Saturday, June 15, 2019

Light News Dump

YEP: It's pretty wild to me how Steph Curry averaged 30-6-5 on 60% True Shooting, faced a Box-and-1, and nearly forced a Game 7 with some of the most space-deprived lineups imaginable ... and some of the talk today is "he didn't show up!" 49.2%-34.3%-94.7% (2P%-3P%-FT%)
https://twitter.com/YoungNBA/status/1139667054498394112

The Pelicans have agreed to a deal to trade Anthony Davis to the Lakers for Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart, and three first-round picks – including the No. 4 overall in 2019 Draft, league sources tell ESPN.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1140023139142971392

The internal poll that Donald Trump said didn’t exist was just leaked
https://thinkprogress.org/the-internal-poll-that-donald-trump-said-didnt-exist-was-just-leaked-1bedd00413f1/

Trump campaign charged $99k in late fees from El Paso rally
https://www.ktsm.com/news/politics/trump-campaign-charged-99k-in-late-fees-from-el-paso-rally/

Trump Must Not Be Allowed to Use Gulf of Oman Incidents as 'Pretext for Illegal War With Iran': Bernie Sanders
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/14/trump-must-not-be-allowed-use-gulf-oman-incidents-pretext-illegal-war-iran-bernie

'Eye-Popping': Analysis Shows Top 1% Gained $21 Trillion in Wealth Since 1989 While Bottom Half Lost $900 Billion
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/14/eye-popping-analysis-shows-top-1-gained-21-trillion-wealth-1989-while-bottom-half

Mexico releases copy of letter touted by Trump. It's an agreement to negotiate an agreement. The letter, first published by the Mexican newspaper Reforma, states that the U.S. and Mexico "will immediately begin discussions to establish definitive terms for a binding bilateral agreement to further address burden-sharing and the assignment of responsibility for processing refugee claims of migrants."
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/448689-mexico-releases-copy-of-letter-touted-by-trump
https://twitter.com/carlos_rgz/status/1139622017609674752

Oklahoma Republicans Hated When Obama Detained Migrants at an Army Base. They’re Fine with Trump Doing It.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wkvp/oklahoma-republicans-are-suddenly-ok-with-housing-migrant-kids-at-fort-sill

DC board rejects Trump Hotel effort to dismiss complaint seeking removal of liquor license on basis of Trump's 'character'
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/448693-dc-board-rejects-trump-hotel-effort-to-dismiss-legal-complaint

Notre Dame officials say tycoons who promised millions after the fire haven't paid a cent
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-15/notre-dame-says-tycoons-have-not-donated-since-pledges/11213298

Trump Announced Tom Homan As The New 'Border Czar.' Homan Says No Thanks. Former acting Immigrations and Customs Enforcement head Tom Homan said on Saturday that he wouldn’t be accepting the position of “border czar” in the Trump administration, despite President Donald Trump’s announcement on Friday.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tom-homan-border-czar-trump-wont-accept-position

Trump Administration ends travel to Cuba for categories “People to People educational travel” and “Passenger and Recreational Vessel”
https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2019/06/commerce-and-treasury-departments-implement-changes-cuba-sanctions

A top Environmental Protection Agency official gave a presentation last year at a gathering of some of the most zealous deniers of climate science, highlighting the influence a small, fringe movement hawking crank theories now wields in Washington.  Emails HuffPost reviewed reveal Bill Wehrum, the EPA’s assistant administrator for air and radiation, gave a presentation in early February 2018 at an event organized by the Cooler Heads Coalition, an umbrella group of tax-exempt charities and right-wing nonprofits that includes some of the most ardent proponents of climate change denial.



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/epa-climate-denier_n_5d03f660e4b0985c419d7e8b

Trump's order to slash number of science advisory boards blasted by critics as 'nonsensical' / "It's no longer death by a thousand cuts. It's taking a knife to the jugular,” one science advocate said of the order to eliminate a third of the advisory boards.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-s-order-slash-number-science-advisory-boards-blasted-critics-n1017921

Zero elephants poached in a year in top Africa wildlife park: experts call it an extraordinary development in an area larger than Switzerland where thousands of the animals have been slaughtered in recent years
https://apnews.com/ef25debd7ab74b7ca5dc3fe9692c1fa8

Antlia 2, the "ghost of a galaxy" orbiting the Milky Way, is a dark horse in more ways than one. Not only is it so faint it was only just discovered last year, it may now be responsible for curious ripples in the hydrogen gas that makes up the Milky Way's outer disc. According to new research, Antlia 2's current position is consistent with a collision with the Milky Way hundreds of millions of years ago that could have produced the perturbations we see today. The paper has been submitted for publication and is undergoing peer review.
https://www.sciencealert.com/ripples-in-the-milky-way-are-evidence-of-an-ancient-collision-with-a-galactic-ghost

Fear of a blue Texas: New GOP group to spend millions registering Republicans
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/fear-of-a-blue-texas-new-gop-group-to-spend-millions-registering-republicans

The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Cancer Researchers From Top Institutions: The NIH and the FBI are targeting ethnic Chinese scientists, including U.S. citizens, searching for a cancer cure.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-13/the-u-s-is-purging-chinese-americans-from-top-cancer-research

Second largest outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa has killed 1,400
https://www.businessinsider.com/second-largest-outbreak-of-ebola-central-africa-has-killed-1400-2019-6

Hong Kong is bracing for another mass rally Sunday as public anger seethes following unprecedented clashes between protesters and police over a controversial extradition law, despite a climbdown by the city's embattled leader
https://www.france24.com/en/20190615-hong-kong-braces-huge-rally-after-leader-climbdown

"We've never had anyone come here to the Gullah Geechee Nation and say 'it's not just a photo op, I really want to sit down with you and your people and learn what your concerns are."
https://twitter.com/RM_Patterson/status/1139741994232582144

A redesign for the $20 Harriet Tubman bill delayed by the Trump administration has been leaked
https://www.salon.com/2019/06/14/a-redesign-for-the-20-harriet-tubman-bill-delayed-by-the-trump-administration-has-been-leaked/

India Raises Tariffs, Escalating Trade Fight With Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/business/india-tariffs-trade-trump.html

No comments:

Post a Comment