Why Facts Don't Convince People (and what you can do about it)

This is a good explanation for why people (*cough*...Trump supporters...*cough*) often resist facts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S74C-XF9kYY

The Senate Is About To Confirm A Frenzy Of Conservative Judges

I REALLY hate this:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-judicial-nominations-trump_us_59f7b0c5e4b09b5c25689327

John McCain May Have Saved The Republican Party

Hmm, perhaps it would have been better for McCain to have voted for repeal and replace:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-mccain-may-have-saved-the-republican-party_us_597f5471e4b09982b7376663

Trump Drags the Fed Down Into the Political Mud

Trump's game show-like behavior weakens government officials:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-30/trump-drags-the-fed-down-into-the-political-mud

Are you a 'solid liberal,' or something else? This new study helps explain every political type

These are the eight political demographics that pretty much everyone falls into:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/29/1710013/-Are-you-a-solid-liberal-or-something-else-This-new-study-helps-explain-every-political-type

It's useful to help distinguish one type of voter from another.

Seven ways the wealthy raise taxes on the 99 percent after cutting them for themselves

Don't let them tell you the poor don't pay taxes:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/29/1709691/-Seven-ways-the-wealthy-raise-taxes-on-the-99-percent-after-cutting-them-for-themselves

Ex-Trump Adviser George Papadopoulos Pleads Guilty in Mueller’s Russia Probe

Here's someone else who was in deep and has been cooperating with the FBI:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-campaign-adviser-george-papadopoulos-pleads-guilty-lying-n815596

Something that sounds awfully suspicious:

"We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips," the email said, according to the documents. "It should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal."

It sure looks like there was collusion between the Trump operation and Russia

Arresting Manafort and Gates is an important first step for Mueller's investigation, and it sets the tone for what may come...and it looks awfully suspicious for Trump:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/30/16571114/trump-russia-mueller-indictments-manafort-gates-papadopolous

GOP Doesn’t Seem To Hate Debt So Much Now That It Wants A Tax Cut

More goddamn hypocrisy!

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-obama-debt_us_59f393a8e4b077d8dfc9adff

Donald Trump supporters watching outrageous fake Trump campaign ads is amazing

I believe I posted this last year, but it's worth another look to see the problem with Trump supporters from the perspective of Trump having actually won:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/17/1561111/-Donald-Trump-supporters-watching-outrageous-fake-Trump-campaign-ads-is-amazing

Trump Often Says He Has Proof For His Claims. But He Never Comes Through.

The emperor has no clothes:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-proof_us_59f221bce4b03cd20b80424b

Movie Review: The Brainwashing of My Dad

This is what happened to my own dad:

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/26/1710011/-Movie-Review-The-Brainwashing-of-My-Dad

"An expert explains that brainwashing does not have to involve force, that you can sort of slide into it. There are 5 factors that are involved – isolation, control, uncertainty, repetition, strong emotions. Right wing media creates uncertainty, fear and anger. And most people listen to right wing radio when they are alone – in their car, their garage, their house.

The film outlines recognizable tactics: 1 – lie and skew; 2 – create confusion and doubt; 3 – blame and divide; 4 – brand and label; 5 – language and framing; 6 – fear mongering and use of emotion; 7 – bullying and shaming; 8 – in your face! (it’s everywhere); 9 – non-verbal manipulation."

Have We Reached Trump’s Tipping Point?

Here's to hoping:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/have-we-reached-trumps-tipping-point_us_59f33370e4b05f0ade1b567e

Unsealed Documents Show That Kris Kobach Is Dead Set on Suppressing the Right to Vote

There needs to be a Constitutional Amendment requiring all legislation to be evidence-based!

https://www.aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression/unsealed-documents-show-kris-kobach-dead-set

Republicans Really Don’t Think It’s Their Job To Keep Trump In Check

Seriously? What do you think "balance of powers" means, you shitbirds?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-trump_us_59f0e4d7e4b0af27f58930c4

Four Quitters Walk Into a Bar...

Very insightful perspectives from four people who were in the government during the Trumpocalypse:

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/trump-quitters/

As GOP Senators Bail, Republicans Are Learning What A Trump Party Looks Like

RIP GOP:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/grand-old-trump-party-republicans_us_59efd400e4b04917c59412e4

Senate GOP Gives Huge Gift To Big Banks, Stripping Consumers Of Right To Sue As Group

One fuck you after another from the Trump administration:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate-class-action-arbitration-big-banks_us_59f00188e4b0b7e63265c47e

Sen. Flake announces he won't run in 2018

If you haven't listened to the entire speech, you should. It's a powerful condemnation of Trump and the Republicans in Congress:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/10/24/senator-jeff-flake-full-remarks-no-re-election-2018.cnn

Trump's inaction on climate change carries a big price tag, federal report finds

Maybe the fact that climate change will harm the economy will get the GOP on board? Nah:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-climate-gao-20171024-story.html

How an Anti-Intellectual Elite Are Turning the World Upside Down

The growing anti-intellectualism in the world (especially here!) is extremely disturbing:

http://bigthink.com/videos/salman-rushdie-how-an-anti-intellectual-elite-are-turning-the-world-upside-down

Trump’s latest big interview is both funny and terrifying

It's insane that someone this stupid could be elected president:

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2017/10/23/16522456/trump-bartiromo-transcript

EPA Abruptly Blocks 3 Agency Scientists From Giving Talks On Climate Change

More anti-science bullshit!

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-scientists-talks_us_59ed4d37e4b00f08619f953c

Your memories are idealized versions of a past that never existed

This is a large part of why conservatives don't have as strong a grip on reality:

https://qz.com/1108119/why-we-idealize-our-memories-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/?mc_cid=ed539b66d9&mc_eid=c4215c6c8c

The EPA Just Removed Climate Change From Their Climate Change Website

Grrr:

https://futurism.com/the-epa-just-removed-climate-change-from-their-climate-change-website/

Senate Republicans Finally Got Something Done. They Should Thank Steve Bannon

Republicans always rail against deficits...until they get into power, cut taxes, and blow the deficit out of the water:

http://time.com/4991754/senate-budget-steve-bannon/

Scott Pruitt Casts Doubt on EPA Document Showing the Dangers of Climate Change

The insanity of science denial drives me nuts:

http://time.com/4990265/scott-pruitt-clean-power-plan-epa/

Having children is not life-affirming: it’s immoral

This approaches the topic from several interesting perspectives:

https://aeon.co/essays/having-children-is-not-life-affirming-its-immoral?mc_cid=fb94dd2801&mc_eid=c4215c6c8c

For instance:

"Considering matters carefully, it’s obvious that there must be more bad than good. This is because there are empirical asymmetries between the good and bad things. The worst pains, for instance, are worse than the best pleasures are good. If you doubt this, ask yourself – honestly – whether you would accept a minute of the worst tortures in exchange for a minute or two of the greatest delights. And pains tend to last longer than pleasures. Compare the fleeting nature of gustatory and sexual pleasures with the enduring character of much pain. There are chronic pains, of the lower back or joints for example, but there is no such thing as chronic pleasure."

Paul Ryan used a comedy routine to say what he really thinks about Donald Trump

Yet more hypocrisy. Ryan should be condemning Trump directly, rather than hide behind jokes:

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2017/10/20/16507646/paul-ryan-jokes-trump-al-smith

The Real Reason Taxes Suck (And Why They Don't Have To)

Yeah...why do WE have to write up the bill?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGVK4ibMI-Y&feature=youtu.be

Obama’s name to replace Jefferson Davis on Jackson elementary school

Right wing heads will explode in three...two...one...

https://mississippitoday.org/2017/10/17/obamas-name-replace-jeff-davis-jackson-elementary-school/

How Hillary Clinton Still Can, and Should, Become President After the Trump-Russia Investigation

It's a vanishingly small chance, but...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hillary-clinton-still-become-president-200005291.html

The Supreme Court Is Allergic To Math

This is disturbing:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-supreme-court-is-allergic-to-math/?ex_cid=538fb

Trump Claims Congresswoman Lied About His Call To Army Widow

This just shows how incapable Trump is of even SHOWING some humanity:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-congresswoman-call-army-widow_us_59e73b81e4b00905bdadb6dc

Sci-fi writer baffles abortion foes with simple question: Would you save 1,000 embryos or one child in fire?

This is an excellent test to use against pro-lifers:

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/sci-fi-writer-baffles-abortion-foes-with-simple-question-would-you-save-1000-embryos-or-one-child-in-fire/

I think one useful option would be to lead with the first part of the "trolley problem" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem) by asking:

"There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the side track. You have two options: 1) Do nothing, and the trolley kills the five people on the main track. 2) Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person. Which is the most ethical choice?"

Assuming they choose option #2, then ask them the 1000 embryos question, only phrase it as replacing the group of five people with the vat of 1000 embryos and replacing the single person with the young child. That should drive the hypocrisy point home.

Trump allies worry that losing the House means impeachment

And here is further encouragement to get people out to vote Democrat during the 2018 elections:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/politics/democrats-house-midterm-elections/index.html

Here's why Republicans are in deep trouble in 2018

This is looking good! Well, assuming the Democrats don't fuck it up:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/house-republicans-2018-generic-ballot/index.html

Trump Refuses To Blame Himself For GOP ‘Not Getting The Job Done’

I don't think Hair Furor knows how a president is supposed to help get things done:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-blame-senate-republicans_us_59e4e142e4b0a52aca19b31b

Trump Reportedly Joked That Pence 'Wants To Hang' All Gays

The Groper in Chief's lackey isn't much better:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-gays-pence-wants-apos-142750033.html

Tropical forests caused the biggest atmospheric CO2 increase in 2,000 years

Ugh, so now there's even less time to act:

https://qz.com/1102841/tropical-forests-caused-the-highest-co2-levels-in-2000-years-says-nasas-orbiting-carbon-observatory/

This Publisher Is Offering $10 Million for Information That Could Get President Trump Impeached

Maybe THIS will convince Trump's accountant to spill the beans?

http://fortune.com/2017/10/15/laryr-flynt-washington-post-ad-donald-trump-impeachment/

How Facebook May Have Destroyed Our Democracy—For Good

To those who think Russian fake news had no impact on the election:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/15/1706527/-How-Facebook-May-Have-Destroyed-Our-Democracy-For-Good

Trump, Chieftain of Spite

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/opinion/columnists/trump-spite-obama-legacy.html?_r=0

Robert Reich Says Republicans Are Ready To Pull The Plug On Trump

I hope the Republicans get the nerve to pull the plug:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/14/1706945/-Robert-Reich-Says-Republicans-Are-Ready-To-Pull-The-Plug-On-Trump

Why Trump's Threats Against the NFL May Violate the First Amendment

I wonder if this huge pile of Trumpian violations will accrue and reach some legal tipping point, or whether there is no additive effect and instead only his worst violation determines his fate and everything else is ignored?

http://bigthink.com/stephen-johnson/why-trumps-threats-against-the-nfl-may-violate-the-first-amendment

This New Weapon from North Korea Could Kill Up to 90% of Americans

The threat of an EMP from a high-altitude nuclear detonation destroying the US has never gone away, and now it's taken on a new dimension with North Korea obtaining nukes and ICBMs:

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/congress-warned-this-new-weapon-from-north-korea-could-kill-up-to-90-percent-of-americans

Heavy research into anti-ICBM technology is probably the best overall deterrent, I would say.

International Monetary Fund Report Shows Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Are a Bad Idea

Tax cuts for the middle class plus raising taxes on the wealthy make for a much healthier economy than Republican policies:

http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/imf-report-shows-why-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-are-a-bad-idea

https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2017/sep/10/tax-cuts-for-the-rich-dont-help-the-rest-dont-take-my-word-for-it-ask-the-imf

The Science Of Fox News: Why Its Viewers Are The Most Misinformed

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/10/23/1338538/--The-Science-Of-Fox-News-Why-Its-Viewers-Are-The-Most-Misinformed

Why So Many People Believe Conspiracy Theories

Not exactly a political post, but it does explain why so many conspiracy theories crop up concerning politicians:

http://time.com/4965093/conspiracy-theories-beliefs/

President Trump's Biggest Enemy on Tax Reform: Himself

A nice parade of Trump's self-inflicted failures:

http://time.com/4981926/donald-trump-tax-reform-congress/

No, Birth Control Doesn’t Make You Have Riskier Sex, Researchers Say

Per usual, conservatives have their facts wrong:

http://time.com/4975951/donald-trump-birth-control-mandate-sexual-behavior/

Mike Pence spent a million dollars to watch one minute of a football game—and you paid for it

In case this wasn't already clear for everyone:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/9/1705409/-Mike-Pence-spent-a-million-dollars-to-watch-one-minute-of-a-football-game-and-you-paid-for-it

Why the World Is (Still) Better Than You Think—New Evidence For Abundance

Some positive news for those who think the world is going to hell in a handbasket:

https://singularityhub.com/2017/10/12/why-the-world-is-still-better-than-you-think-new-evidence-for-abundance/

Global Warming Scenarios: When temperatures rise between 1 and 6 degrees

This puts the real danger we're in into perspective:

https://futurism.com/images/global-warming-scenarios/

The scariest part...if we don't keep warming below 2 degrees, the feedback loop will likely destroy almost everything.

Charlottesville Victim Charged For Being Beaten By Six Nazis While Black

Welcome to Trump's America:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/11/1706134/-Charlottesville-Victim-Charged-For-Being-Beaten-By-Six-Nazis-While-Black

Why the "tax cuts for the rich stimulate the economy" conservative mantra is bullshit

Article by Nick Hanauer (founder of Civic Action, zillionaire):


The Republican tax plan is a scam—a massive and destructive financial giveaway masquerading as pro-growth tax reform. Which is why our first response must be to demand not one penny of tax cuts for big corporations and rich guys like me. In fact, if I were Benevolent Dictator, I would substantially raise taxes on myself and my wealthy friends. Why? It is the only way to sustainably grow the economy, boost productivity, increase business opportunities and create more and better jobs.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: That’s crazy talk! For decades, rich guys like me have been selling you tax cuts on the merits of pure economic stimulus. The rich are “job creators,” we’ve told you. The more money and incentives we wealthy few have to invest in creating jobs, the better the economy is for everybody—especially you.

That’s a lie.

There is is simply no empirical evidence nor plausible economic mechanism to support the claim that cutting top tax rates spurs economic growth. When President Bill Clinton hiked taxes, the economy boomed. When President George W. Bush slashed taxes, the economy ultimately collapsed. It wasn’t until after most of the Bush tax cuts expired during the Obama administration that the post-Great Recession recovery started to pick up steam—an ongoing recovery that, as uneven as it has been, has grown into one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history.

And then, of course, there’s Kansas.

In 2012, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback famously embarked on what he called “a real live experiment,” pitting pure trickle-down theory against economic reality. Unfortunately for Kansans, reality won. Kansas has dramatically underperformed its neighboring states and the nation as a whole both in economic growth and in job creation since slashing taxes on individuals and corporations to as low as zero. Compare that to California, which in 2012 elicited the usual apocalyptic warnings from trickle-downers by daring to raise its top income tax rate to a highest-in-the-nation 13.3 percent. By 2015, California had the fastest-growing economy in the nation. Kansas? Dead last.

And the evidence is more than just anecdotal. Multi-decade statistical reviews by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, and the highly-regarded Brookings Institution have all failed to find any negative correlation between top tax rates and growth. And the same holds true of every other economic indicator the trickle-downers like to go on about: tax revenue growth, investment growth, employment growth, productivity growth, real median income growth. If they show any statistically significant correlation between top tax rates and growth, the slope is positive, suggesting that raising taxes on the rich is actually pro-growth. “The argument that income tax cuts raise growth is repeated so often that it is sometimes taken as gospel,” the Brookings authors conclude. “However, theory, evidence, and simulation studies tell a different and more complicated story.”

President Trump boasts that the “biggest winners” from his tax cuts for the rich “will be the everyday American workers as jobs start pouring into our country, as companies start competing for American labor, and as wages start going up at levels that you haven't seen in many years." But the Republicans’ problem is that they have economic cause and effect reversed: Low wages and rising inequality are not symptoms of slow growth, low wages and rising inequality are the disease that causes slow growth—and inequality cannot be cured by creating even more inequality. In reality, our modern technological economy is best understood as an evolutionary feedback loop between innovation and demand. Innovation is the process through which we evolve new solutions to human problems, while consumer demand is the mechanism through which the market selects and propagates successful innovations. And it is economic inclusion—the full participation of as many people as possible in as many ways as possible, as innovators, entrepreneurs, workers and robust consumers—that drives both innovation and demand. The more we invest in the American people—in our wages, our education, our healthcare and our infrastructure—the more dynamic that feedback loop, and thus the faster and more prosperous our economy grows. But the Trump/Ryan tax cuts—which promise to slash rates for the wealthy and the corporations they run—would do nothing to increase innovation or demand.

Today, wealthy corporations and investors already have more money than we know what to do with—literally trillions of dollars of hoarded cash just sitting in U.S. bank accounts doing absolutely nothing—and yes, that includes the several trillion dollars of foreign earnings the Trump administration wants to “repatriate” tax free. The truth is, these “overseas” reserves are largely an accounting trick. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, much of this money is already held in U.S. bank deposits, in U.S. Treasury notes, and in dollar-dominated corporate securities. That’s why the last time Congress enacted a foreign earnings “tax holiday,” far from boosting the economy, the biggest corporate beneficiaries actually cut thousands of domestic jobs, choosing instead to funnel their after-tax windfall into (surprise!) stock buybacks and dividends. Every “$1 increase in repatriations was associated with an increase of almost $1 in payouts to shareholders,” Harvard and MIT researchers concluded. Obviously, a tax holiday can’t possibly deliver an economic boost from bringing home dollars that are already here.

The real problem with our economy is that we are concentrating wealth in the hands of people who aren’t spending or investing it, while starving working and middle-class Americans of the ability to invest in themselves—not to mention sapping the consumer spending power that accounts for 70 percent of GDP. We rich Americans may not all be idle, but these days, much of our money is—and you will not get it flowing back through the economy again by cutting our taxes even further. I already earn about 1,000 times more per hour than the average American, but I couldn’t possibly buy 1,000 times more stuff. I only own so many pairs of pants. My family and I can only eat three meals a day. We enjoy a luxurious lifestyle, but we already own several houses, a private jet, and one too many yachts (turns out, the optimal number is two). Cutting our taxes will make us richer, but it won’t incentivize me or my venture capital partners to spend or invest more than we already do. What’s holding us back isn’t a shortage of cash, but rather a shortage of demand—from you.

That’s why I join the Not One Penny campaign in opposing any effort to cut taxes on wealthy people like me. The American tax code is already rigged in favor of the rich and powerful, and the Trump/Ryan tax plan would only make it worse. If we truly want an economy that works better for all Americans, we need to move in the other direction.

We should create more tax brackets, not fewer, with substantially higher tax rates on our wealthiest households and our largest inherited estates. As for simplifying the tax code, here’s an idea: Let’s treat all income equally. For example, I’d eliminate the cap of $127,000 on payroll taxes, apply it to all income, and then slash the rate, increasing the spending power of most Americans. Rich people like me make most of our money from dividends and capital gains, and it’s just plain crazy that I pay a lower tax rate on investment income than a truck driver or school teacher pays on their hard-earned wages or a small businessperson pays on her hard-won profits. As for the corporate income tax rate, cut it if you want—but only if those cuts are more than offset by eliminating corporate tax loopholes. As a percent of federal tax revenue, corporate income taxes already account for only a third of what they did in the 1950s, despite years of record profits. What corporate America needs and deserves is a fairer, simpler, more predictable tax code, not a cheaper one.

More importantly, what our economy needs now, at this moment in time, is a massive reinvestment in expanding and enriching the working and middle class. Tax the rich to put money back in the hands of the American people, and corporations will expand production and payrolls to meet the resulting spike in consumer demand. Tax the rich to invest in roads, transit, bridges, healthcare, schools and basic research, and America will rebuild the physical and human infrastructure on which innovation and thus our collective prosperity relies. Tax the rich not just because it is fair, but because experience teaches us that in America fairness and growth always go hand in hand.

The trickle-down myth on which the Trump/Ryan tax plan relies represents much more than just a fundamental mischaracterization of how market capitalism works. It is, in fact, a scam and an intimidation tactic. When rich guys like me tell you that if you cut our taxes we’ll invest in creating more and better jobs, that is a scam. When we tell you that if you raise our taxes (or your wages) you might lose your job, that is a threat. Either way, if we can get you to believe that taxing the rich is bad for you, then we will get richer. The beauty of this con job is that it hides our true intent: We’re rich, you’re poor, and we’d like it to stay that way. And like any good con, rather than stealing your money, we just persuade you to hand it over voluntarily.

But we’ve been playing this con so long that we rich folk have started to con ourselves into believing that there is no limit to how much we can enrich ourselves at your expense. This epidemic of greed is crushing new investment opportunities before they can arise. The irony is that it was always you who enriched us, not the other way around. Back when we paid our fair share and invested in growing the middle class, prosperity always trickled up.

So please, don’t just raise taxes on me because it’s good for you. Do it for me and for all my rich friends. Raise our taxes. And watch America grow.

“I Hate Everyone In The White House!”: Trump Seethes As Advisers Fear The President Is “Unraveling”

Is Trump losing it? Is this a good thing or a potential disaster?

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/donald-trump-is-unraveling-white-house-advisers

Energy Companies Don't Like the Clean Power Plan — or President Trump's Plan to Kill It

At least industry is pushing back against it, and the EPA has to move against global warming:

http://time.com/4976455/clean-power-plan-repeal-scott-pruitt-trump/

Trump Wanted Tenfold Increase in Nuclear Arsenal, Surprising Military

A toddler playing with a loaded gun:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-wanted-dramatic-increase-nuclear-arsenal-meeting-military-leaders-n809701

Trump's abysmal 16 percent approval among Latinos is sending GOP strategists into a panic

This is nice to see:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/10/1705864/-Trump-s-abysmal-16-percent-approval-among-Latinos-is-sending-GOP-strategists-into-a-panic

The Case for Impeaching Donald Trump Is Real and Serious. Here’s Why.

There are a LOT of reasons:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-case-for-impeaching-donald-trump-is-real-and-serious-heres-why

GOP Chair Lies to CNN Saying 'Women Never Came Forward' to Report Trump's Sexual Abuse

Yet more Republican hypocrisy:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/9/1705617/-GOP-Chair-Lies-to-CNN-Saying-Women-Never-Came-Forward-to-Report-Trump-s-Sexual-Abuse

I have been a gun owner for more than 30 years

How to be both pro-gun and pro-gun control:

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2012/12/15/1170178/-I-have-been-a-gun-owner-for-more-than-30-years

Armed vet proves NRA wrong, explains why he didn't confront Oregon shooter with his 'good guy' gun

Why the claim that it takes a good guy with a gun to take out a bad guy with a gun is wrong:

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2015/10/03/1427420/-Armed-Vet-proves-NRA-wrong-and-explains-why-he-didn-t-confront-Oregon-Killer-with-Good-Guy-Gun

Trump Is Filling Court Seats With Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Abortion Judges

Next to a potential nuclear war, filling courts with overly conservative judges is the WORST thing about Trump:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-judicial-nominee-abortion-rights_us_59d67a63e4b046f5ad96e117

Charles J. Sykes: Where the Right Went Wrong

http://time.com/4963229/charles-j-sykes-where-the-right-went-wrong/

Senator destroys a Trump EPA nominee unable to acknowledge facts

See the video. This is how climate change deniers should be treated:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/5/1704384/-Senator-destroys-a-Trump-EPA-nominee-unable-to-acknowledge-facts

One Undeniable Factor In Gun Violence: Men

Conservative white guys aren't just the racist and serial killer demographic...they're also the most gun-crazy:

http://time.com/4968842/one-undeniable-factor-in-gun-violence-men/

Interior Whistleblower Quits, Lambastes Ryan Zinke’s ‘Resume Of Failure’

History won't be kind to this dickweed administration:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joel-clement-resigns-interior-department_us_59d52f63e4b0cde45872936d

Voting Rights Roundup: GOP launches group to raise tens of millions for 2020s redistricting battles

This is one of the biggest political issues of our time:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/29/1702759/-Voting-Rights-Roundup-GOP-launches-group-to-raise-tens-of-millions-for-2020s-redistricting-battles

Texas taxes for family planning services were illegally spent by forced-birther group

The end result? "Rates of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia are on the rise. Texas health officials report alarming “clusters” of HIV transmission popping up in 16 areas of the state.  The rate of second-trimester abortions, which are more painful and expensive, is on the rise as women in the state have more difficulty getting contraception and early-term abortions. Texas now has the worst maternal mortality rate in the developed world and has fallen behind the rest of the country when it comes to the decline in teen births. The state’s Medicaid system is straining as the number of births to low-income women rose, in part because they lack affordable or convenient access to contraception."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/28/1702514/-Complaint-Texas-taxes-okayed-for-family-planning-services-diverted-to-crisis-pregnancy-centers

Media framing of Las Vegas shooter shows the bias in how violence perpetrated by whites is covered

And now it's media hypocrisy. Should white men now apologize for the Las Vegas shooting?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/3/1703725/-Media-framing-of-Las-Vegas-shooter-shows-the-bias-in-how-violence-perpetrated-by-whites-is-covered

How Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., Avoided a Criminal Indictment

I see it runs in the family:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-ivanka-trump-and-donald-trump-jr-avoided-a-criminal-indictment

Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest

Hypocrisy thy name is Republican:

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018

Earth May Be Close to 'Threshold of Catastrophe'

This is painfully sobering:

https://www.livescience.com/60578-sixth-mass-extinction-may-be-inevitable.html

Why Paying for Nutrition Saves Money on Health Care

Of course Trump is trying to cut this:

http://time.com/4962475/nutrition-snap-health-care

President Trump Compliments Kim Jong Un, Makes Case For North Korean Nukes

Perhaps a plausible solution to the North Korea problem?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/president-trump-compliments-kim-jong-un-makes-case_us_59cfcf9ee4b034ae778d4b01

Why Millennial Women Are Embracing Atheism

I'm digging this trend:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/why-millennial-women-embracing-atheism-044500527.html

The Day Donald Trump Watched An Octogenarian Bleeding To Death And Did Nothing To Help

What a complete dick....

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/28/1702578/-The-Day-Donald-Trump-Watched-An-Octagenarian-Bleeding-To-Death-And-Did-Nothing-To-Help

Stephen Chu shares some sobering climate change math

Things could be a lot worse than we think:

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/26/1701649/-Stephen-Chu-shares-some-sobering-climate-change-math

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