This is how @SenFeinstein reacted to children asking her to support the #GreenNewDeal resolution — with smugness + disrespect. This is a fight for our generation's survival. Her reaction is why young people desperately want new leadership in Congress. pic.twitter.com/0zAkaxruMI — Sunrise Movement đ (@sunrisemvmt) February 22, 2019
Asha Rangappa writes: News reports that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is close to completing his investigation have raised the question of whether anyone who hasnât yet been charged with a crime wonât ever be. Mueller has brought 199 charges against 37 defendants in less than two years â including six members of President Trumpâs campaign. Some key figures, though, such as Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr., would appear to be off the hook: If Muellerâs work is…
Suzanne Moore writes: Splitters. Traitors. The Peopleâs Front of Judea. I am quite enjoying the current shenanigans of those people who say they just canât take it any more. Some are sick of Brexit. Some want a peopleâs vote. Some are disgusted at the acceptance of antisemitism. Some are probably terrible careerists out only for themselves, though this seems a rather unlikely way to do it. Some may be people you want to go to the pub with. Some you…
The Guardian reports: Ian Austin has become the ninth MP to quit the Labour party this week, although he told his local newspaper he had no plans to join the Independent Group (TIG), founded earlier this week by some former colleagues and Tory defectors. The MP for Dudley North in the West Midlands has been disaffected with the party leadership for a couple of years and told the Express & Star newspaper there was a âculture of extremism, antisemitism and…
Philip Hoare writes: In 1964, Kenneth Clark set out the problems of loving John Ruskin. One was his fame itself. Like his sometime pupil Oscar Wilde (who, along with other of his Oxford students he persuaded to dig a road in Hinksey in order that they learn the dignity of labour), Ruskin defined the art and culture of his century. âFor almost 50 years,â Clark wrote in his book, Ruskin Today, âto read Ruskin was accepted as proof of the…
The Guardian reports: The worldâs capacity to produce food is being undermined by humanityâs failure to protect biodiversity, according to the first UN study of the plants, animals and micro-organisms that help to put meals on our plates. The stark warning was issued by the Food and Agriculture Organisation after scientists found evidence the natural support systems that underpin the human diet are deteriorating around the world as farms, cities and factories gobble up land and pump out chemicals. Over…
The Guardian reports: The conscientious citizens of Philadelphia continue to put their pizza boxes, plastic bottles, yoghurt containers and other items into recycling bins. But in the past three months, half of these recyclables have been loaded on to trucks, taken to a hulking incineration facility and burned, according to the cityâs government. Itâs a situation being replicated across the US as cities struggle to adapt to a recent ban by China on the import of items intended for reuse….
Jamelle Bouie writes: Bernie Sandersâs most prominent message is economic, organized around a critique of capitalist inequality, an indictment of the ultrawealthy and a call for expansive new social programs. It helped propel him to a strong second in the 2016 Democratic primary campaign and has returned as the marquee message for his 2020 campaign, which he announced on Tuesday with a promise to âcomplete the revolution.â Unfortunately for his 2020 campaign, Sanders is less distinct on economic policy than…
The Tucker Carlson interview with Rutger Bregman that Fox News refused to air:
Heavy reports: A 49-year-old active duty U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant arrested on gun and drug charges has been accused by federal prosecutors of being a âdomestic terrorist, bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect governmental conduct.â In a court filing, prosecutors say the lieutenant was inspired by far-right Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik and has corresponded with known white supremacists. He identified himself as a âwhite nationalistâ who has advocated for âfocused violenceâ in order…
Martin Kettle writes: Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston are not the first MPs to break away from the Conservative party. The list of Tory resigners goes back to Winston Churchill in 1904 and beyond. And they are unlikely to be the last. Back in October I had a coffee at the Tory conference with a cabinet minister who confessed: âPart of me is longing for Boris Johnson or Jacob Rees-Mogg to become leader so the rest of us…
The Washington Post reports: The White House is working to assemble a panel to assess whether climate change poses a national security threat, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post, a conclusion that federal intelligence agencies have affirmed several times since President Trump took office. The proposed Presidential Committee on Climate Security, which would be established by executive order, is being spearheaded by William Happer, a National Security Council senior director. Happer, an emeritus professor of physics at Princeton…
Paul Tullis writes: Once upon a time in a land far, far away, there grew a magical fruit. This fruit could be squeezed to produce a very special kind of oil that made cookies more healthy, soap more bubbly and crisps more crispy. The oil could even make lipstick smoother and keep ice-cream from melting. Because of these wondrous qualities, people came from around the world to buy the fruit and its oil. In the places where the fruit came…