Microplastics Have Invaded The Deep Ocean And The Food Chain.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/06/06/729419975/microplastics-have-invaded-the-deep-ocean-and-the-food-chain
How Anti-immigration Policies are Leading Prisons to Lease Convicts as Field Laborers
https://psmag.com/social-justice/anti-immigrant-policies-are-returning-prisoners-to-the-fields
Trump Concocted Standoff With Mexico When Agreement Was Reached Months Ago
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dems-accuse-trump-of-concocting-standoff-with-mexico-when-agreement-was-reportedly-reached-months-ago
Former White House Ethics Chief Proposes POTUS ‘Golf On Your Own Damn Dime Act’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/walter-shaub-tump-golf-on-your-dime_n_5cfc4b2ee4b04e90f1ca69ea
Reminder: The White House reportedly blocked climate testimony warning of a 'possibly catastrophic' future because it didn't 'jibe' with Trump's policy
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-blocked-climate-testimony-trump2019-6
24 immigrants have died in ICE custody during the Trump administration
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/24-immigrants-have-died-ice-custody-during-trump-administration-n1015291
ICE deported veterans while ‘unaware’ it was required to carefully screen them
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/08/ice-deported-veterans-while-unaware-it-was-required-screen-them-with-care-report-says/
GOOD. Texas governor signs law increasing the age to buy tobacco products to 21
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/08/health/texas-new-tobacco-law/index.html
New Zealand is prioritizing gross national well-being: The country’s new “well-being budget” emphasizes citizen happiness over capitalist gain.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/8/18656710/new-zealand-wellbeing-budget-bhutan-happiness
Britain’s biggest energy companies will have to buy renewable energy from their own customers under new laws to be introduced this week. Léonie Greene, a director at the Solar Trade Association, said it was “vital” that even “very small players” were paid a fair price.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/09/energy-firms-buy-electricity-from-household-rooftop-solar-panels
Scientists ‘taken aback by scale and speed of ocean changes’: 'oceans currently encroach on the land around 3.3mm a year, and the rate is accelerating. Recent studies using varied scenario planning said that current warming trends could lift the seas as much as two metres by 2100.'
https://www.france24.com/en/20190608-crucial-world-ocean-day-science-climate-change
Traffic destined for some of Europe's biggest mobile providers was misdirected in a roundabout path through the Chinese-government-controlled China Telecom on Thursday, in some cases for more than two hours, an Internet-monitoring service reported.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/bgp-mishap-sends-european-mobile-traffic-through-china-telecom-for-2-hours/
Pay attention to the growing wave of climate change lawsuits: Kids, farmers, fishermen, cities, and states are suing the fossil fuel industry and governments.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/2/22/17140166/climate-change-lawsuit-exxon-juliana-liability-kids
Boris Johnson threatens to withhold Brexit divorce payment: The UK owes tens of billions of euros when it leaves the EU but Boris Johnson — the current front-runner to succeed Theresa May as prime minister — wants to withhold payment. He's looking for "greater clarity" on Brexit
https://www.dw.com/en/boris-johnson-threatens-to-withhold-brexit-divorce-payment/a-49116928
It's not just girls - one in 30 young men were married as children. “It’s a rights violation. It creates a burden for boys to take on adult responsibilities and roles when they are still children themselves – like providing for a family,” says one of the authors of the UN report
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jun/07/its-not-just-girls-one-in-30-young-men-were-married-as-children
Germany says two states 'only solution' to Israeli-Palestinian conflict
https://www.france24.com/en/20190609-germany-says-two-states-only-solution-israeli-palestinian-conflict
Huawei receives another blow: No Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp apps on Android devices
https://bgr.com/2019/06/07/usa-vs-huawei-no-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-apps-on-android/
As a congressman, Beto was seen as one of the strongest allies of the LGBT community.
https://www.dallasvoice.com/newly-sworn-west-texas-congressman-lgbt-ally/
Remonder: Trump is reportedly giving Saudi Arabia access to secretive US technology that the Kingdom could use to build smart bombs
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-saudi-arabia-bombs-us-tech-2019-6
Trump Either Lied or Got Played on the Mexico Deal
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/06/08/trump-either-lied-or-got-played-on-the-mexico-deal/
Some U.S. embassies still hoisting rainbow flags, despite advisory from Washington
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-embassies-still-hoisting-rainbow-flags-despite-advisory-from-washington/2019/06/08/eeea0bd4-89f4-11e9-a870-b9c411dc4312_story.html?utm_term=.36d0c2e61ce6
Trump's lonely signature at the top of a D-Day proclamation is making the rounds on social media after other world leaders signed at the bottom
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-signature-dday-letter-europe-2019-6
In this 2012 Congressional campaign video, Beto speaks about his work on El Paso City Council extending benefits to same sex couples in domestic partnerships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buVMeR-Etcg
After 40 Years of Searching, Scientists Identify The Key Flaw in Solar Panel Efficiency: A new study outlines a material defect in silicon used to produce solar cells that has previously gone undetected.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-a-key-flaw-in-solar-panel-efficiency-after-40-years-of-searching
Consumers urged to boycott yellowfin tuna from Indian Ocean over unsustainable fishing - Report warns customers do not know tuna stocks are at risk of collapse
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/yellowfin-tuna-boycott-indian-ocean-overfishing-a8950026.html
Mexico Agreed To Deploy National Guard Months Before NewDeal With Trump
https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/mexico-border-agreement-trump-tariff_n_5cfc2175e4b0aab91c0713c9
The Smithsonian’s new dinosaur hall is a marvel. But its ties to David Koch are a problem. | The philanthropist funds misinformation on climate science
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/09/smithsonians-new-dinosaur-hall-is-marvel-its-ties-david-koch-are-problem/
At Trump’s Agriculture Department, science is being plowed under
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/07/trumps-agriculture-department-science-is-being-plowed-under/
In Alabama — where lawmakers banned abortion for rape victims — rapists’ parental rights are protected
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-alabama--where-lawmakers-banned-abortion-for-rape-victims--rapists-parental-rights-are-protected/2019/06/09/6d2aa5de-831b-11e9-933d-7501070ee669_story.html
A veteran died in police custody. His body was returned to his family with some organs missing
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/07/us/army-vet-dies-in-custody-organs-missing/index.html
House committee asks Interior to detail grants to wildlife organizations accused of abuse
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/447458-house-committee-asks-interior-to-detail-grants-to-wildlife
Sobibor death camp’s last survivor has died at age 96
https://metrovoicenews.com/sobibor-death-camps-last-survivor-has-died-at-age-96/
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