The White House Blocked My Report on Climate Change and National Security

Have I mentioned how much I despise Drumpf?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/opinion/trump-climate-change.html

Mitch McConnell Lashes Out At Critics Who Called Him A ‘Russian Asset’

He was the one who prevented Obama from doing more to stop Russian interference in the 2016 elections, so yeah...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-russia-election-security_n_5d3f4edbe4b0db8affaca5fa

164 Environmental Activists Were Killed While Protecting Their Homes Last Year, Watchdog Says

Who knew environmental activism was deadly?

https://time.com/5638438/global-witness-environmental-activists-murdered/

GOP Lawmaker Who Wants Mandatory Church Attendance Warns Of ‘Browning Of America’

WTF? After all these whackjob beliefs and statements she was STILL voted into office:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/07/gop-lawmaker-who-wants-mandatory-church-attendance-warns-of-browning-of-america/

The new social movement on climate change

Nice to see youth getting into this:

https://www.axios.com/new-social-movement-climate-change-f510b35e-835e-4a29-97b7-98f372506ed8.html

After Scorching Europe, Heat Wave Is Poised to Melt Greenland

This is really bad news, because Greenland melting would add a significant amount to sea level rise:

https://www.livescience.com/66041-heatwave-europe-greenland.html

Why We’re Moving Forward With Impeachment

Nice, simple justification:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/why-were-moving-forward-impeachment/594931/

Civilization-Collapsing Megadroughts of Medieval Times Could Be in Store for a Warming Earth

This is seriously depressing and worrying. I live very close to this region:

https://www.livescience.com/66032-medieval-megadroughts-return-global-warming.html

This Might Be the Most Important Exchange in the Mueller Testimony

https://time.com/5635276/mueller-testimony-obstruction-conspiracy-analysis/

Election Warnings Blare, But Action Stalls In Congress

This is dangerous and criminal. How is McConnell NOT putting our nation at risk?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/congress-election-mueller-interference_n_5d3a7663e4b0a6d6373d830d

Mueller's Testimony Didn't Move Us Toward Impeachment. But It Should Make Us Determined to Vote Trump Out

A good summary opinion piece:

https://time.com/5635599/mueller-testimony-trump-2020/

Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months

By the end of next year we may be fucked:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48964736

A Republican has done the most damage to Trump at the Mueller hearing

Mueller may look the part, but his gravitas and delivery are weak at best. Still, something good came of his congressional grilling:

https://qz.com/1673937/republican-ken-buck-did-most-damage-to-trump-at-mueller-hearing/

Chances are, you’re not as open-minded as you think

This is why it always pays to exercise critical thinking and reevaluate your convictions:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chances-are-youre-not-as-open-minded-as-you-think/2019/07/20/0319d308-aa4f-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html

Exposing the Truth: House Democrats Act to Safeguard Our Democracy and Protect Our National Security

This is worth taking the time to read:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6209547-House-Democrats-Mueller-memo.html

15,000 Americans Died So Republican Governors Could Stick It to Obama

Pro-life my ass:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/15-000-americans-died-republican-205000693.html

Implementing The One Viable Solution To Climate Change

The needed path to solving the climate change problem:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2019/07/21/implementing-the-one-viable-solution-to-climate-change/#f4c9acc11f5f

Former Texas judge writes a scathing Facebook post on why she’s leaving the GOP and voting Democrat in 2020

Nicely said:

https://www.good.is/articles/texas-judge-quits-gop-trump-racism

'The Numbers Are Just Horrendous.' Almost 30,000 Species Face Extinction Because of Human Activity

This is just painfully sad:

https://time.com/5629548/almost-30000-species-face-extinction-new-report/

A Fascist Trump Rally In Greenville

If there are any doubts that Trump is a fascist:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fascist-trump-rally-greenville-ilhan-omar-send-her-back_n_5d30529fe4b0419fd328b270

Republicans Want a White Republic. They'll Destroy America to Get It

This explains a lot of their behavior:

https://time.com/5628283/trump-tweets-racist-white-america/

What happens when parts of South Asia become unlivable? The climate crisis is already displacing millions

This is one of the many reasons why climate change should be THE #1 issue for the foreseeable future:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/asia/india-nepal-flooding-climate-refugees-intl-hnk/index.html

The GOP’s demographic decay

Very encouraging. No wonder Republicans are fans of gerrymandering and voter suppression:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-20a19a61-74df-4f39-9c75-627e59f287a7.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

Trump Campaign Staffer Claims 'Twitter Is Lying,' Says President Never Tweeted 'Go Back' To House Democrats

Gaslighting:

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-go-back-staffer-twitter-lying-matt-wolking-native-countries-birther-1449167

Trump's most openly racist rhetoric yet is not at all surprising

When will his vileness finally bring him down?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/14/politics/trump-racist-tweets-progressive-democratic-congresswomen-aoc/index.html

Leaked cables show British ambassador saying Trump abandoned Iran deal in act of 'diplomatic vandalism' to spite Obama

Trump's pettiness vies with his racism, ignorance, narcissism, authoritarianism, sexism, etc. for worst attribute:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/13/politics/daily-mail-trump-iran-nuclear-deal-leaked-cables/index.html

Greenland’s Superfast ‘Ice Slides’ Could Be Bad News for Climate Change

More reason to be deeply concerned:

https://www.livescience.com/65930-greenland-ice-sheet-sliding.html

The future began 40 years ago

To those who claim industrialization and automation ends up creating more jobs for humans, keep in mind that A.I. will eventually supersede anything and everything human minds are capable of doing...so there is a jobs crisis looming:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-df4ad85b-918c-4e67-b5d9-388cd9a4ca94.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

MAGA Cultist Admits Lying: “It Doesn’t Have To Be True; It Just Has To Go Viral”

Yet another reason to despise Trump supporters:

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/07/12/maga-cultist-admits-lying-it-doesnt-have-to-be-true-it-just-has-to-go-viral/

Trump's most openly racist rhetoric yet is not at all surprising

How does he get away with being so loathsome?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/14/politics/trump-racist-tweets-progressive-democratic-congresswomen-aoc/index.html

SCOTUS's Ruling on Gerrymandering Endangers U.S. Democracy

Damn straight it's dangerous!

https://time.com/5623638/scotuss-ruling-on-gerrymandering-endangers-us-democracy/

No, Mr. Putin, liberalism is not dead

Liberalism is actually rising:

https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/putin-liberalism-dead

Leave the US, Trump tells liberal Democratic congresswomen

Our Racist in Chief is back at it again:

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/07/14/leave-the-us-trump-tells-liberal-democratic-congresswomen/23769281/

Sen. Tina Smith: Mitch McConnell's leadership has been a big, fat waste

Mitch is a bitch:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/09/opinions/mcconnell-leadership-senate-waste-smith/index.html

When Does America Reckon with the Gravity of Donald Trump’s Alleged Rapes?

This SHOULD have sunk him two years ago....

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/does-america-reckon-gravity-donald-191337659.html

UK secularism on rise as more than half say they have no religion

Nice milestone:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/11/uk-secularism-on-rise-as-more-than-half-say-they-have-no-religion

A Glacier the Size of Florida Is Becoming Unstable. It Has Dire Implications for Global Sea Levels

More yikes:

https://time.com/5622632/thwaites-glacier-antarctica-melting/

By 2050, London's climate will be as warm as Barcelona's, says new study

Along with the droughts....

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/europe/climate-cities-report-intl-hnk/index.html

The Rise of Non-Religious Americans is Occurring All Over the Country

Very nice to see:

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/07/09/the-rise-of-non-religious-americans-is-occurring-all-over-the-country/

White evangelicals are least likely to say U.S. should accept refugees

Christian hypocrisy at its finest:

https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/evangelicals-immigration

Trump dossier author Steele gets 16-hour DOJ grilling

His testimony was deemed credible:

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/09/christopher-steele-trump-dossier-doj-1403318

Whistleblower says he was pressured by Trump administration to reverse environmental decision

Because of course:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/politics/interior-department-arizona-development-bernhardt/index.html

Yet Trump boasts about his environmental record:

https://time.com/5622374/donald-trump-climate-change-hoax-event/

But even Fox News calls him out on that:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-fox-news-fact-check_n_5d23ef40e4b0cfb595faeac7

Epstein Arrest Is a Worry for Donald Trump

Bringing down Trump with that child rape allegation is what I have been hoping for for a long time:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-08/jeffrey-epstein-arrest-is-a-worry-for-donald-trump

Why Do Liberals Hate The United States?

Excellent points:

https://www.thebipartisanpress.com/opinion/why-do-liberals-hate-the-united-states/

Seth Abramson on "The Scary Truth"

From https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1146569608691965953

THE SCARY TRUTH

If a POTUS a) has absolute control over his branch, b) is willing to defy the judicial branch, and c) knows the legislative branch won't stop him, he can do...

...*whatever the hell he wants*.

That's *always* been the case—we just never elected a madman before.

Scorching Temperatures Smash Records In U.S., Europe

And the tangerine dictator in the White House continues to fiddle while the world burns:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/record-heat-europe-france-alaska-climate-change_n_5d1cf9bbe4b04c48140e23fa

The U.S.-China long game

Seems like China is actually in big trouble and may not be able to continue its domination streak for long:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-274f0d5c-7354-4ef3-8122-5e172476a4ac.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

Democrats Take Trump Tax Return Fight To Court

Finally!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tax-returns-democrats-sue-court_n_5ce82d8fe4b0a839e8605b0c

The problem isn't mental health—it's access to guns, says a new study

Well, well...looks like a major conservative talking point is false:

https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/gun-violence?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3

Is Trump Toast? Data Model That Predicted 2018 Midterms Says He’ll Lose In 2020

Well this is encouraging:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-2020-prediction_n_5d1ae3fbe4b03d611640b0df

30% of Americans believe it's okay for businesses not to serve gay folks

...or atheists. 

This is NOT going in the right direction, but I am pretty sure it is part of the "two steps back" part after the "three steps forward" of social progress:

https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/discrimination

The American Medical Association is no Longer Neutral on Abortion

When laws are passed that say doctors are REQUIRED to lie to their patients, the AMA can no longer remain neutral:

https://time.com/5617960/ama-abortion-lawsuit/

The Sack Of Washington

Reason #4,598 to despise Drumpf:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/epa-trump-pollution-science_n_5d163910e4b082e5536893ee

‘Angry’ Rex Tillerson Says Jared Kushner Hijacked U.S. Foreign Policy

Another Seth Abramson piece:

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1144362691873660928

Early Alaska melt alarms islanders

This is getting serious:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-d10ddb2e-17e8-4245-8906-6c77aeeb1a36.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2