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The Trump administration is reviewing proposals to break up one of the world’s leading climate and weather laboratories, transfer its work to universities and private companies, take away its aircraft, and sell its property in Boulder, Colo.

The lab in question is NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

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Meanwhile, Russia supplies targeting information to Iran to help them kill Americans.

Hard to see what Trump would be doing differently if he was a Russian asset.

 

It's almost like Republicans want oil to be ridiculously expensive and to force us all to buy it.

 

The Oil Sands Alliance — rebranded from the Pathways Alliance — has a history of misleading the public about the fossil fuel industry's support for climate action, all the while pushing to expand production.

 

Brian Joondeph, a Colorado-based ophthalmologist and political commentator, has not published peer-reviewed research on air pollution science.

 

The administration has also sought to end deportation protections for other immigrant groups, including Syrians.

Sending people overseas to die basically

 

All that failing to release the additional documents mentioning Trump does is to give some blackmailer additional leverage.

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

I'm a bit sympathetic to them — they do need to get paid to keep operating, and ads don't cover the cost of providing news anymore

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 30 points 7 months ago

They dont let sites opt-out, and they do a much more seamless job of enabling people to archive paywalled content

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 7 months ago

What congress? The Republicans won't even let the house meet anymore

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its almost like they need to buy a social media company, major TV network, and video sharing website

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (15 children)
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He thinks that courts won't have the support of police to enforce it, or that the Supreme Court will simply refuse to uphold any kind of sanction.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The less far right types used to embrace him in private. That they're now doing it openly representa a big change in the kinds of policy they're willing to implement.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Trump is the one who decided to divert money from health insurance for ordinary people to tax cuts for billionaires

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

It clearly satisfies his gold toilet fetish

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 months ago

Its happened recently when Escape From Alcatraz re-aired and he developed a fixation on reopening the prison there

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Probably watched House of Dynamite on Netflix and saw it as something to aspire to.

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