll: Pro-secession parties headed for Catalonia win
• The atrocious state of Education in America today
• Image of the Day: The Holy See wades into an Unholy Ocean
• Environment News: China cap-and-trade plan, North Atlantic ‘cold blob,’ EPA criticized for pesticides
• BREAKING NEWS: Speaker of the House John Boehner to resign from Congress
• The “Heart” of America? Don’t Count on It
• Pope Francis refutes Conservative Ideology in the chambers of America’s Secular Government
• Remembering Genocide in Guatemala, and the U.S. Role in Facilitating It
• Quote of the Day: Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush opposes Multiculturalism in America
• Global Companies Joining Climate Change Efforts
• PBS’s Town Hall meeting ‘America After Charleston’ misses the mark on Race Relations once again
• Sudden drainage, via massive chasm, of Subglacial lakes in Greenland described as catastrophic
• Image of the Day: National Geographic magazine under the influence of Rupert Murdoch (SATIRE)
• New Court Docs: Maker of Tylenol Had a Plan to Block Tougher Regulation
• California Governor Warns of Coming Climate Refugee Crisis
• Brazil Bans Corporate Money In Politics (Video)
• Numbnuts to the Left of me, Arseholes to the Right
• Missouri Republicans go full Fascist
• When Intellectualism is treated as Terrorism
• No, Bernie Sanders is not going to bankrupt America to the tune of $18 trillion
• Georgia school district repudiates ‘bizarre’ mass baptisms on football field
• Marine life slashed by half since 1970: WWF
• The picture NYPD used to arrest James Blake was of respected Australian designer Sean Satha
• Anatomy of a Troll
• NASA: World Just Saw its Hottest June, July and August on Record
• Kim Davis reluctantly accepts America’s Separation of Church and State
• Quote of the Day: Paul Krugman on the left turn taken by Britain’s Labour Party
• Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, ousted by his own party
• The political confluence of White Nationalism, Religious Fanaticism, and Anti-Government Fervor
• Op-Ed – As Trump and Sanders rise, the two major parties fall
• Prospect of another government shutdown grows in US
• U.K. Labour Party turns Left, Egypt PM abruptly resigns, Catalonia threatens to secede from Spain
• Turkey launches air strikes against Kurds in Iraq, complicating U.S.-led war against ISIS
• U.S. government blocks release of new CIA torture details
• American adults get a D in science; 22% confuse astronomy and astrology
• Washington Supreme Court expels charter schools from state public school system
• My report on the adverse impacts of free trade and investment agreements on a democratic and equitable international is now available on UN’s website
• Understanding America
• United Airlines CEO resigns amid Federal Investigation of David Samson and Bridgegate Scandal
• Population Impacts
• Baltimore to pay Freddie Gray’s family $6.4m in wrongful death settlement
• ‘Disastrous’: Low snow, heat eat away at Northwest glaciers
• Quote of the Day: regarding Conservative backlash against Pope Francis inside the Vatican
• Lawrence Lessig Announces His Run for President
• Regardless of how you might feel about Labor Unions, these graphs show exactly why they’re needed
• Officials Say Planned Parenthood Fire In Washington State Was Arson
• This week in Racism (plus some Law Enforcement news)
• Investigation underway after ‘mass baptism’ at Georgia high school
• Undeterred, Kansas Republicans are jumping off an authoritarian cliff
• New twist in case against NSA phone data collection
• President Otto Pérez Molina of Guatemala Resigns Amid Scandal
• Kentucky clerk gets jail time for failing to issue same-sex marriage licenses
• Quote of the Day: When someone vehemently denies being a racist, they probably are a racist
• NM Secretary of State (R) Charged with 64 Counts, including Fraud, Embezzlement & Conspiracy
• Michigan court says juveniles can be raped and abused in prison
• Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis ordered to face judge over refusing to issue marriage licenses to gays
• Jesus statue on Montana mountain will stand after court rules against atheist group’s lawsuit
• Will Smith’s new movie “Concussion” terrifies the NFL. Here’s the trailer.
• Murder Rates Rising Sharply in Many U.S. Cities
• US, global stocks fall sharply on more signs of weakness in China’s economy
• Teacher Was Fired After School Found Out She Was With Black Man: Suit
• Alaskan villagers struggle as their island disappears
• The Race To Prove ‘Spooky’ Quantum Connection May Have a Winner
• ‘The Life and Death of the American Lawn’ examines cultural resistance to necessary change
• When Corporatists shoot themselves in the foot
• Big Brother and America’s judicial system
• Prosecutors: No Retrial for White Officer Who Shot Black Man
• Georgia County Admits To Illegally Disenfranchising Voters
• Top Scientist — Threat of Catastrophic Permafrost Thaw is “Real and Imminent”
• A Huge Win for Workers and Their Right to Unionize (Link)
• Quote of the Day: David Duke on Donald Trump
• Kansas Secretary of State tries to block release of voting tapes after statistical anomalies noted
• North Dakota is the first state in the US to legalize police use of drones with tasers and pepper spray
• 50 bodies found in ship’s hull as migrant wave inundates Europe
• American exceptionalism and the ‘exceptionally American’ problem of mass shootings
• Signs of Gulf Stream Slowdown — Sea Level More Than a Foot Higher off US East Coast
• Tennessee man running for president, creates ‘Christian Party’—calls for union of church and state
• Signs, Long Unheeded, Now Point to Risks in U.S. Economy
• Three-Quarters to Nowhere: The Secular Jurist is 60
• New judge overhauls court in troubled Ferguson, Missouri
• Manhattan-sized iceberg splits from Greenland glacier
• US Experiencing Worst Fire Season on Record as Blazes in Washington and Oregon Explode Twelvefold to Over 1 Million Acres
• John Oliver Exposes Televangelism, Then Forms His Own Tax-Exempt Church
• Arizona school district requires students to paste anti-abortion sticker in science textbook
• Global Warming is changing our Skies
• Machine against Man: the NFL’s problem with Chris Borland
• How Much Of California’s Drought Was Caused By Climate Change? Scientists Now Have The Answer.
• Dow drops more than 500 points as US markets plummet amid global sell-off
• Former U.S. Marshal and DEA agent was told not to enforce drug laws in white areas
• Two Brothers Allegedly Beat Up A Latino Man, Say They Were Inspired By Donald Trump
• Greece’s Syriza party splits, rebels form anti-bailout front
• Question of the Day: Where do our opinions come from, and do we ever change them?
• Undercover Police Have Regularly Spied On Black Lives Matter Activists in New York
• Republican National Committee Endorses Anti-Gay Discrimination
• Connecticut Inspects 25 Nail Salons, Shuts 23 Down Over Wage Abuse
• New Mexico police officers ordered to stand trial for murder
• Bernie Sanders Proposes To Boost Worker-Ownership Of Companies
• Nebraska school suddenly starts making teachers sign American loyalty oath, ACLU threatens action
• Lobster population is shifting north; ocean warming blamed
• Real Life imitating Art, and the return of Soylent Green
• Head of Dept. of History at West Point destroys argument that Civil War wasn’t fought over slavery
• Quote of the Day: GOP Establishment doesn’t like Donald Trump
• Racial Wealth Gap Persists Despite Degree, Study Says
• Failure Factories: 1 decision, years of neglect, 5 once-average schools remade into the worst in Florida
• A statistical projection of Population Decline in the 21st Century due to Climate Change
• Here’s Why You Have More Student Debt Than Your Parents (Video)
• High gun ownership linked to high rate of police officer deaths, study shows
• Prominent attorney is accused of killing scavenger, with the help of highway patrol officers
• AFL-CIO: Yuan shifts show need for currency provisions in free trade deals
• The Dutch “basic income” experiment is expanding across multiple cities
• Obama unleashes drilling rigs while fighting global warming
• Court update: CA bans Police Review Secrecy, DOJ says Homelessness is Legal, CT bans Executions
• Court update: Open Carry in Schools, Judges’ same-sex marriage obligation, SWAT Team Immunity
• America’s political left is fracturing
• Beware: The Group “End Citizens United” is Pulling Your Chain
• Want To See A Candidate Asked About Climate Change? Look To Canada.
• Protests return to Ferguson streets, state of emergency declared
• El Nino Crosses Monstrous Event Threshold
• The Latest: Emergency declared over Colorado mine spill
• Dystopia and the rise of Nihilism
• Quote of the Day: ‘Miracles,’ and the first Republican debate for 2016
• CIA: OK, So Maybe We Work With Bad Guys
• James Holmes sentenced to life in prison for Colorado movie theater murders
• The South, Tea Party Republicans, stubbornly refuse to believe that Slavery caused the Civil War
• FBI arrests 3 for Jade Helm retaliation attack plan against U.S. military involving guns, explosives
• California cops say video of them insulting disabled woman during raid violated their privacy
• Discussion of the Day: White Silence = White Consent
• SEC approves CEO pay disclosure, Idaho AG-GAG law unconstitutional, Kansas rescinds TANF ATM limit
• Holocaust survivor turned civil rights activist: ‘We’re back where we were’
• The Great Lakes Are Alive With Toxic Ooze
• Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations break down from conflicts between nations
• Parents of Aurora shooting victim ordered to pay $200,000 in legal fees to ammo dealer
• The largest muni bond default in U.S. history is happening right now
• Democratic Gov. Kate Brown Signs Historic ‘Automatic Voter Registration’ In Oregon
• Greek stock market bloodbath as exchange reopens
• Obama orders stronger limits on power-plant emissions
• Quotes of the Day: on Defining Racism and a question for opponents of #BlackLivesMatter
• Grand Jury Indicts Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, on Felony Charges
• Living with Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest
• Quote of the Day: Jimmy Carter says the U.S. is now an Oligarchy
• Federal Reserve denies credit union for cannabis
• Court rules anti-abortion extremist who sent a Kansas doctor a threatening letter will stand trial
• Ugly America: Three more stories about Racism and Police Misconduct that defy understanding
• Killing Heat — It Felt Like 165 Degrees in Iran Today
• How schools push black students to the criminal justice system
• U.N. projects 11.2 billion people by 2100 – why we will never get there
• Cincinnati Cop Ray Tensing Pleads Not Guilty in Traffic Stop Shooting Death of Samuel Dubose
• Revealed: Private firms at heart of US drone warfare
• Russia vetoes UN resolution on MH17 tribunal
• Did Obama Administration Downplay Malaysia Slavery To Grease Trade Deal?
• Armed Confederate supporters interrupt black child’s birthday party with racial slurs, death threats
• Peanut executive facing unprecedented life sentence for knowingly selling contaminated food
• Half of Columbia River sockeye salmon dying due to hot water
• The Selfish Gene – has it become our Achilles Heel?
• The Iran Nuclear Deal: What It Really Means
• Climate Change Changes Everything — Massive Capital Flight From Fossil Fuels Now Under Way
• Quote of the Day: Obama’s hubris on display in Africa
• Chinese stocks destroy $39.8B in U.S. wealth
• 204 Mass Shootings in 204 Days — so Far
• Turkey vs. ISIS Complicates U.S.-Led Mission
• A little trouble in big China
• Mighty Mammoths Fell Prey to Rapidly Warming Earth
• Federal appeals court says pharmacy owners cannot use religion to deny medicine
• Get Ready For The Next Wave Of Education “Reform”
• Report: Louisiana Theater Shooter’s Online Presence Suggested Admiration For White Supremacy
• Warning From Scientists — Halt Fossil Fuel Burning Fast or Age of Superstorms, 3-20 Foot Sea Level Rise is Coming Soon
• Court case updates: Rick Perry, men who poured beer on Native Amer. kids, cops who disfigured child
• Theater gunman’s family called him mentally ill, violent
• TSJ blog isn’t the only place focusing on Mental Health. Now, there’s a bipartisan effort in Congress.
• Image of the Day: Sign put up in Prairie View, Texas to protest law enforcement killing of Sandra Bland
• New York state fast food workers celebrate $15 minimum wage victory
• Updates on court cases against Dylann Roof and Sheriff Joe Arpaio
• More children living in poverty now than during recession
• Health officials kill proposal to curb mercury dental fillings
• Banking industry up in arms over plan
• When ignoring the questionable mental health of a police officer gets a 12 year old child killed
• Disasters, Both Natural and Weather-Related, Displaced 19 Million in 2014
• Donald Trump’s popularity is symptomatic of Americans’ deteriorating psychological health
• Another Way to Rip Off Students
• Michael Grimm, former Staten Island congressman, sentenced to eight months in prison for tax fraud
• Nate Silver: For Black Americans, U.S. Is as Dangerous as War-Torn Countries Like Rwanda & Myanmar
• Right-wing paranoia about martial law in America is misguided, but eventually it must happen
• Pipeline Spill In The Heart Of Canada’s Tar Sands Industry Leaks 1.3 Million Gallons Of Oily Emulsion
• Insider view of Republicans’ push to decertify teachers in Kansas
• Quote of the Day: John McCain on Donald Trump, “he fired up the crazies.”
• Image of the Day: Queen Elizabeth’s Nazi Salute
• Climate change threat must be taken as seriously as nuclear war – UK minister
• IMF chief Christine Lagarde on whether Greek Bailout without Debt Relief is viable: “categorically not”
• Alaska becomes the 30th U.S. state to expand Medicaid under Obamacare
• BREAKING: Court Orders Prosecutors To Stop Investigating Scott Walker’s Alleged Illegal Coordination
• Seriously, are White People in America going crazy?
• CIA documents raise questions about spy agency’s domestic data collection
• Greek Parliament votes ‘Yes’ on Austerity/Bank Bailout deal
• Halfway to 2 C — According to NASA, We Just Blew Past an Ominous Milestone
• GREECE LATEST-Protesters clash with police at anti-austerity march
• UN experts: Corporations must contribute to sustainable development by respecting human rights
• At Least 20-75 Feet of Sea Level Rise Already Locked In — Putting Climate Central’s Surging Seas Into Context
• Great Moments in History: The Dawn of Agriculture (SATIRE)
• Quote of the Day: “I must live. The South is killing me.”
• Large Hadron Collider scientists discover new particles: pentaquarks
• Iran nuclear agreement is reached
• Monster El Nino Emerging From the Depths — Sea Surface Temperatures Hit Strong Event Threshold
• Denmark’s wind power just exceeded their energy demand
• The NY Times stops letting Conservatives cheat. Maybe Liberals will make the Bestseller List now.
• Greece Capitulates to Creditors’ Demands to Cling to Euro
• Our difficulties in defining Racism may be inhibiting our ability to deal with it
• Florida’s Supreme Court strikes down the GOP-drawn congressional map
• Canada in the spotlight over TPP negotiations
• South Carolina’s Confederate flag is gone, but others remain
• Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds
• Exxon Knew About Global Warming in 1981 – And Denied It For 27 Years
• This Is What Happens To Court Clerks Who Refuse To Issue Same Sex Marriage Licenses
• Episcopal Church Votes To Withdraw Investments In Fossil Fuels
• The Single Worst Idea From 1990s Welfare Reform Is Finally Dying
• Market Mania: NYSE “Apocalypse Dow,” China’s “Black Wednesday,” and reaction to Greek debt crisis
• Germans Forget Postwar History Lesson on Debt Relief in Greece Crisis
• Elizabeth Warren’s call for a new Glass-Steagall Act, and the blatant hypocrisy from Bill Clinton
• Quotes of the Day: Fear, Slavery, Civil Obedience, and a Nation of Sheep
• N.Y. City to pay $330,000 to settle pepper-spray Occupy lawsuits
• Led by Germany, Europe’s oligarchs play hardball with Greece
• Greece Says ‘No!’ to Austerity
• Greek referendum no vote signals huge challenge to eurozone leaders
• Fox News can’t bear the truth: Right-wing terror groups are America’s gravest threat – Salon.com
• Greek referendum final opinion polls show ‘No’ vote ahead by small margin
• Hillary Clinton Predictably Uses 4th of July to Defend Her “Progressive” Record
• What would happen if the U.S. federal government ceased to exist tomorrow?
• This Dutch City Plans to Give Residents a Universal ‘Basic Income’
• Greece and the New Colonial Endgame
• ‘Grassroots movement working’: Bernie Sanders gains on the Clinton machine
• How BP’s $18.7 Billion Gulf Spill Fine Could Be One Giant Tax Deduction
• No joke: Iceland’s Pirate Party surges into first place in the polls
• New PBS documentary uncovers the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (must see VIDEO)
• Western Europe Shatters Temperature Records During Multi-Day Heat Wave
• The Great Democratic Party Divide goes public
• Some light in Oklahoma?
• UN human rights experts welcome Greek referendum and call for international solidarity
• Making War on Everything is the American Way
• Half a Million Acres Burned in Just One Day — Alaska Shatters Record For Worst June Wildfire Outbreak Ever
• Paul Krugman on National Referendum: “Greece should vote ‘no’” and if necessary “leave the euro”
• FBI Joins Local Investigations As Black Church Fires Spread Across 5 U.S. States
• Big U.S. Supreme Court news: Rulings on EPA, Gerrymandering, Lethal Injection Drugs, BP Liability
• Democrats Who Voted for Fast Track Legislation
• The Death of Democracy: Who’s behind it and why
• Quote of the Day: Texas Governor defies Supreme Court ruling on Gay Marriage
• Greek referendum vote approved for July 5th, European Central Bank cuts off funding
• What Voters Should Know About Hillary Clinton
• How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
• The End of Gay Conversion Therapy
• Greek PM Tsipras rejects ultimatum from international creditors, calls for a national referendum
• Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage Nationwide
• A Little Honesty on the Confederate Flag
• U.S. drops to #23 in World Happiness Rankings
• Columbia Becomes The First College To Divest From Private Prison Industry
• Oklahoma drilling regulator calls spike in quakes a “game changer”
• Supreme Court Upholds Subsidies in Major Victory for Obamacare
• Inside the mind of Charleston Massacre shooter Dylann Roof and the culture of White Supremacy
• Wall Street And Big Corporations Got What They Wanted – This Time
• Deeply Conservative Judge Rules Against Religious Employers, Affirms Right To Birth Control
• Google eavesdropping tool installed on computers without permission
• In U.S., Shootings by Americans Continue to Outnumber Islamic Terrorist Attacks
• Fast Track Passes. TPP Now Nearly Certain to Pass Too.
• Herbicide 2,4-D ‘possibly’ causes cancer, World Health Organisation study finds
• Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appeals to Left in plan to keep Greece in European Union
• Australian Trade Minister may have scuttled TPP
• White supremacist group linked to Charleston shooter Dylann Roof donated to leading GOP candidates
• No Man’s Land: Obama’s lament reveals his greatest failure
• FCC fines AT&T $100 million for slowing internet speed of “unlimited” mobile phone customers
• Protesters throng London to oppose new UK government’s austerity plan
• FSU Students Power Wash The Kochs While Exposing Possible IRS Violations
• Top officials charged with violating constitution with 9/11 detainee abuse
• A Kansas State Rep Faces Censure Because She Called a Bill Racist
• Body cameras lead to dramatic fall in police brutality: UN expert
• After Doubts, Economists Find Trade With China Kills U.S. Factory Jobs
• Charleston Shooting Reignites Debate About Confederate Flag
• The Legacy Of The Charleston Pastor Killed In Last Night’s Shooting
• The Charleston Massacre and the Cunning of White Supremacy
• All 50 US states fail to meet global police use of force standards, report finds
• House passes Fast-Track trade authority for Pres. Obama, but outcome of TPP in Senate is uncertain
• Faith in Religious Institutions at New Low
• Pope Francis: ‘Revolution’ needed to combat climate change
• Man with White Supremacist interests kills 9 at historic SC Black Church including a State Senator
• After Cutting Taxes On The Rich, Kansas Will Raise Taxes On The Poor To Pay For It
• US Supreme Court refuses to review NC abortion ruling
• FDA orders food manufacturers to stop using trans fat within three years
• 45 times Secretary Clinton pushed the trade bill she now opposes
• Obama, Boehner abandon plans for Tuesday trade vote
• Colorado court: Workers can be fired for using pot off-duty
• Pragmatism versus Ideology: Understanding our Geopolitical World
• The TPP Is About Corporat Power
• TTIP vote postponed as European Parliament descends into panic over trade deal
• Angry US Republicans tell Pope Francis to ‘stick with his job and we’ll stick with ours’
• TPP’s fate could rest in just one person’s hands
• President Obama suffers setback on TPP legislation
• It’s official: Louisiana public schools are using the Book of Genesis in high school science classes – Salon.com
• Republican Governors Start Learning to Like Tax Hikes
• The Fifth Circuit Just Stuck A Knife In Roe v. Wade
• Cartoon: Fast track to oligarchy
• Push Comes to Shove on Fast Track
• What really triggered police misconduct at a pool party in McKinney, Texas
• Hierarchy Is A Destructive Force In Humans (Part 1)
• Government to Forgive Student Loans at Corinthian Colleges
• Will TPP Kill The Post Office?
• Quote of the Day: Young Earth Creationism on the U.S. Supreme Court
• EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton sold out Honduras: Lanny Davis, corporate cash, and the real story about the death of a Latin American democracy – Salon.com
• Washington state lawmakers leave ‘No Child Left Behind’ fix to Congress
• We bailed you out, and now you want what!?!
• Erdogan’s AKP loses majority in Turkey, Nieto’s PRI loses seats in Mexico
• Challenging the unsupported opinions of UFO believers and nonbelievers
• Donald Trump’s defeat over windfarm welcomed by green campaigners
• The Scariest Trade Deal Nobody’s Talking About Just Suffered a Big Leak
• After Ruling That McDonald’s Can’t Pay Workers In Bank Cards, The Bank Pays Up
• Global commercial banana supply threatened by fungus, lack of genetic diversity in monoculture
• Malaysia jungle graves add to Obama’s trade pact headache in Congress
• The Guardian UK embarrasses All US Media but will we notice?
• When the Great Ice Sheets Start Going Down — Approaching the Age of “Storms”
• What Kind of Mayor Was Bernie Sanders? | The Nation
• Anti-TPP Top Dem Rosa DeLauro: Obama “is in bed with the multinational corporations”
• Elizabeth Warren blasts President Obama’s top Wall Street regulator
• Passage of USA Freedom Act marks weak reforms for NSA, but vindication for Edward Snowden
• Martin O’Malley’s entry into the 2016 Presidential Race raises questions about his authenticity
• Poll: 80 percent of Americans believe money plays too great a role in political campaigns
• Judge disqualifies all 250 prosecutors in Orange County, CA because of widespread corruption
• FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities
• Black Americans killed by police twice as likely to be unarmed as white people
• Obama’s Trade Deal Faces Bipartisan Peril in the House
• Arctic Methane Alert — Ramp-Up at Numerous Reporting Stations Shows Signature of an Amplifying Feedback
• Must-see: Chris Hedges discusses the history, causes, and impacts of Revolution (VIDEO)
• Passing the Torch: Going from Hope to Despair in two Generations
• Check Your Democracy at the Door
• What Happened When Scientists Put African Americans On An African Diet And Africans On An American Diet
• Jeb Bush’s Favorite Author Rejects Democracy, Says The Hyper-Rich Should Seize Power
• Norway’s sovereign wealth fund accused of ‘pretend divestment’
• This has been a month of extreme weather around the world
• Idaho abortion restrictions are unconstitutional: appeals court
• In politics, Silence isn’t Golden… it’s Corporatism
• France passed law making rooftop solar or gardens mandatory on new commercial buildings
• President Obama is opposing Elizabeth Warren’s push to keep Slavery Ban in Trade Deal
• Former House speaker Dennis Hastert indicted by federal grand jury
• To U.S. Congress: End Government Spying Now!
• Quote of the Day: What Hillary Clinton is afraid of
• 46 Degree Programs Eliminated Across UNC College System
• Extreme Heat Wave In India Is Killing People And Melting Roads
• The Death Penalty Ends in Nebraska
• American Kids Are Poorer Than They Were Decades Ago, Education Report Shows
• Polemical Poetry XII: The Iraq Catastrophe
• Southeast Asia maritime build-up accelerates, raising risks in disputed seas
• FIFA Inquiry Yields Indictments; U.S. Officials Vow to Pursue More
• Civil war erupts within the Democratic Party over trade
• Wind Power in the US Projected to Grow
• Ayn Rand Day on the lake.
• Young People, Civic Disengagement, and the Collapse of America’s once great Political System
• Spain’s indignados could rule Barcelona and Madrid after local election success
• EU dropped pesticide laws due to US pressure over TTIP, documents reveal
• Streets calm after 71 arrested in Cleveland protests
• ‘BP complicit in torturing Colombian trade unionist’
• Hillary Clinton has shifted left, but so have Americans
• ‘Well Done’: The Legalization of Gay Marriage in Ireland
• Prepare for ‘Flood the System’ – Fall 2015
• Quote of the Day: Paul Krugman on Obama’s uncharacteristic reticence towards TPP critics
• Exclusive: The CIA Is Shuttering a Secretive Climate Research Program
• A trade deal at what cost?
• Unequal Justice, Normalized Criminality, and the Banksters who rule the World
• The future of wind power may not have blades at all
• Workers Race to Clean Up Oil Spill on California Coast
• The Left Matters – Now, More Than Ever
• Education Gaps Pose Looming Crisis for U.S. Economy
• Los Angeles becomes the biggest city yet to approve a $15 minimum wage
• UBS to Plead Guilty on Libor, Settle Currency Probe With Fed
• I’ve Read Obama’s Secret Trade Deal. Elizabeth Warren Is Right to Be Concerned.
• Shell accused of strategy risking catastrophic climate change
• American History: Religion and the Civil War (VIDEO)
• Perils of Globalization When Factories Close and Towns Struggle
• Obama’s Trade War Against Warren Wounds His Party – and His Legacy
• Oil CEO Wanted University Quake Scientists Dismissed: Dean’s E-Mail
• American History: George Washington wasn’t the 1st U.S. President, 9 came before him (VIDEO)
• Washington state declares drought emergency with $1.2bn in crops at risk
• Quote of the Day: Bill Maher calls Texas “the White Somalia”
• MIT study suggests solar power technology is up to the task now, not tomorrow
• Duke Energy Corp (DUK) Pleads Guilty To Coal Ash Pollution, Agrees To Pay $102M In Fines
• Antarctic Ice Shelf Is A Few Years From Disintegration: NASA
• NOVA – Lethal Seas (VIDEO)
• U.S. House Passes Abortion Ban That Could Challenge Roe V. Wade
• US House passes bill ending NSA bulk data collection
• Democrats yield in Senate trade deal
• Talk of Ryan-Obama Tax Deal Roils Republican-Business Alliance
• Obama Administration conditionally approves oil drilling in the Arctic
• Democrats hand Obama a stinging defeat on trade deal
• Paul Krugman: The “vampires of finance bought themselves a Congress” and want to destroy America with it – Salon.com
• Study: Americans becoming less Christian, more secular
• Gun nut, killer, and domestic abuser George Zimmerman involved in a road rage shooting incident
• The absent black father myth—debunked by CDC
• Hawaii Will Soon Get All Of Its Electricity From Renewable Sources
• TPP update: Obama’s ideology
• How the UK Election may portend a Democratic Party defeat in the US next year
• San Diego police chief orders officers to keep body cameras on
• The Beginning Of The End Of For-Profit Colleges
• Scott Walker’s Corporate Tax Breaks Come Back To Haunt Him
• Pension Ruling: Illinois Supreme Court strikes a blow against Corporatism and in support of Workers
• Why did Labour lose?
• Labour’s betrayals let Tories back in
• Weather Forecasters Used To Be The Country’s Staunchest Climate Deniers. Why That’s Changing Fast.
• Wells Fargo just got served papers for fraud—by Los Angeles, California
• Pro-Labor New Democratic Party Wins in Alberta
• Ferguson witness in Michael Brown death arrested on drug charges
• Big news on Fossil Fuel Divestment: BOA to stop financing Coal Mining, cites investment risk concerns
• Appeals court rules that NSA phone surveillance program is illegal
• Abstinence-Only Texas High School Hit By Chlamydia Outbreak; 1 In 15 Students Affected
• California’s Drought Could Upend America’s Entire Food System
• Obama’s Scheduled Visit To Nike Has Trade Deal Skeptics Scratching Their Heads
• Enormous, Humongous March Trade Deficit Creating Jobs Elsewhere
• UN calls for suspension of TTIP talks over fears of human rights abuses
• 60 Percent Of Large Herbivores May Go Extinct Thanks To Humans
• New Jersey Voters Doubt Christie’s Bridge Claims After Allies Charged
• Harry Reid To Block Trade Deal Until The Senate Deals With Surveillance Reform, Highway Funding
• Global Sea Level Rise Going Exponential? New Study Records Big Jump in Ocean Surface Height
• Progressives defy President Obama on TPP: “We know when we’re being suckered”
• After Baltimore: Soul Searching in Another America
• For-Profit Colleges Face a Loan Revolt by Thousands Claiming Trickery
• A Citizen’s Lobbying Campaign for Campaign Finance Reform
• Tesla’s Powerwall Puts Huge Crack in Carbon-Based Energy Dominance
• Kansas shows us what could happen if Republicans win in 2016 (the decline of K-12 education)
• Legal Experts sent letter to Congressional Leaders blasting TPP as “undermining democratic norms”
• Chief Justice Roberts Accidentally Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Citizens United
• AT&T just confirmed they fired president for racist texts
• Gov. Chris Christie’s Political Ally David Wildstein Pleads Guilty in Bridge Scandal, Two Others Indicted
• BREAKING: Freddie Gray death declared a homicide, Baltimore prosecutor charges 6 police officers
• Nearly half of young Americans lack confidence in justice system: survey
• Bernie-nomics: How Sanders Wants to Handle the Economy
• Obama trade bill in trouble
• Pizza 101: A Crusty Situation
• TPP Trade Vote stirs angst on the Right
• U.K. Growth Weakens in Blow to Cameron in Tight Election Battle
• Quote of the Day: On the Baltimore Riots
• Troops descend on Baltimore after riots, fires paralyze city
• Corinthian Shuts All Campuses, Ending College for 16,000
• The Real Reason for America’s Massive Surveillance Program
• Wedge of warm seawater known as ‘the blob’ blamed for marine havoc
• Police Misconduct is symptomatic of worsening Cultural Polarization in America
• Secret negotiations on trade treaties, a threat to human rights – UN expert
• The Surprising Religious Breakdown Of Same-Sex Marriage Support
• Sheriff Arpaio’s attorney quits during contempt hearing, former staff turn on the sheriff. UPDATE!
• Comcast Drops Time Warner Cable Bid Amid Opposition
• Fears Of Contamination Confirmed, North Carolina Residents Warned Not To Drink Their Water
• TPP clears first hurdle in U.S. Congress, here’s my letter to my Senator who voted for it
• U.S. Supreme Court update: Rulings on Gerrymandering in NC, and Vehicle Searches by Police
• Is Wal-Mart closing stores for ‘repairs,’ or to punish activist workers?
• Jon Stewart satirizes the prosecutorial hypocrisy between the Atlanta school scandal and Wall Street
• Water Conflict Starts as Climate Change Induced California Drought Expected to Worsen Through Summer, Autumn
• Quote of the Day: When Individual Interests deviate from the Public Interest
• Quote of the Day: Napoleon on Religion
• New Independent Lens documentary reveals the hidden societal costs of the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill
• Millions Spent Lobbying By Private Prison Corporations To Keep A Quota Of Arrested Immigrants
• Liberal groups rejecting White House’s trade push
• TTIP talks, ISDS walks
• Hundreds leave South Africa after anti-immigrant violence
• Report reveals spike in killings of environmentalists
• Don’t Let TPP Gut State Laws
• Greece on the Brink
• Dr. Michio Kaku: UFOs Are Real (3:30)
• Iowa Republican: There is one true God. Christianity should be taught in public schools
• College Kids Text During Showers, Sex And Class. We’re Doomed.
• What happens when a bus carrying black students breaks down in the American South?
• Examining the dark philosophical roots of Rand Paul’s libertarianism
• There’s tons of disturbing news lately about Law Enforcement, here’s a recap
• ‘Raise Wages, Empower Workers’ At the Top of the Populism2015 Agenda
• Crunch time for the TPP: Obama goes to war against his base
• South Carolina argues to Supreme Court that it can discriminate against gays AND women
• Illinois governor cuts autism funding on World Autism Day
• Electric Car Batteries Just Hit A Key Price Point
• Four Blackwater guards sentenced in Iraq shootings of 31 unarmed civilians
• The Men Behind President Lincoln’s Assassination
• Quote of the Day: Political Party attitudes towards their Base
• Hillary’s presidential-run announcement is met with skepticism by Progressives
• Gun owners face much higher murder risks, researchers said. Then the NRA silenced them.
• Our coming theocratic hell: Look out, the right’s “religious freedom” push is just the beginning
• All is not well in the Climate Change denial world
• Gun Control at NRA Convention?
• Wisconsin Bans Staff Of Public Lands Board From Talking About Climate Change
• ‘It’s Racist As Hell’: Inside St. Louis County’s Predatory Night Courts
• Bank Workers Tell Their Bosses: Stop Making Us Sell Shady Products To Poor People
• The Middle Class Is Worse Off Than You Think
• Secrecy concerns grow amid legislative efforts to pass controversial TPP trade deal
• Kansas Becomes First State To Ban Common Form Of Abortion
• Walter Scott shooting gets Officer Michael Slager fired from North Charleston police force
• Riots, Looting & Fires Break Out in Kentucky. Don’t Worry. It’s Mostly White Kids.
• Indiana Governor Rewards Private Prison Lobby with Draconian Marijuana Punishments
• Kansas To Impose Unprecedented Restriction On Welfare Recipients
• Republican Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: I know what my political party wants—They want war
• Look at Americans’ attitudes on Climate Change and you’ll see why the Apocalypse is coming
• Republican legislator to Kochs’ AFP: ‘You people serve absolutely no purpose’
• Sunni v Shia: why the conflict is more political than religious
• Kenya says it destroyed two al Shabaab camps in Somalia
• Stanford Will Now Be Free To All Students From Families That Earn Less Than $125,000 Per Year
• AP Poll: Whites more likely to OK police striking people
• Neil deGrasse Tyson: If the Pledge of Allegiance told the truth…
• Commercial Sardine fisheries likely to be shutdown this year along U.S. West Coast
• Populism 2015: Citizens Insist On Trade Deals That Work For All Of Us
• Chicago’s Odd Couple: Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a Billionaire Republican Investor
• What The ‘Fix’ To Indiana’s ‘Religious Freedom’ Bill Does And Does Not Do
• Informant posing as Klan hit man leads to prison guard bust in Florida
• Pence and the Indiana Legislature were warned by 30 expert law professors
• Massive Glacier Melt and Fresh Water are Pouring into the Gulf of Alaska
• Troubled Waters
• Major Sporting Events and Air Shows: Too Corporatized, Too Controlling, Too Much
• Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty will help neither workers nor consumers
• The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich
• California wants to adopt Oregon’s ‘motor voter’ law
• New Arizona law restricts abortions and abortion insurance
• Remember that Missouri auditor who committed “suicide” last month? Now, his spokesman is dead
• Arizona school officials protest education cuts, so the legislature makes their protests illegal
• Florida House approves controversial bill to divert Public School funds to rival Charter Schools
• Boycott Indiana over its legalizing discrimination against LGBT persons, including the NCAA Final Four
• Sometimes a casual conservation can reveal more about us than we care to know
• Last week in Right-Wing Extremism
• Now We Know Why Huge TPP Trade Deal Is Kept Secret From The Public
• License to Discriminate (a.k.a “Religious Freedom”) bills enacted in Indiana, fail in Georgia
• Big Shelves Of Antarctic Ice Melting Faster Than Scientists Thought
• Wall Street’s influence on the fossil fuel divestment movement
• Smithsonian Stands By Wildly Misleading Climate Change Exhibit Paid For By Kochs
• Fort Lauderdale Police Officers Fired Over Racist Text Messages, Video: Officials
• Why more U.S. colleges will go under in the next few years
• Saudis attack rebels in Yemen, cause reactionary spike in oil prices
• Why our Lack of Understanding leads to Conflict on Religion
• World Ocean Heartbeat Fading? ‘Nasty’ Signs North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation is Weakening
• FEMA to deny funds to Climate Change deniers
• U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear case challenging Wisconsin’s Voter Id law
• Suspicion surrounds Mississippi hanging, though suicide is suspected
• Ignorance Is Bliss? Not in America
• Sheriff Arpaio admits to crimes in order to avoid trial. Victims: ‘This won’t fly’ /UPDATE
• The Pentagon Admits It May Have Lost $500 Million in U.S. Weaponry To Al-Qaeda
• This Winter Was Warmest on Record
• Republicans’ private terror: Why they despise the modern American state — and embrace fanaticism – Salon.com
• Suspect in Arizona Shooting Spree a White Supremacist Skinhead
• Activist allegedly tried to bait protesters with ‘kill cops’ script
• Four months after their low-turnout election victory, Republicans ramp-up their Austerity agenda
• Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) resigns amid scandal
• Fixed Fortunes: Biggest corporate political interests spend billions, get trillions
• Florida official was reprimanded for discussing ‘climate change’ in report, documents show
• Joke of the Day: Journalist Can’t Contain Laughter As State Dept Claims US Doesn’t Back Coups (3:54)
• Want To Decrease Your Well Being? Come Live In The Bible Belt
• Quote of the Day: On America
• Panel Discussion on the Obama Administration (VIDEO)
• Chris Borland, 24, to retire from NFL, cites fear of concussions
• Drastic measures being taken in response to severe California drought
• House Democrats angry over Obama’s classified trade meeting
• Alabama federal judge declines to lift gay marriage order
• Driver who had $50,000 in casino winnings seized by Nevada Deputy getting money back
• U.S. Judge Mark Fuller of Alabama may face ouster after domestic abuse claim
• Oklahoma is just the latest to address Race Problems at Fraternities; plus a Ferguson Update
• U.S. to keep more troops in Afghanistan into 2016
• C.I.A. Cash Ended Up in Coffers of Al Qaeda
• Longform: The Hunting of Billie Holiday
• NYPD caught trying to literally rewrite history of police brutality on Wikipedia
• Quote of the Day: Civic Duty
• IEA sees renewed pressure on oil prices as glut worsens
• Texas Bill Would Make Recording Police Illegal
• Catholic Church Claims It Can Refuse To Pay Victims Of Sex Abuse Because Of Religious Freedom
• Those Accused of Shooting Police Officers Demonized as ‘Punks’, While Police Officers Who Murder Unarmed Civilians and Commit False Arrests are Honored as Heroes
• Missouri GOP chair defends himself against calls to resign
• A Trade Campaign Built On Four Pinocchios
• Why salaries don’t rise
• Utah Passes White-Collar Felon Registry
• The United States as Saudi Arabia’s and Israel’s “Poodle”
• First WI casualty of Right to Work, Major company moving to Minnesota
• Breaking: Ferguson City Manager Axed.
• Nemtsov murder: Zaur Dadayev confession ‘forced’
• GOP letter to Tehran backfires
• It’s ‘Orwellian’: Florida Scientists Respond To Report That State Agency Banned ‘Climate Change’
• The Unspeakable Truth in Florida
• Concern Over Catastrophic Methane Release — Overburden, Plumes, Eruptions, and Large Ocean Craters
• How Our Trade Policies Kill Jobs, and What’s the True Motivation behind TPP and TTIP
• Supreme Court revives Notre Dame’s Obamacare contraception objections
• On ‘Bloody Sunday’ anniversary, KKK leaves fliers in Selma
• Labor fires back at Obama on trade
• DOJ To Charge Bob Menendez With Corruption: Report
• Meet 3 Ferguson employees cited by DOJ for racism & corruption now in charge of cleaning up the city
• Wage theft, and the Politics of Pizza
• California Oil Wells Pumped Waste Into Aquifers
• TPP Trade Deal delayed one month in Congress as key Democratic Senator has second thoughts
• Georgia ‘License To Discriminate’ Bill Forced Through Committee During Bathroom Break
• New Zealand spying on Pacific allies for ‘Five Eyes’ and NSA, Snowden files show
• U.S. Syria strategy falters with collapse of rebel group
• Larry Summers is now an Economic Populist?
• US clears officer in Ferguson case, criticizes police force
• A Defiant Alabama Regains Ground Against Gay Marriage
• Boehner defies Republicans House passes clean DHS funding bill
• Americans are turning away from organized religion in record numbers
• Global warming contributed to Syria’s 2011 uprising, scientists claim
• Christie Settles $9 Billion NJ Pollution Case Against Exxon for $250 Million
• David Petraeus Enters Into Plea Deal With Justice Department
• The Fast-Track Fandango, and Why Elizabeth Warren is declaring war on an obscure trade policy
• Centrist Dems ready strike against Warren wing
• IRS Audits of High-Income U.S. Households Drop to 6-Year Low
• Investigation into killing of Putin critic Nemtsov runs into conflicting CCTV footage reports
• Republicans propose declaring Idaho a ‘Christian state’
• Think your plastic is being recycled? Think again.
• Christie broke law by cutting pension payments, judge rules
• Feds Nullify State Laws on City Internet
• GOP Civil War heats up again over Immigration and Homeland Security funding
• The front line of climate change: Alaska village must relocate as Arctic sea ice thins
• What happens when you tax the rich and raise the minimum wage? Meet one of USA’s best economies
• Missouri auditor, gubernatorial candidate Tom Schweich dies in ‘apparent suicide,’ police say
• Net Neutrality Wins Big!
• Bad Climate Outcomes — Atmospheric Warming to Ramp up as PDO Swings Strongly Positive?
• Wealthy, vindictive, Republican UNC Board of Governors silences law school’s Poverty Center
• A New Rule, and a Brave Official, Gain Allies Against Wall Street
• The Trans-Pacific Partnership clause everyone should oppose by Elizabeth Warren
• Scott Walker’s Southern economic strategy
• Progressives force Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel into Runoff Election
• President Obama vetoes Keystone XL bill, but his administration still hasn’t decided the project’s fate
• U.S. probing big banks over pricing of gold, other metals
• The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site’
• CO2 Emissions Threaten Seafood As Ocean Acidification Spreads Along US Coastlines
• American Denial: a profound and revealing sociological study of Racism in America
• Knowledge Isn’t Power by Paul Krugman
• Reality has forced Republican Governors to raise taxes, but they will do so quite unfairly
• Thaddeus Murphy Arrested In Connection With NAACP Office Bombing In Colorado
• Skirting the Cotton Fields: Hillary Clinton’s chosen tightrope path to the Presidency
• Illinois Governor Seeking To Raid Higher Education Budget A Month After Being Sworn In
• Education as Workforce Development: The Horror
• Judge To Anti-Gay Florist: Religion Is Not An Excuse To Defy Anti-Discrimination Laws
• U.S. Will Fine Takata $14,000/day for Resisting Air Bag Probe
• DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat
• Jesus ‘takes the wheel’ in Mississippi, and other Right-Wing Extremist news
• Texas students flash ‘White Power’ signs during basketball game against rival high school
• Kaspersky Exposes NSA’s Worldwide, Backdoor Hacking of Virtually All Hard-Drive Firmware
• Mississippi judge gets indicted for assaulting and calling a disabled African American a ******
• Conservative lawmakers continue attempts to rewrite history and indoctrinate American children
• The New, Everyday Fiery Train Crash
• New York in 2080: 9 Degrees Warmer, 39 Inches of Sea Level Rise
• Pathology as a requirement to be President of the United States
• Hurricane Sandy Victims Say Damage Reports Were Altered
• ‘Fox News North’ Is Shutting Down
• Is Christianity really monotheistic?
• Black Mississippi judge opens a can of whoopass on white murderers — and it’s awesome
• What the American Diet says about its Culture
• Elizabeth Warren Skewers American Banking Association
• Obama adviser John Podesta’s biggest regret: Keeping America in dark about UFOs
• Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber Resigns
• Alabama’s stand against gay marriage crumbles
• The Megadrought is Coming: Climate Scientists Predict Decade Long Droughts For Much of America
• Law Enforcement news: MX disappearances, WA police shooting, PA death penalty, AZ racist sheriff
• Republicans seek to use voter suppression tactics to keep people hungry
• UK government should have known about HSBC tax issues, says Falciani
• US West Coast seaports mostly shut down amid labor dispute
• Leaders agree to Ukraine cease-fire
• Report on lynching in the US shows historical numbers, like killings by police, are underreported
• Why doom-and-gloom predictions of a Global Economic Collapse are not so farfetched
• Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner Blocks Unions From Collecting ‘Fair Share’ Fees
• Obama, Netanyahu, warmongering, and the perversion of politics
• Constitutional Crisis In Alabama As State Judges Buck Federal Order On Marriage Equality
• What is the Matter with White People?
• Christiegate: United Airlines Caught Bribing Christie Crony Samson
• Merkel defends Ukraine arms stance in face of U.S. criticism
• September 11 conspirator Moussaoui says Saudi royals backed al Qaeda
• ‘Missing Oil’ from 2010 BP Spill Found on Gulf Seafloor
• Chris Christie’s legal woes pile up: Governor’s administration faces new criminal probe
• Red Notice: New Book exposes Business Corruption in Russia and Collusion with Banks in the West
• Point, Set, Match – the statistical case for vaccines
• Mercury levels rising in Pacific yellowfin tuna, study says
• UN court rejects Serbia and Croatia genocide claims
• US oil workers on largest national strike since 1980
• U.S. consumer spending in December weakest since 2009
• Egyptian Court Sentences 183 Muslim Brotherhood Supporters To Death
• Obama Tells House Dems to “Get Informed” on the TPP, But He’s the One Restricting Access to the Text
• Charter Cities Ruled By Multinational Corporations?
• In Feb. 2008, the U.S. and Israel illegally conspired to assassinate a Hezbollah leader in Syria
• The Real Plot to Overthrow FDR’s America (yes, it was a conspiracy)
• The Mainstream Meets Occupy – a preview of Hillary Clinton’s economic strategy for 2016
• Senate Approves Keystone XL Pipeline Bill, Testing Obama
• State-run News? No, it’s not Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, it’s coming to Indiana!
• What is causing the mass deaths of seabirds on the U.S. West Coast?
• Defense lawyers, lawmakers and civil libertarians press for asset seizure reform
• Senator Rand Paul re-introduces ‘Audit the Fed’ bill
• The Prosecutor Who Filed Murder Charges Against The Cops Is Becoming A Police Target
• Institutional Corruption and My One-Man Boycott of the Super Bowl
• Melting, Not Meteorite, Caused East Antarctica Crater
• Oklahoma’s Refreshingly Honest Plan To Discriminate Against Gay People
• Middle Class Shrinks Further as More Fall Out Instead of Climbing Up
• Corporate Tax Break Scheme Is Gaining A Momentum We Must Stop
• How Bernie Sanders, In New Role, Could Make Wall Streeters Very, Very Unhappy
• After Victory at Greek Polls, Alexis Tsipras Is Sworn In and Forms Coalition Government
• Bills look to make the Bible Mississippi’s state book
• As waters acidify, Maine looks to Pacific Northwest peers for help
• Yemen risks disintegration as south rejects Shi’ite group’s takeover
• Anti-austerity Syriza looks set to take the reins of a battered Greece
• Nullification, Now Coming to the Supreme Court?
• Why the Establishment vs Populist divide in the Democratic Party is far worse than in the GOP
• Hong Kong Occupy protest leaders arrested
• An Arctic ice cap’s shockingly rapid slide into the sea
• Three states make MLK Day a joint holiday with Confederate General Robert E. Lee
• Why Assad No Longer ‘Has to Go’
• Austerity is killing Europe: ‘Much Too Responsible’ by Paul Krugman
• Battle lines are drawn on TPP trade deal: Its Obama and GOP versus the Populists in both parties
• U.S. Supreme Court cases could sanction return of Housing Discrimination and Judicial Corruption
• Florida Lawmakers Want To Require Screenings Of Conservative Film In Schools
• State of the Union Television Ratings Drop to 15-Year Low
• Standard & Poor’s will pay nearly $80 million in subprime mortgage settlements
• Progressive critique of Obama SOTU speech: More of the same old lame misdirected rhetoric
• The day the Klan messed with the wrong people
• In Texas, Hunkering Down for the Oil Bust
• Richest 1 Percent To Own More Than Half Of The World’s Wealth By 2016, Oxfam Finds
• Local Elections, Voter Turnout, and the crumbling foundations of American Democracy
• Why We Must Speak Out, Be Active, and Vote
• Remember! Celebrate! Act! (Martin Luther King Day)
• Documents Reveal Details of F.B.I. Inquiry Into Nevada Senator
• Study: Local Economies Still Recovering From Recession
• It’s not just oil that is crashing, and that’s not good
• Police chief suspends training program after outcry over use of black men’s mugshots for target practice
• Hell just froze over: The most right-wing Governor in the U.S. wants to Raise Taxes!
• Why Republicans Suddenly Love Net Neutrality
• 2014 Was Hottest Year on Record, Surpassing 2010
• Washington governor acknowledges his state’s regressive tax policies
• The ‘liberal’ label is getting more and more popular
• Journalist slams CNN, MSNBC and Fox for pushing ‘terrorism expert industrial complex’
• Jamie Dimon Says Banks Are Under Assault As He Announces $4.9 Billion Profit
• Know Where Politicians Stand on the Issues (inc. Candidates)
• Like continental drift (plate tectonics), the great Democratic Party divide grows wider
• California revenue soars, even as tax-cutting states feel the pinch
• Poor Families Pay Double The State And Local Tax Rate As The Rich: Study
• Democrats’ new plan to appeal to their unhappy base is the same old crap – smoke and mirrors
• Albuquerque DA to File Murder Charges Against Two APD Officers
• Republicans plan to exploit Democratic Party divide on Economic Populism
• The Dirty F*cking Hippies Were Right
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• The Conservative Social Agenda at work in the states: It’s all about God and Guns
• Left Coalition ramps up opposition to Obama on secretive TPP trade deal
• George Zimmerman arrested (again) on Aggravated Assault, Domestic Violence with a Weapon charges
• A glimmer of environmental hope on Keystone XL
• The right’s big racism lie: How Tucker Carlson & co. distort “white privilege”
• Cleveland fiscal manager cites killing of Tamir Rice in resignation letter
• White House Rejects Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz’ ‘Overzealous’ Prosecutors
• BREAKING: Nebraska Supreme Court Ruling Upholds Keystone XL Pipeline Route
• Republicans took control of Congress this week, here’s what they’ve been up to
• A Colorado NAACP Office Was Bombed This Week
• Dish Network drops Fox News in dispute over price hike
• Citizens United Must Be Overturned
• In Solidarity Against Hate, Germans Turn Out Lights on Islamophobic, Far-Right Rallies
• Police Chief’s Anti-Racism Sign Both Lauded And Criticized
• Conservatives Admit The Truth On Indiana ‘Religious Liberty’ Bill
• Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell gets only 2 year prison sentence
• Fox News Says We Have TOO MUCH Regulation on Businesses
• World to Oil Producers — We Don’t Want Your Fracking Crude
• Membership in the Dead Bankers’ Society is increasing
• Wearing A Hoodie In Oklahoma Could Soon Cost You A $500 Fine
• NYPD Officers Have All But Stopped Issuing Tickets and Summonses
• Ferguson grand juror sues to be allowed to talk about case
• Dresden crowds tell a chilling tale of Europe’s fear of migrants
• Merkel prepared to let Greece exit eurozone: report
• Christians Don’t Like Facts About Christmas
• The Perversion of Morality in America’s Political Class
• What’s Wrong With Georgia?
• David Duke: Republicans Not Defending Scalise “Better Be Looking Over Their Shoulders”
• Longtime Adviser To David Duke Donated To Steve Scalise
• An Empirical Analysis of Jesus and Christianity (VIDEO)
• Corporatism in Action: Feds sweep Carmen Segarra case under the rug
• Whistleblowing officer makes tape of top cop ordering stop-and-frisks of black males
• Russian shrinkage: Economy contracts in November
• Did he slip up? Chuck Todd speaks a truth that Americans must understand when watching ‘the news’
• Corporatism in Action: Chris Christie is leading the charge to privatize Municipal Water Systems
• Koch-backed group jumps on Pope for climate advocacy, BP accused of insider trading
• #3 House Republican confirms meeting with Racists, convicted felon Representative to resign
• Uber: Meet tech’s new concierge economy, where serfs deliver stuff to rich folk
• Climate Change 2014: What Do We Do Now?
• Michigan Welfare Drug Testing Law: Rick Snyder Approves Suspicion-Based Pilot Program
• Corporatism in Action: New York, New Jersey Governors veto Port Authority reform bills
• U.S. Spy Agency Reports Improper Surveillance of Americans
• Protesters rally for 2nd night after shooting near Ferguson
• Want to watch ‘Outfoxed’? Documentary that exposed Fox News released online in its entirety
• Rep. Michael Grimm Pleads Guilty but Says He Won’t Resign
• Feds: Pregnant teachers at Chicago school rated poorly, targeted for firing
• Fox affiliate apologizes to editing protesters’ chants to say ‘Kill a cop’
• A Startling Admission By The Ferguson Prosecutor Could Restart The Case Against Darren Wilson
• Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow police
• Race Relations with Police worsening in U.S., AP votes it Top Story of 2014
• Arizona ‘Dreamers’ to line up for driver’s licenses; Gov. Brewer vows fight
• Letter to DNC Chair: Why Democrats aren’t voting
• Inside Beijing’s airpocalypse – a city made ‘almost uninhabitable’ by pollution
• The New Center Democrats: There’s No There There
• Foes of Unions Try Their Luck in County Laws
• Senators Demand Answers from U.S. Trade Rep. on Backdoor Financial Deregulation in the TPP
• How Some Really Smart New York Activists Beat Cuomo and Won the Fracking War
• San Jose police officer on leave after posting death threats to protestors on Twitter
• PBS documentary ‘Extreme Realities’ focuses on the Political Consequences of Climate Change
• Did CIA torture violate Nuremberg ban on human experimentation?
• Wealth gap widens between whites, minorities
• New York governor will move to ban fracking in state
• Obama announces U.S. to restore diplomatic ties with Cuba
• Pakistan school massacre: 132 children among 141 dead
• CIA Torture Report poll reveals the questionable morality of the American People
• Doubt persists over N.C. teenager’s hanging death
• Sony Demands News Outlets Stop Publishing Information From Leaked Documents
• Bad News for us Lefties: the Game is Over and We Lost
• Quote of the day: The tragic plight of journalism
• Throwing Racism back into the faces of Racists
• Police officers across U.S. upset at being seen as brutal racists
• Noah’s Ark Loses $18 Million In Tax Breaks
• NYT Journalist James Risen Won’t Be Forced To Reveal His Source
• Correction – December 11, 2014
• Another witness in Michael Brown shooting found dead
• Chicago Police Allegedly Blast ‘Sweet Home Alabama?’ At ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protest
• UN expert calls for prosecution over US torture
• Life ­– a status report
• 2015 NDAA Gives Native American Land to Foreign Mining Corporation
• Congress Deal to Avoid Shutdown Includes Victory for Banks
• Wall Street Moves In For The Kill
• About the strange behavior of officers after they killed Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner
• Labor Unions Accuse Congress of Sneak Attack on Pensions in Lame Duck
• Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Resume With Almost No Media Coverage
• “Rectal Feeding,” Threats to Children, and More: 16 Awful Abuses From the CIA Torture Report
• U.S. Supreme Court rejects BP challenge to Gulf spill settlement
• Republicans Plan To Use Increased Power After Midterms To Restrict Access To Abortion
• Fossil Fuel Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Republican Attorneys General
• Berkeley protests turn violent for a second night in a row
• Bankers Want Your Savings As Part of Their Next Bail-Out
• In Seven States, Atheists Push to End Largely Forgotten Ban
• Michigan House Passes Religious ‘License To Discriminate’ Bill
• Climate Change, Drought, and the Fall of California Agriculture
• What Congress was doing this week while Americans shopped
• Quote of the day: Bill de Blasio on Race
• Illinois Is 3rd State to Call for Constitutional Convention
• US supreme court rules for Monsanto in Indiana farmer’s GM seeds case
• In Kenya, police kill suspects with near-impunity
• Missouri AG confirms Michael Brown grand jury misled by St. Louis DA
• Conservative Media Still Denying How Racism And History Fueled Ferguson
• How Fox News’ Conservative Message Creeps Into Local News Broadcasts
• How One Woman Could Hit The Reset Button In The Case Against Darren Wilson
• N.Y. Protests Held Over Grand Jury Decision Not To Indict Cop Responsible For Eric Garner’s Death
• We told them so: Democrats are searching for their soul… belatedly
• Insane America: White Cops File Suit, Claim They Are Punished Too Much For Shooting People
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