More Republicans Than You Think Support Action on Climate Change

This is encouraging:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/29/opinion/sunday/republicans-climate-change-polls.html

How Donald Trump Lost More Than Just the Shutdown

I hope this perspective prevails:

http://time.com/5513459/donald-trump-nancy-pelosi-shutdown-congress/

How is the psychology of conservatives different from that of liberals?

An interesting post from a conservative that does a pretty good job of explaining the overall differences between liberals and conservatives:

https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-psychology-of-conservatives-different-from-that-of-liberals/answer/Obinna-Onwuchekwa-2?ch=99&share=779cb364&srid=piGp

My meeting with Donald Trump: A damaged, pathetic personality — whose obvious impairment has only gotten worse

An interesting perspective from someone who's met the Tangerine Turd:

https://www.alternet.org/2019/01/my-meeting-with-donald-trump-a-damaged-pathetic-personality-whose-obvious-impairment-has-only-gotten-worse/

Evangelical Foster Agency Gets Federal Waiver To Reject LGBTQ Or Non-Christian Parents

Using federal funds to promote a religion rather than working in the best interest of the kids:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/miracle-hill-south-carolina-foster-care_us_5c49d498e4b0287e5b88b91d

Trump administration quietly changes definition of "domestic violence" and "sexual assault"

Yet another reason to despise the Trump administration:

https://www.salon.com/2019/01/23/trump-administration-quietly-changes-definition-of-domestic-violence-and-sexual-assault/

Extreme Weather Is Preventing Plants From Processing Carbon

More bad news....

https://futurism.com/the-byte/co2-plants-processing-carbon

More Americans Believe in Global Warming Than Ever Before

Good to hear it's going in the right direction:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/global-warming-survey-americans

'A Tipping Point.' Greenland's Ice Is Melting Much Faster Than Previously Thought, Scientists Say

Ice melting on land is much more problematic than ice melting at sea, since it raises the sea level much more. And Greenland has a LOT of ice:

http://time.com/5509148/greenland-ice-melting-four-times-faster/

Chris Wallace presses Pence: "You could open the government tomorrow"

I LIKE it when the Fox News dog bites its owner:

https://twitter.com/mattshuham/status/1087018774153310211

This Engineer Is An Actual Wall Expert And She Just Destroyed Trump’s Wall Proposal In One Post

Add to this the fact that 90% of drugs come through legal ports of entry and that almost two thirds of undocumented people simply enter the country on a legal visa and then overstay the deadline, and it's pretty clear the wall is a boondoggle:

https://www.boredpanda.com/actual-engineer-wall-explanation-amy-patrick/

Collusion Isn't a Specific Crime. But These Four Things Are Against the Law

This spells out the legal problems brought out by Trump allegedly telling Cohen to lie to Congress:

http://time.com/5506815/collusion-crime-obstruction-finance-trump-cohen/

US Undocumented Population Continued to Fall from 2016 to 2017, and Visa Overstays Significantly Exceeded Illegal Crossings for the Seventh Consecutive Year

Yet another reason why building an expensive wall is a boondoggle:

http://cmsny.org/publications/essay-2017-undocumented-and-overstays/

Exactly How Bad Is Trump At Making Deals? Even Worse Than You Think.

I've yet to see any good defense of anything to do with this mouth-breather:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harvard-law-negotiation-bad-trump-deal-making-donald_us_5c3e42cee4b0e0baf541d979

Trump's strategic planning inspiration: Mike Tyson

More insight into the Planner in Chief:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-9e0942a3-c61e-4e89-91e3-4ae4197d0878.html

A Complete Psychological Analysis of Trump's Support

This clarifies a few things:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201812/complete-psychological-analysis-trumps-support

How marginal tax rates actually work, explained with a cartoon

A useful explanation anyone can understand...even a conservative:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/7/18171975/tax-bracket-marginal-cartoon-ocasio-cortez-70-percent

'Scary': Warming of Oceans Is Equivalent to 1.5 Atomic Bombs Every Second Over Past 150 Years

Put in these terms, it's alarming:

https://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-warming-atomic-bombs-2625539789.html

President Trump says he's cutting off FEMA money for California fires

This is a pretty dickish move:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/09/donald-trump-fema-california-wildfires/2523581002/

Is Frum right that if conservatives become convinced they can not win by democratic means at the ballot box, then they will give up on democracy?

I've generally thought the Electoral College was a bad idea, but this gives some credible reason for it (although I think we can do better):

https://www.quora.com/Is-Frum-right-that-if-conservatives-become-convinced-they-can-not-win-by-democratic-means-at-the-ballot-box-then-they-will-give-up-on-democracy/answer/Jon-Davis-10?ch=99&share=b893686e&srid=piGp

Why Trump’s Generals Have Abandoned Ship

This makes a lot of sense. Not just why generals have abandoned Trump, but why Trump abandoned generals:

http://time.com/5492636/donald-trump-generals/

Where climate change will hit the U.S. hardest

Good to know if you're planning to move for good:

https://www.axios.com/where-climate-change-will-hit-the-us-hardest-1513303282-6566eea4-6369-4588-88cc-c2886db20b70.html