Bill McKibben | Why Donald Trump Suddenly Decided to Talk About the Environment

11 July 19

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11 July 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE NEED A FEW DONORS WHO BELIEVE THIS CAN BE BETTER - Reader Supported News has exceeded all expectations. The funding, however, is a long-range nightmare. Using this formula, we will never be rich. It’s just not a process designed for wealth accumulation. The object is “stability” and adequate funds to fight for what we fight for every day. We have to turn the fundraising around. It’s imperative. A few committed individuals is all it will take to make RSN great. Be a part of this. It is working. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Bill McKibben | Why Donald Trump Suddenly Decided to Talk About the Environment  Bill McKibben, The New Yorker McKibben writes: "'Brazen' might as well be the official motto of the Trump Administration. Even so, it's hard to top the most ecologically unsound President in modern American history giving a speech on Monday touting his environmental record while standing beside David Bernhardt, the former oil lobbyist who is the Interior Secretary, and Andrew Wheeler, the former coal lobbyist who is the administrator of the E.P.A." READ MORE Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty) ALSO SEE: Ex-Palm Beach State Attorney: Acosta Is 'Completely Wrong' About Epstein Plea Deal Alexander Acosta's Trumpian Non-Apology Matt Ford, The New Republic Ford writes: "The labor secretary botched the Jeffrey Epstein case a decade ago-then he botched his chance to admit his mistakes. His boss must be proud." READ MORE Yazmin Juarez, whose daughter died after detention by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill. (photo: Alexander Drago/Reuters) Mother Whose Toddler Died After Ice Detention Speaks Out in Emotional Testimony Edward Hermore, Guardian UK Hermore writes: "A House committee looking into the treatment of migrant children at detention facilities on the US border has heard searing testimony from the mother whose 21-month old toddler died weeks after being released by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice)." READ MORE President Trump's 'Salute to America.' (photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters) DC Security Fund Is Bankrupt Thanks to Trump's Fourth of July Event Ryan Koronowski, ThinkProgress Koronowski writes: "The exact cost of President Donald Trump's unprecedented Fourth of July celebration on the National Mall, complete with tanks, military flyovers, and VIP areas, will likely remain a mystery for some time. But as more information is released, it's clear that taxpayers will be on the hook for millions." READ MORE Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. (photo: Fayez Nureldine/Getty) After Grisly Killing of a Journalist, Lobbyists and Lawyers Have Reaped Millions Assisting Saudi Arabia Beth Reinhard, Jonathan O'Connell and Tom Hamburger, The Washington Post Excerpt: "Since fall 2018, high-powered lobbyists and lawyers have reaped millions of dollars for assisting the kingdom as it works to develop nuclear power, buy American-made weapons and prolong U.S. assistance to the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen, foreign lobbying records show." READ MORE The FBI arrested two of Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rosselló's former officials. (photo: Carlos Giusti/AP) Puerto Rico's Government Is Corrupt as Hell, and It's Hurting Regular Puerto Ricans Sophie Weiner, Splinter Weiner writes: "Today, the FBI arrested two former senior officials who served with Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, along with four other suspects in a corruption scandal, according to the Washington Post. The scandal has led to calls for Rosselló's resignation." READ MORE An industrial plant. (photo: Chris W/Shutterstock) Dramatic Warming Projected in World's Major Cities by 2050 teleSUR Excerpt: "By the year 2050, London's climate will resemble Madrid's today; Paris will be more like Canberra; Stockholm like Budapest and Moscow like Sofia, according to a new analysis published Wednesday that yet relied on 'optimistic' projections." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation

Andy Borowitz | UK Unable to Find Replacement Ambassador Who Does Not Think Trump Is an Idiot

11 July 19 This is a Process You Can Kill Through Indifference Reader Supported News at its core must be sustained by the Readers, public funding. If you are going to truly serve the public interest then you must have public support. You like the dedication to your interest. But many of you want to skip the support. That can, and ultimately will, kill this process. True power comes from the many, not from the few. In peace and solidarity. Marc Ash Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Update My Monthly Donation If you would prefer to send a check: Reader Supported News PO Box 2043 Citrus Hts CA 95611

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Andy Borowitz | UK Unable to Find Replacement Ambassador Who Does Not Think Trump Is an Idiot 

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Following the resignation of its Ambassador to the United States, Kim Darroch, the government of the United Kingdom has disclosed that it has been unable to find a replacement for Darroch who does not also think that Donald J. Trump is a blithering idiot."
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Trump's 'Salute to America.' (photo: Getty)

Trump's July Fourth Event and Weekend Protests Bankrupted DC Security Fund, Mayor Says
Peter Jamison, The Washington Post
Jamison writes: "President Trump's overhauled July Fourth celebration cost the D.C. government $1.7 million, an amount that - combined with police expenses for demonstrations through the weekend - has bankrupted a special fund used to protect the nation's capital from terrorist threats and provide security at events such as rallies and state funerals."
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15-Year-Old Migrant Girl Says Border Agent Sexually Assaulted Her While Other Officers Watched
Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley, NBC News
Excerpt: "The poor treatment of migrant children at the hands of U.S. border agents in recent months extends beyond Texas to include allegations of sexual assault and retaliation for protests, according to dozens of accounts by children held in Arizona collected by government case managers and obtained by NBC News."
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An ultrasound machine sits in an empty examination room in South Bend Indiana, June 2019. (photo: Scott Olson)

If the ACA Is Repealed Under Texas v Azar, Millions Will Lose Health Insurance Coverage
Emily Gee, Center for American Progress
Gee writes: "The lawsuit brought by Republican state officials to overturn the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA), Texas v. Azar, continues to work its way through the U.S. legal system."
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Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty)

Alex Acosta Plans to Slash Funds for Sex Trafficking Victims
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
Pilkington writes: "Alexander Acosta, the US labor secretary under fire for having granted Jeffrey Epstein immunity from federal prosecution in 2008, after the billionaire was investigated for having run a child sex trafficking ring, is proposing 80% funding cuts for the government agency that combats child sex trafficking."
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Ilhan Omar Calls Tucker Carlson a 'Racist Fool' After His Scathing Attack on Air
Sophie Weiner, Splinter
Weiner writes: "Tucker Carlson did a monologue on his Tuesday night Fox News show about Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim women in Congress, that was incredibly, unbelievably racist even by his high standards."

In a segment about a recent Washington Post profile of Omar, Carlson argued that Omar is proof that his (very bigoted!) fears about what unassimilated immigrants will do to America are correct.

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew_lawrence

An absolutely stunning racist attack on @IlhanMN from Tucker. I'm shocked

She is "living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country"

She "is a living fire alarm. A warning to the rest of us that we better change our immigration. Or else"

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El Rosario was once surrounded by subtropical pine forests that helped lower temperatures and control erosion, but the forests have been diminished by logging. (photo: Georgina Gustin/Inside Climate News)

Ravaged by Drought, a Honduran Village Faces a Choice: Pray for Rain or Migrate
Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News
Gustin writes: "Like so many developing countries, Honduras has contributed relatively little to the greenhouse gas emissions heating the planet. And yet, projections suggest it is especially imperiled by climate change."
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RSN: ABC World News Tonight Has Devoted 81 Minutes to Trump, One Minute to Sanders

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ABC World News Tonight Has Devoted 81 Minutes to Trump, One Minute to Sanders 
 
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters 
Boehlert writes: "81:1. Does that ratio seem out of whack? That's the ratio of TV airtime that ABC World News Tonight has devoted to Donald Trump's campaign (81 minutes) versus the amount of TV time World News Tonight has devoted to Bernie Sanders' campaign this year. And even that one minute for Sanders is misleading because the actual number is closer to 20 seconds." 
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Donald Trump Really Doesn't Want Me to Tell You This, But... 
Mark Bowden, Vanity Fair 
Bowden writes: "I spent a long, awkward weekend with Donald Trump in November 1996, an experience I feel confident neither of us would like to repeat." 
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States Expanded Gun Rights After Sandy Hook Massacre 
Ryan Foley, Associated Press 
Foley writes: "The 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in which a mentally troubled young man killed 26 children and educators, served as a rallying cry for gun-control advocates across the nation. But in the three years since, many states have moved in the opposite direction." 
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Indiana's Limited LGBT Protections Under Fire by Lawsuit 
Zack Ford, ThinkProgress 
Ford writes: "The Indiana Family Institute (IFI) and American Family Association of Indiana (AFA-I) have filed a lawsuit in state court seeking to overturn the legislative 'fix' passed last year to ensure that the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) did not enable anti-LGBT discrimination." 
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Why DC Has a Uniquely Bad Record on Helping the Unemployed Get Jobs 
Robert McCartney, The Washington Post 
McCartney writes: "Bureaucratic obstacles and other dysfunction at the District's workforce agencies have blocked the spending of tens of millions of dollars in recent years to provide job training that could have helped thousands of the unemployed find work, according to officials and city contractors." 
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Former Chilean Soldier Confesses to 18 Murders on Live Radio 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "In an extraordinary tale of events Guillermo Reyes Rammsy, 62, was arrested Friday and charged with the 1973 murders of Freddy Taberna Gallegos and German Palomino Lamas who were members of Chile's Socialist Party." 
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Here's What You Need to Know About the New Paris Climate Agreement 
Ben Adler, Grist 
Adler writes: "Rich countries like the U.S., Canada, and the European Union upped their pledges for climate finance slightly, but nowhere near enough to compensate for the hugely outsized share of the global carbon budget they have devoured. Still, the Paris Agreement builds the architecture for greater progress in the next decade. Here is your guide to the basics of what the deal does, what it contains, and what it doesn't." 
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