The center, founded in 1960, is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in understanding of weather and climate. It would leave emergency officials and planners less prepared for extreme weather events, critics said. Trump and Vought hope to sell the Boulder Colorado property.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c... Trump's Project 2025 OMB director Russel Vought is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, part of a WH push to limit climate "alarmism" and privatize the prediction of wildfire behavior, space weather, hurricanes and other complex weather patterns.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/u... Tim Kaine, a former missionary in Honduras known for his affable demeanor, has repeatedly managed to force the Senate into hours of debate and five votes aimed at limiting Trump’s ability to wield military power without Congress’s approval.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... “We as a nation are in a more dangerous place because of her tenure,” a longtime official said. “She was a singularly destructive force - we will feel the extent of her incompetence for years.” “Staff watched in horror while Urban Search and Rescues were delayed”
theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/09/fossil-fuels-subisidies-study#img-1 US subsides to fossil-fuel firms more than doubled since 2017 and $31B a year is likely an understatement. Government hand outs, invisible to consumers of gas and oil, create the sector's 31,000% returns on investment.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... How an app designed by Palantir is helping ICE make race driven, illegal, and often violent detentions of legal permanent residents and agricultural workers to meet the quotas that, under oath, ICE agents admit drive their arrests.
Swiss firm Glencore, a 12.5% shareholder when Gertler's Nikanor company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2006, would later pay $700 million after it pleaded guilty in US federal court to a long-running bribery scheme involving foreign officials in seven countries, including Congo.
Global demand for cobalt and copper accelerated as battery-powered devices became a necessity, yet Congo remained poor and conflict-wracked. “I should get a Nobel Prize,” Gertler told Bloomberg in 2012. “Without people like us, who come and put billions in the ground, resources are worth nothing.”
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In 2017 the U.S.Treasury said Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler created a network of corruption in one of the world’s poorest countries: In 1998 his firm promised arms and Israeli Military training for Congolese armed forces in return for a diamond monopoly.
Hegseth Bars Reporter Who Revealed Aides’ Reaction to Dead Troops Quip newrepublic.com/post/207738/... via @newrepublic.com Hegseth's staff bar photographers whose pictures of the War Chief they deem unflattering. There's a reason for the refurbished Pentagon lighting mirror and styling counter.
armscontrolcenter.org/the-iran-dea... JCPOA verification provided transparency into Iran’s nuclear program, raising confidence that Iran was not producing nuclear weapons. JCPOA blocked the 2 paths to weapons-grade fissile material: enriching uranium-235 to 90% purity and separating plutonium.
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At 11:44 a.m. on Saturday, March 15, I was at a Safeway in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Washington, D.C.—when the following alert came in over Signal from Hegseth: “TEAM UPDATE.” Hegseth promised that Yemen would be attacked within two hours.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... Russia made €6bn (£5bn) from selling fuel in the fortnight since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran, data suggests.
The revenues imply Russia made an extra €672m in oil, gas and coal sales in March, with average daily prices up by 14% from February.
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GOP mega-donor fortunes jump $12B each as bombs hit Iran and drones torch Qatar's LNG plant. Their LNG build-out may bring Louisiana coastal air pollution, heightened vulnerability to hurricanes, degradation of fishing and wetlands, chronic health issues.
Anyone who saw the video knows that it was a gang rape and it drew an outcry among Israeli viewers. BiBi and Trump are brothers by different mothers.
Duke Energy paid 0 federal income taxes in 2021, despite $3.7 billion in U.S. earnings.
Record profits 2021, Low tax. www.americanprogress.org/shareable/de... Chevron: $9.5B pre tax earnings minus state and local tax owed, paid 1.8% federal tax rate ($174M). ExxonMobil’s effective federal income tax rate was 2.8% in 2021, with $9.3B in U.S. earnings and $236M in federal income taxes.
Exxon Mobil: Darren Woods - $44.1M in 2024, a 19.3% increase, $26.8M in stock awards and a $4.5M bonus.
Chevron: Michael Wirth - up 23.4% to $32M in 2024. His base salary up $1.975M in 2026.
Hess Corp: John B. Hess - $12.4M in 2021.
ConocoPhillips: Ryan Lance - $23.9M in 2021.
US oil exporters: ExxonMobil, Chevron, Phillips, Occidental, and independent producers like EOG Resources, Hess, and Apache. Despite high profits, these companies pay low U.S. federal income taxes—averaging @ 12–14% since 2017—frequently paying more in taxes to foreign governments than in the U.S
None of those men are too poor to buy a perfectly fitting pair of the same black wingtip shoes - $145. What kind of pathetic git wears shoes that don't fit just to please the boss?
Blast waves reverberated across Naqshe Jahan Square, the 964,000-square-foot plaza, constructed in 1598 during the Safavid empire.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w... Golestan Palace dates to the 14th century, with its famed hall of mirrors. Iran is one example of many civilizations that create and maintain works of exquisite beauty over the millennia yet give rise to leaders capable of cruelty to their own and other peoples.
2026 GOP SAVE Voter ID Act Requires Your Current ID to Match Your Birth Certificate (You'll Need Both!) OR You'll Need Passport Plus More to VOTE in 2026.
Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 to leave a message for your Senators.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/b... From basic plastics and fertilizer made in Saudi Arabia and Oman, to sugar from Brazil and helium from Qatar, disruptions are raising prices.
Aluminum prices hit 4 years highs when deliveries from Qatar and Bahrain ceased (metal is used for planes, cans, power lines).
America produces substantially more oil than we consume. Although we import some oil from Canada and Mexico, while exporting even more from Texas, we buy hardly any oil from the Persian Gulf. Self-sufficiency in oil has done nothing at all to insulate the U.S. economy from Middle East chaos.
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An important conversation with Jack Smith about his story, experience, and insights into current events.
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www.rsn.org/001/mike-joh... Multiple six figure annual "salary" payments to Mike and his wife from non-profits, law firm, clients, and Louisiana College most years. He will never betray the hands that feed him.
www.forbes.com/sites/christ... Mega-donor fortunes jumped $12B each when bombs hit Iran and drones torched Qatar's LNG plant. Their LNG build-out brought Louisiana coastal communities air pollution, heightened vulnerability to hurricanes, degradation of fishing and wetlands, chronic health issues.
