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Rhiannon12866's JournalThe Daily Social Distancing Show - Donald Trump: Cashing in on the Presidency
Did Trump run for president just to make money? Maybe. Did he realize that becoming President could make him even more money than he imagined? Definitely. Here’s a look at how Trump cashed in on the presidency.
The Daily Social Distancing Show: How QAnon Is Taking Over The GOP
Are Trump’s typos secret messages? Are Hillary Clinton, Tom Hanks, and Oprah eating children to live longer? Here’s what you need to know about QAnon.
Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - Future Headlines: Winter 2020 Edition (Bonus Segment)
Bill reports on all the news that has yet to occur.
A destructive legacy: Trump bids for final hack at environmental protections
Administration finishing off regulatory moves to lock in drilling, loosen wildlife protections and roll back pollution standardsDonald Trump is using the dying embers of his US presidency to hastily push through a procession of environmental protection rollbacks that critics claim will cement his legacy as an unusually destructive force against the natural world.
Trump has yet to acknowledge his election loss to president-elect Joe Biden but his administration has been busily finishing off a cavalcade of regulatory moves to lock in more oil and gas drilling, loosened protections for wildlife and lax air pollution standards before the Democrat enters the White House on 20 January.
Trump’s interior department is hastily auctioning off drilling rights to America’s last large untouched wilderness, the sprawling Arctic National Wildlife Refuge found in the tundra of northern Alaska. The refuge, home to polar bears, caribou and 200 species of birds, has been off limits to fossil fuel companies for decades but the Trump administration is keen to give out leases to extract the billions of barrels of oil believed to be in the area’s coastal region.
The leases could result in the release of vast quantities of carbon emissions as well as upend the long-held lifestyle of the local Gwich’in tribe, which depends upon the migratory caribou for sustenance. Several major banks, fiercely lobbied by the Gwich’in and conservationists, have refused to finance drilling in the refuge but industry groups have expressed optimism that the area will be carved open.
Much more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/21/trump-environmental-protections-rollback-climate-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw
An airplane flies over caribou on the coastal plain of the Arctic national wildlife refuge in north-east Alaska. Photograph: US Fish and Wildlife Service/AP
What Biden's agenda on the environment could mean for the Pacific Northwest
From reintroduction of the grizzly bear to its wild North Cascades redoubt to attacking climate change, a wide range of environmental policies could see a new direction in the Pacific Northwest under a Biden administration.
For starters, government and nonprofit policy leaders say they are looking forward to a return to science as a basis for environmental policymaking. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than on climate warming.
Gov. Jay Inslee has championed Washington climate and energy policies sharply at odds with a president who dismissed the threats posed by greenhouse gas emissions in a warming world.
Inslee now has a powerful ally in President-elect Joe Biden. Biden’s campaign platform calls for dramatically stepping up a U.S. transition away from fossil fuels to set the nation on a path to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury, which means that whatever carbon pollution is emitted into the atmosphere is offset by other measures. And, since the election, there has been speculation that Inslee will be asked to join the new Democratic administration to help Biden pull off this dramatic course correction in climate policy.
Much more: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/what-bidens-agenda-on-the-environment-could-mean-for-the-pacific-northwest/
Gray wolves could regain federal protection under a Biden administration. Wolves remain protected in Washington as a state-designated endangered species. This wolf is fitted with a radio collar and was photographed in the Teanaway area of Washington’s Central Cascades in Washington state. (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP)
Ali Velshi on President Trump's Real Legacy - MSNBC
President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election are predictable and will achieve nothing but the erosion of our democracy. That will be Trump’s real legacy. He will do damage, but he won’t succeed.
Judge Dismisses Trump's Pennsylvania Election Lawsuit - MSNBC
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's campaign in Pennsylvania, saying it contained "strained legal argument without merit."
Our People Deserve A Vibrant Democracy - Sen. Bernie Sanders
We must do everything possible to make me sure we become a vibrant democracy, and that means doing the exact opposite of what Trump and his authoritarian friends want to do.
The Daily Social Distancing Show: This Week's Coronavirus Updates - Week of 11/16/2020
States across the country roll out new COVID restrictions while Trump’s admin recommends you go see your elderly grandparents because this may be “their final Thanksgiving.”
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The Daily Social Distancing Show: What the Hell Happened This Week? - Week Of 11/16/2020
What the hell happened this week? Trump un-concedes, loses legal battles in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and sells America off for parts.
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