This HAS to cost the Tangerine Lardbucket some votes:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/30/1915224/-Make-America-Bankrupt-Again-Farm-bankruptcies-up-20-in-2019
Important and/or interesting political articles that often don't make the headlines but are worth a look.
Friday, January 31, 2020
The Republican Senate Just Wrote Donald Trump a Blank Check to Ratfuck the 2020 Election
How could weakening presidential power be worse than giving a president dictator-like powers?
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/republican-senate-just-wrote-donald-155400598.html
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/republican-senate-just-wrote-donald-155400598.html
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Alan Dershowitz jumps in to attack the ridiculous theories of legal muttonhead Alan Dershowitz
The insane defense of Trump is getting too fucking scary:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/30/1915083/-Alan-Dershowitz-jumps-in-to-attack-the-ridiculous-theories-of-legal-muttonhead-Alan-Dershowitz
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/30/1915083/-Alan-Dershowitz-jumps-in-to-attack-the-ridiculous-theories-of-legal-muttonhead-Alan-Dershowitz
Monday, January 27, 2020
Evangelical Christian's song about the betrayal he feels from evangelical Trump support goes viral
Considering how vital evangelicals are to Trump's base, dissent like this is great:
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump's Senate impeachment trial -- What does it take to remove a president?
Conservatives are howling in the comments, but I'm sure some Fox News viewers must have been swayed:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-senate-impeachment-trial-judge-andrew-napolitano
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-senate-impeachment-trial-judge-andrew-napolitano
Friday, January 24, 2020
America has higher standards for CEOs than for presidents
Shouldn't the president be held to the highest standard?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-has-higher-standards-for-ceos-than-for-presidents-211525571.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-has-higher-standards-for-ceos-than-for-presidents-211525571.html
Trump regime finalizes move allowing pollution and destruction of wetlands protected by Obama rule
More Trump destruction of America:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913532/-Trump-regime-finalizes-move-allowing-pollution-and-destruction-of-wetlands-protected-by-Obama-rule
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913532/-Trump-regime-finalizes-move-allowing-pollution-and-destruction-of-wetlands-protected-by-Obama-rule
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Was There A Non-Stated Reason Speaker Pelosi Held The Articles Of Impeachment?
She could be extremely crafty:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/22/1913398/-Was-There-A-Non-Stated-Reason-Speaker-Pelosi-Held-The-Articles-Of-Impeachment
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/22/1913398/-Was-There-A-Non-Stated-Reason-Speaker-Pelosi-Held-The-Articles-Of-Impeachment
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Trump May Be Even More Unpopular Than His Approval Rating Shows
Very encouraging news:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-may-be-even-more-unpopular-than-his-approval-rating-shows/?ex_cid=story-twitter
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-may-be-even-more-unpopular-than-his-approval-rating-shows/?ex_cid=story-twitter
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Half of Late 20th-Century Arctic Warming Caused by Ozone-Depleting Substances – “It’s a Good-News Story”
Well, it's nice to know some climate change mitigation is working:
https://scitechdaily.com/half-of-late-20th-century-arctic-warming-caused-by-ozone-depleting-substances-its-a-good-news-story/
https://scitechdaily.com/half-of-late-20th-century-arctic-warming-caused-by-ozone-depleting-substances-its-a-good-news-story/
Monday, January 20, 2020
A Hot Blob in the Pacific Ocean Caused 1 Million Seabirds to Die
Some of the tragedies generated by climate change:
https://www.livescience.com/blob-caused-extreme-seabird-dieoff.html
https://www.livescience.com/blob-caused-extreme-seabird-dieoff.html
THAT was "the BIG Plan?"
The whole Biden dirt search is pretty pathetic and only indicates how the GOP could find nothing else to use against him:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911994/-THAT-was-the-BIG-Plan
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911994/-THAT-was-the-BIG-Plan
2019 Was the Second Hottest Year on Record According to Both NASA & NOAA
More confirmation of climate change:
https://scitechdaily.com/2019-was-the-second-hottest-year-on-record-according-to-both-nasa-noaa/
https://scitechdaily.com/2019-was-the-second-hottest-year-on-record-according-to-both-nasa-noaa/
Thursday, January 16, 2020
The Distribution Of The World's Wealth, Visualized
Just an interesting visualization:
https://digg.com/2020/the-distribution-of-the-worlds-wealth-visualized
https://digg.com/2020/the-distribution-of-the-worlds-wealth-visualized
The Ministry Of Untruth
"What Donald Trump’s unending stream of lies has done to our White House, our country and us."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-untruth-lies-false_n_5e0bac46e4b0843d360c94ea
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-untruth-lies-false_n_5e0bac46e4b0843d360c94ea
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
The World’s Oceans Were The Hottest In Recorded History In 2019
Where is the urgency among nations?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/world-oceans-hottest-history_n_5e1d0bd9c5b6640ec3d9a1a4?guccounter=1
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/world-oceans-hottest-history_n_5e1d0bd9c5b6640ec3d9a1a4?guccounter=1
We have 10 years to save Earth's biodiversity as mass extinction caused by humans takes hold, UN warns
So it's not just climate change that is on a ten-year clock, so is biodiversity:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/14/world/un-biodiversity-draft-plan-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/14/world/un-biodiversity-draft-plan-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html
Monday, January 13, 2020
Warmth, Brilliance and Persistence: The Eminent Electability of Elizabeth Warren
She's marginally my favorite candidate too:
Brilliant plan by Katyal and Conway: Send the Second Article to the Senate. Keep the First for now.
I like these ideas!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/11/1910880/-Brilliant-plan-by-Kaytal-and-Conway-Send-the-Second-Article-to-the-Senate-Keep-the-First-for-now
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/11/1910880/-Brilliant-plan-by-Kaytal-and-Conway-Send-the-Second-Article-to-the-Senate-Keep-the-First-for-now
Friday, January 10, 2020
Trump announces overhaul of landmark environmental and climate rules
Trump is constantly at war with the environment, making him completely out of step with reality:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/politics/trump-proposal-national-environmental-policy-act/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/politics/trump-proposal-national-environmental-policy-act/index.html
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Health Care Paperwork Cost US $812 Billion in 2017 – Over 34% of Health Spending
Here's the solution:
https://scitechdaily.com/health-care-paperwork-cost-us-812-billion-in-2017-over-1-3-of-health-spending/
https://scitechdaily.com/health-care-paperwork-cost-us-812-billion-in-2017-over-1-3-of-health-spending/
Sunday, January 5, 2020
Never forget how different matters would be if Trump hadn't smashed the Iran nuclear accord
All this escalation wouldn't have happened if Trump had left the Iran Nuclear Deal alone. But no, he had to back out because Obama made it:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/3/1909231/-Never-forget-how-different-matters-would-be-if-Trump-hadn-t-smashed-the-Iran-nuclear-accord
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/3/1909231/-Never-forget-how-different-matters-would-be-if-Trump-hadn-t-smashed-the-Iran-nuclear-accord
Primetime propaganda drives Fox News to highest-rated year in the network's 23-year history
This is just scary:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/30/1908544/-Primetime-propaganda-drives-Fox-News-to-highest-rated-year-in-the-network-s-23-year-history
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/30/1908544/-Primetime-propaganda-drives-Fox-News-to-highest-rated-year-in-the-network-s-23-year-history
Congressman Accuses Trump Of Stock Market Fraud And Opens Investigation
Let's hope this goes somewhere:
http://deepleftfield.info/congressman-accuses-trump-of-stock-market-fraud-and-opens-investigation/
http://deepleftfield.info/congressman-accuses-trump-of-stock-market-fraud-and-opens-investigation/
Friday, January 3, 2020
Trump-appointed Science Advisers Oppose EPA Regulatory Rollbacks
Advisers mean nothing to this narcissistic wannabe dictator:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2020/01/01/trump-appointed-science-advisers-oppose-epa-regulatory-rollbacks/
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2020/01/01/trump-appointed-science-advisers-oppose-epa-regulatory-rollbacks/
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Primetime propaganda drives Fox News to highest-rated year in the network's 23-year history
The spread of propaganda is truly scary:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/30/1908544/-Primetime-propaganda-drives-Fox-News-to-highest-rated-year-in-the-network-s-23-year-history
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/30/1908544/-Primetime-propaganda-drives-Fox-News-to-highest-rated-year-in-the-network-s-23-year-history
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