Psychiatrist Lance Dodes on the "panicked" state of the "most dangerous person on the planet"

A good psychological evaluation of the sociopathic toddler in chief:

https://www.salon.com/2019/10/29/psychiatrist-lance-dodes-on-the-panicked-state-of-the-most-dangerous-person-on-the-planet/

MASH-UP: Trump’s al-Baghdadi Speech & Obama’s Bin Laden Speech

Compare the eloquence of Obama vs. Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsBOWSjOLsE&feature=youtu.be

Global risks 2035 update: Decline or new renaissance?

A long but thoughtful analysis of how the future may play out:

https://atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/global-risks-2035-update/

President Trump has made 13,435 false or misleading claims over 993 days

An analysis of the Trump lies database:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/14/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/

In 993 days, President Trump has made 13,435 false or misleading claims

This is a good filterable list of Trump's lies and misinformation:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/

Victory over the worst gerrymander in modern history: Court blocks North Carolina GOP's House map

It's a relief that the Republicans aren't being allowed to get away with this:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/28/1895606/-Victory-over-the-worst-gerrymander-in-modern-history-Court-blocks-North-Carolina-GOP-s-House-map

Baghdadi raid succeeded ‘in spite of,' not thanks to, Donald Trump’s actions

Is there really any doubt?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/27/1895456/-Military-officials-admit-Trump-almost-ruined-the-raid

New Daily Kos/Civiqs poll finds Pence losing to Democrats, Americans feeling less safe under Trump

Good. We don't want to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/24/1894641/-New-Daily-Kos-Civiqs-poll-finds-Pence-losing-to-Democrats-Americans-feeling-less-safe-under-Trump

Putin's longterm aim: reverse America's Cold War win

Very plausible:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/23/1894519/-Putin-s-longterm-aim-reverse-America-s-Cold-War-win

Cyber memo warns of new risks to White House network

Isn't deliberately ignoring intelligence and making the country vulnerable to attacks regarded as treason?

https://www.axios.com/scoop-cyber-memo-warns-of-new-risks-to-white-house-network-9aa19c6c-77a3-485b-919b-1dd9bd691514.html

A New Generation of Activist Doctors Is Fighting for Medicare for All

Now even most doctors are on board for Medicare For All:

https://time.com/5709017/medicare-for-all-doctor-activists/

Republicans Are Criticizing the Current Impeachment Process. That Highlights a Bigger Problem

I like this quote:

“If the facts are not on your side, if the policy is not on your side, then you have to talk process,” said one former Republican member of Congress who requested anonymity to speak candidly. “If you’re talking process, if you’re talking procedure, you’re losing.”

https://time.com/5710206/republicans-impeachment-problem/

Cyber memo warns of new risks to White House network

More criminally negligent Trump behavior:

https://www.axios.com/scoop-cyber-memo-warns-of-new-risks-to-white-house-network-9aa19c6c-77a3-485b-919b-1dd9bd691514.html

Donald Trump's big short: Is the president profiting off the market chaos he creates?

Ugh, seriously?

https://www.salon.com/2019/10/22/donald-trumps-big-short-is-the-president-profiting-off-the-market-chaos-he-creates/

Mulvaney again fails to walk back his quid pro quo confession and makes Doral debacle worse

Just because it's fun watching evil morons flail:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/21/1893984/-Mulvaney-again-fails-to-walk-back-his-quid-pro-quo-confession-and-makes-Doral-debacle-worse

The coming end of Christian America

A Christian's perspective on the rapid decline in Christianity:

https://news.yahoo.com/coming-end-christian-america-103501666.html

Share of Americans with no religious affiliation growing

Christians have dropped from 77% of the US population in 2009 to just 65% in ten years, while the number of self-described atheists has doubled from 2% to 4% (although almost all self-described agnostics--which went from 3% to 5%--are actually atheists, since the term agnostic is misunderstood by most people). I'll take some (very) small credit for that!

https://www.apnews.com/35bd96fbeccc4cdeb191392a58ebdc2e

GOP Group Uses Trump’s Own Words On Corruption Against Him In Searing Fox News Ad

More schadenfreude watching Republicans turning on Trump:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-for-the-rule-of-law-trump-properties-ad_n_5da96ed3e4b0e0f0378998f3

Microplastics in the soil point to another potential ecosystem collapse

Another serious problem with microplastics:

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/microplastics-soil

Why America’s Christian foundation is a myth

For those who think the US was founded as a Christian nation:

https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/why-americas-christian-foundation-is-a-myth

Congress Should Remove Trump from Office, But Let Him Run Again in 2020

I get the logic but I don't like it. If Trump is kicked out of office, that should be a permanent disgrace and serve as a warning to future presidents. And there should be the opportunity to prosecute him for his other crimes:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/25/congress-should-remove-trump-from-office-but-let-him-run-again-228228

This September Hit the Record for the Hottest Ever — and 2019 Is Shaping Up to Be the Second Hottest Year

This speaks for itself:

https://time.com/5702748/september-hottest-month-record-2019/

Trump "pro-life" evangelicals are now fiercely defending the murder of actual babies

The wonders of Evangelical hypocrisy:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/16/1892406/-Trump-pro-life-evangelicals-are-now-fiercely-defending-the-murder-of-actual-babies

Trump Admin Moves To Greenlight Logging In America’s Largest National Forest

More short-sighted, stupid destruction:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tongass-national-forest-alaska-logging_n_5da61884e4b062bdcb19dd04

Why Evangelical Christian Leaders Care So Deeply About Trump Abandoning The Kurds

If a sizable chunk of Evangelicals split from Don the Con, even if they just end up not voting at all, that would be terrific:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-evangelicals-syria-kurds_n_5da49dafe4b080c90e3cc0d2

Trump in a landslide? This historically accurate model predicts exactly that

Oh please no! But at least this assumes we still have a strong economy when the elections roll around, that there aren't any further scandals, and that Drumpf isn't already impeached:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-in-a-landslide-this-historically-accurate-model-predicts-exactly-that-2019-10-15

Basic Income Recipients Spent the Money on “Literal Necessities”

Encouraging support for a UBI:

https://futurism.com/basic-income-money-spent-necessities

The IMF thinks carbon taxes will stop the climate crisis. That's a terrible idea

It won't work if it adds to the financial burden of the poor:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/12/carbon-tax-imf-inequality-climate-change

Donald Trump: xenophobe in public, international mobster in private

Just a failure at being president and being a human being:

https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-xenophobe-public-international-050042832.html

Trump doc Hundreds Of ISIS Supporters Escape As Turkish Troops Near Kurdish-Held Syrian Town

Abandoning our allies to an attack by Turkey as well as causing the release of hundreds of ISIS prisoners HAS to lose Trump a lot of supporters, especially in the military:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/isis-supporters-escape-turkey-troops-kurds-syria-town_n_5da31621e4b087efdbafdbbd

The art of forsaking a deal—the real 'genius' of Donald Trump

In a word: betrayal:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/10/1891469/-The-art-of-forsaking-a-deal-the-real-genius-of-Donald-Trump

Trump accused of 26 new cases of ‘unwanted sexual contact’

Not the old ones. These are NEW sexual assault allegations:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-sexual-assault-allegations-harassment-groping-women-karen-johnson-book-a9149021.html

‘RIP GOP’: Polling expert predicts 2020 electoral wipeout will devastate Trump — and the Republican party

But this is encouraging:

https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/rip-gop-polling-expert-predicts-2020-electoral-wipeout-will-devastate-trump-and-the-republican-party/

Military expert warns support for Trump in the US armed forces is ‘downright cult-like’ — and creating frightening divisions within the ranks

This is fucking scary:

https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/military-expert-warns-support-for-trump-in-the-us-armed-forces-is-downright-cult-like-and-creating-frightening-divisions-in-the-ranks/

Here's why California is experiencing massive power outages and why that should concern us all

Basically PG&E sucks. I'm SO glad I have solar and a battery system:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/10/1891492/-Here-s-why-California-is-experiencing-massive-power-outages-and-why-that-should-concern-us-all

Scientists Thought It Took Thousands of Years for Plastic to Decompose – It May Only Be Decades

Well, at least this is encouraging:

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-thought-it-took-thousands-of-years-for-plastic-to-decompose-it-may-only-be-decades/

Russian Operative Said ‘We Made America Great’ After Trump’s Win

Of course they celebrated. Yet Trump continues to deny Russian involvement because he feels it de-legitimizes his presidency. For once, he's right:

https://news.yahoo.com/senate-intelligence-panel-warns-russian-181600297.html

Trump Escalates Attacks On Fox News After Impeachment Poll

I have to repeat that I LOVE it when Faux News and President Lardbucket fall out:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-attacks-fox-news-impeachment-poll_n_5d9f2f32e4b02c9da045814d

Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions

And just 12 companies are responsible for 20% of the world's emissions:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions

Trump boasts the economy is the best it's ever been. Here are 9 charts showing how it's fared compared to the Obama and Bush presidencies.

For all Trump's boasting about the economy, it's mostly just a continuation of the trends Obama handed him:

https://www.businessinsider.com/9-charts-comparing-trump-economy-to-obama-bush-administrations-2019-9

Senate Committee: Russian intelligence backed Trump and smeared his GOP opponents in 2016 primary

Even more evidence that Russians helped get Trump elected:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/8/1891070/-Senate-Committee-Russian-Intelligence-backed-Trump-smeared-his-GOP-opponents-in-2016-primary

I Oversaw DHS Refugee Affairs. Here Are 3 Ways the Trump Administration Is Trying to Mislead You

Trump is just plain evil:

https://time.com/5694866/refugee-resettlement-numbers/

Elizabeth Warren’s Climate Justice Plan Aims To Keep Water Public, Study Pollution More

Jay Inslee may no longer be in the presidential race, but Warren has adopted many of his climate change policies:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-environment-climate-justice-plan_n_5d9d02f1e4b06ddfc50ffb77

The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You

Not sure if this will play right on a cell phone, but it shows nicely how dramatically taxes have dropped for the wealthiest people in the US. We need to go back to the 1950 tax rate:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

Elizabeth Warren Has A Plan For Brett Kavanaugh

Another reason to be pro Warren:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-plan-brett-kavanaugh_n_5d9aa9dfe4b03b475f9bb770

Diplomats angry and afraid as Ukraine controversy embroils Pompeo's State Department

Trump's administration is rotting our institutions from the inside:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/05/politics/pompeo-state-department-ukraine-controversy/index.html

A disease claims another victim; I lost my dad to FOX News.

There has to be some way to make purveyors of false news accountable:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/3/1888983/-A-disease-claims-another-victim-I-lost-my-dad-to-FOX-News

Spiro Agnew's Lawyer: Mike Pence Should Be Worried About Impeachment Too

Oh, this would be SUBLIME!

https://time.com/5692947/mike-pence-impeachment/

The video clip that's making liddle' Trumpy so cross and fussy

Starting at minute 4:00, Schiff makes it clear what Trump was effectively saying:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/2/1889647/-The-video-clip-that-s-making-liddle-Trumpy-so-cross-and-fussy

Humans Are Disturbing Earth's Carbon Cycle More Than the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Did

Just in case it hasn't sounded serious enough...

https://www.livescience.com/anthropogenic-warming-like-dinosaur-killing-asteroid.html

Elizabeth Warren Wants To Tax Corporate Lobbying

This is one of the main reasons Warren is my first choice: she has a plan for everything:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-lobbying-tax_n_5d93c202e4b0019647b05afc

What if the World Treated the US Like a Rogue State

This is our international embarrassment:

https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/sanctions/

Trump's border ideas: Snakes, alligators, shoot 'em in the legs

Trump truly is a toddler with a gun:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-aea5703c-61dd-4b71-9e7d-cdf1f4893bce.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2