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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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posted by Cookie Jill at 6:06 PM | 0 comments

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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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

tuesday heartache

subterranean prepper village being built in texas

syrian children play underground to avoid bombing

americans work 25% more than europeans

climate change is intergenerational theft

make your tree tacky again with trump's $149 maga ornament 

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Monday, December 12, 2016

monday sweetheart


world wildlife 'falls by 58%' in the next 40 years

your government wants to militarize social media

capitalism and loneliness

the end of the american world order

the alt-right is using trump


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Sunday, December 11, 2016

sunday mornin'

this election has shown how badly we need a working class politics of justice and solidarity

ohio interracial couple's house painted w/swastikas and 'white power'

finland set to become the first country to ban coal

ride hailing apps have a racism problem

43 million gallons of milk have been dumped so far this year



 
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Saturday, December 10, 2016

god bless saturday

as a sex worker, i'm terrified for the next 4 years

 cities and police are spending millions on social media monitoring

the uber economy looks a lot like the pre-industrial economy

louisiana senator admits to sexting teenage boy but insists "i'm not gay"

paid leave and daycare: luxuries of the rich


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Friday, December 09, 2016

just got paid (friday night)

with trump we need less twitter and more transparency

uber and lyft have a 'pattern of discrimination against black passengers' says study 

climate change could make the mediterranean lands desert

male birth control shots prevent pregnancy

man threatens to shoot all spanish speakers in store because 'this is our country'
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Thursday, December 08, 2016

10:15 thursday morning

election recount 2016: where 5 states stand

blame economics professors for today's problems

roe v. wade may be doomed

how inequality found a political voice

a new theory about the bermuda triangle
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Wednesday, December 07, 2016

wednesday lover

a group of women plan a nation-wide strike against trump

florida's stand your ground law linked to homicide increase

drug makers double insulin prices since 2012

nuclear weapon missing since the 1950's may have been found

20 ways to take a stand in the post-election world
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Tuesday, December 06, 2016

tuesday headache


does america really need overseas bases?

people with autism make more logical decisions

how humanities can help fix the world

how ebola adapted to us

how seaweed-eating cows will save the world

 
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Monday, December 05, 2016

monday sunshine


the super-rich are cruising new arctic passageways as the world burns

what is socialism for the 21st century?

big pharma's manufactured epidemic: the misdiagnosis of adhd

people worry computers will get too smart and take over the world.  the real problem is computers are too stupid and have already taken over the world

meet the worst ants in the world
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Sunday, December 04, 2016

environmental news stories sunday

for those little stories that somehow don't get mentioned on the talking head shows ...

the trolling of elon musk: how us conservatives are attacking green tech. electric-car evangelist is the target of concerted negative online campaign linked to influential rightwing network. - the guardian

nasa photo reveals a startling 300-foot-wide rift in antarctic ice shelf. the breakup of the massive larsen c ice shelf in antarctica is getting closer and will eventually produce an iceberg the size of delaware prowling the southern ocean, according to new nasa data - mashable
(p.s. - president trump has indicated that his administration will not fund projects like this from nasa)

fires and drought cook tennessee - a state represented by climate deniers. climate change intensified the extreme weather in tennessee, but its legislators deny the science - the guardian

breitbart news report on global temperatures is wrong, scientists say. scientists on friday debunked a widely circulated news media report suggesting that recent record-high global temperatures were unrelated to climate change. - nytimes

carnival princess to pay record $40 million for pollution cover-up. carnival corp's princess cruise lines will plead guilty to seven felony charges for polluting the seas and deliberate acts to cover it up, and pay a record $40 million criminal penalty, the u.s. justice department said on thursday - reuters

is florida’s climate change model — denial at the capitol, frantic action at the beach — in store for the u.s. under trump? when floridians narrowly voted for donald trump on nov. 8, they might as well have elected to drown themselves - la times

trump may target lbj's exec order on cross-border projects. president-elect donald trump's advisers are looking to fast-track approval of the keystone xl pipeline, with a top transition official reportedly planning to tour canada's oil sands region as climate activists and landowners gird for battle along the pipeline's path -eenews

'prepared for the worst': bolivians face historic drought, and global warming could intensify it. bolivia is in the midst of its worst drought in 25 years, as three reservoirs that supply its largest city, la paz, are almost entirely dried up - wapo

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sunday kind of love

bernie supporters are challenging democratic leadership for party control

india's air is now deadlier than china's

climate change threatens to wipe out this species of penguins

there is no such disease as codependence

why morning people thrive
 
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Saturday, December 03, 2016

gingerale afternoon (the astrology of a saturday)

the most radical thing the black panthers did was give kids free breakfast

the fbi just gained sweeping new hacking powers

medicare is not an entitlement

how the alt-right uses internet trolling to confuse you

hospital charged woman $39.35 to hold her baby after delivery

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Friday, December 02, 2016

just another friday night

pedestrian shaming = victim blaming

knowingly taking placebos eases pain, study finds

new discovery about persians in ancient japan generates excitement

21st century victorians

 f^k you, startup world
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Thursday, December 01, 2016

unusual thursday

the coming dark age

wall st & private prisons are 'licking their lips' over the trump presidency 

drug maker thwarted plan to limit oxycotin


the coming mega-drought in the southwest

the city that was saved by the internet
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

wednesday like a river

trump's win: the greatest victory for anti-semitism since 1941

will central asia fight over water?

we should not wait to see what trump does; we should organize now

economists forgot smith and darwin's main lesson: society cannot function without morals

why the law turns a blind eye to militias

and we are saddened to have learned about the passing of another blogger, the great scott eric kaufman, a foundation pillar over at lawyers, guns and money.  he was an astute observer of the foibles of the human and feline races. we will especially miss his tales of oldman cat. rest in peace, sek.


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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

tuesday headache

potential trump pick for homeland security wants to send a million people to gitmo

munich court to try facebook's zuckerberg for inciting hatred

trump is leading the transformation of the gop into the new kkk

10 months in the air without landing

playboy model charged in body shaming social media post
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Monday, November 28, 2016

monday sucks

what trump means for science and medicine

exorcisms are on the rise

why guiliani shouldn't be secretary of state

some fake news publishers are trump cronies

more students are dying of suicide than car crashes
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Sunday, November 27, 2016

environmental news stories sunday

for those pesky stories you haven't heard about.

dakota access protest 'felt like low-grade war,' says medic treating injuries. protesters allege concussions grenades were used along with other escalating tactics in sub-freezing temperatures to quell pipeline protest - inside climate news

dakota access pipeline: 300 protesters injured after police use water cannons. twenty-six people hospitalized from ‘mass casualty incident’ that included bone fractures and hypothermia shown in dramatic video footage of standoff - the guardian

from the sioux to the sault: standing rock spirit spreads to michigan’s upper peninsula. a 63-year-old pipeline runs beneath the straits of mackinac. great lakes tribes—tapping into the standing rock spirit—want it stopped - environmental health news

trump win churns u.s.-mexico water talks. negotiators from both nations are hustling to finish a new agreement for sharing water from the colorado river — before president barack obama leaves office - politico

all you need to know about nature deficit disorder. it's tough to connect with nature at this time of year. your days are spent under artificial lights in an office, while the last of autumn's blooms are hidden beneath piles of decaying leaves - bbc

blackfeet tribe regains sacred land. the obama administration has cancelled oil and gas leases on 30,000 acres of montana’s badger-two medicine region near glacier national park, land the blackfeet nation considers sacred - living on earth

these are the lobbyists behind the site attacking elon musk and tesla. surprise! people behind stopelonfromfailingagain.com have connections to big energy - the drive

peru declares state of emergency over deadly forest fires. peru has declared a state of emergency in seven districts in the north of the country where forest fires have killed two, injured four and burnt nearly 12,000 hectares (30,000 acres) of land, including five protected natural areas. - the guardian

threat to nasa climate role a 'disaster' for global warming action: researchers. a threat by the incoming trump administration to the climate research of us space agency nasa would be disastrous for global efforts to monitor and counter global warming, australian researchers said - sydney morning herald

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sunday in the south


clinton campaign agrees to back stein's recount effort

forget canada. stay and fight for america

michael moore calls for a takeover of the democratic party

trump was strongest where the economy was weakest

too smug to jail
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Saturday, November 26, 2016

get it on (saturday)

the american public health association takes a stand with planned parenthood

the cashless society is a creepy fantasy

we must prevent trump's muslim registry before it starts 

how the big banks bled a tiny island nation

chimp study shows why hanging with friends relieves stress

and rip fidel castro
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Friday, November 25, 2016

joe friday

capitalism behaving badly

obama rushes to protect public lands before trump takes office

cop's wife vandalizes own home, tries to blame black lives matter

4 decades later, experts find proposition 13 is a boon to the rich  

how rock n roll became white

and rip carol brady, stage & tv star florence henderson 
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Thursday, November 24, 2016

turkey refuses presidential pardon

trump says he didn't do anything wrong...
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thanks for the memories

why i'm going to standing rock this thanksgiving

why the right wing hates 'hamilton'

here's how the international space station is celebrating thanksgiving 

how will self-driving cars make life or death decisions?

what mathematical models about herding cows can teach us about markets
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

wednesday language

computer scientists urge clinton to call for a recount of votes

facebook lets advertisers exclude users by race

how trump set the stage for harrassment

calling a racist a racist

if you want to protect bees from pesticides, here are grocery stores to avoid
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

tuesday has gone

how democrats killed their populist soul

who can stop trump?

clinton aides blame everyone but themselves

14 obama regulations trump could undo

the brain adapts to dishonesty

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Monday, November 21, 2016

monday struggle

more than 700 hateful attacks since trump's election

why won't anyone admit that america is fighting 5 wars?

democrats no longer represent the working class

white nationalists gather to change the world

crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster
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Sunday, November 20, 2016

environmental news stories sunday

those pesky stories you might not have seen on the "mainstream media"...but should have.

trump begins filling environmental posts with clowns. trump’s plans to roll back environmental protections seem worse than many feared - the guardian

trump’s pledge to ‘open up the water’ for central valley farms: easier said than done. president-elect donald trump might have trouble living up to one of his more sweeping campaign promises in california - kqed

fishing industry looks to trump to undo marine monument designation. when resident barack obama announced in september the creation of the first ever marine national monument in u.s. atlantic waters, 50 environmental organizations claimed victory in the long campaign to protect approximately 4,000 square miles of ocean from fishing and other human activities - cape cod times

photographing the impact of california's water crisis. in 2011, mustafah abdulaziz heard a sobering statistic published by the united nations: as of 2025, 3.4 billion people were projected to face a scarcity of water - nytimes

trump’s transition team is straight from the swamp. americans who voted for donald trump were clearly fed up with inside-the-beltway business as usual. they want the president-elect to deliver on his promise to replace “a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you the american people. - time magazine

america’s tv meteorologists: symptoms of climate change are rampant, undeniable. ah, minnesota. land of 10,000 lakes — and 10,000 ways to say “damn, it’s cold outside!” but not this year - wapo

a monsanto herbicide is in your snack food. a new report says traces of glyphosate (aka monsanto's roundup) are in packaged foods. - mashable

will our food be safe under trump? we asked a number of experts and advocates about pesticides, food safety, and oversight of ingredients under the next administration. the jury is still out, but it’s not looking good - civil eats

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sunday in new york

at $5 a piece, trump's votes came cheap

how the republicans intend to kill obamacare

trump's epa advisor is a 'superstar of the denialsphere' 

when liberals become republicans and republicans become goons

twitter's anti-semetic problem
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Saturday, November 19, 2016

get down saturday night

the election of trump: an american tragedy

rudolph giuliani hates the constitution

this wasn't a working class revolt, this was a white revolt

 anti-trump movement calls for a boycott of these 32 brands

the sharing economy is creating a dickensian world

are wet wipes wrecking the world's sewers?
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