From CNN: The last time Kansas sent a Democrat to the US Senate, the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby was all over the news. “Tarzan the Ape Man” was a hit movie. And Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his first term, crushing incumbent Herbert Hoover. The year, as you history majors out there have probably already…
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46 years ago ….
I was at the Bryn Mawr PA train station waiting for a train to take me into Philadelphia for a party I was going to attend. Someone I knew slightly walked by me without noticing me, so I called after her. We chatted as we waited for the train. She had been visiting her younger…
another Trump lie: “Portland has been burning for many years, for decades it's been burning”
More Trump nonsense, perpetuating a lie, and Trump will bring it Tuesday to Kenosha, Wisconsin. America has always been at war with Eastasia. Portland and Kenosha. You’d think someone would have noticed all those decades of a burning Portland. then again “Trump says Biden is controlled “by people who are in the dark shadows”. #TrumpCaravans seem vaguely…
Florida Republicans still encourage LGBTQ hatred four years after Pulse
A few blocks from my home is the site of the Pulse massacre. We just passed the 4-year anniversary. In the six months that led up to the massacre, Florida Republicans had introduced more than 200 bills attacking freedoms of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities. But it’s okay: my right-wing friends tell me everything's all…
Hottest day ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle; reached 100.4 F. 80 years faster than expected
Even if a small fraction of the Arctic seafloor carbon is released to the atmosphere, we’re fucked. Climatologist Jason Box, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland We all have our hands full at the moment, with multiple catastrophes occurring at once. Before scrolling past the headline of this diary, I implore you to explore this diary,…
Hottest day ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle; reached 100.4 F; 80 years faster than expected
Even if a small fraction of the Arctic seafloor carbon is released to the atmosphere, we’re fucked. Climatologist Jason Box, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland We all have our hands full at the moment, with multiple catastrophes occurring at once. Before scrolling past the headline of this diary, I implore you to explore this diary,…
Reporter finally asks Trump the question we've been wondering about for years
Like clockwork, Donald Trump has determined that John Bolton is a wacko. That’s what happens when you challenge Kaiser Cray-Cray. You get a dose of whatever medicine he snorted this morning. x ….He didn’t want Bolton anywhere near him. Bolton’s dumbest of all statements set us back very badly with North Korea, even now. I…
if it's 1312, 1348 cannot be 36 years away: Journalists are being targeted by cops
Deliberate attacks on journalists have cost at least one reporter an eye. And yet the COVID-19 pandemic remains. A number of efforts are underway to try to track the attacks on journalists, which are often first documented on Twitter. Bellingcat senior investigator Nick Watershad documented 100 incidents by 12:50 PM ET on Monday. A story on…
the only map Trump may care about in the COVID-19 crisis is nearly four years old
Jake Tapper: “It’s not all bad news”. There’s no way of knowing the false sense of security that Trump’s declaration created one month ago, that “15 cases will soon be zero”. The Trump goal remains reelection, if only to evade indictment, and the key is trying to resurrect the economy, even as he’s manufactured the…
Roger Stone gets 3.3 years. With IMPOTUS acquittal, Congress's GOP declared themselves “Trumpocrats”
Justice gets done, despite the tweet-bleating of Trump and the intervention of Barr. The Trumpocracy’s court jester is sentenced to 40 months in prison (three years, four months, $20,000 fine, two years probation, plus community service). There will be an appeal, as well as speculation about a Trump pardon/commutation, as the news cycle has featured a…
Mad King Trump golfs today, the bill is $133 million = 334 years worth of his presidential salary
Trump quotes Peter Baker quoting Emerson, as Trump golf trips are 250% of PBO’s at the same moment in their presidencies. x …..biggest test of his presidency emboldened, ready to claim exoneration, and take his case of grievance, persecution and resentment to the campaign trail.†Peter Baker @nytimes The Greatest Witch Hunt In American History!— Donald…
Mike Lee (R-UT) rants “The worst briefing on a military issue I've seen in 9 years”
Mike Lee (R-UT) doesn’t want to be told by the WH to “shut up and dribble” on discussing War Powers issues. As if no discussion by Congress was relevant to the question of the necessity and proportionality of assassinating Suleimani. “What I found so distressing is one of the messages was do not discuss, do not debate…
Thousands celebrating New Years Eve in Australia flee into the ocean to escape raging bushfires.
Climate change, it’s here. Perhaps it is time that the world helps Australia in their moment of need. It is like Armageddon in many areas of the continent. Yesterday, over 30,000 people were ordered to evacuate a huge swath of land in Victoria state, known as Gippsland, as soaring temperatures sparked lightening creating apocalyptic wildfires….
For millions of years, the permanent wet remnants of Gondwana forest have never burned, until now.
“Friends. Shit is getting well-serious. I am at my place at the very top of the Bellinger Valley. Smoke has completely saturated everything for days now. “Most of this evening I have heard the wind absolutely roaring on the escarpment above. These beasts are inexorably heading for Point Lookout and New England National Park —…
GA-Sen A: “Georgia Democrats Haven’t Won A Senate Seat In 19 Years. Two Women Say They Can.”
I think one of the most exciting primaries for the U.S. Senate is the Democratic primary in Georgia to unseat U.S. Senator David Perdue (R. GA). Democrats are proving to be competitive in this changing deep red to purple state. With U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson (R. GA) retiring early due to his Parkinson’s Disease, both…
Dick's crossed the NRA. Now Dick's has to deal with… its best sales quarter in years
Last year, the Parkland students took on the National Rifle Association (NRA). All of the adults in the proverbial room told them that it was futile because the NRA was just too powerful with its legion of followers. The kids didn’t know any better and took them head on, even when everyone was trying to give…
US Life Expectancy Has Declined for Three Years
http://www.nytimes.com/… jamanetwork.com/… The New York Times reports that life expectancy, especially for Americans between the ages of 25 to 64, is declining despite the highest per capita spending in the world on health care, according to a study newly published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. According to the new study, the death rate from 2010…
LOL. Alabama Fans Cheered drumpf and Lost at Home for the First Time in Four Years. ETTDs.
Trump goes to the Game and roots for Bama, Bama loses! Next time they should boo him! pic.twitter.com/VSk2rm0dxH — Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) November 10, 2019 #Bama won 31 straight home games over 4 a year span Then Trump came to see a game…. #ETTD pic.twitter.com/4P3fpneMR9 — Albert MacGloan ➐ (@AlbertMacGloan) November 10, 2019 Bama cheered…
US Army finds that the 'military could collapse within twenty years' thanks to climate breakdown.
According to a new report prepared by the US Army and, commissioned by the Pentagon, found that the next couple of decades will be so chaotic due to a warming climate that we will be unable to adapt in time. Our inability to change will be the result of years of inaction by ‘leaders’ who…
A dolphin adopted the orphan of a different species years ago and, still cares for it.
National Geographic has a fascinating story where a bottlenose dolphin adopted a baby of a different species, a melon-head whale, back in 2014 and is still caring for it today. The whale species are found throughout the tropics and are a close relative to pygmy whales and pilot whales according to Wiki. The baby whale…