In three years, the administration has diminished the role of science in policymaking while disrupting research projects nationwide.
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Ex-Senator Jeff Flake: Trump is on trial; so are my Senate Republican colleagues
“Personally, I have never met anyone whose behavior can be described as perfect, but so often has the president repeated this obvious untruth that it has become a form of dogma in our party. And sure enough, as dogma demands, there are members of our party denying objective reality by repeating the line that ‘the president did nothing wrong.’ My colleagues, the danger of an untruthful president is compounded when an equal branch follows that president off the cliff, into the abyss of unreality and untruth.”
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Our country is accepting the unacceptable
“Slowly, gradually, but inexorably, our country is accepting the unacceptable. We thought we had a consensus about basic norms that protect freedom and self-government. That consensus has been swept away by Republican partisans who value political power over the constitutional liberties they have always claimed to revere above everything else.”
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As Australia burns, its right wing prime minister Scott Morrison refuses to act on climate
The United States isn’t the only prominent democracy with a fossil fuel loving chief executive who refuses to act on climate. Australia’s current prime minister is an ignoramus who has no solutions to offer as the country chokes on horrific smoke from devastating brushfires.
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Rudy Giuliani butt-dials NBC reporter, heard discussing need for cash and trashing Bidens
In the call, “Giuliani can be heard discussing overseas dealings and lamenting the need for cash, though it’s difficult to discern the full context of the conversation,” NBC’s Rich Schapiro reports.
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This photo of Nancy Pelosi *literally* standing up to Donald Trump is everything
This is one of the most striking photos of the Trump error.
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California just legalized public banking, setting the stage for more affordable housing
The Guardian explains why Governor Gavin Newsom’s approval of AB 857, the Public Banking, is such a big deal. The bill will allow city and county governments to create or sponsor public banks.
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Politico’s Jack Shafer: Trump won’t be able to tweet his way out of his deepening problems
“Trump’s old techniques are failing — and not just due to the volume of the bad news,” Shafer says.
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Progress *is* possible: Major cruise line to abandon plastic water bottles
Norweigan Cruise Line is phasing out plastic water bottles and switching to lower impact containers made by Just Water.
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‘Total panic’ as ‘shell-shocked’ White House struggles to find impeachment footing
While many in the Trump White House are battle-tested from the Mueller investigation, this is starting to feel different, aides and advisers told NBC News.
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Civil rights icon John Lewis: It’s time for impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump
WATCH: Georgia Democratic Representative John Lewis takes to the House floor to call for the beginning of impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump.
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John Bolton leaves the Trump regime
Another rat flees the sinking ship.
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Former U.K. Tory Prime Minister John Major offers a harsh assessment of Boris Johnson
Major made the remarks to an audience at the CBI annual dinner.
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Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom? Nah! Try Prime Spectator!
If you aren’t paying attention to what’s happening on the other side of the Atlantic, you should tune in. British politics has entered a moment of incredibly high drama.
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Trump had better be careful about hate-tweeting Fox
Donald Trump may think he doesn’t need Fox Noise Channel. But he does. He needs Fox even more than they need him. After all, they’re a media outlet, and they can always turn on a dime and go back to having an adversarial relationship with the President.
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New videos from DNR show tsunami impacts in Washington
Watch a tsunami wave simulation for Washington State from a hypothetical magnitude 9.0 earthquake (L1) scenario on the Cascadia subduction zone.
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Revealed: Matt Shea aided group training young men for ‘biblical warfare’
Archconservative Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told The Guardian that “it almost sounds like going back to the Hitler Youth concept”.
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Baltimore Sun editorial board trashes Trump: “Better to have a few rats than to be one”
The Baltimore Sun isn’t having any of Trump’s despicable attacks on Representative Elijah Cummings or Maryland’s 7th District.
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Birds of a feather flock together: Newly unearthed video shows Trump and Epstein partying together in ’92
Via NBC News, this is quite the find: “Newly found footage from NBC News’ archives shows Donald Trump apparently talking about women with Jeffrey Epstein, now a registered sex offender, at a party at Mar-a-Lago in November 1992.”
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Most millionaires support tax on wealth above $50 million, CNBC survey finds
“Fully 60% of millionaires support Warren’s plan for taxing the wealth of those who have more than $50 million in assets,” CNBC reports.
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Trump smashed months of FBI work to thwart election interference
Via Politico: “Trump’s willingness to accept foreign assistance has essentially invited overseas spies to meddle with 2020 presidential campaigns, undoing months of work, said law enforcement veterans.”
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