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Guest: Craig Holman of Public Citizen...
On today's BradCast: The political price of becoming the world's pariah, and new documents finally released by the Trump Administration prove yet again that they are doing anything but "draining the swamp" as...
by TheBradBlog
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 06:58 PM PDT
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Six years ago, Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman-Sachs got a Twitter account. And he’s never tweeted a single chirp. Until today. And what did he use his very first tweet to do? To slam Donald Trump’s pullout of the Paris agreement!
Holy buckets!...
by Keith Pickering
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 03:55 PM PDT
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Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement is vintage Trump: loud, belligerent, and ultimately pointless. Here’s why Donald Trump’s political adversaries ought to be celebrating.
Paris was toothless:...
by Next Conservatism
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 03:19 PM PDT
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There’s a lot of talk about why Trump decided to pull out of the Paris climate change agreement. The real explanation may be buried in a single short paragraph in the Los Angeles Times story on the decision.
Trump’s decision to isolate the United...
by voidstuff
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 01:28 PM PDT
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by brooklynpaul
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 09:53 AM PDT
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I tried to listen to President Trump’s full announcement that he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, but after a few minutes I had to turn off the TV. I couldn’t listen anymore.
Trump’s antics endanger everything we love,...
by dcrowe
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 09:30 AM PDT
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There are a lot of things our ancestors did in the past that we no longer do. We no longer attempt to treat syphilis with arsenic. We no longer smoke cigarettes on airplanes. We no longer have our young children ride in cars without car seats.
A lot...
by msjustice
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 08:58 AM PDT
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Hey, Republicans! A few of my Democratic friends have criticized me for being too hard on you. Being a liberal, one of the requirements I put on myself is to be open-minded. That being the case, here is your chance to tell me to shut up. For this...
by Marty Essen
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 08:51 AM PDT
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Thursday’s idiotic display of America’s fall from the world stage by unpopular President Trump used some “estimates” someone clearly thought would make it sound like our president reads things.
During a press conference in the White House Rose...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 09:02 AM PDT
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Well it’s official — Donald Trump has declared war on our planet’s future, and shown that he has no interest in being a leader. By withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, we’re not ...
by KBoddye
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 03:01 PM PDT
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While Trump is pretty unpredictable, there’s at least one thing about him that seems consistent: he is petty and childish as hell. The latest piece of evidence comes from Trump’s strangely grandiose announcement about withdrawing the U.S. from the...
by wagatwe
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 09:49 AM PDT
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Calling Marylanders!
We need to start pressuring our Republican governor to join with the governors of CA, NY and WA in the climate coalition.
Blue States Form Climate Alliance After Trump Withdraws From Paris Pact
Talking Points Memo reports...
by Tamar
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 10:06 AM PDT
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To justify withdrawing from the Paris climate change accord, President Trump said during his press conference yesterday, “I was elected to represent the city of Pittsburgh, not Paris.”
From terrible experience, Pittsburghers know about pollution.
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by Leo W Gerard
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 06:02 AM PDT
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Donald Trump’s political philosophy can be summed up by four words: What would Obama hate? With an antipathy that predates—but was certainly reinforced by—President Obama making sport of Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner, predicting...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 06:00 AM PDT
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When you are feeling down and out, because the Lying Bigoted Fascist has struck again, just remember these charts and the facts they represent. 2 comments
on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 04:33 AM PDT
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It's said that Trump is a “good businessman”.
Good for his own personal stake, maybe, but disastrous for just about everyone else. Can't keep a promise, and can't keep people around.
Tesla’s Elon Musk and Disney’s Robert Iger both said they...
by Hammerhand
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 04:44 AM PDT
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CEOs of some of the largest technology companies had strong words in reaction to Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord. They stated that they remain committed to the environment, to clean energy initiatives and will fight...
by AKALib
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on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 09:27 PM PDT
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From the first ever address in English from the Presidential Palace (the Élysée) in Paris:
Wherever we live, whoever we are, we all share the same responsibility:
MAKE OUR PLANET GREAT AGAIN.
by BC in Illinois
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on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 08:55 PM PDT
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With regards to the Trump’s feckless withdrawal from the world community, Politifact has already fact-checked some of the Donald’s most groundless statements. Here’s some of the highlights of that report.
Fact-checking Donald Trump's...
by jamess
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on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 07:09 PM PDT
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Guest: Princeton political historian Prof. Julian Zelizer...
On today's BradCast: Making history and breaking history. From historic worldwide climate pacts to nuclear arms treaties, from Trump and Russia to Nixon and the Soviet Union and back...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 06:38 PM PDT
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