This Storm-Battered Town Voted for Trump. He Has Vowed to Overturn the Law That Could Fix Its Homes.
Donald Trump has said he will overturn a law that helps communities better weather the effects of climate change. If he follows through, he’ll be reversing an initiative that has disproportionately benefited areas that make up his base.
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Opinion | Senate Republicans embarrass themselves (and America) at confirmation hearings | Opinion
If you haven’t been paying attention as Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks sat through Senate confirmation hearings this week, good for you.
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Biden commutes sentences for 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in one of his final acts
The action may be the first of several clemency actions before the president leaves office.
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Jesse Watters Roasted For Audacious Complaint About Michelle Obama
It was bold for the Fox News host to go there after what happened four years ago.
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To smear the Justice Department, Republicans cling to a discredited myth
If the Justice Department under Merrick Garland and Joe Biden is genuinely so awful, why do Republicans keep resorting to a baseless lie about it?
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January 16, 1966 Joan Baez Folksinger Joan Baez was sentenced to 10 days in jail for participating in a protest which blocked the entrance to the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, California. She was part of an action to impede the drafting of young men for the U.S. war in Vietnam. Joan Baez Press Conference On Vietnam War (1966) Read more about Joan Baez |
| January 16, 1979 Faced with strikes, violent demonstrations, an army mutiny and clerical opposition to his repressive rule, the Shah of Iran, its hereditary monarch since 1941, was forced to flee the country. He had been installed in a CIA- and British-engineered 1953 coup which overthrew elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq. Mossadeq’s government had voted to nationalize Iran’s oil industry, displacing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.The U.S. gave substantial and continuous military and intelligence support to the Shah throughout his regime. Despite having imposed martial law the previous October, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi fled the Peacock Throne for Egypt and, later, the U.S. for medical care. Following the subsequent revolutionary overthrow, an Islamist state under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was established.  The Shah and family Chronology of Iran in the 20th century: More on the Shah |
| January 16, 1987 Eight members of the Nanoose Conversion Campaign were acquitted of trespassing on Canadian Department of National Defence property. The group had picnicked on Winchelsea Island, part of the Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental and Test Ranges, where both Canadian and U.S. weapons are tested, in the Georgia Strait along the British Columbia coast. |
| January 16, 1992 The government of El Salvador and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico City ending 12 years of civil war that had killed at least 75,000 people. |
| January 16, 2001 Eight Greenpeace activists were arrested by Gibraltar police as they boarded a damaged British nuclear submarine. The HMS Tireless was considered a radioactivity hazard because of a cracked pipe in its reactor’s cooling system. Those living near Gibraltar Harbour and in Spain were concerned for their safety as the ship had been docked for more than six months awaiting repair. The problem was serious enough that Great Britain removed twelve comparable subs from service until they could be checked for similar problems. Greenpeace unfurled a banner just before the arrests reading Mares Libres del Peligro Nuclear, or “For a Nuclear-Free Sea.” |
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So fitting for what is coming to the US and maybe the world. Hugs.
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Axios reports:
A powerful Arctic outbreak tied in part to the polar vortex is set to send temperatures by next week tumbling down to as cold as 25 to 35 degrees Fahrenheit below average for mid-January, forecasts show. The hazardous cold could endanger public health, stress electricity grids, damage crops and make for a frigid Inauguration Day.
Mother Nature’s refrigerator door looks to open, with cold air spilling southward out of northern Canada beginning Friday night and lasting for at least a week. Through Sunday, about 81 million people are predicted to see temperatures plunge to below-zero Fahrenheit, and the number affected will increase from there.
Read the full article. In 1985, Reagan’s inauguration parade was canceled and the ceremony was moved inside when wind chills were as low as -20 degrees.
To smear the Justice Department, Republicans cling to a discredited myth
If the Justice Department under Merrick Garland and Joe Biden is genuinely so awful, why do Republicans keep resorting to a baseless lie about it?
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