What's Left Special Report: Guns

What's Left Special Report: Guns in the US

I almost forgot to put the video up.

What's Left Special Report: Guns

What's Left Special Report: Guns

Welcome Jon Swift Memorial Roundup readers. If you would rather see the video of this, it's at http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2018/06/whats-left-special-report-guns_13.html.



February 14, 2018: Seventeen are killed, 17 more wounded, in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Broward County, Florida

May 18, 2018: Ten killed, 13 wounded, in a shooting at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas.

May 25, 2018: Two injured, happily none killed, in a shooting at Noblesville West Middle School in Noblesville, Indiana. According to CNN, this was the 23rd school shooting of 2018 - just 22 weeks into the year.

And of course we heard from the right wing and from the gun nuts all their sorrowful expressions and their thoughts and prayers and of course their excuses and diversions and distractions, blaming the massacres on mental illness, bullying, Hollywood, violent video games, socialism, single parents, Godlessness, abortion, and now Ritalin. Everything but the guns.

Well, you know what? I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear anything they have to say, now or ever again. I don't want to hear the gobbledygook, the nonsense, the lies, the garbage. I don't want hear any of the noxious venom spewing from the fangs of the snakes at the NRA. I don't want to hear the slimy excuses, the shopworn slogans, the stale talking points.

There have been well over 60 mass killings in US over last 30 years. One every couple of months for 30 years. In the vast majority of those cases, the guns involved were obtained legally. Of the weapons used nearly three-fourths were either assault weapons or semiautomatic handguns.

So I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear anything from the gun nuts or their bought off lackeys in Congress. I don't want to hear their lies, I won't tolerate their distractions, I won't abide their trickery, I won't fall for their attempts to talk about anything other than the damn guns.

What's more, I also don't want to hear it from the Democrats, I don't want to hear any of the mealy-mouthed blather from political cowards who will whine that they're doing the best that they can even as the body count rises and members of their own party continue to either worship at the altar of the NRA or run and hide at its approach.

And that's nothing new. Even Mr. Nobel Peace Prize himself, President Hopey-Changey, talked big about "meaningful action" on guns while the only thing he did was to expand the areas where people can legally carry them. Thanks to legislation approved and actively defended in court by the glorious Mr. O's administration, you can transport a gun via Amtrak train, which you couldn't before. Even better, you can now carry a loaded, concealed gun around in a national park, which you couldn't before.

And I don't want to hear, as we have always, invariably, inevitably heard after every tragedy and as sure as the sun rising in the morning will hear after the next one that "now is not the time" to talk about doing something about the carnage. Because if that's true, then what the hell time is "the time?"

Know this: The mass murders, especially the ones at schools, grab our attention, take our breath away, break our hearts and break through our indifference but they are in fact only a small part of the reality, a small part of the daily, grinding, carnage that guns bring to our nation.

Over the past five years, on average, 13,000 people in US are killed, murdered, every year by gun. Over the past five years, on average, nearly 22,000 commit suicide by gun every year. Over 35,000 gun deaths a year - 96 a day - including seven children and teenagers. Ninety-six a day: that's three Parklands plus four Santa Fes a day, every day, day after day.

The suicides are especially tragic because while gun suicides account for 60% of gun deaths and 50% of all suicide deaths, they only account for about 10% of all suicide attempts - because 90% of those who attempt suicide by gun succeed, while 90% of those who try by other means fail and rarely try again.

So I have to ask: When is it "the time" to talk about the guns? How many more have to die before it's "the time?" How many more have to be shot down before it's "the time?" How many mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, wives, husbands, daughters, sons, have to lie in spreading pools of their own blood before it's "the time?"

How many children have to cry out for mommy after a fall or a bee sting until someone has to gently as they can explain again that mommy is no longer there before it's "the time?" How many wives have to wake in the night and reach across the bed and have that moment of confusion before the pain of remembering - yet again - why there's no one there? How many parents have to suffer the repeated gaping empty ache of being in the grocery store and reaching for something before realizing - again - that they no longer have to buy that sort of cereal or that particular brand of peanut butter?

The days of those children, those spouses, those parents, are not measured in minutes but in pains; they are not marked by hours but by aches. So what time is the time? And why is this time, whatever time it is, not the time?

So I don't want to hear it; I don't want to hear any of it. Not the time? Of course it's the time, it's way past the time, way past time to face the truth that there is only one issue here: there are too damn many guns that are too damn easy to get.

Part of the problem is, we don't actually know how many people own guns or how many they own. Keeping official records on that sort of thing, thanks to the NRA and political cowardice, is illegal. So the information we have is all by survey.

But based on that, there are by various estimates anywhere from 270 million to 310 million guns in private hands in the United States - close to one firearm for every man, woman, and child in the US and about one-half of all weapons owned by civilians in the entire world.

But while those numbers about ownership may be close to the actual totals, they remain indefinite, imprecise. Still, one thing is for sure: more guns equals more gun crime, more gun deaths, more murders, more suicides. That's what the research shows, over and over again.

In 2013, researchers from Boston University looked at the relationship between gun ownership and gun homicides over the 30-year period from 1981 to 2010 in all 50 states. They found a "robust correlation" between the two factors.

Also in 2013, a team lead by Dr. Eric Fleegler, a physician in pediatric emergency medicine at Boston Children's Hospital, used information on state laws from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence to create a list of 28 possible laws states could enact to in some way control guns or access to them. They also used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding gun violence. Putting those data sets together, they found that the more such laws a state had, the lower the level of gun violence there. The states in the top 25% of gun legislation strength had a 42% reduction in gun deaths compared with the states in the bottom 25%, including a 40% drop in homicides and a 37% drop in suicides. Notably, when gun violence was lower, other types of violence did not go up, suggesting people without guns do not kill themselves or others by other means.

In 2014, a team lead by David Hemenway, director of the Injury Control Research Center at Harvard University, assembled a list of nearly 300 experts on guns, which they established by going through about 1,200 articles on firearms that had been recently published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Hemenway began sending monthly surveys to the authors of these articles. The results showed that a heavy majority the experts responding agreed that having a gun in the house makes it a more dangerous place to be, makes it more likely that a woman living in the house will be killed, and increases the risk of suicide. Heavy majorities also agreed that having more guns around does not reduce crime and that strong gun laws do reduce homicide.

In 2016, a report by researchers from the University of Nevada-Reno and the Harvard School of Public Health used World Health Organization data to compare gun violence and murder rates across 23 developed (or "high-income," as they are also called) nations, including the US. Among the findings were that Americans are 25 times more likely to be violently killed with a gun - murdered - than in those 22 other nations; we are six times more likely to be accidentally killed with a gun; eight times times more likely to commit suicide using a gun; and overall 10 times more likely to die by gun than residents of other developed nations. It found that homicide is the second leading cause of death for Americans 15 to 24 and the third leading cause of death among those 25 to 34. Americans 15 to 24 are 49 times more likely to die from gun murder than similarly aged young people in other high-income nations; for those aged 25 to 34, the risk is 32 times greater.

Despite having only one-half the total population of the other nations studied, the US accounted for 82 percent of all firearm incidents. What's more, the US accounted for 90 percent of all women, 91 percent of children aged up to 14 years, and 92 percent of youth aged 15 to 24 years who were killed by guns.

In 2017, a working paper by John Donohue, an economist and law professor at Stanford University, addressed the question of relating gun ownership to gun crime at a time during which violent crime in the US has been and continues to decline. He found that the introduction of so-called right-to-carry laws makes violent crime rates 13-15% worse and the gun homicide rate 9% worse over 10 years. That is, even as violent crime is dropping, it would have dropped significantly more in the absence of those laws. More guns around, more guns carried, more crime, more death. The result was based on an analysis of 37 years worth of data comparing gun crime rates in states with and without right-to-carry laws, including how the rates changed in states that adopted right-to-carry during those 37 years.

And just last fall, evidence from a massive database maintained by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which tracks lives lost in every country, in every year, by every possible cause of death, showed the US as a shocking outlier on gun deaths.

Measured by socioeconomic success, such as income per person and average education level, the US ranked 9th highest among the nations of the world - but on death by gun violence, it ranked 31st highest. That is, of the 195 recognized nations of the world, only eight nations had higher socioeconomic success than the US, but 164 nations had lower levels of death by gun.

The rate of gun death in the US in 2016, the most recent figures available, was eight times higher than the rate in Canada, 27 times higher than in Denmark, 33 times higher than Germany.

But oh, we're told, even if all that is true, well, it's unfortunate, it's terrible, but it's the price we pay for freedom! The freedom we are guaranteed by the Second Amendment, the Amendment that itself guarantees our freedom!

Bull.

I'm going to have to get a little legalistic on you, but it's necessary because you can be damn sure that the gun nuts are going to trot out the Second Amendment argument over and over, the argument that goes "I can have my guns - the Constitution says so!"

So first, let's be clear on what the Amendment says:

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

The first important Supreme Court decision about the Second Amendment was Presser v. Illinois, which was decided in 1886. In it, the Supreme Court found that the Second Amendment limited only the power of Congress and the national government to control firearms, not that of individual states. States could essentially put on whatever restrictions they wanted. That decision was affirmed in Miller v. Texas, decided in 1894. Now, this was before the idea of incorporation, the idea that the protections of the Constitution extend to the states as well as the federal government, became commonplace, so these decisions are not truly relevant the legal situation we face to today. But they do mean that right away this idea that from the very beginning the Founding Fathers wanted everyone to be able to own whatever and however many guns they wanted is totally bogus.

The next big case, the important one, was United States v. Miller. This was in 1939 and it concerned the National Firearms Act of 1934. That Act required that certain types of weapons be registered and taxed. A unanimous Court upheld the law, saying there was no conflict with the Second Amendment. The Court found that:

In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a [weapon of the sort involved in the case] has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. ... With obvious purpose to assure the continuation and render possible the effectiveness of such forces the declaration and guarantee of the Second Amendment were made. It must be interpreted and applied with that end in view.

The syntax is rather stilted, but the meaning is clear enough.

For 69 years, that was precedent, relied on by all lower Courts and occasionally referred to by the Supreme Court itself. For 69 years, the legal standard was that states and the federal government were within their legitimate powers to regulate sale and possession of weapons which were not related to maintaining "a well-regulated militia" - which, in the absence of state militias (except to the degree that the National Guard could be considered such), pretty much meant any weapon at all.

Put another way, the guarantee under the Second Amendment was understood to describe not an individual right but a collective one: It applied to the people as a whole, not to discrete individuals, and referred to the right of the people of a state (or a nation) to collectively defend themselves against attack.

After 69 years, the narrowest majority of the Supreme Court, 5-4, decided to ignore those decades of precedent, or more to the point, to regard them as irrelevant. In 2008, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court ruled for the first time that the Second Amendment does provide an individual right to own a gun.

To do that, they had to go through some real mental contortions. They treated the reference to a militia as merely "prefatory," as having no legal effect, no legal meaning, even though there doesn't seem to be another example of such a "prefatory" anywhere in the constitution. What's more, the phrase "keep and bear arms" has traditionally referred to serving in a military force (including a militia). To get around that, the Court majority broke the phrase into two separate pieces - so it's not a right to "keep and bear arms" but a right to "keep" arms and an entirely separate right to "bear" arms as part of a military.

This decision only applied to federal enclaves such as the District of Columbia. However, two years later, in McDonald v. Chicago, the Court ruled in another 5-4 decision that the finding in Heller applied to the states as well.

That is what the gun nuts now rely on, that is what they now argue: "Can't have gun control. Second Amendment. Supreme Court has ruled. Debate is over." Now, if you're ever faced with that argument, the first thing you should do is to ask those wackos if at any time during those 69 years that the Court said otherwise, in all that time did any of them just say "the Court has ruled, the debate is over, we lost." Of course they didn't. So don't expect us to do it now.

Especially because I'm going to advance an argument that the interpretation of the Second Amendment relied on by the gun nuts and the NRA and the right-wingers on the court is wholly bogus even beyond the majority's mental contortions.

First, again, here is the text:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Here is James Madison's original proposed text:

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.

Note that expressed this way, the tying of the article to a militia is specific and undeniable; it makes no sense to regard the reference to a militia as some sort of passing observation with no relevance to the rest of the text.

What's more, the "Powers of Congress" as listed in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution include these (among others):

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States;

Note well: Congress can maintain a navy but only raise an army and that for only two years at a time - and meanwhile, can call out the militia to "suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions."

The expectation was that the US would not have a standing army, that one would be raised in the event of need but that the militias would be the first line of defense against attack. Despite that - and this is something that then-Justice John Paul Stevens noted in his dissent in Heller - there still was a concern at the time that Congress would disarm the state militias and create a national standing army and the Second Amendment was intended as a guarantee to the states that their militias could be maintained. Which means that yes, it was about a militia from the very start. Which means the Miller decision got it right and the Heller decision should go to hell.

But there's another thing that is equally if not more important: The gun nuts - and, in fact, a lot of gun control advocates - don't know what the Heller and McDonald decisions actually said.

In Heller and reasserted in McDonald, the majority of the Supreme Court actually embraced the concept of the 1939 Miller decision that the federal government and the states have the authority to regulate firearms. What's more, that majority argued that the protections of the Second Amendment only apply to weapons "in common use for lawful purposes." In fact, in Heller, the Court said the ruling, quoting here,

should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.

The majority also said that other existing or potential prohibitions, such as banning concealed weapons or the carrying of "dangerous and unusual weapons" were unaffected by the decision.

So the gun nuts who claim that the Second Amendment gives them the right to have pretty much any kind of gun they want and as many of them as they want and carry them wherever they want are, happily, completely wrong. Heller and McDonald are far more limited than gun nuts hoped and than control advocates feared.

Carrying concealed guns can be banned. Carrying guns into schools or government buildings - or, for that matter, on Amtrak trains or in national parks - can be banned. Assault weapons can be banned. Semiautomatic handguns can be banned. High-capacity magazines can be banned. Safety locks can be required. "Dangerous and unusual" ammunition such as hollow-point bullets and armor-piercing rounds can be banned.

Michael Waldman, who is president of the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, has noted that even since Heller, courts have upheld nearly all gun rules, finding that yes, individuals have a right to a gun, but society has the right to protect itself, too.

And in fact that society agrees. A survey by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research and published in the May issue of the "American Journal of Public Health" covered 24 proposals of varying severity restricting access to guns. A majority supported 23 of them; significantly, a majority of self-described gun owners supported 17 of them and in most cases the approval gap between gun owners and non-gun owners was in the single digits.

And in terms of societal right to self-protection, it's wise to recall here that gun ownership is a distinctly minority position in the US: Based on surveys, no more than about 30% of Americans own one or more guns and the figure may be as low as 22% and only 42% live is a household where anyone owns a gun.

An important sidebar here is that I would not approve of all the proposals in the Johns Hopkins survey, as some made a history of mental illness a bar to gun ownership - and the fact is that the best and recent research shows no reliable predictive value in associating mental health and gun violence. Put another way, the research says that people with mental illness are no more likely to be violent toward others, especially to commit mass violence, than anyone else is. We can't simply dismiss the harsh truth of mass violence with the slogan "better mental health programs." They are justified on their own account - but not because they will address the issue of mass shootings, because they will not. They are a gun lobby-pushed distraction. The issue is the damn guns. Stay focused.

So staying focused, here's the last thing, a bottom line: Based on current jurisprudence, the truth is that pretty much any kind of gun other than basic hunting rifles, shotguns, and ordinary handguns could be banned outright.

And dammit, they should be - ban them all. You want to hunt? Go with a basic rifle. Don't even try to tell me that you need an AR-15 to go after deer. In fact, why don't you use a bow? Or is the extra effort involved in having to track the deer to get close enough to take it down with a bow instead of dropping it from a couple of hundred yards away with your manhood too much for you?

You want to target shoot? Use a pellet gun. Yeah, yeah, I know, they can be dangerous blah blah blah - but don't even try to tell me you need a Glock to shoot out a paper bulls-eye.

Ban them all. I know that's not going to happen. I know there is no chance of that in my lifetime and probably much longer, if ever. But it's not going to stop me from saying it and from wanting it - and as long as I am 100 times more likely to be killed by a gun here than in the UK, I'm going to keep on saying it and keep on wanting it.

I am not usually a one-issue voter. but this year, on this issue, on there being too damn many guns that are too damn easy to get, I am. So this year, this time, this election, if you are not with me on this, I am against you.

Because all I can think is that until we Americans as a people, as a culture, grow the hell up and throw away our childish fantasies that somehow we are all living on the frontier in the 1870s with nothing between us and who knows what danger except our trusty guns, until we grow the hell up and ditch the infantile vision of ourselves as action movie heroes ready to leap into action to defend the defenseless and save the day, until we grow the hell up and realize the our guns have brought us death and not deliverance, until that time the tens of thousands of people who die by gun every year in this country will continue to die by the tens of thousands - because there are too damn many guns that are too damn easy to get.

39.2 - Goodbye and farewell

Goodbye and farewell

All that talk about hope, about the necessity of hope, brings to mind the phrase "keep hope alive." It's attributed to Jesse Jackson and while I expect he was not the first person to ever say the phrase, he is the one who made it a mantra and so can lay claim to it.

And it's what we have to do, always have to do: keep hope alive.

It's one of the things I've tried to do here - amid the news and views, the anger and the analysis, to maintain hope.

Even in the face of the continuing advances of the reactionaries, in the face of the racism and the sexism and the classism, in the face of the willful ignorance and the denial of science, in the face of the banality of evil as on-going wars become a back-of-the-paper story, in the face of all that and more, I have tried to maintain, even to offer, hope.

Because the truth of the matter is that even many professional grouches (like me) are actually unregenerate romantics whose sharp words are honed on the inexplicable, indefensible, yet utterly unshakable conviction that things not only should be but can be better than they are.

An embarrassingly large number of years ago, a friend asked me for some background information she could use for a presentation on world hunger she'd been talked into giving at her church. She confessed to being very nervous about doing it and said she envied my ease at giving speeches.

I answered that I envied her gregariousness, how comfortable she was one-on-one with strangers, a quality that gave her skill in door-to-door petitioning. I've always found the prospect of going to a street where I know no one and knocking on strange door after strange door, political petition in my hand and earnest expression on my face, rather intimidating.

She half-smiled and said something about how that didn't seem anything special or "important." The truth is, I'm not sure she believed me.

But I meant what I said. Because every one of us has his or her own strengths, has something we can contribute to the struggle for peace, for justice, for the environment, for, in short, life. None of these abilities is inherently more important than any other. All are important, all are necessary, and the question isn't whether your particular skills are "better" or "worse" than any others but whether or not you are using them.

Some, like my friend, are good at petitioning. I'm not. Some are good at fundraising. I'm not. I lack both the focused concentration necessary for large-scale organizing and the patience for phone-banking. The list of my inadequacies is embarrassingly long.

My strength happens to be words. Talking. Writing. Giving speeches. And like that. So doing this is, simply, something I thought I could contribute. What's Left has intended from the beginning to be an example of what's called advocacy journalism, a type of journalism that deals in facts, not propaganda, and wherever possible uses neutral sources but which makes no bones about having a point of view; journalism, that as I have put it, "puts facts into an ethical context in order to spur action."

Put another way, What's Left was from the beginning intended to be a voice of conscience and a tool in an on-going movement, something of use to the many whose skills in other areas so greatly exceeds mine. Something that helps. Something that keeps hope alive.

In doing the show, I've been guided by four quotes that served as editorial principles:
1) "To thine own self be true." Which, as I expect you know, is a quote from Shakespeare.
2) "The US isn't the worst - but it is the biggest." That's a quote from Joan Baez.
3) "Sometimes a bit of humor contains more inner truth than the most serious seriousness." That's from a chess grandmaster named Aron Nimzovich.
4) "No one but no one, no matter their ideology, political perspective, or status as 'left' or 'right,' 'liberal' or 'conservative,' can be by that reason exempt from either criticism or praise." That's from me.

The reason I bring all this up now is that this is the 300th edition of What's Left, which was born under and in fact has lived most of its life under the name Left Side of the Aisle - a name which I never actually liked because it implied that I'm a Democrat, a description which anyone who has watched the show for any length of time would know was misleading. I recall, for one example, writing in 2012 how I would not vote for Barack Obama because he was too conservative.

So anyway, yes, this is the 300th edition of What's Left.

It is also the last edition of What's Left.

Yes, we are hanging it up, packing it in, closing it down, choose the cliche that pleases you. After something over 6-1/2 years of an almost weekly show, it's time for me to find another way to be useful, to advance the causes in which I believe.

Actually, that's not quite right, there will be one more, a holiday special intended for the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, on the history of why they are on December 25 and January 1 as opposed to any other days of the year.

But yes, we are turning out the lights, closing the door, again choose the cliche you prefer.

I've said this before but it bears repeating. I have been greatly helped over these past years by several people without who this simply would not have happened or even if it did would not have gone on nearly so long as it did.

So I want to say thank you.

First to Donna, just for being Donna. She is my strength, my source, my reason to get up each day.

I want to say thanks to the staff here, to Dylan, Kris, and perhaps especially to Yvanna because she once said that she liked working the camera for the show because she always learned something, which is about the most complimentary thing someone could say to me.

Then there is Will, video editor extraordinaire of song and fable.

And finally there is Rich, the Executive Director of the station and the all-around go-to guy here who was willing to take a chance on me: When I first approached him about doing a weekly show of political commentary, he - I could tell - wasn't too sure that it wouldn't peter out after a few weeks. But he took the chance to let me do it my way and I hope in the time since he was given enough cause to be happy with his decision.

So with that I guess it's time to wrap this up for the last time. This is not the end of my activism, I just need to find a different outlet. It doesn't even mean that What's Left won't reappear at some point in some altered form.

Because for now and for the future, the issue for me, for all of us, is not "What can I do?" It's "Am I doing what I can?" Perhaps that only amounts to a little, to what can seem so trifling as to not matter, but matter it does because none of what we do is for nothing.

We are each of us as individuals called, required by what is right, required by the call of justice, to do what we can. No one can expect more of us - but we should expect nothing less of ourselves.

So instead of saying to you "see you next week," I am going to say "Carry it on." Because like the man in the movie said, "Never give up, never surrender."

And as always, peace.

What's Left #38

What's Left
for the week of November 10 - 16, 2017

This week:

Hero Award: Brennon Jones and Sean Johnson
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/6/1713224/-Barber-who-has-been-giving-free-haircuts-to-homeless-is-gifted-barbershop-by-stranger
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/01/stranger-gifts-barbershop-to-man-behind-haircuts-for-homeless.html

Clown Award: unnamed man who went to a Halloween party dressed as a suicide bomber
https://splinternews.com/louisiana-supreme-court-rules-that-a-man-who-asked-for-1820085946
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/11/02/the-suspect-told-police-give-me-a-lawyer-dog-the-court-says-he-wasnt-asking-for-a-lawyer/
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/357985-roy-moore-impeach-judge-blocking-transgender-military-ban
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/the-lawlessness-of-roy-moore/541467/
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/malaysia-arrests-man-who-dressed-as-suicide-bomber-for-halloween-9384492

Question: why has the left dropped military spending as an issue?
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/house-senate-negotiators-land-on-700-billion-deal-for-pentagon/
http://fair.org/home/outlets-that-scolded-sanders-over-deficits-uniformly-silent-on-700b-pentagon-handout/
http://www.pogoarchives.org/straus/dm/defense_monitor_jan_may_2017.pdf
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/1190216/dod-releases-fiscal-year-2018-budget-proposal/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/opinion/americas-forever-wars.html

We Are Not Alone: Malaysia, Vietnam, India
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/malaysia-to-roll-out-more-than-us-1b-worth-of-flood-mitigation-9378508
http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/7-killed-10000-evacuated-penang-and-kedah-floods-worsen
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/malaysia-to-roll-out-more-than-us-1b-worth-of-flood-mitigation-9378508
https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2017/11/299593/penang-floods-meteorological-dept-explains-what-triggered-heavy-rainfall
http://news.iafrica.com/worldnews/1056471.html
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2017/11/07/death-toll-from-vietnam-typhoon-rises-to-69/
http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/Blanketed-in-toxic-haze-New-Delhi-has-become-12338697.php
http://abcnews.go.com/International/severe-air-pollution-declared-public-health-emergency-delhi/story?id=50987745

Outrage of the Week: sexism, the cause of sexual harassment and assault
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/22/women-of-the-senate-share-their-metoo-stories-of-harassment/23251721/
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/one-common-denominator-all-sexual-harassers-seem-share
https://hbr.org/2017/10/a-study-used-sensors-to-show-that-men-and-women-are-treated-differently-at-work
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/03/gender-pay-gap-facts/
https://womenintheworkplace.com/

RIP: "Fats" Domino
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fats-domino-rock-pioneer-behind-143021193.html
https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2017/10/25/legendary-new-orleans-musician-fats-domino-dead-at-89/23255560/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6JZW7zMDfY

What's Left #36

What's Left
for the weeks of October 20 - November 2, 2017

This week:

Good News: TheRumps new travel ban blocked
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/17/us-judge-blocks-latest-trump-travel-restrictions/23246487/
https://news.google.com/news/story/dKpPn-G2Q8pxS5MqASK_8cm8qoX9M?ned=us&hl=en

Good News: memorial fund for Philando Castile wipes out school lunch debt
https://splinternews.com/a-philando-castile-memorial-fund-has-wiped-out-all-stud-1819557723

Not Good News: Americans increasingly ignorant of Constitution and ready to jettison free press
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/18/trump-media-fake-news-poll-243884?cid=apn
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/08/daily-chart-0
https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/americans-are-poorly-informed-about-basic-constitutional-provisions

We Are Not Alone: Madagascar battles pneumonic plague
http://www.france24.com/en/20171017-madagascar-plague-seychelles-health-disease

We Are Not Alone: renewed hopes for peace in South Sudan
http://www.irinnews.org/opinion/2017/10/18/south-sudan-seize-chance-peace
http://www.igadregion.org/the-igad/

Special Comment: some sympathy and understanding for the white working class
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/22/who-exactly-is-the-white-working-class-and-what-do-they-believe-good-questions/?utm_term=.6713db223385
https://www.salon.com/2015/11/29/the_truth_about_the_white_working_class_why_its_really_allergic_to_voting_for_democrats/
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/robert-reich-and-cnns-erin-burnett-take-turns-debunking-trumps-favorite-economist
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6946196

What's Left #35

What's Left
for the week of October 13-19, 2017

This week:
Good News: majority of GOPpers say society should accept homosexuality
https://www.salon.com/2017/10/06/a-majority-of-republicans-finally-agree-homosexuality-is-ok/

Good News: transgender boy forced to leave Christian school; elected homecoming king at new one
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/transgender-teen-crowned-homecoming-king_us_59da483ee4b072637c44c02c

Good News: anti-nuclear weapons group wins Nobel Peace Prize
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/06/anti-nuclear-campaign-ican-wins-2017-nobel-peace-prize/23234823/
http://www.icanw.org/

Good News: cops who dragged nurse from hospital is fired
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/detective-jeff-payne-fired-nurse-alex-wubbels-video/

Not Good News: Dakota Access pipeline to continue operations during review
https://earthjustice.org/features/dakota-access-what-next?utm_source=crm&utm_content=LearnMoreButton&autologin=true

Outrage of the Week: backlash against kneeling NFL players
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/08/the-counted-police-killings-2016-young-black-men
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/racial-disparity-police-shootings
https://www.vox.com/cards/police-brutality-shootings-us/us-police-racism
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/data-police-racial-bias
http://killedbypolice.net/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/
http://www.odmp.org/search?cause=Gunfire&from=2017&to=2017
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/06/fbi-black-identity-extremists-racial-profiling
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-identity-extremism-the-new-reverse-racism_us_59dc2d88e4b0a1bb90b83095

We Are Not Alone: Burma
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/garnett-genuis/to-the-critics-rohingya-really-are-the-victims_a_23235078/
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/save-the-children/the-level-of-suffering-in-the-rohingya-crisis-is-almost-unimaginable_a_23226632/?utm_campaign=canada_dau
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-myanmar-rohingya/myanmar-takes-first-step-to-ease-buddhist-muslim-tension-idUKKBN1CF08D
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/thousands-gather-interfaith-rallies.html
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/west-edges-towards-punishing-myanmar-army-leaders-rakhine-crisis-sources.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/04/myanmar-blocks-all-un-aid-to-civilians-at-heart-of-rohingya-crisis

What's Left #33

Left Side of the Aisle
for the weeks of September 22 - October 6

This week:

Good News: House pushes back against civil asset forfeiture
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2013/08/left-side-of-aisle-120-part-1.html
http://reason.com/blog/2017/08/31/legislation-in-congress-would-block-jeff
https://theintercept.com/2017/07/20/jeff-sessions-wants-to-make-legalized-theft-great-again/
http://ij.org/press-release/house-unanimously-passes-bill-curb-civil-forfeiture-irs/
https://theintercept.com/2017/09/12/in-surprise-vote-house-passes-amendment-to-restrict-asset-forfeiture/

Good News: Teamsters Local is a "sanctuary" union; California is a "sanctuary" state
http://teamsters.nyc/2017/09/13/new-york-teamsters-become-sanctuary-union-following-deportation-union-member/
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/41976-teamsters-resolve-to-become-sanctuary-union-to-fight-deportation-of-members
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/25/1683837/-ICE-agent-anonymously-speaks-out-We-seem-to-be-targeting-the-most-vulnerable-not-the-worst
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/sessions-visits-sanctuary-city-tells-it-stop-n802796
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/1/1695283/-Jeff-Sessions-s-constant-claims-that-violent-crime-is-on-the-rise-are-simply-not-true
http://www.france24.com/en/20170918-anti-trump-resistance-grows-california-values-act-declares-sanctuary-state
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article172605966.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/15/trumps-crackdown-sanctuary-cities-blocked-nationwide/671900001/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/04/25/california-judge-blocks-trump-order-sanctuary-city-money/100897066/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/08/30/federal-judge-blocks-texas-tough-sanctuary-cities-law/619168001/
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wexler-sanctuary-cities-immigration-crime-20170306-story.html

Not Good News: SCOTUS reinstates TheRump's ban on refugees while case is on appeal
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/us/supreme-court-refugee-ban.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-appeals-court-rules-against-trump-effort-to-broadly-enforce-travel-ban_us_59b1cde0e4b0dfaafcf6cb7d?section=us_politics
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/8/1697022/-Trump-s-Muslim-ban-2-0-gets-smacked-down-in-court-yet-again

And the wars drag on: Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mattis-says-over-3000-additional-u-s-troops-will-deploy-to-afghanistan/
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/9/19/16227730/trump-afghanistan-3000-troops-mattis
http://indianexpress.com/article/world/us-backed-militia-hit-by-air-strikes-in-syrias-deir-al-zor-say-syrian-democratic-forces-4846399/
http://us.cnn.com/2017/09/21/politics/russia-us-syria-meeting/index.html
http://www.newsweek.com/russia-threatens-us-special-forces-syria-and-will-fire-them-if-provoked-668855
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-kurds/syrias-kurds-to-hold-historic-vote-in-message-to-assad-idUSKCN1BW279
http://www.dcmilitary.com/strikes-continue-in-effort-to-defeat-isis-in-syria-iraq/article_63c34e59-151b-506b-a69f-f672b564ea9f.html
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/9/21/headlines/us_led_coalition_airstrikes_reportedly_kill_six_civilians_on_syria_iraq_border
http://www.france24.com/en/20170921-iraq-begins-offensive-retake-islamic-state-group-stronghold-hawija
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/14/isis-kills-at-least-50-in-southern-iraq-attacks
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/urges-kurds-call-independence-vote-170916070603153.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/guterres-urges-iraqi-kurds-scrap-referendum-170917223002535.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-kurds-referendum-minis/turkey-iran-iraq-consider-counter-measures-over-kurdish-referendum-idUSKCN1BW1EA
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/iraq-top-court-rules-suspend-kurdish-referendum-170918102729593.html
https://www.albawaba.com/news/hrw-saudi-led-airstrikes-yemen-are-war-crimes-1020666
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/09/12/yemen-coalition-airstrikes-deadly-children
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2017/07/276-outrage-of-week-war-crimes-in-yemen.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKsYw8n3Fyw

Clown Award: Air Force chaplain Captain Sonny Hernandez
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4891096/Trump-supporting-David-Clarke-told-revise-thesis.html
http://splinternews.com/republican-senator-accidentally-reveals-the-toxic-truth-1818593567
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/9/20/16333338/obamacare-repeal-graham-cassidy
http://www.newsweek.com/chaplain-urges-service-members-reject-religious-tolerance-665614
https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/

The little Thing: Airlines ripping off last-minute passengers is emblematic of capitalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/09/06/3200-for-a-one-way-ticket-out-of-miami-the-story-behind-the-hurricane-irma-tweet-that-went-viral/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/09/travel/airlines-face-criticism-amid-irma-price-gouging-charges.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/airlines-mark-down-tickets-in-irma-affected-areas-following-complaints-1504989080
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2017/04/166-love-of-profit-is-root-of-all.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/10/2227-pursuit-of-profit-is-baseline.html

What's Left #32

What's Left
for the week of September 15-21, 2017

This week:

Harvey, Irma, and global warming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Harvey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Irma
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-irma-record-atlantic-ocean-category-5-track-forecast-path/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/climate/climate-change-drastic-warming-trump.html
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/6/1696441/-Scientist-on-climate-change-That-s-not-so-much-a-future-projection-but-an-observational-reality
http://shaperssurvey2017.org/
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-administration-denies-climate-change-exists-americans-concerned-664222?yptr=yahoo
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/21/climate/how-americans-think-about-climate-change-in-six-maps.html
http://bangordailynews.com/2017/08/20/news/trump-administration-disbands-federal-advisory-committee-on-climate-change/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope-francis-climate-change-denial-stupid_us_59b6ed8ae4b09be416574f72

Clown Award: Nigel and Sally Rowe
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/31/1694892/-Mark-Levin-just-made-possibly-the-most-hilarious-climate-denial-argument-ever
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/349431-candidate-for-charlotte-mayor-puts-white-among-qualifications
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kimberley-barnette-white-mayor_us_59af342ae4b0b5e53101d60d
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/349623-opinion-sen-rand-paul-pay-for-the-emergency-funds-with
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clinton-says-sanders-did-lasting-damage-in-her-new-book-according-to-report/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4858922/Hillary-s-latest-targets-blame-women-marchers-Lauer.html
http://nypost.com/2017/09/06/cluelessness-thy-name-is-hillary-clinton/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/christian-parents-sue-school-allowed-wear-dress-uniform-transphobia-church-enland-a7938926.html?S2ref=906656

News on voter suppression
http://www.pfaw.org/blog-posts/federal-judge-kobach-repeatedly-misled-court-in-voting-rights-case/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/8/1697032/-It-took-the-Washington-Post-one-hour-to-debunk-Kris-Kobach-s-ridiculous-voter-fraud-claims-in-NH
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/09/08/election-integrity-commission-members-accuse-new-hampshire-voters-of-fraud/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/09/08/election-integrity-commission-members-accuse-new-hampshire-voters-of-fraud/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/8/1697038/-Kris-Kobach-alleges-voter-fraud-in-New-Hampshire-because-he-can-t-read
https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/09/08/right-wing-medias-new-voter-fraud-proof-even-more-asinine-usual/217887
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trump-voter-fraud-panel-to-push-debunked-new-hampshire-claims
http://gizmodo.com/jeff-sessions-was-lobbied-to-exclude-democrats-from-tru-1804006784/amp
https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/907754056139059202
https://twitter.com/dellcam/status/907722857203077121
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/supreme-court-texas-electoral-maps_us_59b8d9a7e4b02da0e13d674b

Good News: Senate committee overturns abortion gag rule
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/07/senate-votes-against-administration-on-anti-abortion-global-gag-rule/
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/22/trumps-mexico-city-policy-or-global-gag-rule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale

Good News: Medicare for All bill introduced
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/12/1698079/-15-Senators-will-introduce-a-Medicare-for-All-bill-tomorrow-Is-your-senator-among-them

Good News: Martin Shkreli in jail
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shkreli/shkreli-ordered-jailed-after-online-bounty-on-hillary-clintons-hair-idUSKCN1BO2T8

Outrages of the Week
http://thehill.com/regulation/healthcare/345411-fight-over-right-to-sue-nursing-homes-heats-up?amp
https://www.aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/lgbt-nondiscrimination-protections/president-trump-and-attorney-general-sessions
https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/charlie-craig-and-david-mullins-v-masterpiece-cakeshop-united-states

What's Left #27

What's Left
for the week of July 7-13, 2017

Sorry for being late with this. I had some "I really, really, really hate computers" days this week, something with which we call can identify.

This week:

Good News: House Appropriations Committee votes to repeal AUMF
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-panel-approves-amendment-that-would-strip-trumps-war-authorization-powers/
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/340066-lawmakers-applaud-after-panel-approves-language-revoking-war-authority
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/340132-republicans-say-war-authorization-amendment-was-out-of-order

Good News: EPA can't delay methane leak rule
http://powersource.post-gazette.com/powersource/policy-powersource/2017/07/04/DC-federal-appeals-court-blocks-Environmental-Protection-Agency-s-effort-to-suspend-Obama-era-methane-pollution-rule/stories/201707040055

Good News: German parliament votes for same-sex marriage
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/30/534970093/german-lawmakers-approve-same-sex-marriage

Not Good News: Texas Supreme Court says states can deny benefits to same-sex couples
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/lgbt/2017/06/30/texas-supreme-court-rules-gay-couples-notguaranteedspousal-benefits
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/06/30/texas-supreme-court-ruling-houston-same-sex-marriage-benefits/

Clown Award: TheRump supporters
https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/07/chris-christie-beach/532536/
http://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-president-donald-trump-health-care-republican-gop-were-all-gonna-die-629883?utm_source=internal&utm_campaign=most_read&utm_medium=most_read1
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-fans-throw-conniption-fit-after-npr-tweets-out-declaration-independence
http://gizmodo.com/trump-supporters-cry-bias-after-npr-tweets-the-declarat-1796633566

Outrage of the Week: war crimes in Yemen

Thoughts prompted by the Fourth

What's Left #26

What's Left
for the week of June 23 to 29, 2017

This week:
The rightwing blames the progressive left for the shooting in Alexandria (as predicted)
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/rush-limbaugh-fake-news-radicalized-scalise/2017/06/15/id/796169/
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/scalise-shooting-puts-focus-lefts-vilification-gop/
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/14/shooting-at-gop-baseball-practice-latest-in-pattern-of-violence-against-republicans/
http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/06/shooting-of-republican-congressmen-was-a-long-time-in-the-making/#more-216817
https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/874994201825386496
https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/875030298479570948
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/09/dying-from-lack-of-insurance/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-deaths-idUSTRE58G6W520090917
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/right-wing-websites-ignoring-calls-unity
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/15/sean-hannity-accuses-democrats-of-dehumanizing-gop-after-alexandria-shooting/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Stone
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448660/alexandria-shooting-political-violence-left-berkeley-middlebury
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/us/politics/bernie-sanders-supporters.html?emc=edit_th_20170615&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=48169905&_r=2&referer=
https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/06/15/right-wing-media-blame-everyone-shakespeare-snoop-dogg-shooting-rep-steve-scalise/216926
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/06/14/conservative-voices-blame-alexandria-shooting-on-democrats-and-the-left/?utm_term=.4e965e9b609d
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/gunman-at-virginia-ballfield-kept-local-storage-locker-with-200-rounds-of-ammunition/2017/06/21/cb96b120-5673-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_na
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/right-wing-media-response-to-virginia-shooter-strongly-underscores-their-white-supremacist-values/
http://time.com/4818506/james-hodgkinson-virginia-shooting-steve-scalise/
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article156228494.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/opinions/leftist-terrorism-bergen-sterman-opinion/
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/jane-sanders-to-wolf-blitzer-cnn-helped-elect-trump-and-fans-
the-flames-of-vicious-rhetoric/
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/new-york-times-shamefully-smears-bernie-sanders-its-latest-lurch-right
http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/politics/king-don-blame-sanders-congressional-baseball-shooting-article-1.3247576
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2017/02/113-rules.html
http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/04/26/ted-nugent-debate-free-speech-hate-speech/100841132/
https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2017/06/16/ted-nugent-hate-speech-rhetoric-political-gop-republican/22362622/
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/06/15/conservatives-need-cut-bullshit-and-stop-exploiting-tragedy-blame-left/216931
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/128896/beat-protester-trumps-rally-hell-cover-legal-fees
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/domestic-terrorism-age-trump
https://thinkprogress.org/hate-crimes-portland-washington-california-trump-576cb739ef56
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-teen-slain-virginia-mosque-20170618-story.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-sets-fire-memorial-slain-virginia-teen-nabra-hassanen-article-1.3266085\

[Note: There are additional citations above that were not in the broadcast version due to time constraints.]

Another black man dead, another cop free
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2016/11/37-cop-who-killed-philando-castile-is.html
http://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_second_degree_manslaughter
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=609.205
http://fusion.kinja.com/philando-castile-killer-jeronimo-yanez-found-not-guilty-1796131849
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-dashcam-footage-shows-philando-castile-warning-officer-of-his-firearm_us_59498027e4b0177d0b8a1c97
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/officer-castile-relaxed-and-calm-at-traffic-stop
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/study-shows-racial-bias-shootings/
http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/education/university-of-iowa/2016/02/10/iowa-study-racial-bias-black-children/80021754/
http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/05/27/new-study-sheds-light-black-males-feared/
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/02/just-wondering.html
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/personal-finance/10-most-dangerous-jobs-us-1.aspx
http://www.cbsnews.com/media/10-of-the-most-dangerous-jobs/11/

Summer is here

What's Left #25

What's Left
for the week of June 16-22, 2017

This week:

Good News: 9th Circuit upholds block of travel ban
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/06/12/second-us-appeals-court-rules-against-trumps-revised-travel-ban/22137999/
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/337535-trump-9th-circuit-did-it-again
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/16/trump-travel-ban-targeting-muslim-countries/99244568/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ninth-circuit-cites-trump-tweet-opinion-blocking-travel-ban-204319906.html

Good News: DC District judge rules against DAPL
http://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/DAPL-order.pdf
http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2017/in-victory-for-standing-rock-sioux-tribe-court-finds-that-approval-of-dakota-access-pipeline-violated-the-law

Everything You Need To Know: about how right-wingers view the US role in the world
http://www.newsmax.com/PatrickBuchanan/islam-terror-extremism-manchester/2017/06/05/id/794323/

What's wrong with Section 702 of FISA
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2017/06/244-not-good-news-congressional.html
https://www.justsecurity.org/41811/good-reasons-concerned-impact-section-702-criminal-justice-system/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805

For the Record: a variety of short items
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/donald-trump-cabinet-meeting/index.html
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/06/12/president-donald-trump-cabinet-bizarre-jake-tapper-media-white-house/22138230/
https://twitter.com/juliehdavis/status/874297244152979456
http://theweek.com/speedreads/705180/president-trumps-first-cabinet-meeting-extraordinarily-bizarre
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-cops-kill-3-unarmed-teens-month-1-sees-coverage-article-1.3210259?cid=bitly
http://www.killedbypolice.net/
http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-nursing-home-arbitration-20170613-story.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2016/01/2358-outrage-of-week-forced-arbitration.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2016/11/31-good-news-pushback-against-forced.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2017/04/185-outrage-of-week-militarism.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2017/05/227-outrage-of-week-militarism-as.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-troops-idUSKBN19431H?feedType=RSS&feedName=newsOne&google_editors_picks=true
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/06/14/ranking-gop-rep-steve-scalise-among-wounded-shooting-congressional-baseball-practice/22192298/
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/politics/alexandria-virginia-shooting/index.html
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/06/14/the-suspected-congressional-baseball-practice-shooter-was-a-fier/22223408/
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/06/14/michigan-official-charged-for-his-role-in-flint-water-crisis/22199274/
http://time.com/4634937/flint-water-crisis-criminal-charges-bottled-water/
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/poll-chris-christie-lowest-approval/2017/06/14/id/796041/

Clown Award: Dana Rohrabacher
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/06/13/lawmaker-promotes-anti-abortion-bill-by-slaughtering-chicken/22140241/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-tehran-multiple-killed-wounded-in-parliament-khomeini-shrine-attacks/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-security-funeral-idUSKBN1900SI
https://thinkprogress.org/republican-congressman-calls-isis-attack-in-tehran-a-good-thing-says-maybe-we-should-back-isis-a7e9382dbe1b

Outrage of the Week: "gay panic" still a legal defense in 48 states
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/being-freaked-out-by-gay-and-trans-people-is-still-a-legal-murder-defense-in-48-states
http://lgbtbar.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/02/Gay-and-Trans-Panic-Defenses-Resolution.pdf

What's Left #24

What's Left
for the week of June 8 to 14, 2017

This week:
Good News: Supreme Court supports right of third-party repair
https://www.wired.com/2017/06/impression-v-lexmark/?google_editors_picks=true
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1189_ebfj.pdf
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/right-to-repair-laws/

Potential Good News: Supreme Court will review a case of cell phone tracking
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/supreme-court-will-hear-significant-cell-phone-tracking-case
https://www.eff.org/document/united-states-v-carpenter-sixth-circuit-court-appeals-csli
http://fortune.com/video/2017/06/05/supreme-court-data-privacy-case/?xid=gn_editorspicks&google_editors_picks=true

Footnote: Supreme Court might reconsider "third party doctrine"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/graham-enbanc
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/third-party-records-privacy-doesnt-require-secrecy

Not Good News: Congressional reactionaries want to make Section 702 of FISA permanent
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/05/2036-traitor-act-provisions-up-for.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/way-nsa-uses-section-702-deeply-troubling-heres-why

News on Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2010/12/they-say-that-information-wants-to-be.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2010/12/once-more-into-leak.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/20/politics/julian-assange-wikileaks-us-charges/index.html
https://theintercept.com/2017/04/14/trumps-cia-director-pompeo-targeting-wikileaks-explicitly-threatens-speech-and-press-freedoms/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-14/wikileaks-issues-response-cia-director-mike-pompeo
http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/hypocrite-cia-director-who-delighted-in-wikileaks-dnc-release-threatens-julian-assange/
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/24/politics/kfile-mike-pompeo-wikileaks/index.html

Update on voter ID laws
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2017/06/233-good-news-north-carolina-voter.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article154384454.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/5/1668987/-Massive-win-Supreme-Court-strikes-down-North-Carolina-s-GOP-drawn-maps-for-racial-gerrymandering
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article151912142.html

Ya Gotta Laugh: TheRump "vindicated" by Comey
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/06/07/trump-says-he-feels-completely-and-totally-vindicated-after-co/22131560/
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/trump-expected-loyalty-sacked-fbi-boss/news-story/db911fdb61b6bad91401e808f2fcc510

Clown Award: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/20/what-is-fueling-fake-hate-crimes-across-u-s.html
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-model-society
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2017/05/209-clown-award-mick-mulvaney.html

Outrage of the Week: TheRump quits Paris Accord
https://weather.com/news/climate/news/paris-climate-agreement-fact-check
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/americans-oppose-climate-pact-pullout-plurality-rejects-economic/story?id=47847725
https://weather.com/science/environment/news/mayors-governors-denounce-trump-climate-accord-decision
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/01/climate-alliance-washington-california-new-york-239038

What's Left #23

What's Left
for the week of June 1 to 7, 2017

This week:
Killer cop Timothy Loehmann fired
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/30/cleveland-policeman-who-fatally-shot-tamir-rice-is-fired/22117609/

Good News: NJ Town must pay penalty mosque for wrongful denial of permit
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/town-that-denied-mosque-permit-to-pay-islamic-group-dollar325m/ar-BBBGjOW

Good News: North Carolina voter suppression blocked by SCOTUS
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/11/study-voter-id-laws-may-have-blocked-200-000-voters-in-one-stat/22082266/
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/15/supreme-court-rejects-bid-to-revive-north-carolina-voter-id-law/22087422/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/us/federal%2Dappeals%2Dcourt%2Dstrikes%2Ddown%2Dnorth%2Dcarolina%2Dvoter%2Did%2Dprovision.html?_r=0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/inside-the-republican-creation-of-the-north-carolina-voting-bill-dubbed-the-monster-law/2016/09/01/79162398-6adf-11e6-8225-fbb8a6fc65bc_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.3a108b4e3349
https://ivn.us/2017/05/29/nonpartisan-coalition-celebrates-huge-victory-voters-in-illinois/
https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/automatic-voter-registration

Good News: Successful suit by transgender boy against school could have wider application
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/31/federal-appeals-court-rules-in-favor-of-transgender-students-ri/22119271/
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wisconsin/articles/2017-05-30/transgender-student-at-wisconsin-high-school-wins-appeal?utm_source=AOL&utm_medium=readMore&utm_campaign=partner
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/5/30/15714642/seventh-circuit-transgender-school-bathroom-ash-whitaker
http://www.gallup.com/poll/210566/support-gay-marriage-edges-new-high.aspx?
http://www.gallup.com/file/poll/210683/170515SameSexMarriage.pdf
http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/document/ihowxjstz7/tabs_HP_transgender_20150220.pdf
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/americans-oppose-bathroom-laws-limiting-transgender-rights-poll-n731826
https://www.prri.org/research/lgbt-transgender-bathroom-discrimination-religious-liberty/
http://fusion.kinja.com/alabama-is-about-to-make-it-legal-for-adoption-agencies-1794676920?utm_source=fusion_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017-04-26

Single-payer health plans advancing on state level
https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/divhts7l9t/econTabReport.pdf
https://morningconsult.com/2017/04/12/plurality-voters-back-single-payer-health-care-system/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/27/time-golden-and-now-single-payer-bill-advances-california
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-single-payer-20170526-story.html
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/16/single-payer-success-ny-medicare-all-bill-passes-state-assembly
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/26/face-trumpcare-abomination-new-jersey-latest-state-join-single-payer-push
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/676

Anti-vaxxers convince Somali immigrants in Minnesota to avoid vaccines; biggest measles outbreak in decades follows
http://fusion.kinja.com/minnesota-faces-worst-measles-outbreak-in-decades-after-1794959556

Good News/Not Good News: Belief in creationism down; genuine belief in evolution still low
http://www.gallup.com/poll/210956/belief-creationist-view-humans-new-low.aspx

Clown Award: Rep. Tim Walberg
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-carson-poverty-state-mind
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/how-trump-aides-get-him-to-read-his-national-security-briefing-materials
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/urinating-sketchy-dog-statue-appears-next-fearless-girl-n766071
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tim-walberg-climate-change-god

Outrage of the Week: Even undocumented immigrants who try to become legal are being deported
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/30/he-met-federal-agents-discuss-path-citizenship-they-arrested-him-instead/354928001/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/04/19/trump-increases-deportations-former-dreamers/100609524/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/04/21/trump-wants-expand-deportations-but-report-finds-ice-already-falling-behind/100772676/

Only 36% could find North Korea on a map of Asia
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/14/upshot/if-americans-can-find-north-korea-on-a-map-theyre-more-likely-to-prefer-diplomacy.html?_r=2
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/15/study-majority-of-americans-cant-identify-north-korea-on-a-map/22088114/
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/17/seattle-prepares-nuclear-attack-north-korea/22096104/
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/02/goody-goody.html

Everything You Need to Know: What Donald TheRump thinks about power in four sentences
http://fusion.kinja.com/trump-congratulated-philippines-president-duterte-on-mu-1795500175
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article153222754.html

What's Left #22

What's Left
for the week of May 18-24, 2017

This week:

Good News: Chelsea Manning is out of prison
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/politics/chelsea-manning-release/index.html?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/chelsea-manning-is-expected-to-leave-prison-28-years-early.html?_r=0
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chelsea-manning-set-be-released-prison-still-not-free-n759676
https://www.luminairity.com/chelsea-release-statement/

From atheist Virginians to xenophobe GOPpers
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/16/atheist-paints-bible-verse-about-women-on-his-truck-to-encourage/22094262/
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/13/15258496/american-atheists-how-many
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/13/trump-mocked-after-mistakenly-tweeting-only-the-word-we/22084964/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheistic_religion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_deities
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/nyc-school-boots-federal-agents-seeking-child-due-no-warrant-article-1.3163244
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/07/texas-governor-signs-into-law-bill-to-punish-sanctuary-cities/22074471/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/opinion/sunday/why-is-this-hate-different-from-all-other-hate.html?_r=0
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/us/justice-department-jeff-sessions-baltimore-police.html?google_editors_picks=true&_r=0

Returning to the bad old days of the drug wars
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/attorney-general-sessions-orders-tougher-drug-crime-prosecutions-n758111
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/just-say-no-ag-sessions-cites-old-school-anti-drug-n733961
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trump-admin-to-effectively-kill-office-fighting-opioid-epidemic-w481648
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/congress-ties-jeff-sessions-hands-on-medical-marijuana-w480509

Donald TheRump is incompetent
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.887a69f28a58&wpisrc=nl_p1most-partner-1&wpmm=1
http://nypost.com/2017/05/16/israel-was-source-of-classified-intel-trump-gave-to-russians/
http://fusion.kinja.com/white-house-aides-actual-defense-of-trumps-russia-leak-1795268625
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/16/some-trump-staffers-are-reportedly-afraid-to-leave-trump-alone-i/22094187/

Clown Award: Hillary Clinton
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/15/hillary-clinton-launches-new-political-group-supporting-trump-r/22089323/

Why you are not getting a raise
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/09/youre-not-getting-a-raise-and-nobody-knows-why/?utm_term=.f226e387b9eb&wpisrc=nl_p1most-partner-1&wpmm=1
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/04/04/payless-has-filed-for-bankruptcy-and-will-immediately-close-400/22025961/
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_sick_brutality_and_secret_history_of_ruthlessly_intimidating_workers/
http://www.povertyusa.org/the-state-of-poverty/poverty-facts/
http://www.alternet.org/economy/black-low-wage-workers-work-longest-hours
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/04/26/counties-where-the-american-dream-is-dead/?utm_source=AOL&utm_medium=CPC&utm_content=counties-where-the-american-dream-is-dead&utm_campaign=AOL

Outrage of the Week: militarism as national policy
https://cpc-grijalva.house.gov/the-peoples-budget-a-roadmap-for-the-resistance-fy-2018/
https://cpc-grijalva.house.gov/the-peoples-budget-a-roadmap-for-the-resistance-fy-2018/the-peoples-budget-in-the-news/
https://cpc-grijalva.house.gov/uploads/FINAL%20FY18%20FULL%20CPC%20BUDGET%20DOCUMENT.pdf
https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-military-budget-components-challenges-growth-3306320
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2017/04/185-outrage-of-week-militarism.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/03/15/u-s-military-probably-sending-as-many-as-1000-more-ground-troops-into-syria-ahead-of-raqqa-offensive-officials-say/?utm_term=.534ca0f18181
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/09/white-house-approves-arms-syrian-kurds-us-official/22078075/
https://www.local10.com/news/politics/flynn-rejected-obamas-offer-to-arm-syrian-kurds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-poised-to-expand-military-effort-against-taliban-in-afghanistan/2017/05/08/356c4930-33fa-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html

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

What's Left #20

What's Left
for the week of May 4 to 10, 2017

This week:

Good News: cities can sue banks for housing discrimination
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/supreme-court-housing-discrimination-miami_us_590745cde4b0bb2d086fba0b?mvfj&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

Good News: Kim Davis can be sued for damages
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kim-davis-appeals-court_us_59090488e4b0bb2d0872eb1e?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/17a0098p-06.pdf

Footnote: Enzi gets tutu'ed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wyoming-senator-homophobia_us_59076bffe4b0bb2d08700799

Mass marches in April
https://thinkprogress.org/thousands-march-calling-for-trump-tax-returns-2c1a7ca275e4
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nationwide-tax-marches-donald-trump_us_58f22c49e4b0b9e9848c5bb4
https://taxmarch.org/local-marches/
http://fortune.com/2017/04/22/march-for-science-photos/
https://www.marchforscience.com/satellite-marches/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/thousands-across-the-us-march-for-science-in-defiance-of-trump_us_58fb5a62e4b018a9ce5bb1e2
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/march-science-demonstrators-say-they-re-real-patriots-n749686
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/To-oppose-budget-cuts-scientists-take-to-Center-City-streets.html
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-science-march-20170422-story.html
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/seattle-march-for-science-draws-thousands-on-earth-day-including-a-nobel-prize-winner/
http://fox40.com/2017/04/22/march-for-science-worldwide-protests-begin-to-support-evidence/
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/science/article/The-Latest-March-for-Science-attracts-thousands-11091330.php
https://350.org/press-release/peoples-climate-march-a-huge-success-200000-march-in-d-c-for-climate-jobs-and-justice/
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-climate-march-20170429-story,amp.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-marches-today-were-huge-180918958.html
https://peoplesclimate.org/
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/trending-now/climate-protesters-march-to-edge-of-donald-trumps-maralago/517660955
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/front-range/denver/peoples-climate-march-snowy-weather-didnt-stop-hundreds-from-protesting-in-denver
http://cornellsun.com/2017/04/30/cornellians-protest-in-climate-march-in-ithaca-and-d-c/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/04/29/marchers-use-trumps-100th-day-protest-climate-policies/101070064/?platform=hootsuite

The little Thing: "Russian Wikileaks"
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/02/hillary-clinton-blames-james-comey-russian-involvement-for-2016-election-loss/22065769/

Outrage of the Week: "stealthing"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/inside-the-online-community-of-men-who-preach-removing-condoms-without-consent_us_58f75eb2e4b05b9d613eb997
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2954726
http://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2017/04/24/men-removing-condoms-during-sex-in-disturbing-online-trend-stealthing.html

Everything You Need to Know: Teresa Manning
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teresa-manning-contraception-hhs_us_5907582ae4b05c397680d921

For the Record: Desiree Fairooz convicted of laughing
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-laughter_us_5908c55ee4b0bb2d08726a91?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/laughing-congressional-hearing-jeff-sessions-code-pink_us_59076a93e4b05c3976810a3a?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/code-pink-sessions-laughter-trial.html?_r=0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-racist-remarks_us_582cd73ae4b099512f80c0c2?cn5id4ygk5rf9lik9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB-BBVQLnxI

Clown Award: Mick Mulvaney
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mark-green-second-amendment_us_59077af8e4b02655f83f0ff6
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/2/1658245/-Trump-budget-director-bypasses-reality-gives-press-the-hard-sell-on-WH-wins-We-are-competent#read-more

Foreign policy and North Korea
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04/28/north-koreas-army-1-2m-men-obsolete-equipment-and-nukes.html
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/01/japan-breaks-from-military-tradition-to-protect-american-ship/22063664/
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/03/north-korea-media-china-nuclear-action-grave-consequences/22067632/
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/19/asia/china-coal-north-korea-ban/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-north-korea-sanctions-20170504-story.html

What's Left #19

What's Left
for the weeks of April 20 - May 6, 2017

This week:
The roots and the struggle
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pence-warns-north-korea-donald-trump-s-resolve-nuclear-standoff-n747211
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/19/homeland-security-chief-to-critics-shut-up/22046351/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/us/justice-department-jeff-sessions-baltimore-police.html
http://www.alternet.org/trump-state-department-authorizes-womens-suffering-and-deaths
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/04/04/president-trump-rolls-back-workplace-protections-for-women/22025916/
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2017/01/97-footnote-russian-hacking.html
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/19/putin-linked-think-tank-drew-up-plan-sway-2016-us-election/22046685/

Re-introducing myself on our 6th anniversary