A hole opens up under Antarctic glacier — big enough to fit two-thirds of Manhattan: "Scientists say if Thwaites collapses, it could trigger a catastrophic rise in global sea levels, flooding coastal cities around the world."
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/hole-opens-under-antarctic-glacier-big-enough-fit-two-thirds-ncna965696
A climate activist swam under the Antarctic ice sheet to prove how quickly glaciers are melting | The point he was trying to make, he said, is that it shouldn't be possible to do the swim, but it is because of cracks in the glacier
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/03/world/lewis-pugh-swims-arctic-climate-change-trnd/index.html
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro introduced a controversial bill that opens up indigenous lands, many of them in the Amazon, to mining, agricultural activities and hydraulic energy production
https://www.france24.com/en/20200206-brazil-s-bolsonaro-proposes-bill-opening-indigenous-land-to-mining
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_debates#Eighth_debate_(February_7,_2020)
Trump administration delaying arms transfers worth $30M to Ukraine:
https://thehill.com/policy/international/foreign-aid/481871-trump-administration-delaying-arms-transfers-worth-30m-to
5-year-old girl raped on the grounds of US embassy in New Delhi | Around 100 sexual assaults are reported to police in India every day, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), In 2017, more than 32,000 rapes were reported across the country -- but experts say the real number is likely much higher, owing to the shame attached to sexual assault and the social barriers faced by victims.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/india/india-rape-us-embassy-new-delhi-intl/index.html
TikTok reportedly waited nearly 3 hours to call police in Brazil after a teen's death was livestreamed on the platform, but the company notified its own PR team almost immediately
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-suicide-livestream-brazil-teen-waited-3-hours-call-police-2020-2
Big Tech opponent Bernie Sanders raises more money from Big Tech employees than anyone else. Sanders, an avowed democratic socialist, has been highly critical of tech companies. Their employees don’t seem to mind.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/6/21125684/bernie-sanders-tech-employees-donations-andrew-yang-amazon-google-facebook-apple
Yang fires dozens of staffers after Iowa debacle. Despite the headline implying a link between 'Iowa Debacle' and Yang letting people go, there is nothing in the article that backs that up. It's just as likely that the campaign is reaching it's natural conclusion and people are being let go as Yang's presidential bid is nearing it's endgame.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/06/yang-fires-dozens-of-staffers-after-iowa-debacle-111611
Before I tweet out an update, I want to apologize profoundly for the satellite caucuses error. At this particular moment it couldn't be any more important to get things right. And while this was undoubtedly an especially complex caucus to nail, we undoubtedly did not nail it
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1225312592001994752
In the interest of transparency, I should say that we still would have had Buttigieg as a very clear favorite all the way up until satellite returns were tabulated, even if we had been processing them as we intended. We would not have guessed all but unanimous Sanders margin
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1225312942289301504
And this is just an inherent risk in live results. Every time we ever do this, something pops up--including last night. This is undoubtedly the worst case scenario--something popping up at the very last second and plausibly decisively. But it's an inherent risk in being live
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1225313449938386945
Anyway, for maybe not the last time: I'm sorry. We work really hard on this stuff and that makes it all the more disappointing for it to go this way. I think the standard for us is to essentially be perfect, even on this particularly imperfect caucus
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1225313925887119361
With all that said: with satellite caucuses accounted for, we think the race is a tossup with Bernie's favored very narrowly. The remaining non-satellite caucuses are probably good for Pete, which keeps him in the game
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1225314230183829504
There are more than 100 precincts in Iowa with some kind of irregularity or inconsistency in the returns across one of the various vote counts, according to our analysis, easily covering the narrow margin in the race
https://twitter.com/nate_cohn/status/1225429100363382784?s=21
U.S. Troops in Standoffs With Russian Military Contractors in Syria
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-troops-in-standoffs-with-russian-military-contractors-in-syria-11580947976
Coronavirus global death toll rises to at least 565 as confirmed cases reach more than 28,000 in mainland China.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/coronavirus-updates-latest-news-outbreak-global-response-n1131296?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
Communist officials fired after disabled Chinese boy died when relatives were put in coronavirus quarantine - Party secretary and township mayor sacked; other officials found responsible in death of Yan Cheng can expect to be disciplined, say investigators in Hubei
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3049340/communist-officials-fired-after-disabled-chinese-boy-died-when
Trump Says He Wouldn’t Still Be In Office If He Hadn’t Fired Comey
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-says-he-wouldnt-still-be-in-office-if-he-hadnt-fired-comey
Trump supporters delay Democrat Iowa caucus results by flooding hotline
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/democrat-iowa-caucuses-results-trump-supporters-hotline-phone-a9320926.html
The National Archives is Destroying Records About Victims of Trump's ICE Policies
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/6/national_archives_record_retention_matthew_connelly
Schiff says Bolton refused to submit sworn affidavit on Ukraine dealings
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adam-schiff-says-john-bolton-refused-to-submit-sworn-affidavit-on-ukraine-dealings/
Grace. Humility. Magnanimity. A president who has learned and grown and is genuinely chastened by his mistakes... Nah! Just messing with you!
https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1225475072212729857
Russia engaging in 'information warfare' ahead of 2020 election, FBI chief warns - Chris Wray tells Congress Moscow waging social media campaign but says he has not seen new effort to hack election
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/06/russia-hacking-information-warfare-election-2020
Call me old-school, but I just see no reason for swearing by public officials. It's a bad example. I wish they wouldn't do it, starting with POTUS.
https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1225471623861538816
Enough is enough. In light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass.
https://twitter.com/TomPerez/status/1225468833458245632
For those too young to remember...When Clinton addressed the nation after his acquittal, he APOLOGIZED for what he did, and for putting the country, AND congress through the ordeal.
Clinton: "Now that the Senate has fulfilled its constitutional responsibility, bringing this process to a conclusion, I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and on the American people. I also am humbled and very grateful for the support and the prayers I have received from millions of Americans over this past year. Now I ask all Americans, and I hope all Americans, here in Washington and throughout our land, will rededicate ourselves to the work of serving our nation and building our future together. This can be, and this must be, a time of reconciliation and renewal for America. Thank you very much."
https://www.c-span.org/video/?116231-1/presidential-apology
He even said we need to be friends with our critics because they show us our faults.
In the East Room of the WH Trump says bullshit, suggests most wives wouldn’t be very upset if their husbands were shot and that Steve Scalise is better looking now than when he was shot. An hour in @HallieJackson points out that Clinton’s post-acquittal remarks lasted 90 seconds
https://twitter.com/ChrisJansing/status/1225482969382559744
A NY appeals court rules that disparaging Donald Trump in court documents doesn't add up to a violation of an NDA
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/donald-trumps-hush-deal-win-overturned-by-ny-appeals-court-1276944
‘I can’t wait to hold my kids again’: Life inside Wuhan’s quarantine | A father, a doctor, and other residents recount the coronavirus outbreak’s deadly first month.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/life-inside-wuhan-coronavirus-quarantine/
Guess where Trump's defense team celebrated his acquittal yesterday? That's right — The Trump International Hotel — a business that Trump profits from:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/us/politics/trump-acquittal-washington-hotel.html
Trump's impeachment speech: This shouldn't be on live national media. There is nothing about the nation, about the future, about the problems Americans are facing. This is a mafia boss thanking his underlings. Note how he had to specifically include Barron by name because he had forgot Barron existed until he looked back there and saw him.
If you're angry at the Republican senators who voted for a cover-up of the president's corruption, join @IndivisibleTeam—an @OnwardTogether partner—to hold them accountable for enabling Donald Trump.
https://www.paybackproject.org/
It's not quite true that Trump has never behaved this way during public remarks. This is how he sounded at Trump Tower after Charlottesville. And several times in the Rose Garden.
Trump: "The only one who voted against was a guy who can't stand the fact that he ran one of the worst campaigns in the history of the presidency," Trump says in the East Room of Romney.
My response: Of the 10 persons nominated for president 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, Donald Trump scored the 2nd lowest share of the vote. Of the 5 LOSERS of those elections, 4 scored higher than Donald Trump: Gore, Kerry, Romney, and of course Clinton.
Sen. Romney's timeless response: "The president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust. What he did was not perfect. No, it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security, and our fundamental values."
Donald Trump vented “apoplectic” fury at Boris Johnson in a tense phone call over the UK's Huawei decision
https://www.ft.com/content/a70f9506-48f1-11ea-aee2-9ddbdc86190d
An anti-Putin blogger was murdered in a French hotel, and the killing has the hallmarks of the Russian hit squad causing chaos in
https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-putin-blogger-imran-aliev-murdered-in-france-2020-2?amp
The FBI Just Put White Nationalists and Neo-Nazis on the Same Threat Level as ISIS
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8awn/the-fbi-just-put-white-nationalists-and-neo-nazis-on-the-same-threat-level-as-isis
If Bloomberg spending his own money on TV ads is “buying the election”, then what do you call Sanders promising student loan forgiveness for college kids in exchange for their votes?
Susan Collins Admits Trump May Not Have Learned His ‘Lesson’: One day after her decision to vote against removing Trump by saying that he has learned his “lesson” and will be “much more cautious in the future,” she admitted on Fox News that her assumption was based on nothing.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/susan-collins-admits-trump-may-not-have-learned-his-lesson
Bernie Sanders’ “marginalization of Warren in Iowa also points to a more cosmic phenomenon with malign implications for the party at large: the vituperative attacks on Warren by Bernie’s rabid online army of political arsonists augurs ills to come.”
https://thebulwark.com/bern-it-all-down/
Astronaut Christina Koch, who led the first all-female spacewalk in 2019, has returned to Earth after a record stay aboard the International Space Station
https://abc.net.au/news/2020-02-06/nasa-astronaut-christina-koch-returning-to-earth-record-breaking/11940446
Chinese student ‘snuck in’ by lying on passenger card. "‘I crossed off China and changed it to Hong Kong’: Chinese student brags about sneaking into Australia"
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/health-safety/i-crossed-off-china-and-changed-it-to-hong-kong-chinese-student-brags-about-sneaking-into-australia/news-story/f2fe5f3538959cc5bcd79d3185fb5aae
Li Wenliang, the Chinese doctor who sounded the alarm on the Wuhan coronavirus has died
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/asia/li-wenliang-coronavirus-whistleblower-doctor-dies-intl/index.html
Neptune suffered a head-on collision with a giant impactor while Uranus got a glancing blow, which could explain the differences between the ice giants, finds a new study. (Neptune has an unexplained internal heat source and Uranus' spin is tilted almost completely sideways.)
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2020/02/uranus-and-neptunes-differences-might-boil-down-to-collisions
Female genital mutilation feels 'like living in a dead body': More than 70,000 women in Germany have undergone female genital mutilation, and a rising number of young girls are considered at risk — even though it's illegal.
https://www.dw.com/en/female-genital-mutilation-feels-like-living-in-a-dead-body/a-52269987
Police Raid Indigenous Land to Help Build a Pipeline. At least six people have been arrested after the RCMP started raiding Wet'suwet'en land defender camps early this morning.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdjaq/police-raid-indigenous-land-to-help-build-a-pipeline
Ehsanullah Ehsan, the man who shot Malala Yousafzai, "escapes" from Pakistan jail
https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/pakistan/ehsanullah-ehsan-the-man-who-shot-malala-yousafzai-escapes-from-pakistan-jail-1.1581000890521
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