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There I sat at the end of a long night. It was just my husband and me sitting at a bar in downtown Tulsa. The bartender looked at me sadly and offered a shot. I’m not a shot person, but what the hell? This was a unique situation, and I …

https://youtu.be/d3kUdkzzfgg We read and explain SB 700, the California bill (now law) that gets California out of fossil fuels used for generating electrical power by January 1 of next year, and reimburses consumers for putting solar grids on their roofs and windmills in their backyards to connect back to the …

https://youtu.be/asMLfydR5aQ What’s going on in the South Bronx? DailyClout Cities Columnist Jason Haber explains.

In 1987, the United States and the Soviet Union adopted the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in an effort to eliminate missiles on hair-trigger alert for nuclear war due to their short flight times. It was the first time the two countries agreed to destroy nuclear weapons. That treaty outlawed nearly 2,700 ballistic or land-based cruise …

Children battling unhealthy body images need a different narrative about beauty Social media companies are putting profits before children, policy makers in the UK are arguing. Last week, Jackie Doyle-Price, the minister for mental health and suicide prevention, called for Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram to be treated like publishers that …

House values and cell antennas One reason you would not want a Close Proximity Microwave Radiation Antenna (CPMRA) in front of or near your home is that it will lower the value of your home.  This is one of the reasons cities and towns should limit and regulate the permitting …

https://youtu.be/bgLLSI6srcA This version of the #Greennewdeal is almost as shocking as the one we read last week that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez disavowed. This one is 60 percent green and forty percent giant non-transparent blank checks to unions, “vulnerable and frontline communities” and geoengineering venture capitalists, as well as huge interventions in …

https://youtu.be/1vAVJ_G2rf8 This bill—S1: Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019—has passed initial hurdles in the US Senate this past week (Jan 30 2019). It gives Israel the power to jointly patrol US skies alongside NASA and creates a joint Israel Space Agency/NASA anti-drone and satellite program, also allowing …

Congress refuses to enact legislation containing the nearly $6 billion that Donald Trump is demanding for an unnecessary wall on the southern US border. In response, Trump is considering whether to declare a national emergency, take money Congress has appropriated for other purposes, and divert it to build his wall. …

Here’s the deal with the Green New Deal. We actually READ the #GreenNewDeal. Watch the video above to walk through the staggering details with Dr. Naomi Wolf. It’s NOT a draft bill — it’s 11 pages of a Google doc with shocking surprises. It assigns a vast “wartime footing” level …

Politicians and pundits alike have roundly criticized Donald Trump for stating he will pull our troops out of Syria and cut US forces in Afghanistan by half. James Mattis immediately resigned as secretary of defense, writing in a letter to Trump, “you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views …

America has reached a critical turning point in terms of our growing disparity in wealth. Recent reports indicate that the world’s three richest individuals — Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett — have more wealth than do the bottom half of Americans combined. https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2017/11/09/the-3-richest-americans-hold-more-wealth-than-bottom-50-of-country-study-finds/#472c34123cf8  To understand this disparity even …

In 2016, Americans spent nearly $330 billion on retail prescription drugs. $45 billion of those expenses were out of pocket. A bipartisan group of Senators led by Susan Collins (R-ME), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) have introduced two bills to make sure that patients actually have the opportunity …

Who: Former Microsoft Executive Jamen Shively and other techies & concerned solutionaries committed to halting abrupt climate change What: Public invitation to the entire Technology Sector to join the race for solutions to abrupt climate change Where: Starting at Main Microsoft Campus, Redmond: N.E. 40th& 156th Ave. N.E., Redmond, WA, …

5G is being rolled out in cities across the US — and people feel more unwell than ever. Environmental Health Trust explains the solid science behind the headaches and illnesses! Will legislation hurt or help? https://youtu.be/uvyrv25W9Is

Via PBS “We are three-hundred-and-twenty-five million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the …

Is a “smart world” necessarily good for us? Connecting your smartphone to your TV, dishwasher, and even to your child’s Barbie doll, is now all the rage. Boosting wi-fi in places where it never used to exist — from appliances to toys — is being hailed as the new ideal.  “5G” is the …

When I experienced sexual assault after work one night, I came home not knowing what to do. The cook at the restaurant in which I worked, had been making sexual advances throughout the night, which I tried to get out of and had even told my supervisor about during my …