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Stephen Miller Wanted to Ban Undocumented Children from Public Schools

splinternews.com - Just when you thought Trump senior adviser and psychopath Stephen Miller couldn’t be any more diabolical, a new report says that he wanted to find a way for the Trump administration to block undocume…

How Stephen Miller authors Trump’s immigration policy

www.washingtonpost.com - The ghostwriter The adviser who scripts Trump’s immigration policy With unswerving loyalty, Stephen Miller has singular control of an issue central to the presidency By Nick Miroff Nick Miroff Report…

Republicans Are Adopting the Proud Boys

www.thedailybeast.com - Nine members of the far-right Proud Boys group and three protesters are facing riot and assault charges after a street brawl between them Friday night in New York. The fight wasn’t a random clash, th…

Tensions High as Far-Right Rally Tied To Threats Hits Portland

unicornriot.ninja - Portland, OR – Tensions are high in Portland as a far-right rally, whose organizers have threatened violence, is opposed by large anti-racist counter-protests. A massive police presence has saturated…

Portland rally: Proud Boys vow to march each month after biggest protest of Trump era

www.theguardian.com - Portland saw its largest far-right demonstration of the Trump era on Saturday, as 500 rightwingers traveled from around the country to march back and forth across the city’s bridges, and briefly occu…

Canada’s new far right: A trove of private chat room messages reveals an extremist subculture

www.theglobeandmail.com - They come from all walks of life: tradesmen, soldiers, a student teacher, a financial analyst, an aspiring lawyer, among others. And they are in every province, in communities large and small. They g…

Chris Matthews Goes on Incredibly Bizarre Jeffrey Epstein Monologue

splinternews.com - MSNBC’s Chris Matthews suggested on Tuesday that politicians flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet, known as the “Lolita Express,” in part because they were short on cash. Matthews said: “One thing c…

Plague-infected prairie dogs have shut down parts of a Denver suburb

www.cnn.com - Despite its name and fatal history in the Middle Ages, the plague is rare and generally treatable, at least in the United States. In general, small mammals and rodents with infected fleas carry the d…

Rashida Tlaib’s Grandmother Speaks for Us All

splinternews.com - It wasn’t enough for Donald Trump to call his friend in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and urge him to block two sitting U.S. congresswomen from visiting that country. Always the narcissi…

Border Patrol Arrest Reports Are Full of Lies That Can Sabotage Asylum Claims

theintercept.com - On December 29, 2017, the night his daughter was born, Augusto left the hospital and rode his motorcycle to his home in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, to pick up a change of clothes for his wife. On his way b…

Beto O'Rourke Would Really Like You to Stop Asking When He's Going to Drop Out

splinternews.com - Beto O’Rourke is back “in it,” as they say, planning to return to the campaign trail on Thursday after a well-justified break from the presidential race to mourn the victims of the horrific mass shoo…

New video evidence of Russian tanks in Ukraine revealed

www.theguardian.com - Newly collated evidence documenting Russian military involvement in the conflict in Ukraine will be used to bolster legal claims against the Russian state by Ukrainian volunteer fighters. Forensic Ar…

Climate feedback loops could put human civilization on the road to extinction

www.straight.com - A summer heat wave over Greenland has contributed to some shocking developments. Between July 30 and August 5, surface temperatures rose 12° C above the period from 1981 to 2010, according to the Nat…

Scientist: Warming Could Cut Population to 1 Billion

dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com - [UPDATE, 1:45 p.m.: A roundup of economists’ and scientists’ views at the Copenhagen climate meeting and a reaction from Mike Hulme, a participating scientist.] COPENHAGEN — A scientist known for his…

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China’s building a rain-making network three times the size of Spain

www.scmp.com - China needs more water. So it's building a rain-making network three times the size of Spain The Tibetan Plateau is the source of most of Asia’s largest rivers, but it suffers from low annual rainfal…

Before Trump eyed Greenland: Here’s what happened last time the US bought a large chunk of the Arctic

theconversation.com - Editor’s note: Reports that President Donald Trump has urged aides to look into buying Greenland make us think of the last time the United States bought a major territory in the Arctic: the purchase …

‘We are moving into a new, controlled society worse than old totalitarianism’ – Zizek on Google leak

www.rt.com - The intellectual told RT he’s not advocating for online anarchy, comparing it to snuff movies in **** pornography – some regulation should be in place to block harmful content on the internet, he…

American consumers are holding up the global economy. But for how long?

www.washingtonpost.com - By Rachel Siegel , Rachel Siegel National business reporter Email Bio Follow Abha Bhattarai and Abha Bhattarai Reporter covering the retail industry Email Bio Follow Heather Long Heather Long Economi…

Hong Kong protesters defy threats from Beijing, police and heavy rain for huge — and peaceful — march

www.washingtonpost.com - 1 of 56 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × The scene of ongoing protests in Hong Kong View Photos For weeks, people have been voicing their opposition to a proposed extradition bill by China. Capti…

Ash dieback is just the start of killer plagues threatening Britain’s trees | George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com - As Dutch elm disease spread across Britain in the 1970s, the country fell into mourning. When the sentinel trees that framed our horizons were felled, their loss was a constant topic of sad and angry…

Where did all the cod go? Fishing crisis in the North Sea

www.theguardian.com - By 7.30am all the cod at Peterhead fish market had been sold, snapped up by competing buyers wearing thick fleeces, woolly hats and rubber boots against the chill of the vast indoor warehouse. A gagg…

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