Just before 9:30 AM on 17 February 2017, the Associated Press reported they had obtained a memo indicating President Trump’s administration planned to deploy the National Guard to carry out large-scale deportation raids: The Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo obtained by The Associated Press. The 11-page … [Read more...] about Crazy Cheeto Backs Off Mass Deportation Plan !

Do Your Job: Bringing Out the Pitchforks by Abby Zimet, staff writer 29 Comments The drama unfolding at Town Halls around the country - from Bernie Sanders' promised one to the furious crowds yelling at "king of the hypocrites" Jason Chaffetz and several GOP fellow travelers to do their damn jobs given how they're supposed to be working for us, remember? - offer a telling look at the turmoil that is our heartsick democracy. The rowdy event held by usually-so-red Utah's … [Read more...] about Town Hall Meetings: Bring the Rotten Tomatoes & Cheetos

Guess that makes it official huh ? “It is crazy what we are watching every day, it is absolutely crazy,” Smith said. “He keeps repeating ridiculous throwaway lines that are not true at all and avoids this issue of Russia as if we are fools for asking questions.” Smith then started to look into the camera and added, “Really? Your opposition was hacked, and the Russians were responsible for it, and your people were on the phone on the same day it was happening, and we are fools for … [Read more...] about FOX News Anchor Calls Trump “One Crazy Cheeto”

Latest report here on where frack waste, frack flowback, radioactive frack rubbers, and fracking filth are being dumped in New York, because Fracksylvania is full fracking up. Fracksylvania gets fracked, New York gets the frack filth. Such a deal. Low grade radioactive frack filth - the gift that keeps on giving. . . cancer, birth defects, etc. 28,618 tons of unconventionally-drilled solid waste went to landfills in NYS, 94.7% of which was drill cuttings. Chemung County Landfill … [Read more...] about New York - Where Frackers Dump Their Frack Waste

If you have never been to a town hall meeting, now's the time to do so. The Town Hall Project has put together a handy website to find when your congressman is having one year you. Got an event to add ? Do so here. See you there. … [Read more...] about Town Hall Movement

A US-born NASA scientist detained at the border until he unlocked his NASA phone 41 by Loren Grush@lorengrush Feb 12, 2017, 12:37pm EST SHARE TWEET LINKEDIN Sidd Bikkannavar at one of his solar car racing events.Photo provided by Sidd Bikkannavar Two weeks ago, Sidd Bikkannavar flew back into the United States after spending a few weeks abroad in South America. An employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Bikkannavar had been on a personal trip, … [Read more...] about Republican Administration Declares War on (its own) Scientists !

Politicians get paid by lobbyists to deny climate change or to simply look the other way. The rest of us will end up footing the bill. "Us" being every living thing. So this really is the lobbyists vs nature. Guess who wins that argument ? The science behind climate change is simple high school physics: if you change the transparency of the atmosphere to infrared radiation, you trap heat. Methane and carbon dioxide make the atmosphere less transparent to the infrared radiation from the earth. … [Read more...] about The True Cost of Climate Change Denial

What if Trump is Exhibiting the Symptoms of Early Onset Dementia? Ashley Feinberg Today 11:05am Filed to: THOSE WHO CANNOT REMEMBER THE PAST 151.9K52481 Ronald Reagan was 69 years old at his inauguration as president in 1981, the oldest anyone had ever been on taking the office—a record that Donald Trump recently beat when he was inaugurated at age 70. Beset by concerns about his advanced age from the beginning, Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease … [Read more...] about Donald J. Demented: Just How Crazy is this Cheeto ?