20 November 18
Bill McKibben | How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet
Bill McKibben, The New Yorker
McKibben writes: "With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts."
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Bill McKibben, The New Yorker
McKibben writes: "With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts."
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Senator Chuck Schumer. (photo: Getty Images)
Schumer Calls for Investigation of Whitaker's Contacts With White House
Alexander Bolton, The Hill
Bolton writes: "Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) is calling for an investigation into private conversations acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker had with the White House about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into President Trump's campaign and Russia."
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Alexander Bolton, The Hill
Bolton writes: "Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) is calling for an investigation into private conversations acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker had with the White House about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into President Trump's campaign and Russia."
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Units of the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army based at Fort Hood, Texas, move south along U.S. 281 in Blanco County as convoys of troops head to the Texas-Mexico border on orders of President Donald Trump. (photo: Bob Daemmrich/BDP, Inc)
Trump Told Aides He's Afraid to Visit Troops in Combat Zones
Josh Dawsey and Paul Sonne, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "President Trump has begun telling advisers that he may visit troops in a combat zone for the first time in his presidency, as he has come under increasing scrutiny for his treatment of military affairs and failure to visit service members deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq."
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Josh Dawsey and Paul Sonne, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "President Trump has begun telling advisers that he may visit troops in a combat zone for the first time in his presidency, as he has come under increasing scrutiny for his treatment of military affairs and failure to visit service members deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq."
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Mia Love may still win re-election - with no help from Donald Trump. (photo: Getty Images)
US Midterms: How Election Results Just Got Worse for Trump
Anthony Zurcher, BBC
Zurcher writes: "Here's a look at some of the most significant developments since the first round of election-night instant analyses, many of which were written when it was challenging to spot the Democratic wave among the evening's early returns."
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Anthony Zurcher, BBC
Zurcher writes: "Here's a look at some of the most significant developments since the first round of election-night instant analyses, many of which were written when it was challenging to spot the Democratic wave among the evening's early returns."
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Today, November 20, is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. (image: Daily Beast)
We Remember the Trans People Who Have Been Murdered in 2018 - So Far
Samantha Allen and Kelly Caminero, The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "The transgender community has endured attacks on all fronts in 2018. From the White House, there came bursts of shockingly anti-LGBT policy - like a definition of 'sex' in a federal agency memo that would erase transgender people from civil rights law. At the same time, on the streets and in their homes, transgender people continued to face the same steady, horrifying thrum of physical violence."
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Samantha Allen and Kelly Caminero, The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "The transgender community has endured attacks on all fronts in 2018. From the White House, there came bursts of shockingly anti-LGBT policy - like a definition of 'sex' in a federal agency memo that would erase transgender people from civil rights law. At the same time, on the streets and in their homes, transgender people continued to face the same steady, horrifying thrum of physical violence."
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A Mapuche person protests against Chile's Jungle Command in Santiago, October 18, 2018. (photo: Reuters)
Chileans Demand End of Police Force That Killed Mapuche Activist
teleSUR
Excerpt: "New protests broke out in Chile's capital of Santiago to demonstrate against last week's police killing of the young Mapuche land rights defender Camilo Catrillanca, and to demand the resignation of Interior Minister Andres Chadwick. The Carabinero National Police arrested around 30 demonstrators during the protest."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "New protests broke out in Chile's capital of Santiago to demonstrate against last week's police killing of the young Mapuche land rights defender Camilo Catrillanca, and to demand the resignation of Interior Minister Andres Chadwick. The Carabinero National Police arrested around 30 demonstrators during the protest."
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A sperm whale that washed up in Indonesia's Wakatobi National Park had plastic bottles, bags and cups in its belly. (photo: @WWF_ID/Kartika Sumolang)
13 Pounds of Plastic Found in Dead Sperm Whale
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "Yet another whale has suffered from plastic pollution. A sperm whale that washed up dead in a national park in Indonesia had nearly 13 pounds of plastic waste in its stomach, park officials told the Associated Press."
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Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "Yet another whale has suffered from plastic pollution. A sperm whale that washed up dead in a national park in Indonesia had nearly 13 pounds of plastic waste in its stomach, park officials told the Associated Press."
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