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Monday, September 11, 2017

monday groove

killings of black people by whites far more likely to be ruled justified

big pharma firm gets slap on the wrist for medicaid fraud

why corrupt bankers avoid jail

here's some crazy 2016 climate records you haven't heard about

why do rich people love endurance sports?

and rip co-creator of wolverine and swamp thing (and editor of the greatest comic book of all time, watchmen), len wein

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Sunday, September 10, 2017

beautiful sunday

us racism earns international condemnation

trump's infrastructure plan is a neo-fascist scheme

the u.s. has more troops in afghanistan than previously disclosed

federal judge put 100's behind bars while her husband invested in private prisons

the surge in protests has created a boom in legal note takers
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Saturday, September 09, 2017

manic saturday

angela merkel: the body language of power

obama says trump's daca decision is cruel and contrary to our spirit

americans are dying younger, saving corporations billions

rich sf homeowners get a shock: somebody bought their street

and meet harvey and irma, celebrating 75th years of marriage as two storms bear their names
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Friday, September 08, 2017

another friday night

when silicon valley took over journalism

the undocumented in texas: surviving harvey and the end of daca

fake police agency gets free military gear from dod

investors are growing more worried about retail

404: a look at digital decay

and rip influential writer of second wave feminism, kate millet 
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Thursday, September 07, 2017

hot thursday


why the right wing war on george soros matters

how banks are creating the next financial crisis

the policies of white resentment

scientists create the first mutant ants

a colony of bats has moved into a triceratops 
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Wednesday, September 06, 2017

dreamy wednesdays

skippy alumnus rj eskow writes about uber democrats

group vows to expose why trump ditched flood-protection rule

georgia reverses course on voter roll purge process

this trump real estate deal looks an awful lot like tax fraud

amazon echo can be turned into a spy device
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Tuesday, September 05, 2017

tuesday shoes

this is what you get when you elect republicans

study finds link between brain damage and religious fundamentalism

we don't need no moderates

maybe the ai dystopia is already here

long lost engagement ring found a decade later wrapped around a carrot

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Monday, September 04, 2017

working class hero

join the fight for 15 to raise the minimum wage

trump's war on workers

why all americans need strong labor unions

where the robots work

the right to organize at work should have constitutional protection

they got hurt at work. then they got deported

the worst jobs in america are getting worse

rise of the machines

and rip co-founder of steely dan, walter becker

 
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Sunday, September 03, 2017

any given sunday

disaster may not discriminate, but recovery does

stop telling white nationalists they just need to get laid 

bees are bouncing back from colony collapse

bitcoin has split into 2 different versions

meat industry blamed for the largest ever dead zone in the gulf of mexico
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Saturday, September 02, 2017

main street saturday night

trump's low ratings are affecting down ballot repubs

here's how much daca deportations will cost

rogue ice agent harasses woman on california highway

donald trump, president of white america

banning trans troops would cost 100 times more than letting them serve

and rip ground-breaking comedian (and larry david's dad on curb your enthusiasm) shelly berman


 
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Friday, September 01, 2017

angeline is always friday

if trump sabotages obamacare, premiums will spike by 25% by 2020

being rich wrecks your soul

passenger group wins court victory to keep airline seats from shrinking

more than half the young people in ireland would join a mass uprising against the government

you are the product

and rip the boss of the $6 million man & bionic woman, actor richard anderson
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Thursday, August 31, 2017

holy thursday

houston is a tragedy, but flooding has killed 1,200 in south asia

the war on whites is an ugly myth

some of america's prisons are literally hell during the summer

ex-cia agent rips gop for its cowardice on racism

gonorrhea is excellent at resisting antibiotics


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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

cupcake wednesday

those pointless upper-middle-class entitlements

dc officer under investigation for wearing white supremacist shirt to court

new google algorithm restricts access to progressive sites

photo purporting to show antifa beating police in charlottesville is a fake

roombas have been mapping your homes for years, and the data is about to be sold to the highest bidder
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

tuesday session

ice agents left 50 women and children stranded at a bus station before harvey hit

pundits: stop patronizing the middle class

you have 3 days left (at this point, 2) to let the fcc know how you feel about net neutrality

the chemicals in your mac n cheese

scientists unlock secrets of babylonian trigonometry tablet pre-dating pythagoras by 1000 years
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Monday, August 28, 2017

monday girl

the best charities to donate to for hurricane harvey relief

how a "financial wizard" took over retail giant sears and drove it into the ground

the hogs that created america's first urban working class

the trump slump: gun sales are down

how bosses are literally like dictators
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Sunday, August 27, 2017

environmental news stories sunday

houston....we have a problem.

climate change is bringing "new normals" to the world, but you don't see the talking heads on the sunday tv shows talking much about it, let along discussing solutions.

a texas newsroom predicted a disaster. now it’s close to coming true. the texas tribune and propublica last year published a multi-part investigation looking at what would happen if houston was hit by a major hurricane. columbia journalism review.  

the danger of storms hitting near chemical plants. the large number of refineries and petrochemical plants means that the gulf coast region has large numbers of chemical and oil tank farms and, in some cases, open storage pits. - wapo

hurricane harvey could also be a major pollution disaster.the powerful storm is headed straight toward the heart of the american petrochemical industry, while a key epa response position remains unfilled.- new republic  

how an oregon activist's barn produced the 'poison papers' that aids in a lawsuit against monsanto. bending a rusted, gnarled piece of wire gate just above her head, carol van strum ducked into the old, dark shed where she kept some old, dark secrets. - st. louis public radio  

california towns tackle nitrate pollution with local solutions. it will take decades to slow nitrate contamination in groundwater from industrial agriculture in parts of the state of california, so communities are taking matters into their own hands to get clean drinking water. - water deeply  

climate change triggers need to spend more on infrastructure in canada. extreme weather caused by climate change is exacerbating the need to repair ontario’s aging roads, bridges, waterworks, and other infrastructure, a leading business group warns - toronto star  

another us agency deletes references to climate change on government website. the national institutes of health deleted multiple references to climate change on its website over the summer, continuing a trend that began when the trump administration took charge of the dot.gov domain. - the guardian  

france's answer to 'an inconvenient truth' will inspire you to fight climate change."demain" (tomorrow, in english), showcases projects from across the world — urban farms, finnish education initiatives, composting — for the most part undertaken by ordinary people who decided in small ways to fix their corner of the world. - ozy

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another sunday

trump bashes the media but loves good press

the nra is about protecting gun manufacturers, not the constitution

after 8 months of trump, what's next for the resistance?

2016 broke the record for hottest year ever (previously held by 2015, 2014)


is trump letting vets down?
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Saturday, August 26, 2017

louisiana satruday night

white supremacy in the age of trump

untreatable gonorrhea on the rise world-wide

interior secretary says he will shrink some national monuments

judge sets oct. 18 for foreign emoluments arguments

is the us on the brink of erupting in mass violence?
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Friday, August 25, 2017

american friday night

voter to gop rep: may you die in pain

behind-the-scenes chaos of the muslim ban

this isn't america's first opiate-addicted crisis


sewage sludge is endangering our food supply

catch up on the trump-russia scandal in just six minutes
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Thursday, August 24, 2017

hello thursday

phoenix rally ends in unexpected police violence

trump has a sickening fetish for cruelty

gunfire sparked blaze outside yosemite that burned 63 homes

fines for big financial firms have plunged under this administration

russian bots can hack trump's brain via twitter


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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

big wednesday

the end of cash, the end of freedom

why pence is destined to betray trump

and why trump should be nervous with mueller on the case

5 steps the gop congress is taking to trump-proof the government

texas cop uses facebook to urge people to use deadly force to protect confederate monuments
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

tuesday rollers and strollers

the real voter fraud

scientists plan to trick zika mosquitoes into breeding themselves out of existence

the debt ceiling is madness

should america's tech giants be broken up?

why it sucks to be not quite famous
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Monday, August 21, 2017

monday free

there's no such thing as a trump democrat

shortage of immigrant farm workers leaves entire field to rot

us muslims more accepting of homosexuality than white evangelicals

 a chilling theory on trump's non-stop lies

confederate statues were built to further a 'white supremacist' future
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Sunday, August 20, 2017

another park another sunday

gun sales are down in new hampshire

white house source: trump is afraid of firing bannon

the lesson of the trump family troubles: nepotism doesn't pay

is our military losing the ability to fight capable foes?

the uninhabitable earth
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Saturday, August 19, 2017

lonely saturday

states with the most anti-abortion laws also have the worst women's health

military leaders have given up on this president

airnbigotry: tech and civil rights

the republicans know we're in a crisis; they just don't care

get your free eclipse glasses at your local library
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Friday, August 18, 2017

all friday

a witness to terrorism in charlottesville

when fascism comes to america, it will be wrapped in the flag and set to a hip disco beat

republicans never really cared about health care

trump is turning off millennials even more than before

the new monopolies
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Thursday, August 17, 2017

hardly thursday afternoon

remember, trump's father was arrested in 1927 after a klan riot in queens

the latest dangerous drug craze, narcan parties, doesn't actually exist

trump is a clown show and christian evangelicals provided the tent

fascism and the denial of truth: what henry wallace can teach us about trump

five myths about hippies




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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

awake on wednesday

trump blames both sides for charlotteville violence

black drivers targeted for racist abuse in white philly neighborhood


how dams deprive rivers of sediment

the secret history of the banking crisis

revolution and counter-revolution, 1917-2017
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

tuesday people

here's a go fund me for the man beaten by nazis in charlottesville


administration demands info on visitors to anti-trump web site

wells fargo charged customers for unneeded auto insurance - and then repossessed their cars

why tax cuts for the rich solve nothing

and depending on where you live, you should be able to see mars, jupiter, venus and mercury during next week's solar eclipse 
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Monday, August 14, 2017

monday evil

trump wilts in the face of fascist terrorism

'bi-partisanship' means 'i don't understand what politics is'

6 jeff lord moments worse than the nazi tweet

charter schools are burning out teachers - and they like it that way

why i left facebook 

and rip great character actor of broadway film and television, joe bologna
 
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Sunday, August 13, 2017

environmental news stories sunday

for those stories that don't usually make it "above the fold" or on the talking head sunday shows....
and a reminder....#beinconvenient

 of course trump will suppress new report on us climate impacts. has he called it “fake news” on twitter yet? there isn’t a chance in hell that the trump administration will ever officially release the latest national climate assessment report showing the severe risk carbon pollution poses to the united states. Trump will surely take a page from george w. bush, who taught Trump all that he needs to know about suppressing inconvenient science. - washington monthly
 
penalties assessed by epa decline under trump, study finds. civil penalties assessed by the environmental protection agency are 60 percent lower so far under trump than at the same point in each of the last three administrations, according to a report released thursday - the hill  

al gore: 'the rich have subverted all reason.' with the sequel to his blockbuster documentary an inconvenient truth about to be released, al gore tells carole cadwalladr how his role at the forefront of the fight against climate change consumes his life - the guardian

some tuna can carry up to 36 times the toxic chemicals of others. here's why. a new study may prompt hand wringing among you tuna poke and sushi lovers. when it comes to pollutant levels, researchers now say where your tuna was caught matters. - npr  

scott pruitt is carrying out his epa agenda in secret, critics say. when career employees of the epa are summoned to a meeting with the agency's administrator, scott pruitt, at agency headquarters, they no longer can count on easy access to the floor where his office is, according to interviews with employees of the federal agency - nytimes  

us and mexico finalizing colorado river deal. the us and mexican governments may be sharply at odds on donald trump's plan for a border wall, but when it comes to water – and the potential for a major shortage along the colorado river – the two sides seem to be on the same page. - palm springs desert sun  

general motors plant in arlington tx looks to wind to power its future. the general motors’ plant in arlington is looking to the wind to power its future. the company announced thursday it planned to convert its sprawling su assembly line to 100 percent wind power by the end of 2017. it now uses 50 percent wind power. - kxas-tv

iraq sends workers home as 'ungodly' heat grips middle east. while europe battles with a heatwave named lucifer, the middle east is enduring a summer so brutal that even those accustomed to baghdad’s searing august weather are labelling it “ungodly”. - the guardian

 the trump administration rolls back anti-corruption efforts in the oil industry. in february, in one of its first acts of lawmaking, the trump administration, with the republican-controlled congress, rescinded a pending securities and exchange commission rule that would have required oil companies to disclose details of their payments to international governments in connection with oil and gas production. - the new yorker

 cleaner air is possible, louisville's community effort has proven it. few thought louisville could improve its air quality. in the 1970s, pollution in the city was terrible. no way. impossible, some said. but it wasn't impossible. it took a lot of work. and the work is not over. - louisville courier journal

 ‘chasing coral’ inspires audiences in cayman. a film screening beneath the stars, with a warm breeze rippling over the sand. It sounds idyllic, but the mood in the audience was somber, even tearful. - cayman compass  

these are the crazy climate records from 2016 you haven’t heard much about. by now, we’ve all heard that 2016 was the hottest year on record, and that heat-trapping greenhouse gases hit their highest concentration ever. tut there are other climate change-related records that have flown more under the radar. - climate central  

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posted by SantaBarbarian at 4:03 PM | 2 comments

all the sundays

details about the suspect in the charlottesville car terrorism

uruguay becomes first country to begin retail sales of marijuana

young men are working a lot less and it's not because of video games

5 things to know about the trillion ton iceberg

how a fish tank helped hack a casino 
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