Clinton and Warren Demonstrate Power of Their New Alliance - NBC News

Clinton and Warren Demonstrate Power of Their New Alliance - NBC News 

Centrist and progressive Democrat power. Promising.

Force Congress to Vote on Sensible Gun Control Legislation that is on the Floor RIGHT NOW

Here to have Pelosi force a discharge vote...

http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Pelosi_NRA?sp_ref=208857866.4.16335.o.1.2&referring_akid=.3749496.4AouQi&source=clickcopy_sp   

And Here... http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Orlando_Gun_Control?sp_ref=206806031.4.170410.f.538170.4&referring_akid=.435411.aXukdi&source=fb_share_sp

To suggest the minimum content of legislation that is needed and supported by a VAST majority of Americans right now, who understand the Second Amendment and want these passed to make a more perfect Union TODAY.

They need to pass real gun control now, including:

• Prohibiting the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and "large capacity" magazines for civilian use.
• Ending the ban on gun violence research.
• Closing the terror gap by allowing the Department of Justice to block guns sales to anyone on the terror watch list. Between 2004 and 2014, more than 2,000 people on the list purchased guns in the U.S.²
• Closing the loophole that allows people to buy guns without undergoing background checks through private sales, at gun shows and online. An estimated 40 percent of all firearms transferred in the U.S. are transferred by unlicensed individuals not required to conduct background checks on buyers.³
• Banning convicted domestic abusers and stalkers from buying guns. Abused women are five times more likely to be killed by their abuser if that individual has access to a firearm.⁴

Breaking: Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactors to Be Replaced With 100% Renewable Energy - EcoWatch

Here

Yes. Yes! YEAH! Some GREAT news today! Nuclear reactor - last one in California - to be decommissioned. Much work done here by many over years - with Energy-Climate Committee / Sierra Club California committee friends, Friends of the Earth, NRDC, and Enviornment California! Last nuke reactor in Cali to be shuttered. Replaced with 100% clean energy by 2025. ‪#‎PROGRESS‬ ‪#‎PROGRESSTODAY‬ ##MOVEPASTNUKES

Almost Every GOP Senator Just Voted to Keep Letting Terror Suspects Buy Guns | Mother Jones

Almost Every GOP Senator Just Voted to Keep Letting Terror Suspects Buy Guns | Mother Jones 

It's unbelievable. A vast majority of Americans support all four of the bills - that the GOP just shot down.

Between Donald Trump and this kind of sh**, you wonder if the GOP could race any faster into obsolescence, irrelevance and shame.

#abrogationofduty #travesty #negligent #backwards #betrayingourfuture

Both parties better compromise on a gun bill

Washington Post (blog)

Four gun control measures failed to pass the votes needed in Congress.

News One

White House: Senate gun vote a 'shameful display of cowardice'

Washington Times

Milbank: Congress on guns: Doing nothing but faster than ever

Salt Lake Tribune

Senate tanks all 4 gun control measures introduced in wake of Orlando

Guns.com

Filibuster Ends After GOP Agrees to Allow Gun Control Votes: Senator -- NBC news

Here    "Votes would be held on whether to ban people on the government's terrorist watch list from obtaining gun licenses and whether to expand background checks to gun shows and internet sales, he added." 

How the fuck this has not happened yet is incredible.

El Niño Has Pushed Our Climate Past A Major Climate Milestone - gizmodo.com

Here
"... study published today in Nature Climate Change finds that 2016 is now on track for an atmospheric average of 404.45 plus or minus 0.53 ppm. In other words, it’ll be the first year in the history of our species that we can truly say we’ve been living in a 400 ppm world."

"For instance, the last time the Earth was a 400 ppm world—the mid-Pliocene—sea levels were an estimated 50 to 80 feet higher than they are today, meaning Florida, much of the Gulf Coast, and countless other coastlines worldwide did not exist in their current form."

ADVICE Ken Burns to Stanford Grads: Trump Is “an Insult to Our History” - Time Magazine

Here Archie Bunker had fans too, but how many wanted him to be President?

CO2 Gets Stoned: Method Turns Harmful Gas Into Solid

CO2 Gets Stoned: Method Turns Harmful Gas Into Solid 

This is incredibly promising, trapping CO2 using natural processes. In some cases taking only months.

Finding the areas for this important but apparently not uncommon--the process needs special rocks and water to precipitate CO2 into a solid. And the process needs vetting to make sure algae etc. do not break down (too quickly) such formations and release the CO2 again.

Need much more research and development of CO2 trapping technologies, in addition to stopping pouring the stuff into the atmosphere already.

'History made': Clinton claims nomination - POLITICO

'History made': Clinton claims nomination - POLITICO 

Shows that Californians are more pragmatic than romantic. Contrary to notions otherwise.

100% Reporting

Winner H. Clinton	55.8%	1,940,616	327
B. Sanders	43.2%	1,502,043	189

Hillary is very capable. I had the pleasurable opportunity to vote on my non-partisan (I, like most, am independent-minded by nature) Democratic ballot for Bernie Sanders, Ted Lieu, and Kamala Harris. All forward thinking, capable leaders already making great contributions to society and with many more contributions to be made by each.

Indian P.M. Modi Moving India Forward Nicely -- Moves with Obama on Climate Change

Modi on U.S. visit moves toward Obama on climate change - CNNPolitics.com 

"Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi committed to attempting to ratify
the Paris climate change agreement by the end of this year following a
meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House Tuesday."

And of course the Indian economy is a wakening giant --

Modi: Get on board the India train - Politico

GOP leaders made a deal with the devil, and now they are feeling the heat - LA Times

GOP leaders made a deal with the devil, and now they are feeling the heat - LA Times 

Sounds like the karma repercussions of denying climate change.

You make your hot bed, you get to sleep in it.

Or if it's too hot in the kitchen, fuck you guys.* That kind of thing.

*Because you're continuing to torpedo our collective future and ecosystem to make short term coin on fossil fuel, the rest of us are fucked.

Bernie Sanders on Progressive Priority Issues for a Vice President

Bernie Sanders won't rule out being Hillary Clinton as VP if he loses Democratic nomination | Daily Mail Online 

Strong progressive values -- like his, not surprisingly. 8)

"Sanders
described his ideal candidate for the job as someone who 'will not be
from Wall Street, will be somebody who has a history of standing up and
fighting for working families, taking on the drug companies whose greed
is going to much harm, taking on Wall Street, taking on corporate
America, and fight for a government that works for all of us, not just
the 1 percent.

Sanders
said Friday that Clinton must pick a vice president from his more
progressive wing of the Democratic party, telling The Young Turks that
picking a conservative or moderate would politically be a 'disaster.'"