What's Left #10

What's Left
for the week of January 19-25, 2017

This week:

Good News: sentence of Chelsea Manning commuted
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-manning-idUSKBN15130B
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning

Footnote: on the legalities
http://lifehacker.com/how-presidential-commutations-and-pardons-work-1791306461

Clown Award: Reince Priebus
http://fair.org/home/wapo-organ-of-extreme-center-calls-mlk-true-conservative/
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/riot-language-unheard-9-mlk-quotes-mainstream-media-wont-cite
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/15/1620765/-Republicans-in-lather-over-question-of-Trump-s-legitimacy-want-wait-for-it-Obama-to-step-up
http://www.wbrc.com/story/34264012/the-latest-obama-wants-to-stop-future-election-interference?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Politics
http://swampland.time.com/2012/08/23/the-party-of-no-new-details-on-the-gop-plot-to-obstruct-obama/
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/donald-trump-birther-obama-119945

Outrage of the Week: Dems choose Big Pharma over consumers
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/12/big-pharma-backed-dems-join-gop-block-sanders-effort-end-drug-price-gouging
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/-booker-and-the-other-big_b_14150632.html
http://www.drugguide.com/ddo/view/Davis-Drug-Guide/109517/all/Canadian_and_U_S__Pharmaceutical_Practices
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-congress-stop-21st-century-cures-act/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/12/13/obama-paying-tribute-to-biden-and-bipartisanship-signs-21st-century-cures-act-tuesday/?utm_term=.57db35b48c3c
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-21st-century-20161205-story.html
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/grab-bag-goodies-21st-century-cures-act

Protests continue and grow
https://pen.org/
http://www.pen-international.org/our-history/
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/our-democracy-risk-writers-resist-martin-luther-king-jr-day-n707316
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/0116/Days-before-Trump-inauguration-writers-gather-to-celebrate-the-power-of-language
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/15/nationwide-rallies-are-ourfirststand-against-gop-assault-healthcare
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-protest-defense-obamacare_us_587bd3e9e4b09281d0eb741d
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-bernie-sanders-michigan-healthcare-rally-20170115-story.html
https://www.bustle.com/p/these-our-first-stand-protest-photos-show-thousands-of-americans-fighting-for-their-lives-30602
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/15/thousands-protest-health-care-repeal-faneuil-hall/CMBwr3f8vGpp7gTsyi7lCM/story.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-goldman-sachs-protest-idUSKBN15202G
http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/04/technology/loveathon-facebook-live/index.html
https://www.womensmarch.com/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2017/01/12/200-buses-have-applied-for-city-parking-on-inauguration-day-1200-have-applied-for-the-womens-march/?utm_term=.79a444756015
https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/three-times-as-many-bus-permits-have-been-issued-for-the-wom?bftwnews&utm_term=.qyM92Z92N#.prEz0Mz0R
https://www.womensmarch.com/
http://gofossilfree.org/resist-reject-denial/?akid=19322.1038033.pVwONq&rd=1&t=1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit

Climate change: 2016 hottest year on record
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-just-had-2nd-warmest-231445894.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-07/record-breaking-temperatures-will-be-new-normal-by-2030/8001720
http://wwlp.com/2017/01/09/u-s-had-near-record-heat-costly-weather-disasters-in-2016/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/17/the-north-pole-is-an-insane-36-degrees-warmer-than-normal-as-winter-descends/?utm_term=.affd41459fa9
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/science/global-warming-alters-arctic-food-chain.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/tufted-puffins-die-off-bering-sea-alaska-starvation-warm-water-climate-change/
http://krqe.com/2016/11/29/great-barrier-reef-sees-record-coral-deaths-this-year/
http://www.livescience.com/57016-west-antarctic-ice-shelf-melting-inside.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/not-even-trump-can-easily-reverse-our-progress-on-climate-change/2017/01/16/3d719356-dc25-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/23/1603345/-Trump-to-scrap-all-NASA-climate-research
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-fools-the-new-york-times-on-climate-change-180323fa5980#.tinsiugbo
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-09/trump-team-s-memo-hints-at-broad-shake-up-of-u-s-energy-policy

And Another Thing: total solar eclipse, August 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017