Behold the Trump boomerang effect

Unless you have a Washington Post account, you'll need to google "trump boomerang" and click on the first link to be able to read this article (if you do have an account, here's the link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/behold-the-trump-boomerang-effect/2017/07/30/8534a696-73ac-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html?utm_term=.ae30fdb60dff).

But it's worth it to see how Trump's attempts to damage our world and our society keep causing an opposite reaction.

The GOP Is No Longer A ‘Conservative’ Party

I remember having respect for the Republican party, even when I didn't agree with them. That was many, many years ago:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-no-longer-conservative-party_us_59767dd6e4b0e201d5776f8c

Data Shows Summers are Now Either “Hot” or “Extremely Hot” Compared to 50 Years Ago

More evidence to use on climate change deniers:

https://futurism.com/data-shows-summers-are-now-either-hot-or-extremely-hot-compared-to-50-years-ago/

Who's Afraid of Donald Trump? Good Question.

And this is how the tide turns:

http://time.com/4878779/trump-healthcare-sessions-russia/?xid=newsletter-brief

Powerful testimony on exactly what Vladimir Putin wanted from Trump and why

A very interesting perspective on why there was such a push by Russians to overturn the Magnitsky Act:

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/28/1684989/-William-Browder-breaks-down-exactly-what-Putin-wanted-from-Trump-and-why

Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon

THIS is what our government officials have come down to. Can you imagine how quickly this jerk would have been out on his ass if he had been in Obama's administration?

http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon

Republicans’ Obamacare repeal drive has revealed a political system where words have no meaning

The level of hypocrisy in the GOP, especially Mitch McConnell, is truly mind-blowing:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/27/16035644/republicans-obamacare-repeal-lying

Utilities Knew About Climate Change Back In 1968 And Still Battled The Science

That's why regulation and oversight are so critical. Corporations are amoral, if not evil, and have priorities other than the long-term health of the planet and society:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/utilities-climate-change_us_597673e0e4b0c95f375dd60d

Whatever You Do, Do Not Take Your Eye Off Trump’s War on Science

Trump's anti-science agenda is shaping up to be the scariest thing about his administration:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/07/25/do_not_take_your_eye_off_trump_s_war_on_science.html

House Science Committee Chair Says Climate Change Is A Good Thing

Of all the fucking ignorant stupidity...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lamar-smith-climate-change-beneficial_us_59765a54e4b0e201d577466d

For every good thing there will be ten BAD things!

The Triumph of Obama’s Long Game

A conservative says of Obama's ACA: "a testament to the skills and vision and tenacity of our greatest living president, whose political shadow completely eclipses the monstrous, ridiculous fool who succeeded him." Nicely said.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/the-triumph-of-obamas-long-game.html

Why Hourly Wages Don't Make Sense, but a 30-Hour Workweek Does

http://bigthink.com/videos/michael-slaby-why-hourly-wages-dont-make-sense-but-a-30-hour-workweek-does

Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, and why Trump is so afraid of it, explained

An excellent breakdown of the investigation into Trump and Russia:

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/24/16008272/robert-mueller-fbi-trump-russia-explained

Obama Derangement Syndrome

Lest we forget the vitriol conservatives dumped on Obama, who was better than Trump by virtually every presidential metric:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhUrwWNlKuE

Trump Is Setting The Stage To Fire Mueller

How far will he go before the GOP in Congress kicks back?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-is-setting-the-stage-to-fire-mueller_us_59721e4ae4b0545a5c30ff98

Of course he did: Trump picked climate science denier for Ag Department's top science post

Ditto this:

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/20/1682393/-Of-course-he-did-Trump-picks-climate-science-denier-for-Ag-Department-s-top-science-post

Senate Confirms Federal Judge Who Compared Abortion To Slavery

Apart from hypothetical scenarios (e.g., nuclear war), actions like this are the biggest Trump nightmare:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-bush-judge-mcconnell-abortion-slavery_us_5970d2a7e4b062ea5f905f3f

The Trump Administration Has Quietly Cut More Than $213 Million From Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs

Way to go, you short-thinking bastards:

http://time.com/money/4864983/teen-pregnancy-prevention-program-funding-cuts/

The Hard-Right Sticks With Trump No Matter What

This is the worst legacy of Trump:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-hard-right-sticks-with-trump-no-matter-what_us_5970eddae4b062ea5f9092e5

Immediate Carbon Capture is Critical to Avoiding Extreme Climate Change, Scientists Say

Oh, fuck. We need a moonshot for developing nanotechnology to enable negative emissions ASAP:

https://futurism.com/immediate-carbon-capture-is-critical-to-avoiding-extreme-climate-change-scientists-say/

How Deranged Are Trump Supporters? New Poll Shows That It's Worse Than You Ever Imagined

Welp, time to completely ignore trying to recruit Trump voters and instead assemble the messages everyone else wants and run on that:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/19/1682182/-How-Deranged-Are-Trump-Supporters-New-Poll-Shows-That-It-s-Worse-Than-You-Ever-Imagined

I’m a scientist. I’m blowing the whistle on the Trump administration.

Scientists need to fight back more:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/im-a-scientist-the-trump-administration-reassigned-me-for-speaking-up-about-climate-change/2017/07/19/389b8dce-6b12-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html

Inside the Secret Plan to Stop Vladimir Putin’s U.S. Election Plot

A comprehensive look at the whole election hacking issue:

http://time.com/4865982/secret-plan-stop-vladimir-putin-election-plot/

Team Trump Used Obamacare Money to Run PR Effort Against It

This is all kinds of wrong:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trump-used-obamacare-money-to-run-ads-against-it

Excerpts From The Times’s Interview With Trump

Trump confuses life insurance with health insurance, and other stupid things Trump blathers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-transcript.html

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/20/politics/trump-new-york-times-interview/index.html

Sean Hannity Attacks ‘Pampered, Overpaid, Spoiled’ GOP For ‘Epic Failure’

The beautiful sound of conservative extremists attacking one another:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sean-hannity-attacks-pampered-overpaid-spoiled-gop-for-epic-failure_us_596efb14e4b0a03aba85cc7a

Well ranted!

Wendy Davis: Why Isn’t Texas Addressing Its Staggering Maternal Mortality Rate?

For those who wonder what healthcare in conservative states is like:

http://motto.time.com/4862727/wendy-davis-texas-maternal-mortality-rate/?xid=newsletter-brief

WSJ torches Trump and Don Jr.: ‘They have created the appearance of a conspiracy’

So now even the conservative WSJ is attacking the Trump administration:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wsj-torches-trump-don-jr-created-appearance-conspiracy-144342071.html

Nice!

I Ran Oppo Research Against Donald Trump. He Has No Idea What He’s Talking About.

More evidence Hair Furor has no idea what he's doing:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/15/i-ran-oppo-research-against-donald-trump-he-has-no-idea-what-hes-talking-about-215381

Trump Is Violating The Iran Deal

More pettiness against Obama and reckless behavior from Trump, which isn't getting much coverage:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-is-violating-the-iran-deal_us_5968cd05e4b03389bb16ccdb

GOP-Led House Approves Defense Bill Declaring Climate Change a 'Direct Threat to National Security'

At least the military gets it. And this is a screw you to Trump. But the GOP approves???

http://time.com/4858987/defense-bill-climate-change-military-spending/?xid=newsletter-brief

The Uninhabitable Earth

How bad it could very well be:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html?mc_cid=077aedcc63&mc_eid=c4215c6c8c

How Donald Trump Jr.'s Emails Have Cranked Up the Heat on His Family

A good primer on the whole Donald Trump Jr. mess:

http://time.com/4856233/donald-trump-jr-emails/?xid=newsletter-brief

What Would Happen If Humans Disappeared?

Assuming we succumb to climate change (won't happen, but still this is an interesting thought experiment):

https://futurism.com/videos/what-would-happen-if-humans-disappeared/

Teen Abortions Surged In Texas After Republicans Defunded Planned Parenthood

As if we couldn't see this coming:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/texas-planned-parenthood-teen-abortion_us_59653229e4b09b587d63018a

The Majority Of Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad For The U.S., Poll Shows

This is so profoundly wrong:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-college-poll_us_59639fe2e4b0d5b458ec4481

They truly are the party of stupid....

Report: The U.S. Will Exceed Its Paris Accord Goals Despite Trump’s Official Withdrawal

America and reality sticks its thumb in Trump's eye:

https://futurism.com/report-the-u-s-will-exceed-its-paris-accord-goals-despite-trumps-official-withdrawal/

Why Trump Pulling Out of the Paris Agreement Led to a Stronger Global Climate Change Plan

Sometimes it takes a villain to inspire heroes:

http://time.com/4850421/g20-trump-paris-agreement-climate-change/?xid=newsletter-brief

What on Earth Is Wrong With Connecticut?

Liberal Connecticut is failing...but why, exactly? The reasons are complicated but interesting:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/connecticut-tax-inequality-cities/532623/?mc_cid=ce3cb55747&mc_eid=c4215c6c8c

How to Deal With North Korea

All the choices for dealing with North Korea suck mightily:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-worst-problem-on-earth/528717/?mc_cid=ec93894bd4&mc_eid=c4215c6c8c

As GOP moves toward repeal, a government report shows Obamacare is working well

Fix it, don't break it!

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-cms-risk-report-20170703-story,amp.html

America’s Future Is Texas

A long-ass article on the growing impact of Texas on the political sphere. Despite its increasingly blue state leanings, conservatives have taken over the government:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/americas-future-is-texas?mc_cid=0c42379bd4&mc_eid=c4215c6c8c

A Record 58% of People in Scotland Have No Religious Affiliation

Nice to see these trends continuing in this direction:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/07/02/a-record-58-of-people-in-scotland-have-no-religious-affiliation/

How the Left Lost Its Mind

The left (including me) can be guilty of passing on unsubstantiated stories:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/liberal-fever-swamps/530736/?utm_source=hpfb

But at least the left tends to abandon such stories when they turn out to be false, unlike so many on the right:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/republicans-seem-more-susceptible-to-fake-news-than-democrats-but-liberals-dont-feel-too-comfy-yet/

Some good quotes from past presidents and others

https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-of-President-Trumps-tweets-about-Mika-Brzezinski-and-Joe-Scarborough/answer/Aurora-Clawson?share=9d5fdc09&srid=uBhZO

An on-point message from Gideon Lichfield at Quartz

Another week, another crude Twitter outburst from the US president, another torrent of outrage from his detractors. But what if we just agreed to ignore the man?

At Quartz it’s already our policy not to write stories about how crazy the latest crazy thing he said is. But even the not-crazy things he says are increasingly irrelevant. The president has essentially ceded foreign policyto his generals and his son-in-law, and when he does speak on such issues as NATO or Qatar he only creates confusion. His staff manage him like a child. Foreign governments go around him(paywall). NATO has learned to look like it’s doing his bidding, increasing its budget just slightly faster than before. State and local governments set their own policies when they don’t like his. When he promises to build a wall with Mexico, punish China, or cancel Nafta… well, we don’t need to tell you.

A normal US president is like a creature in the middle of lake, his every move creating far-reaching ripples. This one is like a rock in a stream; he creates turbulence and is to be avoided, but everything flows on around him.

OK, he has nuclear codes. You don’t ignore a man with nuclear codes. But you don’t have to lavish attention on him either. Actually, attention is what gets him riled up.

It’s time to stop being outraged. It isn’t even really outrage—it’s gloatrage, when you’re secretly thrilled that he’s proving himself to be just as bad as you thought. (Admit it.)

The president of the United States is an irrelevance. Pay close attention to those around him, but ignore the man himself. We can do it. We have the technology.

Look, we didn’t even say his name.