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The Republican vs Earth debate on the legitimacy of climate change is highlighting one crucial aspect of this global struggle that we often fail to mention: the rich are simultaneously sustaining it and denying it in order to remain rich.
Across...
by kristenc
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 07:37 PM PDT
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Donald Trump is correctly accused of being anti-science in the interest of being pro-business. That’s half true: as an empiricist Trump is the most aggressively ignorant president since Franklin Pierce. But his decisions on the Paris Agreement and the...
by Next Conservatism
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 02:57 PM PDT
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“JUST A HOAX…”
The last ice floe has finally floated off
Into fake news
While the high tide laps gently over
The silty sands around Trump Tower…
The polar bears have adopted Plan B
And migrated way down south,
Below the...
by Roddc
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 02:50 PM PDT
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German newspaper Der Speigel got a chance to see what happened behind closed doors at the recent G7 summit. What the record of those meetings revealed was leader after leader attempting to reach Donald Trump—through logic, through common sense, through...
by Mark Sumner
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 12:03 PM PDT
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70 years ago today, General George Marshall, President Truman’s Secretary of State, spoke at Harvard University’s commencement celebrations. His speech lasted only eleven minutes, but it made history. After giving his American audience a sense of the...
by SRM
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 10:32 AM PDT
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London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan, http://www.sadiq.london/ is the epitome of what the right wing says they want. A Muslim who condemns violence in the strongest terms, disavows those who would pervert his religion and is the capital city leader of a major...
by ReasonaBill
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 09:37 AM PDT
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jon Tester’s (D. MT) re-election campaign:
The President's decision to withdraw from the Climate Change Agreement has put us in some questionable company. Only Nicaragua and Syria refused to sign the...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 08:58 AM PDT
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With the rest of the media focused on Trump and climate at the moment, we’re going to go a level deeper and look at some #FakeNews stories that spread the sort of lies that Trump regurgitated in his Paris announcement.
First off, among the conflict...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 07:17 AM PDT
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I spoke to Trump supporter who identified himself as a black man from the very beginning of the call. It was clear that something cathartic would have to happen for him to change his views and ...
by Egberto Willies
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 04:01 AM PDT
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Responding to President Donald Trump’s decision on June 1 to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, California Governor Jerry Brown immediately issued a bluntly-worded statement condemning the decision.
“Donald Trump has absolutely chosen the...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 07:39 PM PDT
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Why every Democrat (and enviro) is not shouting these figures to the rooftops is something I will never understand. May I suggest that those who are working for more renewable jobs over fossil jobs study these figures, maybe memorize the ones they...
by gmoke
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 04:40 PM PDT
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The above quote says it all for me. He truly is now a global embarrassment after announcing an exit from the Paris Accord. I am truly grateful that it appears major cities in red and blue states as well as entire states are going to continue on the...
by DeeQuilter86
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 04:01 AM PDT
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There seems to be no bottom for Donald Trump in the minds of the American people. His job approval rating continues go down with almost every action, statement, or tweet that he excretes. He is a political avalanche that is hurtling down the...
by News Corpse
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 02:34 PM PDT
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by elenacarlena
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 06:33 PM PDT
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on meet the press? with chuck todd… pruitt
is totally off the wall! john kerry giving no quarter over pullout, compares trump denying climate change ro o.j. looking for “real killer"
al gore eviscerating the decision.
pruitt claiming merhane...
by edrie
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 11:36 AM PDT
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If there is one thing that Donald Trump’s presidency has accomplished, it has been to unite the opposition against him and his policies, that are essentially Republican party policies as well, just stated out loud.
There is no doubt the European...
by m2c4
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 09:55 AM PDT
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Republicans dug themselves an enormous hole by denying climate change. As the effects worsen, they have no way to gracefully climb back out into the light of day. Unfortunately, they pulled us all in with them. Now what?
We Need a Progressive Policy...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 03:40 PM PDT
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We researched where each candidate stands on issues ranging from Healthcare, Gun Safety, Education, Transportation and more. All information on candidates who are not Hannah Risheq was obtained through campaign literature and candidate websites.
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by Hannah Risheq
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 06:54 AM PDT
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The weirdest, dumbest and most negligent thing among the press today is to ask and re-ask whether Trump believes in climate change science . . . . and, worse, characterize it as an on-going “secret.
by RETIII
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 07:13 AM PDT
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So now it's US against the world
The Stars and Stripes can be unfurled
We'll fly them high above the Earth
for what little they may be worth
From sea to rising sea...
Au Revoir, Paris
This "climate change" is just a hoax
Invented by some...
by TheAlternativeFacts
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on Sat Jun 03, 2017 at 07:38 PM PDT
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