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The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.

Two things:

1. Even if they're telling the truth, this just means that ICE and the Border Patrol are headed off to wage war against another part of the United States

2. This is intended to upstage a large group from Minnesota to traveled to DC to ask ICE funding to be cut due to the ongoing harm they're experiencing.

Two things:

1. Even if they're telling the truth, this just means that ICE and the Border Patrol are headed off to wage war against another part of the United States

2. This is intended to upstage a large group from Minnesota to traveled to DC to ask ICE funding to be cut due to the ongoing harm they're experiencing.

The administration ended a program that documented excessive levels of a carcinogen at industrial facilities across the country. Environmental groups who say the move leaves polluted communities behind have filed suit.

The point is that [the global authoritarian movement] will exist no matter what happens to Trump. They command vast economic resources; they run the governments in many countries where the government never changes; they have deep tentacles into the U.S. political system and many of its key players are from the U.S. Trump didn’t create this movement precisely. But his role in global politics over the last decade solidified it as a self-conscious group and congealed it together. Any movement of civic democratic revival in the U.S. will be menaced by its continued existence. Now is the time to think about how a revived and revitalized civic democratic movement in the U.S. could combat it and avoid being destroyed by it.

The point is that [the global authoritarian movement] will exist no matter what happens to Trump. They command vast economic resources; they run the governments in many countries where the government never changes; they have deep tentacles into the U.S. political system and many of its key players are from the U.S. Trump didn’t create this movement precisely. But his role in global politics over the last decade solidified it as a self-conscious group and congealed it together. Any movement of civic democratic revival in the U.S. will be menaced by its continued existence. Now is the time to think about how a revived and revitalized civic democratic movement in the U.S. could combat it and avoid being destroyed by it.

Across the Twin Cities, a cadre of suburban sports moms have mobilized to support immigrant families.

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Investigators pulled video from ‘residual data’ in Google’s systems — here’s how that was possible and what it means for your privacy.

A young aide behind social posts that echoed white supremacist messaging will help run social media for the much larger Homeland Security Department.

I'll note that in other parts of the country, local utilities have simply refused to keep high-cost coal-burning power plants running for no reason beyond Trump's need to satisfy people who bribed him.