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April 10, 2019
LIVE: Senator Bernie Sanders & over a dozen co-sponsors introduce the Medicare For All Act of 2019
LIVE: Senator Bernie Sanders & over a dozen co-sponsors introduce the Medicare For All Act of 2019
LIVE: Senator Bernie Sanders & over a dozen co-sponsors introduce the Medicare For All Act of 2019
Posted by Business Leaders for Medicare for All on Wednesday, April 10, 2019
To hear Donald Trump tell it, he’s a fan of history, though we’re occasionally reminded that this may not be altogether true. Politico published this gem this morning:
President Donald Trump had some advice for George Washington.
During a guided tour of Mount Vernon last April with French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real-estate speculators of his era. So, he couldn’t understand why America’s first president didn’t name his historic Virginia compound or any of the other property he acquired after himself.
“If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it,” Trump said, according to three sources briefed on the exchange. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.”
Leave it to Donald Trump to visit Mt. Vernon and focus his attention on the limited reach of George Washington’s brand.
Of course, smart or not, Washington didn’t name his home after himself, though he appears to be remembered anyway. The nation’s capital city is named after him; there’s a state named after him; his face is on American currency; a prominent university is named after him (I went to GW); and there’s a giant obelisk in his honor near the White House.
Politico’s report added that Trump’s disinterest in Washington made it difficult for the tour guide – who later described the experience as “truly bizarre” – to “sustain Trump’s interest” for 45 minutes. The French president and his wife, meanwhile, “were far more knowledgeable about the history of the property than the president.”
Alas, this was not an isolated incident. Whatever strengths the Republican may bring to the presidency, knowledge of history isn’t among them.
It was, for example, just two weeks into his presidency when Trump declared, “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who has done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”
Soon after, on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, Trump tweeted out a fake quote from the 16th president.
Trump later butchered some basic details about Andrew Jackson, whose picture currently hangs in the Oval Office, and just last week, he reflected on the Civil War during remarks to the National Republican Congressional Committee:
“I said to somebody that’s been here a long time, you people would know better than anybody, some of you that have been here, ‘Has [partisan division] ever been this bad?’ And they said, ‘Well,’ they said, ‘Yes, it was.’ They said, ‘During the Clinton impeachment hearings it was worse.’ They said, ‘There was another time in the 1880’s when it was worse.’
“A couple of people were shot, you know. Even new people wouldn’t do that. And the Civil War, who could forget? I would say the Civil War was bad.
“And by the way, speaking of the Civil War, where is Doug Collins? You’re another warrior? Where’s Doug Collins? Where the hell is Doug? Man, he’s up there fighting….”
As the nation’s first amateur president, Trump has a strong incentive to take history even more seriously, since he needs some kind of guide. Unfortunately, he’s taken the opposite course.
April 9, 2019
If it keeps piling up, plastics in the ocean could outweigh fish by 2050. These scientists accidentally found a potential solution to the plastic problem.
This Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Revolutionize Recycling
If it keeps piling up, plastics in the ocean could outweigh fish by 2050. These scientists accidentally found a potential solution to the plastic problem.
Posted by VICE News on Friday, April 5, 2019
April 8, 2019
The Trumps once forced 900 mostly Black families living in Coney Island out of their homes — here’s how the family used taxpayer money to decimate a New York neighborhood
How the Trumps Brought Death and Destruction to Coney Island
The Trumps once forced 900 mostly Black families living in Coney Island out of their homes — here's how the family used taxpayer money to decimate a New York neighborhood
Posted by NowThis Politics on Sunday, April 7, 2019
April 8, 2019
Someone should alert Trump and Republicans in Congress that America is a hotbed of socialism. But it’s socialism for the rich. Everyone else is treated to harsh capitalism.
Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Rest
Someone should alert Trump and Republicans in Congress that America is a hotbed of socialism. But it’s socialism for the rich. Everyone else is treated to harsh capitalism.
Posted by Robert Reich on Monday, April 8, 2019
April 8, 2019
The devastating historic flooding from the Bomb Cyclone have left Nebraska’s farmers wondering how they’ll recover as storms become increasingly frequent under climate change.
How Nebraska Is Recovering From the Bomb Cyclone
Midwestern farmers are not about to let historic flooding put them under.
Posted by VICE News Tonight on Friday, April 5, 2019
April 9, 2019
Wondering how we can save $$ and cover all Americans?
April 9, 2019
By the end of this episode, you're going to feel 10% less crazy about the world. Ian makes his case and then sits down with a man who’s worked everywhere from Moscow to Mumbai, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Tom Pickering. And on Puppet Regime the SPACE FORCE saga continues as Captain Trump and crew find themselves marooned in a strange new land.
Posted by GZERO World with Ian Bremmer on Monday, April 8, 2019
April 9, 2019
“We need to make this move because we’re in the midst of the greatest economic and technological transformation in the history of our country,” Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says, arguing for a universal basic income of $1,000 per month for every American. “It helps give tens of millions of Americans a real path forward… it would improve people’s health, nutrition, it would elevate graduation rates, it would improve people’s mental health,” he adds. https://cnn.it/2WVzwl9
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang makes his case for universal basic income
"We need to make this move because we're in the midst of the greatest economic and technological transformation in the history of our country," Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says, arguing for a universal basic income of $1,000 per month for every American. "It helps give tens of millions of Americans a real path forward… it would improve people's health, nutrition, it would elevate graduation rates, it would improve people's mental health," he adds. https://cnn.it/2WVzwl9
Posted by CNN on Tuesday, April 9, 2019
There is only one event in the history of our planet which has brought about global change more rapidly than today’s human-driven extinctions – the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
Scientists studied fossils from just after the cataclysmic impact in order to understand how quickly our planet can recover from disaster (and why there seems to be a limit to it).
Scientists say that the 10 million years it took our planet to recover from the mass extinction which wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago could have important parallels now.
The researchers say that there appears to be a ‘speed limit’ on how fast the planet can recover from such events – capped at about 10 million years.
The researchers looked at the link between recovery and evolution because of earlier research that found recovery took millions of years despite many areas being habitable soon after Earth’s most recent mass extinction.
The team tracked recovery over time using fossils from a type of plankton called, foraminifera, or forams.
They found that a certain amount of ecological complexity seems to be required before life can really kick back into gear.
The speed limit is related to the time it takes to build up a new inventory of traits that can produce new species at a rate comparable to before the extinction event.
Lead author Christopher Lowery, a research associate at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) said, ‘The implication should be that these same processes would be active in all other extinctions.
‘I think this is the likely explanation for the speed limit of recovery for everything.’