2020 State of the Union
Nancy Pelosi:Trump was “Impeached for Life” on Dec. 18, 2019 #IMPOTUS #TraitorMitch #RiggedTrial #GOPCoverUp #UkraineCoverUp #UkraineGate
Source: twitter.com
People and animals all over the world rely on forests. They protect us from climate change by absorbing carbon we put in the air by burning fossil fuels. Politicians need to protect our forests - no more rampant deforestation and no more fossil fuels. #SaveTheAmazon
— Greenpeace Aus Pac @GreenpeaceAP
Source: twitter.com
#mass extinction#amazonia#amazon fires#brazil#jair bolsonaro#deforestation#forest fire#wildfires#russia#siberia#indonesia#indonesia fires#sumatra#russia fires#save the amazon#save the earth#save the planet#climate change#climate action#worst of 2019#extreme temperatures#2019 heatwave#global heatwave#co2 emmission#fossil fuels#fossil fuel industry#fossil fuels lobby#stop jair bolsonaro
Reality check: Not everything revolves around the endless reports of Trump — Republican atrocities.
On Thursday, July 25, an asteroid dubbed “Asteroid 2019 OK” passed within 45,000 miles of the Earth — the moon is 238,856 miles away! 2019 OK was not spotted because it came from the direction of the Sun and travelling faster than most asteroids.
This asteroid wasn’t one that scientists had long been tracking, and it had seemingly appeared from “out of nowhere,” Michael Brown, a Melbourne-based observational astronomer, told The Washington Post.
According to data from NASA, the craggy rock was large, an estimated 57 to 130 meters wide (187 to 427 feet), and moving fast along a path that brought it within about 73,000 kilometers (45,000 miles) of Earth. That’s less than one-fifth of the distance to the moon and what Duffy considers “uncomfortably close.”
As it approached Earth, the asteroid was traveling at about 24 kilometers per second, he said, or nearly 54,000 mph. By contrast, other recent asteroids that flew by Earth clocked in between 4 and 19 kilometers per second (8,900 to 42,500 mph).
“People are only sort of realizing what happened pretty much after it’s already flung past us.”
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Global energy experts released grim findings Monday, saying that not only are planet-warming carbon-dioxide emissions still increasing, but the world’s growing thirst for energy has led to higher emissions from coal-fired power plants than ever before.
Energy demand around the world grew by 2.3 percent over the past year, marking the most rapid increase in a decade, according to the report from the International Energy Agency. To meet that demand, largely fueled by a booming economy, countries turned to an array of sources, including renewables.
But nothing filled the void quite like fossil fuels, which satisfied nearly 70 percent of the skyrocketing electricity demand, according to the agency, which analyzes energy trends on behalf of 30 member countries, including the United States.
In particular, a fleet of relatively young coal plants located in Asia, with decades to go on their lifetimes, led the way toward a record for emissions from coal fired power plants — exceeding 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide “for the first time,” the agency said. In Asia, “average plants are only 12 years old, decades younger than their average economic lifetime of around 40 years,” the agency found.
Companies and governments don’t care! #Strike4Climate
“The growth in fossils is still greater than all the increases in renewables,”
“What’s discouraging is that emissions in the U.S. and Europe are going up, too. Someone has to decrease their emissions significantly for us to have any hope of meeting the Paris commitments.”
— Rob Jackson, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford University
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Trump does not relay (or Tweet) NZ Prime Minister’s Wish for– Sympathy and Love of Muslim Communities in America
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke with President Donald Trump on Friday in the wake of the horrific attack at two mosques in Christchurch that is believed to have killed 49 people.
In recounting her conversation with Trump, she said: “He very much wished for his condolences to be passed on to New Zealand.”
She continued: “He asked what support the U.S. could provide. My message was sympathy and love for all Muslim communities.” When asked what his response was, she said, “He acknowledged that and agreed.”
But despite agreeing to the request on the phone, Trump didn’t follow through. When Trump held a public event on Friday in the Oval Office and addressed the devastating attack, he was seemingly unable to share the “love” and “sympathy” for all Muslim communities that Ardern had requested.
In his statement about the attack, he expressed sorrow for New Zealand without mentioning Muslims directly at all
VoteBlue if you want this to change
Source: alternet.org
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1. “We have a lot of great announcements having to do with Syria and our success with the eradication of the caliphate. And that’ll be announced over the next 24 hours.”
It’s been 96 hours. No “great” announcement yet. Although the general in charge of leading the fight against ISIS told CNN on Friday that he disagreed with Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria.
And away we go!
2. “And many other things. A lot of positive things are going on.”
Hard to argue! Many other things!
3. “We’re going to do it one way or the other. We have to do it – not because it was a campaign promise, which it is.”
So, the President is declaring a national emergency because “we have to do it,” not because he said we had to do it on the campaign trail. But ask yourself this: If it was such an emergency, why did Trump wait more than two years into his term to declare it one… ?
9. “Take a look at Israel. They’re building another wall. Their wall is 99.9% effective, they tell me – 99.9%.”
The border wall between Israel and Egypt is 150 miles long. The US border with Mexico is 2,000 miles long. Apples, please meet oranges.
10. “And a big majority of the big drugs – the big drug loads don’t go through ports of entry.”
Just to reiterate: Trump is wrong about this, according to his own administration.
Trump burns himself #InvasionOfIdiots #DumbAF
47. "Nobody else would have done that. The Obama administration couldn't have done it."
So true. And, no, I am not totally sure what Trump is referencing here. But, he did it. And Obama didn't. This feels like a good place to end.
“We already pay an average of $1 billion every day in interest on the debt“
The gross national debt has surpassed $22 trillion for the first time in the U.S. history, according to Treasury Department data released Tuesday.
“This milestone is another sad reminder of the inexcusable tab our nation’s leaders continue to run up and will leave for the next generation,” said Judd Gregg and Edward Rendell, co-chairman of the debt watchdog group Campaign to Fix the Debt.
Deficits have soared under President Trump, spurned on by the GOP tax law, bipartisan spending increases, and the forward momentum of mandatory spending programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Tuesday’s estimate put the total outstanding public debt at $22.013 trillion,
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that annual deficits would surpass $1 trillion a year starting in 2020 assuming current spending and revenue policies remain in place.
“Our growing national debt matters because it threatens the economic future of every American,” said Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a budget watchdog group.
“As we borrow trillion after trillion, interest costs will weigh on our economy and make it harder to fund important investments for our future. We already pay an average of $1 billion every day in interest on the debt, and will spend a staggering $7 trillion in interest costs over the next decade,” he added.
And there’s the tax refund scam where Americans who usually received a refund — now had to pay taxes #TaxScamStories #GOPTaxScam #GreatTaxRevolt19
#federal deficit#federal debt#trump#donald trump#republicans#republicans complicit#tax cuts#tax cuts for the rich#tax cuts for corporations#steve mnuchin#tax scam#gop tax scam#worst of 2019#economy#econmics#trump economy#trump administration#trump presidency#recession#recession coming#national debt#GreatTaxRevolt19#goptaxscam#taxscamstories
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Hey fun fact, if you write fuck in the tags your post wont show up in any tag, so uuuuuh heads up
Also fun fact, adding “porn” in your reblog tags (e.g. “history porn” or “fashion porn”) means that those posts won’t show up when you search your own blog.
Wank too. It’s why I changed all my fandom #wank posts to fandom #dramaz posts
….well this is a psa that needs to go around
I tagged one of my drawings as “well mark me down as both scared and horny” and it vanished from the other tags until I removed that so… “horny” too, apparently
One of my comics wasn’t showing up in tumblr tags until I removed all my tags with the crass language in it. (”shitposting” and “bitch” were the 2 I suspected) Then it conveniently started appearing publicly in the tags.
Oh my god this site really did become catholic
The following tags are (also) no longer searchable:
erotic orgasm bdsm sexual* vagina breasts foreskin suicide semen ejaculation
*Note: this includes combined search terms such as “sexual health”, “sexual help”, “sexual orientation”, etc.
Tags that are still searchable:
white pride white power whites only aryan volkisch n*gger ch*nk and probably every racial slur you can think of, I was too nauseated to look anymore
professionalreblogs
What the hell @support
so glad we kept the nazis though really
Tons of Nazis and white supremacists on Tumblr. Have they found a friend in Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio?
Posted the following and couldn’t search for them. Had to Google!
- One month after controversial adult-content purge, far-right pages are thriving on Tumblr - Think Progress
- Nazis on Tumblr Are Attempting to Make White Supremacy Hip - MEL Magazine
@staff why can’t I find dozens of my post - tagged with “Richard Spencer”???
Censoring Tags #MinistryOfTruth #Orwellian
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Polar Vortex spills Arctic weather into North America
What in the world is a polar vortex? On Earth, it’s a large area of low pressure and extremely cold air that usually swirls over the Arctic, with strong counter-clockwise winds that trap the cold around the Pole. But disturbances in the jet stream and the intrusion of warmer mid-latitude air masses can disturb this polar vortex and make it unstable, sending Arctic air south into middle latitudes.
That has been the case in late January 2019 as frigid weather moves across the Midwest and Northern Plains of the United States, as well as interior Canada. Forecasters are predicting that air temperatures in parts of the continental United States will drop to their lowest levels since at least 1994, with the potential to break all-time record lows for January 30 and 31. With clear skies, steady winds, and snow cover on the ground, as many as 90 million Americans could experience temperatures at or below 0 degrees Fahrenheit (-18° Celsius), according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
The Goddard Earth Observing System Model above shows this air temperature movement at 2 meters (around 6.5 feet above the ground) from January 23-29. You can see some portions of the Arctic are close to the freezing point—significantly warmer than usual for the dark of mid-winter—while masses of cooler air plunge toward the interior of North America.
Science Behind the Polar Vortex / Credit: NOAA
Meteorologists predicted that steady northwest winds (10 to 20 miles per hour) were likely to add to the misery, causing dangerous wind chills below -40°F (-40°C) in portions of 12 states. A wind chill of -20°F can cause frostbite in as little as 30 minutes, according to the weather service.
Not sure how cold that is? Check out the low temperatures on January 30, 2019 in some of the coldest places on Earth—and a planetary neighbor:
-46°F (-43°C) – Chesterfield, Newfoundland
-36°F (-33°C) – Yukon Territory, Canada
-33°F (-27°C) – Fargo, North Dakota (Within the Polar Vortex)
-28°F (-18°C) – Minneapolis, Minnesota (Within the Polar Vortex)
-27°F (-33°C) – Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica
-24°F (-31°C) – Chicago, Illinois (Within the Polar Vortex)
-15°F (5°C) – Barrow, Alaska
-99°F (-73°C) – Mars
Learn more about the science behind the polar vortex and how NASA is modeling it here: https://go.nasa.gov/2Wtmb43.
Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com
BURR 🥶
There was no way there were 300 #hamberders let alone 1,000.
Speaking to reporters just before players showed up, Trump proudly displayed the spread of “great American food,” and said, “we have 300 hamburgers, many, many french fries — all of our favorite foods.”
#LiarInChief Shack of 💩
While not as significant as his lies about the situation at the southern border or his dealings with Russia, an amusing tweet President Donald Trump posted Tuesday morning illustrates just how easily he exaggerates and contradicts himself.
Trump’s favorite Putin Republicans were in attendance!
At the outset of his remarks to the team, its coaches, Clemson officials and politicians, including South Carolina Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R) and Tim Scott (R), Trump said he had a “choice” of possibly having “no food” for the players “because of the shutdown.”
“Or do we give you some little quick salads that first lady will make, along with the second lady; they’ll make some salads,” the president continued. “And I said, ‘You guys aren’t into salads.’ … Or do I send out for about 1,000 hamburgers?”
#clemson#clemson tigers#clemson football#clemson football team#national champions#ncaa#ncaa champions#2018#worst of 2019#trump#donald trump#white house#white house visit#hamberders#fast food#liar in chief#lying trump#trump lies#house of lies#potus#potus45#president trump#45th president#russia#tre45on#south carolina#lindsey graham#tim scott
Trump, Mitch McConnell and Republicans, if you really care about #NationalSecurity, airport security and travel safety, reopen the government. End #TrumpCruelty
Hundreds of unpaid employees of the TSA, FAA and Air Traffic Controllers are hitting Trump and Republicans where it counts 💰 #TrumpShutdown #RepublicanShutdown
agents with the Transportation Security Administration(TSA) whose paychecks are threatened have been staying home and calling out sick, leaving behind big lines in a system that is already known for crawling at a snail’s pace.
At the Dallas Fort Worth airport, for instance, 5.5 per cent of the TSA agents there “called out” on Friday, compared to the 3.5 per cent who call out on a typical day, TSA assistant administrator for public affairs Michael Bilello wrote on Twitter on Friday.
In New York City’s LaGuardia International Airport, meanwhile, TSA call outs led to massive lines that “snaked” around terminals on Sunday.
“I’ve never seen the line in LaGuardia that bad,” John, a traveller who asked that his last name not be used, told ABC News
"At the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) there are fewer safety inspectors than are needed in order to ensure the air traffic control infrastructure is performing at its peak levels of performance,“ Captain Joe DePete, the president of the pilot union the Air Line Pilots Association, said in a statement. ”There are also airline and aircraft manufacturing oversight activities that either stop or are significantly reduced. These safety and oversight inspections will potentially allow for the introduction of safety issues that put passengers and airline crews at risk".
“We are already in a critically staffed situation, and with the shutdown, the training pipeline has been cut short and there is no relief in sight,” Andrew LeBovidge, the leader of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, told CNN. “Training has stopped ... and we will feel the ripple effects of the lack of personnel for months if not years to come”.