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Friday, January 31, 2020

Make America Bankrupt Again: Farm bankruptcies up 20% in 2019

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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 11:25 AM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 11:25 AM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 5:24 PM No comments:
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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:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/24/1913880/-Evangelical-Christian-s-song-about-the-betrayal-he-feels-from-evangelical-Trump-support-goes-viral
Posted by Derek Mathias at 10:54 AM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 10:53 AM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 1:17 PM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 1:07 PM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 12:05 PM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 12:10 PM No comments:
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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/
Posted by Derek Mathias at 12:38 PM No comments:
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Reports of Huge Reductions in This Potent Greenhouse Gas Are Wrong – Emissions Are Soaring

More depressing news:

https://scitechdaily.com/reports-of-huge-reductions-in-this-potent-greenhouse-gas-are-wrong-emissions-are-soaring/
Posted by Derek Mathias at 12:35 PM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 5:10 PM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 4:59 PM No comments:
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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/
Posted by Derek Mathias at 4:57 PM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 1:51 PM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 12:27 PM No comments:
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Research: Climate Change Is Indeed Making Wildfires Worse

But of course....

https://futurism.com/the-byte/climate-change-wildfires-worse
Posted by Derek Mathias at 5:59 PM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 12:11 PM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 12:10 PM No comments:
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Monday, January 13, 2020

A History of Climate Change Science and Denialism

Climate change science has been around for a couple hundred years:

https://hnn.us/article/173971
Posted by Derek Mathias at 11:53 AM No comments:
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Warmth, Brilliance and Persistence: The Eminent Electability of Elizabeth Warren

She's marginally my favorite candidate too:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/11/1910454/-Warmth-Brilliance-and-Persistence-The-Eminent-Electability-of-Elizabeth-Warren
Posted by Derek Mathias at 11:50 AM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 11:37 AM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 12:11 PM No comments:
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Americans Aren’t Rallying to Trump--David Frum

Good to hear:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/americans-arent-rallying-trump/604612/
Posted by Derek Mathias at 12:10 PM No comments:
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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/
Posted by Derek Mathias at 11:39 AM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 6:00 PM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 5:57 PM No comments:
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Trump video comes back to haunt him

Such a perfect tweet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/chasedogman/status/1212975935403810816
Posted by Derek Mathias at 5:51 PM No comments:
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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/
Posted by Derek Mathias at 5:48 PM No comments:
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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/
Posted by Derek Mathias at 1:49 PM No comments:
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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
Posted by Derek Mathias at 2:49 PM No comments:
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