Light News Dump

A Major Coal Company Went Bust. Its Bankruptcy Filing Shows That It Was Funding Climate Change Denialism.
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/16/coal-industry-climate-change-denial-cloud-peak-energy/

Appeals court rules Trump end of DACA was unlawful
https://thehill.com/latino/444239-appeals-court-rules-trump-end-of-daca-was-unlawful

Federal Court Invalidates Trump Administration’s ‘Arbitrary and Capricious’ Effort to End DACA
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/federal-court-invalidates-trump-administrations-arbitrary-and-capricious-effort-to-end-daca/

Trump claims no one told him not to hire Michael Flynn. Obama did.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/842073/trump-claims-no-told-not-hire-michael-flynn-obama-did

Reminder: Judge orders public release of what Michael Flynn said in call to Russian ambassador
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/judge-orders-public-release-of-what-michael-flynn-said-in-call-to-russian-ambassador/2019/05/16/1e68712a-7825-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.html

Trump made $40.8 million last year from a hotel that critics say he's using to illegally profit from the presidency
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-made-millions-last-year-from-his-hotel-near-the-white-house-2019-5

Alabama's Abortion Ban Isn't About 'The Sanctity of Life.' Republicans Treat All People Like Sh!t.

Alabama legislators refuse to fund mother and child health care as they ban nearly all abortions
https://www.newsweek.com/alabama-abortion-ban-mother-child-health-care-1426643

Every Senate Vote For Alabama's Abortion Ban Was From A White Man. Old Ugly Obese White Bag Female signed it into law
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alabama-abortion-ban-white-men_n_5cdc101ce4b0c39d2a1474ad

Donald Trump Is Micromanaging Construction of Border Barrier, Confusing Project Engineers: Repo
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-micromanaging-border-wall-confusing-1428554

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s Father Just Blew $91 Million on Fake Artist Jeff Koons' (Koons is absolute garbage) Stainless Steel Rabbit That Doesn’t Even Vibrate
https://www.theroot.com/treasury-secretary-steve-mnuchin-s-father-just-blew-91-1834811992

White House leaves open possibility of invoking Insurrection Act to remove immigrants
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-leaves-open-possibility-of-invoking-insurrection-act-to-remove-migrants/2019/05/17/6b49c2c4-7892-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.html

Judge to consider bid to block Trump's emergency border wall funds
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-court/judge-to-consider-bid-to-block-trumps-emergency-border-wall-funds-idUSKCN1SN17A?il=0

The cost of Trump's farmer bailout program is poised to more than double
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-farmer-bailout-program-cost-poised-to-more-than-double-2019-5

BLM Removed Sustainability Language from Press Releases
https://www.outsideonline.com/2396600/public-lands-blm-press-release-conservation

Trump reportedly wants to paint his border wall black so it can absorb heat and get too hot for people to climb
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wants-to-paint-border-wall-black-too-hot-to-climb-washpost-report-2019-5

The Trump administration has taken its war on abortion worldwide, cutting off all funding to any overseas organisation or clinic that will not agree to a complete ban on even discussing it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/17/trump-takes-war-on-abortion-worldwide-as-policy-cuts-off-funds

German parliament passes resolution calling boycott Israel movement anti-Semitic
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/german-parliament-set-to-call-israel-boycott-campaign-anti-semitism

Millions of songbirds are vacuumed out of trees and killed each year during the nocturnal Mediterranean olive harvest, researchers have warned. Vast numbers of legally protected birds from central and northern Europe seek refuge in the Mediterranean basin during winter months.
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/songbirds-death-toll-millions-mediterranean-olive-harvesting-winter-a8916471.html

Koalas declared ‘functionally extinct’ across Australia
https://news.sky.com/story/koalas-declared-functionally-extinct-across-australia-11721983

H&M Dropped Cashmere From Its Collections Due to Animal Cruelty and Sustainability Concerns
https://www.livekindly.co/hm-just-dropped-cashmere-from-its-collections/

Democrats Seek Review of potentially illegal Russian Investment in Kentucky
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/us/politics/rusal-investment-kentucky.html

Caught in the Trap: Heinz-Christian Strache, the head of Austria's right-wing populist FPÖ party, met with a purported Russian multimillionaire on Ibiza in July 2017. She offered him campaign support in exchange for public contracts. What he didn't know was that the exchange was being recorded
https://projekte.sueddeutsche.de/artikel/politik/caught-in-the-trap-e675751/

Taiwan legalises same-sex marriage
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48305708

“@BetoORourke and I passed the Honor Our Commitment Act to make sure veterans were able to access the mental health care they desperately needed. The VA needs to step up and make sure veterans know they can get these services.” - Senator Chris Murphy
https://twitter.com/chrismurphyct/status/1129488210286043141?s=21

Raven chicks born at Tower of London for first time in decades
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tower-of-london-raven-chicks-birds-born-history-st-georges-day-a8917696.html

Brexit Leak Shows May & Corbyn Conspiring to Block Second Referendum.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexit/bombshell-brexit-leak-reveals-theresa-may-and-jeremy-corbyn-discussed-plan-to-leave-eu-on-july-31-and-avoid-second-referendum/ar-AABuGZj