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Doomstead Diner Daily 12/18
« Reply #525 on: December 18, 2019, 07:07:01 am »

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Trump Writes Insane Letter to Pelosi Showing Why He’s Unfit for Office

nymag.com - If you worked in print media, you became accustomed to receiving long, unhinged letters from agitated members of the general public. Often these letters tied together facts, pseudo-facts, paranoid in…

Trump rips Democrats for ‘attempted coup’ on eve of likely impeachment

washingtonpost.com - President Trump’s letter called the impeachment process “invalid,” “spiteful,” “egregious,” “meritless,” “terrible,” “disingenuous,” “baseless,” “preposterous,” “dangerous,” “fake,” “fantasy” and “il…

More than 700 scholars pen letter urging House to impeach Trump

washingtonpost.com - By Felicia Sonmez close Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow December 16, 2019 at 8:07 PM EST A group of more than 70…

Opinion | Don’t let Mitch McConnell conduct a Potemkin impeachment trial

washingtonpost.com - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks to journalists about the impeachment inquiry during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Oct. 29. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) By Laurence H…

Of Two Minds - OK Boomer, OK Fed

oftwominds.com - Eventually the younger generations will connect all the economic injustices implicit in 'OK Boomer' with the Fed. Much of the cluelessness and economic inequality behind the OK Boomer meme is the res…

A People's Guide to Revolution: Why Popular Protest Movements Fail

mintpressnews.com - Since the 2010 Arab Autumn, it has become clear that leaderless revolts only have two inevitable outcomes. In the first, a game of musical chairs between right-wing imperialist forces will be played …

Pope lifts 'pontifical secret' for sex abuse cases

news.yahoo.com - Vatican City (AFP) - Priests can no longer cite papal secrecy in abuse cases, the Vatican said Tuesday, the latest move by Pope Francis to combat silence surrounding paedophilia in the Roman Catholic…

A Coal Baron Funded Climate Denial as His Company Spiraled Into Bankruptcy

nytimes.com - Mr. Murray’s charitable giving over the past two years included $2 million to the Boy Scouts of America. He also funded an array of conservative political action committees as well as groups that den…

Coal Giant Provided Secret Financing to Group Challenging Climate Lawsuits

theintercept.com - Other think tanks listed in the filing as having received money from Murray Energy include the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a group that claimed “there is no scientific consensus though tha…

The New York Times’s political coverage has completely imploded at the worst possible time | Press Watch

presswatchers.org - The New York Times’s three-year struggle to sustain its reporting algorithms, built for two political parties that have comparable relationships to reality, collapsed into sordid heap of nonsense ove…

An Angry Letter Reveals the Fiction of the Two Trumps

theatlantic.com - In other words: It’s more of the same. Much more. (At least his letter to Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was brief.) For the most part, the letter is a farrago of common complaints the president has i…

Giuliani Calls Up New York Times to Incriminate Trump

vanityfair.com - Mr. Giuliani told the president and Mr. Pompeo that Ms. Yovanovitch was blocking visas for Ukrainian prosecutors to come to the United States to present evidence to him—and also to federal authoritie…

Trump was elected by a little more than a quarter of eligible voters

vox.com - Before making sweeping statements about what Donald Trump’s Election Day victory says about everyday Americans, you might want to consider one fact: Only about one-fourth of Americans eligible to vot…

The Ongoing Effort to Write Wall Street Out of the 2008 Financial Crisis

theintercept.com - While the conservative response to the crisis was to blame black and brown homeowners, the more sophisticated academic response extends the blame more broadly to other borrowers. The new paper, autho…

How Corporate Cronies Corrupted the Department of the Interior Under Trump

gen.medium.com - Earlier this year, a top official at the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) was caught on tape praising President Trump’s ability to distract the American public. “One of the things I have found a…

Humans Are Driving the Evolution of Urban Rats

undark.org - It took only a few seconds to spot one. Then another. As I walked into the small park around noon, dozens of rats could be seen scurrying in every direction. They dashed in and out of burrows scatter…

Trump slashed Puerto Rico’s Medicaid money as part of budget deal

politico.com - Puerto Rico's Medicaid program has been relying on a series of short-term funding extensions since the fall, after confronting a fiscal cliff on Sept. 30 when a temporary boost in money — one of seve…

Of Science, Fear, and Nuclear Radiation

undark.org - For Andrew Maidment, the chief of physics for the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, it was one of the oddest phone calls he’d ever received. “A woman called me up once,” he r…

Toys “R” Us Is Back—Now With More Surveillance!

wired.com - Physical stores are increasingly turning to tools like Wi-Fi beacons and sophisticated cameras to bring the same data collection to the real world. The information can inform everything from marketin…

Climate change and the threat to global breadbaskets

phys.org - Climate change is not just resulting in a steady increase in temperatures, but also in an increased frequency and severity of extreme climatic events, like droughts, heat waves, and floods. These ext…

Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines

pnas.org - The strong focus on species extinctions, a critical aspect of the contemporary pulse of biological extinction, leads to a common misimpression that Earth’s biota is not immediately threatened, just s…

World’s first human-monkey hybrid created in China, scientists reveal - Rakoza.com

rakoza.com - Scientists say they have created the world’s first human-monkey hybrid in a laboratory in China. The researchers, who want to use animals to create organs for human life-saving transplants, say creat…

Brazil has become a cautionary tale for the world's democracies | Petra Costa

theguardian.com - I was a child when I saw Terry Gilliam’s Brazil for the first time. I expected a film about the stereotypes of my country – carnival, samba and football – but found something else. In Gilliam’s surre…


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