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Thursday, January 12, 2017

an instinctive thursday intro

6 economic myths debunked

4 numbers that should terrify trump

gun-loving conservative columnist accidentally killed after letting teen hold gun

the revolution will not be staffed

breaking w/tradition, the world champ cubs will visit obama before he leaves, avoiding trump 
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

wednesday morning coffee

monopolization is the problem behind fake news

arctic ice melt already affecting weather patterns where you live

trump's labor secretary wants to eliminate overtime

5 ways to prepare for the coming political climate

french workers get the right to disconnect from office emails after hours
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

tuesday in the park

how trump is making america meaner

silence is not an option

we need to stand up to the billionaire class

an interactive time line of fbi investigations

as the trump administration approaches, cities gear up for resistance
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Monday, January 09, 2017

monday was a soundgarden song

why america needs a socialist movement

who will check the facebook fact checkers?

a st. louis suburb jailed nearly 2,000 people for not paying fines

david brooks and the intellectual collapse of the center

study finds bullets sperad like the flu
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Sunday, January 08, 2017

sunday environmental stories

for those stories that you might not hear on the usual talking head shows...in this "make america great again®" era.

how california went from drought to dangerous rain and snow. after years of dry conditions, california is getting its winter back. - latimes
 
epa head's top regret: failing to connect with rural america. among the millions of rural americans who voted for incoming president donald trump, the u.s. environmental protection agency's legacy of hard-nosed regulation earned it a reputation as a jobs killer - a fact that outgoing epa director gina mccarthy says could prove to be one of her biggest regrets - reuters

perry and pruitt: texas, oklahoma may call the climate tune under trump. two republicans from texas and oklahoma – where oil and gas rule politics – may be about to apply their state governments’ approaches to climate change to the whole country. - texas climate news

sensing gains ahead under trump, the kochs court minorities. anticipating a fossil fuel resurgence, the ultraconservative brothers, who run an oil and petroleum conglomerate, are busily expanding their outreach - the new york times

beavers, imports from canada, are threatening primeval forests of patagonia. seventy years later, the placement of the nonnative, wood-chewing mammals in fagnano lake along the chile-argentina border is viewed as a colossal mistake - latimes

falcons, drones, data: a winery battles climate change. jackson family wines of sonoma, calif., is among winemakers employing both high-tech and old-school techniques to adapt to hotter, drier conditions - ny times

stifling smog shows china's struggle to balance economic needs with public health. with 24 cities on 'red alert' due to serious air pollution amid a surge in industrial production, china wrestles with the environmental challenges of a boom and bust economy - christian science monitor

seeing the devastation of climate change in the ruins of aleppo. i recently followed a drone through the ruined syrian city of aleppo, courtesy of youtube. the destruction was sobering, to say the least - latimes

federal climate investigation of exxon likely to fizzle under trump. sen. jeff sessions, donald trump's choice as attorney general, has been a vocal opponent of investigating the oil giant for climate fraud- inside climate news

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sunday morning la

breitbart leading smear against professor who mocked white supremacy

man who was there sees chilling comparisons between nazi germany and today

no one in congress wants to regulate fake news

silicon valley's power brokers are just your average robber barons

vienna gives 10-minute standing ovation to 11-year-old child prodigy's opera about cinderella
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Saturday, January 07, 2017

happy saturday

the gun industry's lucrative relationship with hollywood

half of all seabirds along australia's south east coast have plastic in their stomach

we just might get trump's wall

is the media normalizing the klan? (although the kkk reality show has been cancelled)

here's how we prepare to be ungovernable in 2017
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Friday, January 06, 2017

last friday nighte (tgif)

california is becoming the center of anti-trump resistance

5 things you notice when you quit watching the news

capitalism is working better in france than in the us

fracking has made some water supplies unusable

a pessimist's guide to 2017
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Thursday, January 05, 2017

alternate thursday

basic income and job guarantees are complimentary, not opposing

the man who invented the world's most important number

more than 1,000 hate crimes a month since trump's election

study shows more than 55,400 people killed or hospitalized by cops each year

fake news and the new mccarthyism
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Wednesday, January 04, 2017

wednesday morning, 3 am

trump deserves to be ridiculed and that's his achilles heel

meanwhile, he launches his war on unions

colorado river water crisis hits across the west

the us protects its wealthy professionals while throwing its workers to the wolves

how states legalize tax fraud 
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Tuesday, January 03, 2017

tuesday in nancy

why the fur industry is very pleased with trump in the white house

bureau of statistics: accurate number of americans killed by police is double the official number

100 ceo's have as much retirement wealth as 41% of america 

algorithms can help stamp out fake news

burmese pythons are devastating the everglades 
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Monday, January 02, 2017

monday warrior

7 ways to fight for justice in 2017

how the democrats could win again, if they wanted

software developers kill people

the last gasp of the american dream

 larry kudlow isn't an economist, but he plays one on tv
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Sunday, January 01, 2017

contrary to popular belief gigglebombs still work

i started a new googlebomb which will probably work if i understand their "algorithm" correctly no matter how much the Russian Puppet complains.
in html:
<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump"> Russian Puppet</a>
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sunday mornin' comin down

the coming immigration wars

us health care tab hits $3.2 trillion; fastest growth in 8 years

people hate the ryan plan to privatize medicare

your food is making you sick

solar system's biggest asteroid is an ancient ocean world 
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Saturday, December 31, 2016

auld lang syne

the end of the american century

the gop's attack on voting rights was the most under-reported story of 2016

the year's best drug scares

the indigenous-led climate movements to watch in 2017

9 lgbtq stories big media missed in 2016

beyond 2016: 5 stories to carry us into the new year
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Friday, December 30, 2016

late friday night

it's 2016, do you know where your bombs are falling?

how capitalism kills

trump against the american worker

secrets of the watchtower: child abuse among the jehovah's witnesses

power is never given, it's always taken
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Thursday, December 29, 2016

alternate thursday

ibm employees launch petition protesting cooperation w/trump

in the face of barbarism, 1000s turn to democratic socialism

"patient advocacy groups" are actually big pharma scam

clinton allies plot anti-trump movement

is this how democracy ends?

so, so sad. one day after her daughter carrie fisher died, we must say rip star of american stage, screen and television (and lead actress in the best movie ever made about making movies, singin' in the rain), debbie reynolds


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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

wednesday morning, 2:41 am

calls grow to disrupt trump's inauguration

west antarctic ice shelf breaking up from inside out

the orwellian war on skepticism

bomb sniffing machine works better with a fake dog nose on on the end

the bank lent me $2m so i spent it on strippers and cars 

and rip princess leia, author, screenwriter & mental health care advocate, carrie fisher

also gone: rip author of watership down, richard adams

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

tuesday: haboob

a plan to stop bigotry in trump's america

harassment in schools skyrockets after election

lawsuit challenges legality of imprisoning debtors in alabama

capitalism v. socialism: a changed debate

japanes city is tagging dementia patients with bar codes

and rip the astrophysicist who discovered dark matter, vera rubin 
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Monday, December 26, 2016

monday trouble

why we still need feminism

identity liberalism?

taking it to the states

how to detect fake news

wondering how bad will you look with a tat?  there's an app for that 

and in a the supreme irony of 2016, rip the man who sang one of most iconic christmas songs of rock n roll, george michael, died on christmas

 
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Sunday, December 25, 2016

merry christmas


from a lovely little red-tiled town on the edge of the continent


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white christmas

cities are making it illegal to help the homeless

churches connect christmas story to refugee crisis

these toys not only listen to what your kids say, they send it to defense contractors

gov. brown pardons 112 in pre-christmas tradition

and as is our tradition, here's our favorite christmas song by the drifters:

 
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Saturday, December 24, 2016

'twas the night before christmas

starving in america

capitalism breeds reckless consumption and starves the public sphere

the triumph of the 1%

don't let free wi-fi ruin the holidays 

your christmas tree could come with a warning label
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Friday, December 23, 2016

last friday night

how white people can support people of color now

how progressives could push back against the trump agenda

nyc firefighter charged w/setting own home on fire, blaming black lives matter

localism in the age of trump

it's time to fight like hell 
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Thursday, December 22, 2016

7:17 thursday

how to save the planet from  president trump

steve bannon isn't a racist - he's worse

a 40 year teaching career ended after comparing trump to hitler

proposal to let 1st year resident physicians to work 28 hours in a row is dangerous

what facebook knows about you
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

wednesday morning

my decent into the right wing media vortex

no, russia is not behind every fake news story you see

sherriff caught scrubbing facebook page of dapl civil rights violation

private prisons don't let refugee kids use crayons

did china's civilization come from ancient egypt?

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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

tuesday heartbreak

michael moore's plans to protest the inauguration

arctic heatwave considered 'scary'

5 things obama should do before leaving office (but probably won't)

how much mussolini is in trump?

dogs remember all those awful things you do
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Monday, December 19, 2016

monday train

more than 100 million trees dead in california

record number of car buyers upside down on trade-ins

new immigration rules make it easier for americans to work and live in canada

50 guns, 80,000 rounds seized at the arizona department of economic security

quit social media. your career may depend on it

and rip zsa zsa gabor 
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Sunday, December 18, 2016

environmental news stories sunday

for those stories that are not bandied about by the sunday talking heads and will probably be buried by b*s in the upcoming administration. it does not bode well for our environment.

the slow death of ecology's birthplace. one hundred and fifty years ago, a young danish botanist named johannes eugenius bülow warming sailed out of rio de janeiro, bound for copenhagen. safely stowed with him were some of the 2,600 plant specimens he had collected over three years- undark

louisiana governor declares public health emergency for st. joseph, recommends not drinking tap water.louisiana gov. john bel edwards has declared a public health emergency for the town of st. joseph after officials discovered elevated levels of lead and copper in several water samples.- abc news

five ways trump could unwind obama's environmental policies. many of president obama’s climate and environmental policies are unlikely to survive under president-elect donald trump. - the hill

exxonmobil helped defeat russia sanctions bill. the company’s formidable lobbying operation cleared the way for outgoing ceo rex tillerson to help restore a program worth billions of dollars as secretary of state. - politico

i'm a scientist who has gotten death threats. i fear what may happen under trump. my penn state colleagues looked with horror at the police tape across my office door. i had been opening mail at my desk that afternoon in august 2010 when a dusting of white powder fell from the folds of a letter - wapo

how antibiotic-tainted seafood from china ends up on your table. chinese agriculture has thrived for thousands of years on a kind of recycling—the nutrients that fatten the pigs and geese also feed the fish. but the introduction of antibiotics into animal feed has transformed ecological efficiency into a threat to global public health. - bloomberg

if you want to see how donald trump will destroy the environment, read this legislative roadmap. if you've been wondering which environmental protections the incoming administration will target and how exactly how they’ll try to undo them, take a look at the competitive enterprise institute’s legislative agenda, “free to prosper.”- the intercept

scientists are saving climate data; this is why it matters. while the trump administration hasn’t said it’s going to erase or curtail access to climate data, appointments to the trump transition team and the views of his cabinet nominees have set alarms bells ringing. and with good reason.- climate central

hordes of geese die on a toxic lake in montana. the exact cause of the birds’ deaths is unknown, and experts worry that thousands more could be in danger during this year’s migratory season - nytimes

rare arabian leopards forced out by frankincense harvesters. the habitat of one of the world’s rarest and most elusive big cats is shrinking fast, with the latest pressure coming from frankincense collectors - new scientist

the holocene hangover: it is time for humanity to make fundamental changes. the magnitude of environmental change we now face will demand a fundamental reorientation of modern politics, economics, and culture. this is the only way to make a home on our new planet.- the guardian

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sunday morning call

retirees who saved still headed to the poor house

california's disappearing dream

trump staffer convicted of voting fraud

why journos love twitter

how tech and media can fight fake news

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Saturday, December 17, 2016

happened on a saturday night

the change is us

maggiano's restaurant apologizes for hosting a white nationalist party

how wall street makes money from trump's prison policy

salmonella thrives in salad bags

scientists all over the world are nervous about trump
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Friday, December 16, 2016

keep their heads ringin' (it's friday)

december 19: a day for democracy

lessons on stopping white nationalism

hospitals tell trump pence's plan to repeal aca will cost $165 billion

9 tips for communicating science to people who aren't scientists

why are gorillas committing mob violence?
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Thursday, December 15, 2016

10:30 on a thursday night

the inevitability of being hacked

why some protests succeed but other fail

citibank is the first bank in australia to not take cash

debt derangement syndrome - saving our kids from walls street

first class travel and $30,000 speaker fees make reporting on poverty tolerable

 

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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

wednesday mayday

electoral college members demand intelligence briefing

united airlines will now charge for using overhead bins

marijuana arrests are at a 20 year low

the world's coconuts are in danger

swedish women get hotline to report mansplaining
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breaking the no caps rule

#JailHimNow

Please use in all social media posts relating to hair furor

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