Congressional Budget Office concludes the Trump/Republican tax plan would hurt the poor even more than was originally believed.
(via @fark)New landmark study finds it’s now become cheaper to build and operate new renewable-energy plants than to continue running fossil fuel facilities.
(via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)Few people deserve to be fired as hard as these nine NYPD thugs who ambushed a teenager in the hospital to try and badger her out of pressing charges against two detectives who (allegedly) raped her.
(via @davidminpdx; RT: @radleybalko)Also in need of firing: The officials who thought it fair to charge this mother with a felony for slipping a digital recorder into her daughter’s backpack to try and prove the school wasn’t doing anything to address bullying.
(via @NonWhiteHat; RT: @Popehat)I’d also push for the firing of incompetent muckraker James O’Keefe and his gang of journalistic rejects at Project Veritas, but I’m not entirely certain they have jobs to be fired from. See also: A history of O’Keefe & co.’s self-owns.
(via @ggreenwald)Finally: Step aside, antivaccination lunacy, 9/11 Trutherism and lizard people: The most popular conspiracy theory on the Internet may be chemtrails.
(via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)
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