Trump Aide May Davis, a Stephen Miller Ally Who Floated Sending Migrants to Sanctuary Cities, Gets PromotionThe Daily Beast - Betsy Woodruff A Trump administration official who pushed the idea of releasing undocumented immigrants into “sanctuary cities” has been promoted to the Office of …
U.S. Politics The right-wing populist wave is a threat to the climateVox - Zack BeauchampThe Amazon rainforest is on fire — and the consensus is that Brazil’s far-right populist leader, Jair Bolsonaro, is to blame. Bolsonaro, who took office in January and has referred to himself as “Captain
David Koch Billionaire David Koch, Who Used His Wealth to Reshape U.S. Politics, Dies at 79The Wall Street Journal. - Melanie Grayce WestIndustrialist backed conservative causes and candidates; he also donated more than $1.3 billion to charity David Koch, the billionaire industrialist and philanthropist whose support for conservative causes
Trump Administration Trump Wants To Detain Migrant Families Indefinitely. He Can't.HuffPost - Roque PlanasThe plan would require a massive restructuring of the migrant detention system. The White House dramatically escalated its campaign to scare Central American families away from crossing the U.S. border
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Report: Trump Admin Gave Green Light for Animal AbuseVanity Fair - Bess LevinDonald Trump has worked hard to make it abundantly clear that he has little regard for human life, as evidenced by his “Affordable Clean Energy” rule that will kill as many as 1,400 Americans a year, refusal
David Koch Right-wing activist David Koch dead at 79: reportrawstory.com - Travis Gettys David Koch, the billionaire industrialist and conservative activist, has reportedly died. Sources close to the family confirmed the 79-year-old Koch, …
Liberal View A Killer Cop Gets Fired, and Somehow the Cops Are Angrythenation.com - Brandon Shimoda Daniel Pantaleo, the New York City police officer who choked an unarmed black man to death in broad daylight, was fired this week. While announcing …
Plastic U.S. Recycling Industry Is Struggling To Figure Out A Future Without ChinaNPR - Christopher JoyceThe U.S. used to send a lot of its plastic waste to China to get recycled. But last year, China put the kibosh on imports of the world's waste. The policy, called National Sword, freaked out people in
Environment Smoke Has Blotted Out the Sun in São Paulo as the Amazon BurnsGizmodo - Brian Kahn What began as a “day of fire” a week and a half ago has now turned daytime skies in São Paulo an inky black. The Amazon has been in deep, deep …
UK News How online extremists are shaping the minds of white teensbbc.co.uk - Ritu Prasad A mother expressed her concern about extremist content poisoning the minds of boys as they use the internet, in a post that went viral. She thinks there are warning signs parents should heed.
March for Our Lives March for Our Lives launches a sweeping gun control "Peace Plan" to spur 2020 youth voteAxios - Marisa Fernandez March for Our Lives, started by student activists who survived the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., launched a massive gun control plan …
Trump attacks Danish prime minister for her ‘nasty’ comments about his interest in U.S. purchase of GreenlandThe Washington Post - By Rick Noack, John Wagner, Felicia SonmezPresident Trump on Wednesday lashed out at Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, saying the leader of the U.S. ally had made “nasty” comments about his interest in having the United States purchase
American Legion When Did the Right Become Unable to Deal With the Complexity of American History?slate.com - Rebecca Onion Conservative uproar over the 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a decades-old battle over how we should understand America’s past.
Politics Trump: Why Don’t Jews Love Me, I’m Almost Literally JesusNew York Magazine - Jonathan Chait President Trump has been vexed recently by the refusal of the majority of the American Jewish community to support him. For insight into the …
Bill Kristol Eugene Robinson: Trump is 'raving like a lunatic and everyone just shrugs'MSNBC - 11th Hour Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson argues that the president is melting down 'again.' We discuss the president's erratic behavior and the …
Hillary Clinton Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson Waste Taxpayer Dollars Looking for Foreign Hackers the One Place They Aren't | emptywheelemptywheel.net - emptywheel Last Wednesday, majority staffers for the Senate Finance and Homeland Security Committees wrote Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson a memo that purports …
WikiLeaks Roger Stone Once Again Limits His Denialsemptywheel.net - emptywheel In addition to the government showing that Roger Stone is a disorganized crime figure the other day, Roger Stone submitted a curious filing of his …
Trump administration moves to terminate court agreement, hold migrant children and parents longerThe Washington Post - By Maria SacchettiThe Trump administration is moving to terminate a federal court settlement restricting how long U.S. officials can detain migrant children with their parents and replace it with a rule that could expand
Skin Black teen 'humiliated' after school colored his hair with marker, parents sayGuardian US - Agence France-PresseParents of a black teenager in Texas are suing their Houston-area school district after three white middle school personnel used a marker to blot out a design on their son’s scalp. The federal civil rights
Chernobyl Fears Putin may be hiding a Chernobyl level nuke disaster as its revealed radiation monitoring sites ‘went othesun.co.uk - Jon Lockett TWO major radiation research stations mysteriously went "silent" after a suspected nuclear blast at a Russian missile testing ground - sparking fears …
World News Smoke From The Burning Amazon Rainforest Plunged Brazil's Largest City Into Darkness In The Middle Of The Daybuzzfeednews.com - Stephanie K. Baer A record number of wildfires have torched the Amazon rainforest this year as deforestation soars under Brazil’s far-right president. Brazil’s largest …
Greenland 'We Should Be Retreating Already From the Coastline,' Scientist Suggests After Finding Warm Waters Below Greenlandecowatch.com - Jordan Davidson "There is enough ice in Greenland to raise the sea levels by 7.5 meters, that's about 25 feet, an enormous volume of ice, and that would be …
Business 2015 North Dakota liquid gas spill much bigger than reportedAssociated Press - By JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated PressBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A 2015 pipeline spill of liquid natural gas in western North Dakota initially reported as just 10 gallons is at least hundreds of thousands of gallons larger and may take another
Wayne LaPierre Trump Retreats, Again, on GunsThe New York TimesPresident Trump and his followers delight in his image as a disrupter — a dauntless fighter raring to take on entrenched political interests and sacred cows. But when it comes to addressing America’s problem,
Title X Trump Is Winning His War on Women With New Title X Rules Forcing Planned Parenthood to WithdrawThe Daily Beast - Molly Jong-Fast On day 941 of its existence, the Trump administration scored a major victory in its war on women, and their ability to care for and control their own …
Ukraine France wants progress in Ukraine before Russia returns to G7Reuters - by Michel RosePARIS (Reuters) - Russia's readmission to the Group of Seven nations depends on progress in Ukraine peace talks, a French diplomatic source said, responding to comments by U.S. President Donald Trump Moscow
Media Industry Ohio newspaper that battled injustice for 150 years to shut down: 'Scary for democracy'Guardian US - Adam Gabbatt in Youngstown, OhioMore than 2,000 US newspapers have closed since 2004. “I’m going to leave town. Without the Vindicator I don’t have a compelling reason to live in Youngstown.” Bertram De Souza It was in the late 1920s
Play buttonGreenland Danish PM ‘surprised and disappointed’ over cancelled Trump visitThe Guardian - Shaun WalkerThe Danish prime minister has said she is surprised and disappointed that Donald Trump has called off his planned visit to the country over Copenhagen’s refusal to sell Greenland to the US. At a press
Mass Shootings US briefing: Trump's antisemitic trope, mass shootings and VenezuelaGuardian US - Tim WalkerTrump turns to antisemitic trope in attack on Omar and Tlaib Donald Trump has accused Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats of showing “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” apparently
