With Hurricane Florence bearing down on the east coast, Donald Trump took a little time today to reflect on the “incredible unsung success” of his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria, the tropical storm that, at about this same time last year, decimated the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. “I think Puerto Rico was incredibly successful,” […]
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Tremendously Big, Tremendously Wet
Posted in Environment, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Alternative Energy, Chinese hoax, coal, Donald Trump, environmental racism, FEMA, global climate change, Global Warming, hundred year storms, Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Maria, hurricanes, ICE, Jeff Merkley, natural disasters, Puerto Rico, racism, rewriting history, sustainably 37 Comments
The Republican tax plan puts graduate students, scientific research and the future of America in peril
As we’ve discussed, House Republicans have passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut that, if signed into law, would, among other things, take health care coverage from 13 million Americans and raise taxes on the middle class. You would think those two things alone would be enough to motivate people to call their elected officials and […]
Posted in Education, Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged academic research, America Cares Act, American aristocracy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, call to action, college tax credit, Donald Trump, Erin Rousseau, estate tax, free college tuition, health care reform, higher education, mandates, middle class, Obamacare, Orrin Hatch, research and development, Science, STEM, student debt, student loans, tax credits, tax cuts, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, those anti-science Republicans, threats to the middle class, Trumpcare, tuition 22 Comments
With the Papadopoulos guilty plea, Trump can no longer call Mueller’s investigation a witch hunt
I don’t have a lot of time, and it’s already old news by this point, but, as I didn’t have time to mention it last night, I wanted to at least note the fact that, yesterday morning, as promised, the first indictments in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation were made public. Here, with a brief recap, […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Benghazi, Donald Trump, foreign policy, George Papadopoulos, guilty pleas, hacking, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, loyalty oaths, onspiracy Against The United States, Paul Manafort, plea deals, proactive cooperator, Reince Priebus, Richard Gates, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, Sam Clovis, Sean Hannity, Spin, USDA, Vladimir Putin, wearing a wire, white age, witch hunt 105 Comments