What's Left #21

What's Left
for the week of May 11-17, 2017

This week:

The goal is universal health care
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/cbo-coverage-numbers
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/05/pre-existing-conditions-american-obamacare-repeal-american-health-care-act/22071483/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/676
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/04/26/medicare-all-bill-reaches-record-breaking-104-co-sponsors-congress
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/325814-sanders-says-he-will-introduce-medicare-for-all-bill

The USPS is under attack again
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/08/three-government-programs-that-are-dangerously-in-the-red/22076644/
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/search?q=usps

Bad news and some hope about global climate change
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/28/epa-website-removes-climate-science-site-from-public-view-after-two-decades/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/09/earth-could-break-through-a-major-climate-threshold-in-the-next-15-years-scientists-warn/?wpisrc=nl_p1most-partner-1&wpmm=1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/08/alaskas-tundra-is-filling-the-atmosphere-with-carbon-dioxide-worsening-climate-change/?utm_term=.1dea03a03b9d
http://thesolutionsproject.org/
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/february/fifty-states-renewables-022414.html
http://newatlas.com/united-states-renewable-energy-2050/37938/
http://www.ecowatch.com/100-renewable-energy-possible-by-2050-says-greenpeace-report-1882097113.html
https://thinkprogress.org/this-report-says-the-world-can-go-100-percent-renewable-by-2050-19062448be80
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD
http://www.go100percent.org/cms/
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=99&nr=24&menu=1449
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paris-agreement_us_5908f524e4b05c397683d404
https://www.merkley.senate.gov/news/press-releases/merkley-sanders-markey-booker-introduce-landmark-legislation-to-transition-united-states-to-100-clean-and-renewable-energy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-04/the-jersey-shore-would-rather-fight-flooding-with-walls-than-retreat
https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/04/21/bloomberg-editors-new-climate-website-climate-change-fundamentally-economic-story/216145
https://www.c2es.org/docUploads/business-letter-white-house-paris-agreement-final-04-26-2017.pdf
http://www.glamour.com/story/tiffany-and-co-makes-a-strong-statement-against-president-donald-trump?mbid=synd_aollife

For the Record: Vermont legislature approves recreational pot
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/10/vermont-legislature-approves-marijuana-legalization-bill/22080534/

For the Record: Six states celebrate fighting for slavery
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/10/confederate-memorial-day-plane-flag-south-carolina/22080075/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Memorial_Day

For the Record: The most common description of TheRump in a national poll is "idiot"
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/10/poll-trump-idiot-buffoon-bigot-narcissist-unqualified-stupid-crazy-disaster/22080411/
https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2456

For the Record: Chelsea Manning is being freed next week
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/politics/chelsea-manning-release-from-prison/index.html