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Why angry middle-aged men are so threatened by Greta Thunberg

qz.com - Detractors have dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg—a Nobel Prize nominee—as mentally ill, hysterical and a millennial weirdo after she pleaded with world officials last week to address…

Schiff Makes Clear All Trump Efforts to Obstruct House Inquiry Will Be Added to Articles of Impeachment

www.commondreams.org - On Wednesday morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, conducted a preemptive autopsy on the presidency* of El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago. They he…

Pence: I Participated in the Ukraine Plot But Only As a Patsy

nymag.com - Vice-President Mike Pence is knee-deep in the Ukraine scandal. He is floating the absurd defense that, while he did participate in Trump’s plan to extort Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, he was …

Trump involved Pence in efforts to pressure Ukraine’s leader, though officials say vice president was unaware of allegations in whistleblower complaint

www.washingtonpost.com - By Greg Miller , Greg Miller national security, intelligence, terrorism Email Bio Follow Greg Jaffe and Greg Jaffe National security reporter Email Bio Follow Ashley Parker Ashley Parker White House …

General Motors Feeling the Squeeze as Auto Workers' Strike Enters Third Week

splinternews.com - The United Automobile Workers union continues to negotiate with General Motors for improved work conditions. More than 48,000 workers have been on strike in the U.S. since Sept. 16 over wages, health…

Rudy Giuliani Asked Imprisoned Paul Manafort About Ukraine Via Lawyer: Report

nymag.com - If one wants to dabble in some extra-judicial behavior in Ukraine, it would make sense to contact former Trump campaign chairman and current FCI Loretto inmate Paul Manafort. One of Manafort’s deputi…

The Republican Party’s Deafening Silence

newrepublic.com - The Republican Party is speechless. A week after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced the beginning of an impeachment investigation, Trump’s usual allies in the administration, in Congress, in…

Federal government has dramatically expanded exposure to risky mortgages

www.washingtonpost.com - By Damian Paletta Damian Paletta Reporter covering economic policy Email Bio Follow October 2 at 5:34 PM The federal government has dramatically expanded its exposure to risky mortgages, as federal o…

IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor

www.propublica.org - Who Wins When a Crucial Agency Is Defunded ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your…

Gina Ortiz Jones on Why She's Running Again for the Texas District She Nearly Flipped

splinternews.com - Even before Texas Rep. Will Hurd announced he wasn’t running for re-election, Gina Ortiz Jones, who had narrowly lost to Hurd in 2018, had thrown her hat back into the ring. Her campaign for one of t…

Trump's not Richard Nixon. He's Andrew Johnson.

www.motherjones.com - For more than a century the official narrative of the first presidential impeachment has been butchered and distorted, reduced to a historical curiosity, a showdown between two irresponsible factions…

Study: Nuclear War Between India and Pakistan Would Trigger Global Starvation

gizmodo.com - In addition to killing as many as 125 million people, a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would unleash mass starvation around the world due to the ensuing climate impacts, according to a d…

Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time

www.theguardian.com - A huge floating device designed by Dutch scientists to clean up an island of rubbish in the Pacific ocean that is three times the size of France has successfully picked up plastic from the high-seas …

Worse Than Climate Denial — THE TROUBLE.

www.the-trouble.com - For years, political will to address environmental concerns has struggled against public apathy. This apathy has entrenched widespread denial of the most pressing threat to society, the climate crisi…

Russia formally joins Paris climate agreement

www.climatechangenews.com - The world’s fourth largest emitter, Russia, has formally adopted the Paris Agreement, drawing an end to months of national tensions on the subject. “The Russian Federation has accepted the Paris Agre…

The biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters? Our car tires

phys.org - Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem—turns out, it just might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters. That is one of many new findings, re…

Why those fake spider webs are a bad idea

www.mnn.com - What a tangled web we weave when we celebrate Halloween. For birds, there may be no greater plague than those fake spider webs strewn willy-nilly outside homes. Those spooky gooky strands

Ancient scrolls charred by Vesuvius could be read once again

www.theguardian.com - When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79 it destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, their inhabitants and their prized possessions – among them a fine library of scrolls that were carbonised by th…

Melinda Gates is committing $1 billion to promote gender equality

qz.com - Melinda Gates announced that she will be committing $1 billion over the next decade to expanding women’s power and influence in the United States. In an op-ed for Time magazine, the philanthropist an…

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