He and other climate crisis-denying policymakers have benefited from a well-coordinated network of industry front groups, conservative think tanks and law firms bent on blocking the Clean Power Plan. A good chunk of the funding for this cabal comes from some of the country’s largest electrical utilities companies.

It seems like the heat of a sexual assault suit was just too much to handle for the Fox News crew and Roger Ailes is being given the boot as a result!

The news broke Monday afternoon as the rumors were confirmed that Fox News owners the Murdoch family intends to cut ties with Fox CEO and president Roger Ailes.

This information is coming from two anonymous sources with intimate knowledge of the sexual assault case who say that the Murdochs have all agreed that Ailes needs to go. Apparently the family is waiting until the GOP convention has concluded to make the major change-up.

Before you go thinking that the Murdoch family is a group of saints for cutting out Ailes over his sexual assault case, know that Carlson’s case against the man only began a deeper investigation into his management style – apparently that close look turned up a whole host of skeletons in Ailes’ closet.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has proven to be one of the most adept attack dogs against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Now the progressive senator is training her considerable fire on Trump’s newly revealed vice-presidential pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R).

The sweeping abortion bill that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law in March gained national attention for prohibiting women from electing to have an abortion due to the race, gender, or disability of the fetus. But the bill contained another unusual provision: It required that aborted fetuses receive what amounts to a funeral.

Pence, whom Donald Trump announced as his vice presidential running mate on Friday, signed the law that made Indiana the second state ever, after North Dakota, to pass a ban on abortions carried out for certain reasons. The law also imposed liability for wrongful death on doctors that perform an abortion motivated by one of the prohibited reasons. And, as Mother Jones reported in March, the law also required that health care facilities inter or cremate the remains of an aborted fetus, and prohibited fetal tissue donation.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/trumps-vp-pick-passed-law-requiring-funerals-aborted-fetuses

TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS ANSWERING PHONES! Just spoke with Trevor and advised him to let Pence know about my vagina and he hung up on me. I just kept talking about my vagina until he hung up.

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Is Back And Is Giving Trump The Smackdown Once Again!

In an election cycle rife with horror and heartbreak, we have to find happiness in the strangest of places, like former Mexican president Vicente Fox.

Fox made headlines earlier this year when he pushed back on Donald Trump’s infamous wall talking-point by declaring that there was no way Mexico would be paying for that “f*cking wall.” Fox said this on live television, by the way.

“It’s incredible that this guy with the crazy hair could be sitting in that chair. And, I mean, talking about building a wall. The wall is built already and Americans paid for it. It has served no purpose at all.

http://trofire.com/2016/07/13/former-mexican-president-vicente-fox-back-giving-trump-smackdown/

Taos County considers herbicide ban

TAOS — Taos County commissioners discussed a possible ban on herbicides and pesticides last week, citing residents’ complaints about health problems tied to the chemicals.

“The time has come to address this,” said Commissioner Gabe Romero.

When he worked at a local retailer that sold such chemicals some 15 years ago, Romero said, some of the products were so powerful that they were cordoned off in a special area with extra ventilation. “People would buy it by the ton and the gallon,” he said, and then they’d come back complaining of headaches, children getting hives and pets dying. Those chemicals, he said, would “haunt the owner of the store and the employees.”

The commission’s discussion centered on glyphosate, the main active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup and other herbicides. A Taos County ban on the chemical would not be without precedence. Several municipalities in the U.S. have banned glyphosate, most notably Montgomery County, Md., with a population that tops 1 million.

Medicare saved $165 million in states with medical cannabis, study says

(Reuters Health) - Physicians wrote significantly fewer prescriptions for painkillers and other medications for elderly and disabled patients who had legal access to medical marijuana, a new study finds.

In fact, Medicare saved more than $165 million in 2013 on prescription drugs in the District of Columbia and 17 states that allowed cannabis to be used as medicine, researchers calculated. If every state in the nation legalized medical marijuana, the study forecast that the federal program would save more than $468 million a year on pharmaceuticals for disabled Americans and those 65 and older.

No health insurance, including Medicare, will reimburse for the cost of marijuana. Although medical cannabis is legal today in 25 states and the District of Columbia, federal law continues to prohibit its prescription in all circumstances.

“ ‘You shouldn’t have taken it down,’ ” Mr. Trump recalled telling one of his campaign workers. “I said, ‘Too bad, you should have left it up.’ I would have rather defended it.”

“That’s just a star,” Mr. Trump said repeatedly.

It was a striking display of self-sabotage from a presumptive presidential nominee and underscored the limitations of Mr. Trump’s scattershot approach during the Republican primaries — not to mention how difficult he often makes it for his campaign team to control him.
Mr. Trump called the news media “dishonest” in the rambling and sometimes manic-sounding address, in which he hopscotched from one topic to another.