From Jenna Orkin

Under Fog of Kavanaugh, House Passes $3.8 Trillion More in Tax Cuts

Catholic Magazine Revokes Endorsement of Kavanaugh After Hearing

Trump administration argues that Earth will inevitably be ruined by climate change, so we might as well keep using fossil fuels

Bizarre, High Energy Particles Flying Out of Antarctica’s Ice

Insiders Selling at Record Pace

Belgium Sues Google For Refusing To Blur Military Sites On 'Street View', 'Maps'

1 In 4 Baltimore Hospital Admissions Are Babies Addicted To Opioids

Watch: Japanese Rovers Record First Video Ever Shot On Asteroid's Surface

Beijing Bows To US Pressure: China Top Refiner Halves Iranian Oil Imports

Iraqi Model Gunned Down In Baghdad Amid Flurry Of Female Activist Assassinations

Dramatic Footage Captures Tsunami Crashing Into Heavily Populated Indonesian Coastline

Why Dodd-Frank Is A Protection Racket For Banks

US Evacuating Consulate In Iraq, Citing Threats From Iran

From Jenna Orkin

East Antarctica

Letter from Mark Judge's Lawyer re Kavanaugh

The Not So Secret Life of Insects video.

A member of China's most persecuted minority was arrested for no clear reason, and his family fears he's going to be deported to China

Drugmakers are using an unusual tactic to compete in a new class of medication — giving it away for free

Award-winning footage of the microscopic world around us

Bombshell WSJ Story Confirms "Systematic And Methodical" Chinese Theft Of US Trade Secrets

So Many Cars: Why American Life Expectancy Falls Short

Gold-Based Monetary System To Bring Price Stability To Crypto

Slovak Police Arrest Suspects In Mafia Hit That Nearly Brought Down Government

Chaos Erupts After Massive 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Indonesia

Argentina Hikes Rates To 65% As Peso Plunges To New Record Low

Japan Braces For Typhoon Trami: "Life Threatening Impacts"

"He Will Not Serve For Life" - Democrats Are Already Plotting Kavanaugh's Impeachment

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Pence First VP to Speak at Anti-LGBT Summit

Why Japan is landing hopping robots on an asteroid

Putin's 'tourist' accused of nerve agent attack turns out to be a highly decorated Russian intelligence officer

Estonia is making it easy for people to get 'e-residency,' and it’s offsetting a dangerous demographic time bomb

India declares that adultery is no longer a crime, 3 weeks after legalizing same-sex relations

Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other influential billionaires are investing in 9 startups that are solving the trickiest problems with energy and water — here's the list

Fourth Woman Accuses Kavanaugh

Uber Drivers Make $9.20/Hour, Half Of What They Earned Four Years Ago

Facebook's targeting users with ads using data they provided for security reasons — and it shows why the company still can't be trusted on privacy

Suspected Chinese Spy Arrested In Chicago

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Satellite Images Show Runaway Expansion of Coal Power in China
The green buildings may be pretty but...

Senator Blumenthal Moves for Adoption of S Res. 610, Urging Declassification of 9/11 Documents

Gene Tweak Kills Whole Population of Malaria Carrying Mosquitoes in Lab

Some people have been infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria — and it's been traced to puppies

"No One Will Stop Us" - Venezuela's Maduro Slams Trump's UN Speech Which Hinted At Coup

Europe Unveils "Special Purpose Vehicle" To Bypass SWIFT, Jeopardizing Dollar's Reserve Status

The Incredible Case Of The Skripal 'Patsies' Visas

China Blocks US Navy Warship From Port Call In Hong Kong

Monsanto's Glyphosate Linked To Global Decline In Honey Bees

And...

Gerrymander Jewelry post.

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There's Nothing Natural About Puerto Rico's Disaster - Naomi Klein

Jack Ma Says US Waster Trillions in Warfare Instead of Investing in Infrastructure

Both Instagram's cofounders are quitting after reported 'tensions' with Mark Zuckerberg

'It's a nightmare scenario': A radioactive object was found in San Francisco's new $8 billion neighborhood

Watch Algerian First Arrivals: Spain's 2019 Migration Crisis Will Dwarf Italy's Disaster

America Is Quietly Expanding Its War In Tunisia

The UN Accidentally Exposed Passwords And Sensitive Data To The Entire Internet

A 'humanitarian crisis' looms as Arizona threatens to shut down immigrant children shelters

Confirming Assange's Assertion That WikiLeaks' Source Was The DNC Itself

US To Start "Disrupting" North Korean Oil Smuggling

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Container Ship Crosses Arctic for First Time Due to Climate Change

Financial Experts Predict Crash Under Trump Greater than Depression

Kavanaugh and Pals Accused of Gang Rapes in High School, Avenatti Says

Trump's Wild Life Protection Board Full of Trophy Hunters

Protect 'em long enough for us to shoot 'em.

In Stunning Theft, $104 Million In Banknotes Disappears From Liberian Central Bank

Don't Share This! EU's New Copyright Law Could Kill The Free Internet

Google quietly started logging people into Chrome without their consent, and a security expert says it's terrible for privacy

The world's first floating farm will house 40 cows and be hurricane-resistant

China Publishes Massive "White Paper" Explaining Beijing's Position On Trade War

Emmanuel Macron's Popularity Plunges To 29% As Migrant Crisis Worsens

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Japanese Rovers Send Pictures from Asteroid

Norway Becomes First Country to Ban Deforestation

Mark Judge's Memoir About Brett Kavanaugh's High School

What was on the 9/11 Hijackers' Computers?

'Someone is going to die in this truck': Amazon drivers and managers describe harrowing deliveries inside trucks with 'bald tires,' broken mirrors, and faulty brakes

Pompeo Vows "Series Of Actions" Against Venezuela's Maduro "In The Coming Days"

Japan Has Enough Nuclear Material to Build an Arsenal.  Its Plan?  Recycle

Economic Damage Wrought By Hurricane Florence Nearly 10 Times Worse Than Expected

India's NPL Crisis Erupts: A Major Shadow Bank Defaults On Three Debt Payments

Watch: The Spider's Web - Britain's Second Empire Revealed

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Republicans' 6 Siblings Endorse Opponent

What Happens at Georgetown Prep... video.

Amazon Will Consider Opening Up to 3,000 Cashierless Stores by 2021

Hurricane Florence and 9.7 Million Pigs

Self-Driving Cars Can Handle Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Snow

Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers

Bay Area City Blocks 5G Deployments Over Cancer Concerns

Winning The War On Drugs? Colombian Cocaine Output Soars To Record Levels

Rosenstein Proposed Secretly Recording Trump, Invoking 25th Amendment

Was Kavanaugh Accusation An Orchestrated Hit Involving Fmr Anita Hill Adviser?

Comment:  And if so, so what?

Is Yellowstone Ready To Blow? New Geysers Erupt, Hurling "Debris And Rocks" Into The Sky

From Jenna Orkin

Spiraling Cost of Our Lithium Battery Addiction

Study Emissions from Most Diesel Cars in Europe Greatly Exceed Laboratory Testing Levels

Coca-Cola, Walmart to cut plastic pollution in oceans

DARPA: Paralyzed Man with Brain-Computer-Interface Controls Multiple Simulated Aircraft

Despite Pledge Not To, Germany Approves Sale Of Weapons To Saudi Arabia

School District To Begin Randomly Drug-Testing High School Students

Comment:  What happened to probable cause?

Fmr Scalia Clerk Expects "Compelling Evidence" To Exonerate Kavanaugh Next Week; Feinstein "Will Soon Be Apologizing" 

'Cannabis euphoria' has caused a small drink-maker's stock to triple in less than a week

Scientists gave an antisocial octopus MDMA to make it more friendly – and it worked

Land Reform & Farm Murders In South Africa: The Untold Story Of The Boers And The ANC

Comment:  It would be useful to hear the other side on this.

From Jenna Orkin

Private Intelligence Firm Keeping Tabs on Environmentalists

How a Lauded CIA Veteran Turned Candidate Got Branded with Terrorism Claims

"Serious Public Health Crisis" Developing As Lagoons Of Pig Waste Overflow After Florence

Amazon To Open 3,000 Cashierless Convenience Stores By 2021

Marine Le Pen Must Undergo Psychiatric Evaluation, French Court Rules

Comment:  Well, she's a woman so she's probably crazy.  PS:  This is the first time I've ever sympathized with her.

"Multiple Victims" Reported In Maryland Shooting

Over 80% Of Dutch Support Restrictions On Muslim Women's Clothing

FBI Will Not Launch Criminal Probe Into Kavanaugh Allegations

Active Shooting Reported At Wisconsin Office Building; ATF, Local Police Responding

California regulators open another investigation into Tesla's factory after getting a report that an employee had part of a finger amputated during a workplace accident

People in Australia won't stop hiding needles in strawberries, and its biggest supermarket has stopped selling needles in response

Trump accuses 'OPEC monopoly' of pushing oil prices higher and says 'they must get oil prices down now!'

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China:  Soldiers Turn to Planting Forest

Melting Arctic Permafrost Releases Acid that Dissolves Rock

Sunspot Solar Observatory Closed Down as Part of Investigation of Child Pornography

The CEO of Denmark's biggest bank is out after a $235 billion money laundering scandal

Wall Street needs to find the next generation of economists and traders — and the search needs to start in middle school

Canadians Who Smoke Weed Legally Could Face Lifetime Ban From Entering The US

Brands like Walmart and Lowe will now pay you if recommend their products — as long as your friends end up buying stuff online

Sweden: Anti-Immigration Party Becomes Kingmaker

Recusal Of Mystery Judge Stalls DNC Fraud Lawsuit Appeal

"Terrifying": New Documents Reveal Secret Gov't Rules For Spying On US Journalists

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Pussy Riot Activist in Hospital in Grave Condition; Poisoning Suspected

5 Ways Brett Kavanaugh Tried to Mislead Congress and the Public About His Environmental Record

GOP Will Cut Social Security and Medicare If Tax Plan Passes, Rubio Says

Indigenous Leader Who Battled Canadian Mining Companies Is Murdred

"Inaccessible" North Carolina Nuclear Plant Declares "Unusual Event" During Storm-Driven "Hot Shutdown"

Davos is holding a referendum to see if its citizens want to keep paying to protect world leaders and bankers at the World Economic Forum

40% Of Venezuela Stores Go Bust After 3,000% Minimum Wage Hike

Conservatives, including Fox host Laura Ingraham, promoted claims about the wrong Christine Ford in an attempt to smear Kavanaugh's accuser

Even The Exiled Dalai Lama Agrees: "Europe Belongs To Europeans"

Police Arrest Texas Border Patrol Agent Accused Of Being A Serial Killer

Britain Joins US In Unwise Confrontation In The South China Sea

The Great Gas Game: Putin, Pipelines & Power

Nunes: House Intel To Release 70 Transcripts From Trump-Russia Probe

Netherlands Prosceutes Its Own Citizen For Calling Turkish Dictator A "Goat F*cker"

Comment:  Is that better or worse than "Motherf*cker?"