Offering asides, recommended links, blogworthy quotations, and more, In Brief is the Northwest Progressive Institute's microblog of world, national, and local politics.
“The need for a Green New Deal can rendezvous with the imperative of anti-depression public investment. Much of this sweeping proposal is on the drawing boards and has not been done for lack of funding. Some of it will take some advance planning. The time to start is now.”
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“What better platform is there going to be than the Olympic Games when the world has pulled through the virus… You’ve got a dynamic that will be even more powerful for Japan and the rest of the world. But you are going to have a tough road getting there.”
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Unlike several years ago, when President Barack Obama ordered the Department of Defense to mobilize to respond to the ebola outbreak, Donald Trump has failed to involve the military in the United States’ response to the rapidly worsening coronavirus pandemic.
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“Trump gambled very early and very often on the idea that the coronavirus wouldn’t turn out to be nearly as severe as some health officials have warned it could get,” Aaron Blake writes.
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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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We can’t build our way out of future floods with better levees, just as we can’t build our way out of traffic congestion with wider highways.
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Schematic shows where Amtrak Cascades 501’s rolling stock ended up after derailment
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There will be no food in Puerto Rico… There is no more agriculture in Puerto Rico. And there won’t be any for a year or
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Via PTZtv: Live footage of Hurricane Irma destroying the MahoBeachCam.com camera located at AAA Rent-A-Car in St Maarten. We will rebuild!
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This is arguably the first real “deal” Donald Trump has made as President. It comes more than seven months after his regime came into power.
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Astonishing overnight time lapse video shows the devastating Eagle Creek fire wreaking havoc on the scenic Columbia River Gorge
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Everything that we had hoped wouldn’t happen but was forecasted is happening. We have a catastrophic, life-threatening flood event taking place over southeastern Texas, including
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A strong earthquake has caused serious damage in the central Oklahoma oil town of Cushing, which is home to the United States’ largest commercial oil
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A series of storms are headed towards the Pacific Northwest — and one could be a devastating event that will be “long remembered”, the National Weather Service warns.
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“Authorities prepared to airlift thousands of people stranded in camps north of Fort McMurray as officials warned that the fire engulfing the region will continue to grow amid strong winds,” The Globe and Mail reported Thursday.
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This striking image depicts the evacuation of Fort McMurray, Alberta, a community of more than 80,000 people. The entire municipality was ordered to empty as one of the worst fires in Canadian history threatened to consume the city and its environs. Fleeing residents passed very close to the fire on their way out of danger on Highway 63.
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A Car2Go vehicle lies ruined underneath the remains of a fallen tree (Photo: Soggydan Benenovitch, reproduced under a Creative Commons license)
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The Flooding of America The New Republic offers a chronology of major floods in America going back to the publication’s founding, complete with stories from
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The New Yorker takes notice of earthquake science that suggests the Pacific Northwest could be in grave danger The words Cascadia Subduction Zone may be
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