Wednesday, July 31, 2019

And another day that proves the Republican Party has been the party of racists for decades comes to a close...oh yeah, and Happy National Orgasm Day!

“Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.” -- Harry Belafonte

National Archives releases Reagan's racist call with then-President Nixon, ex-Nixon library director says. Republican blood runs deep with racism. Has for decades. Don’t be a Republican.

Trump rewards conspiracy theorist with key national security job.

Festival gunman's social media suggests white supremacy ties.

California has some of the strictest gun laws. In Nevada, you don't need a permit to buy one. Another reason why this issue needs to be dealt with at the national level.

California's governor signs law requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns if they want to appear on the state's primary ballot.

Trump aide submitted drafts of 2016 "America First" energy speech to senior United Arab Emirates officials for edits, according to emails and text messages uncovered by a House Oversight Committee investigation.

Trump complained about Baltimore in 2015 but blamed the 'African American President'. He has always hated people of color. What?

Marianne Williamson isn’t funny. She’s scary. Williamson’s views on depression and illness are dangerous. The media is complicit in spreading them. “..she looms as a menace to public health — someone who has attacked antidepressants and vaccination in a manner that “can literally kill people,”” No. Just, no.

Poland faces threat of water crisis as rivers dry up.

Ebola: second death confirmed in Goma.

‘You're gonna kill me!': Dallas police body cam footage reveals the final minutes of Tony Timpa's life. He was afraid and asked for help. The police killed him. Their behavior both during and after the murder is disgusting. Then they lied about it during the investigation. Police don’t get a free pass just because they are the police.

A bodycam caught a deputy shooting a man in his South Carolina home. It contradicts the initial police narrative.

Pink seesaws appear at border, allowing children in US and Mexico to play together. We’re all pretty similar and just trying to make it through this crazy thing called life.

Equifax might run out of settlement cash, FTC warns. The regulator said that consumers rushing to get a $125 check from Equifax as restitution for its 2017 cybersecurity breach should consider the credit monitoring option.

Brazil police recommend no charges for soccer star Neymar in rape case.

Wealthy parents in Illinois are giving up legal guardianship of their children in order to "scam" universities into qualifying them for need-based financial aid money, report says. Disgusting.

The Trump administration has taken hesitant first steps to allow the importation of certain drugs from Canada and other countries.

Several dozen patients with sickle cell disease will be among the first in the US treated for a genetic disease with the experimental gene-editing technology CRISPR.

200 reindeer died on an Arctic Island -- and researchers think climate change is to blame.

Potentially habitable 'super-Earth' discovered just 31 light-years away.

NASA’s newest planet-hunting satellite finds three new worlds.

Happy National Orgasm Day. Now go have one...or many.

Majority of women have better sex with marijuana, according to study.

What are the benefits of having an orgasm?

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Good night.

Sunday, July 28, 2019

And another day of racism, mosquitos, and another shooting comes to a close:

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?” -- Ernest Gaines

“Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming) — we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.”

Partisan differences on impeachment remain after Mueller testimony, as nearly half of Americans show little movement.

Trump just fired his top intelligence official for telling the truth. Daniel Coats said what’s happening in the world. In the Trump era, that’s an act of defiance.

New GDP data confirms Trump’s tax cuts aren’t working. Growth is slowing and business investment is actually negative.

Multiple victims reported in shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival.

Trump blames White House air conditioning on Obama.

'Unprecedented': more than 100 Arctic wildfires burn in worst ever season.

Alaska defunds scholarships for thousands of university students ahead of fall semester.

A deadly mosquito-borne virus that causes brain swelling in humans has been detected in Florida.

How hospitals are using AI to save their sickest patients and curb 'alarm fatigue'.

Isolated And Struggling, Many Seniors Are Turning To Suicide.

Textured breast implants are being recalled over a link to cancer. Here's what to know if you have them.

Want To Feel Happier Today? Try Talking To A Stranger.

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Good night.

Friday, July 26, 2019

And another day of claims, divides, ballots, segregation, glaciers, asteroids, and evolution comes to a close:

“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.” -- Nelson Mandela

The Democratic divide over impeaching Trump, explained.

Who In The House Is Calling For Impeachment? There are now over 100.

Democrats Say Their Impeachment Inquiry Has Already Begun.

Supreme Court allows Trump to tap $2.5B in Pentagon funds for border wall. Not voting has consequences.

What happens if you don't claim your $125 Equifax money? You lose it -- and your chance to sue in the future.

Utah to test out smartphone ballots with absentee voters. Experts in voting integrity and technology have raised security and practical concerns about the plan.

Florida officials failed to act on warnings about 2016 Russian hacking, a Senate report finds.

A new paper found that many birds are adapting to climate change –– but probably not fast enough. It comes to a stark conclusion: "The temperature is changing so fast that evolution isn't able to keep up." Um, think about that.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg defends Kavanaugh, Gorsuch as 'very decent and very smart'.

"Open carry is legal in 45 states. In Colorado, you can walk up and down Pearl Street with an A/R 15 strapped to your chest but not a dog. That’s the absurdity of the gun laws in our country."

Emmett Till memorial in photo of gun-toting Mississippi students will be made bulletproof. Because there are horrible people on the planet

How segregation keeps poor students of color out of whiter, richer nearby districts.

South Dakota Public Schools Add 'In God We Trust' Signs To Walls. WTF?

Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings.

Glaciers are melting underwater. It's worse than previously thought.

A heat wave is headed to the Arctic.

Trump administration starts paying $14.5 billion to farmers hurt by the trade war. It’s the second time the Trump administration has paid them. Oh, look everyone. Socialism.

Girls are reporting three times as much harassment online as boys amid a nationwide rise in cyberbullying, new data shows.

How To Bring Cancer Care To The World's Poorest Children.

Juul exec says he never intended the electronic cigarette to be for teens. Mmm hmmm.

A “city-killing” asteroid just zipped by Earth. Why didn’t we see it coming? NASA tracks big asteroids. Small ones — which can still do damage — are harder to spot. It’s just a matter of time.

Poll: Two in five Americans still believe God created humans 10,000 years ago. Jesus Christ these people.

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Good night.

Thursday, July 25, 2019

And another day where “I’m begging the American people to pay attention” comes to a close:

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984

Mueller reminds the public: Trump betrayed the United States.

House Democrats authorize subpoenas for top White House officials' private communications.

Senate report warns of ongoing election threat as Republicans block security bills. Mitch McConnell is a horrible person.

Conspiracy theories, excusing Russians, attacking Mueller: How low can Republicans go? They find a way to always go lower.

No shower for 23 days: U.S. citizen says conditions were so bad that he almost self-deported.

Thousands of unaccompanied migrant children could be detained indefinitely.

Active-duty U.S. troops are now just feet away from migrants in Texas. The troops "monitor" migrants at a Texas facility. One congressman said they shouldn't be prison guards, and are close to breaking the posse comitatus law.

Treasury pick Monica Crowley spread Obama smears: 'Can he be both loyal to Islam and loyal to the United States?' Such racist assholes that pollute the highest levels of our government.

16 US Marines arrested for alleged crimes including human smuggling and drug-related offenses.

AG Barr orders reinstatement of the federal death penalty.

A Quarter of All State Supreme Courts Have Never Had a Justice of Color. A new report confirms what you probably suspected: Judicial diversity is bad. But you probably didn’t know it was this bad.

Puerto Ricans pushed out a sitting governor for the first time in history. The massive protests worked.

Raid removing 27 kids from Montana ranch 'may be the tip of the iceberg,' lawmaker says. For more than a decade, religious-affiliated private treatment homes were unregulated and unlicensed. It took only three weeks after a new state law went into effect for the state to crack down.

Temperature records broken in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Europe's heat wave shatters temperature records and cities are struggling to cope.

Record heat in Alaska melts glaciers, hints at bigger problems that may be to come. Alaska's temperature has risen by 4 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 50 years, that's compared with 2 degrees for the rest of the planet.

A New Jersey school board member is facing calls to step down after he posted that his life "would be complete" if Rep. Tlaib died. Such horrible people in the world.

Exploited at every turn: The lives of Italy's Chinese prostitutes. Female migrants quit factory labour for sex work to survive and provide a better life for relatives back home.

Central African Republic 'not prepared' for Ebola wave.

FBI finds bucket of heads, cooler of penises, sewn "Frankenstein" corpse at body donation center.

A petition to move Halloween to the last Saturday of October is picking up steam.

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Good night.

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

And another day comes to a close. “I take your question.”

“Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they’re not stupid, and you can’t smell their horns.” -- Rutger Hauer

“It’s not a witch hunt.” Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that his investigation did not exonerate President Donald Trump of wrongdoing and found that Russia worked to boost his election in a "sweeping and systematic fashion" as the former special counsel defended his nearly two-year probe.

"Based on Justice Department policy and principles of fairness, we decided we would not make a determination as to whether the President committed a crime. That was our decision then and it remains our decision today."

Robert Mueller Says Trump Is Lying About His Report. “That is not what the report said.”

‘Very Innocent President’ Greets Mueller Testimony With Unhinged Tweetstorm.

Jeffrey Epstein found injured with marks on his neck in New York jail cell.

How Trump took over America's courts. How Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell are changing the country for a generation.

'Watermelon smiles' and 'piccaninnies': What Boris Johnson has said previously about people in Africa. Boris Johnson has emerged as the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after a leadership contest and could prove to be as divisive a figure in Britain as President Trump is in the United States. Boris Johnson is a horrible person. My heart aches for the United Kingdom.

Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months.

Climate scientists drive stake through heart of skeptics' argument. But a pair of studies published Wednesday provides stark evidence that the rise in global temperatures over the past 150 years has been far more rapid and widespread than any warming period in the past 2,000 years.

US fertility rate falls to 'all-time low,' CDC says. Why have babies when the future looks so bleak.

Montana removes 27 children from youth treatment ranch, alleging 'egregious' abuse. Officials say children at the Ranch for Kids were alleged to have been beaten, psychologically abused and forced to go on miles-long "disciplinary walks."

A daredevil French inventor said he is ready to realise his dream of flying between France and Britain across the Channel on a jet-powered "flyboard" after overcoming bureaucratic obstacles.

RIP Rutger Hauer. He was 75.

“If you’ve done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that’s where life stops.” -- Rutger Hauer

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Good night.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

And another day of more power, detaining citizens, filing suits, protests, and The Great Hack comes to a close:

“Their intention is to kill and they will, they will.” -- The Pretty Reckless

ICE gets expanded power to swiftly deport more undocumented immigrants. Which means ICE can demand to see “papers” from anyone they choose. America, 2019.

A Dallas-born citizen picked up by the Border Patrol has been detained for three weeks. Yes, his skin is brown.

Trump speaks at third- to seventh-grade reading level, new analysis finds. Trump may call himself a genius on Twitter, but his spoken statements say otherwise.

Democrats and the White House strike a budget and debt ceiling deal. The Democrats once again get played. Either that or their leadership is completely stupid.

Trump made 61 false claims last week. We're going to keep count. Because they all count. Why do this? Because facts matter. Whatever voters think of the President, they should know when he is deceiving them -- and they should know the truth that is being obscured by the deception.

NAACP calls for impeaching Trump.

The Great Hack Is A Terrifying Warning & The Most Important Doc This Year.

Trump has filed suit in federal court in Washington, DC, against the House Ways and Means Committee, the New York state attorney general and the New York tax commissioner to preemptively prevent the disclosure of his tax returns. Like you do when you’re all innocent and stuff.

FBI director touts nearly 100 domestic terrorism arrests this fiscal year. The majority of the arrests were related to white supremacy.

Former Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis is running for Congress, challenging Republican Rep. Chip Roy.

Puerto Ricans gather for massive protest to expel governor.

Demonstrations against a giant telescope planned for Hawaii's tallest peak have spread to New York, Las Vegas and Waikiki as Native Hawaiians push to protect what they say is a sacred place.

Dallas Police Department officers’ racist, misogynistic social media posts are no joke. Such behavior can’t be tolerated from those empowered to protect us.

Senate passes bill making 9/11 victims compensation fund permanent by a vote of 97-2.

3 Million Could Lose Food Stamp Benefits Under Trump Administration Proposal.

Trump campaign and RNC spend more than $600,000 on law firm representing Hope Hicks.

Libra scammers are promising early access to Facebook's digital currency to steal private information.

Doctors warn that inaccurate at-home cancer screenings are causing misguided panic.

What Gets To Be A 'Burger'? States Restrict Labels On Plant-Based Meat.

U.S. Beaches Are So Full of Sewage Pollution, They Are Often Unsafe for Swimming, New Report Finds.

New York becomes first state to ban cat declawing.

Pet rabbit owners worry as deadly disease confirmed on Orcas Island.

Scientists discovered a new species of tiny sharks that glow in the dark.

The Darkest Town In America. Gerlach, Nevada.

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Good night.

Sunday, July 21, 2019

And another day of understanding the way the game is to be played comes to a close:

“After all, tomorrow is another day.” -- Margaret Mitchell

Trumpism and 2020. The rules are different. Will the Democrats change the way the play? This is an important read regarding Trumpism and 2020. Read it. All of it.

By Republican Standards, Almost Nothing Is Racist.

President Trump's approval ratings in the South have ticked upward, with 54% of voters giving a thumbs-up to the way he's handling his job. But of course it did.

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler says Robert Mueller's report presents "very substantial evidence" that President Trump is "guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors" — an impeachable offense.

George Nader, Witness in Mueller Probe, Hit With New Charges of Sex Trafficking and Child Pornography.

Fact check: President Trump falsely accuses Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of calling Americans "garbage". In both cases, he was twisting a quote to bolster his allegation that "they hate our country."

13 Philadelphia police officers who made racist, offensive Facebook posts to be fired after internal investigation.

Americans could be a bigger fake news threat than Russians in the 2020 presidential campaign.

In some states, GOP sees the recall as its way back to power. Democrats say GOP is using recalls in certain Western states as a way to undo regular election results.

Katie Porter isn't part of 'The Squad.' But the freshman House Democrat is stirring up trouble for Trump.

Pre-Crime: Has Minority Report-style Policing Become a Reality? How "pre-crime" can violate privacy, enable racial profiling, and heighten surveillance in poor neighbourhoods. Police are using technology and data to predict behaviour and prevent crime - but are innocent people being targeted? Police in the United States and the United Kingdom are using mathematical algorithms, which rely on data collected from social media, surveillance cameras, and police records, to take what they say are proactive measures against crime. They use software to generate subject lists of people who are at the greatest risk of being party to violence or committing a crime.

Los Angeles police admit in court that it spied on anti-Trump protesters: “Case is one of several across the US of police targeting anti-Trump and anti-fascist groups with monitoring and criminal trials.”

American and Taliban negotiators are thought to be close to a deal that would see the 14,000 American troops remaining in Afghanistan return home. It’s America’s longest war.

A Pennsylvania school district is coming under fire for sending letters to parents threatening to put their children in foster care if lunch debts remain unpaid.

After at least 7 children diagnosed with cancer, parents eye chemical in city's water.

Trump’s EPA Just Made Its Final Decision Not to Ban a Pesticide That Hurts Kids’ Brains. Dow Chemical gave $1 million to Donald Trump's inaugural committee. Now the Trump administration says it won't ban one of the company's pesticides that is linked to brain damage in children.

Autistic children more likely to be involved in bullying – study.

Two people have died and hundreds more have become ill in an ongoing outbreak of salmonella linked to backyard chickens, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

A new law in Oregon allows students to take "mental health days" just as they would sick days.

Whether we're aware of it or not, we're closely connected to one another, and we contract the feelings and thoughts of the people around us, almost like a virus. So, even though we all walk through the world thinking of ourselves as individuals, Rapson and Hatfield think that is an illusion. "We're going to slip into being like the company we keep.”

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Good night.