War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration found at National Geographic). A new climate report that’s more than a little ominous — the Guardian this afternoon: Tropical forests are taking up less carbon dioxide from the air, reducing their ability to act as “carbon sinks” and bringing closer the prospect of accelerating climate breakdown. The Amazon could turn into a source…
A most-sickeningly illustration with the tweet below, makes me miserable to my bowels and is atrociously-creepy (h/t tengrain). Cutline for the above photo (found here): ‘African American supporters lay their hands on U.S. President Donald Trump as they pray for him at the conclusion of a news conference and meeting in the Cabinet Room at…
Health issues continue to dominate as a second victim of the coronavirus’ dreaded ‘community spread’ route of the pathogen’s expansion, where cases have no known origin, has been discovered here in California. First case reported on Wednesday came from Vacaville in Solano County, the second noted today reportedly lived 90 miles away. Neither have traveled…
Already friendly fire: Rasmussen is the T-Rump’s most-beloved pollster — Raw Story: Rasmussen Reports, the GOP-friendly pollster frequently cited by President Donald Trump, is showing that the president’s approval rating fell by five points just one day after his widely panned press conference outlining his response to the coronavirus crisis. According to its latest poll,…
The US along with the whole-wide world are in a particular cruel position right now, as the supposed leader of the free world an unhinged, ignorant asshole without a moral sense of action. And so the toady-incompetent liars who work for him: Story via Raw Story this afternoon: Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trump’s top economic…
A major environmental report largely ignored — methane is an air bitch: from ScienceAlert yesterday on a new study published in Nature: Methane is an ‘invisible climate menace’ — roughly 30 times more potent as a heat-trapper than carbon dioxide — and while some of this atmospheric gas is produced naturally, new research indicates humans are…
This country is up shit creek without a paddle — a group of federal judges had set an emergency meeting for today on matters that “could not wait,” but now have decided to wait after the T-Rump tweeted this yesterday (h/t Raw Story): So, this afternoon CNN filed this: A group of federal judges hastily…
One day to the next, the T-Rump flies further off the corruption rails, not content with nasty meddling in court cases, now he’s just eliminating the justice part of the system and pardoning the already convicted. However, there’s a bright light — Maxine Waters responded to the T-Rump’s antics today, tweeting ugly reality in the…
In just a few days an obvious fracture in America’s supposed-rock of liberty: (Illustration found here). Brooklyn-based artist Tim O’Brien. who created the above image for a Time cover in June 2018: ‘“This portrait of Trump gazing into a mirror and seeing a king gets to the heart of how he and his legal team…
Start another dumb celebration off right (h/t Miss Cellania): Just another Friday news-dump day… (Illustration found here).
