In the eastern U.S., nearly all urban areas, including Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, will become most similar to contemporary climates located hundreds of kilometers to the south and southwest,” they write. “Put another way, by the 2080s climate of cities in the northeast will tend to feel more like the…

Two thoughts:

Maybe? IIRC sequestration happened over a debt ceiling fight. It needed to go up and Obama had to agree to the sequester to get the debt ceiling bill to pass.

The Republican bill is a little scary since it automatically cuts spending across the board as an incentive to get a new deal done. I could see a few tea party zealots get really excited about across the board spending cuts.

Senator Barrasso is that you?

I’ll take more teachers, economic phds, scientists, and doctors.

—abolishing ICE as an attainable goal, not just an aspirational slogan.

I don’t think calling out AIPAC is anti-Semitic whatsoever, but you’re kidding yourself if you can look at the tweet exactly as written and not understand why she is getting jumped on like this. Considering the sensitives here any elected official who wants to criticize Israel needs to be very careful and deliberate…

After Herring in the line of succession is Del. Kirk Cox, the Republican Speaker of Virginia House of Delegates.

Virginia politicians...

The other thing that really bothered me about that part of the speech was the fact that he paraded the survivor of a mass shooting in front of the entire country without any mention of the weapons used to murder those people, and why a racist monster is allowed to possess them.

Do you really think a 70% top marginal income tax rate, Medicare for all and a higher minimum wage actually threatens our constitutional republic?

If Starbucks is THAT worried they should maybe try two things:

The number of people commenting on this article who don’t know how marginal tax rates work both boggles my mind and doesn’t surprise me whatsoever.

The idea that raising taxes is a movement against capitalism is a mental long jump worthy of a gold medal.

“In this bedroom, President Donald J. Trump was likely conceived, by his parents, Fred and Mary Trump.”

The larger problem, however, is having an agency in the first place whose mission can be significantly warped so that it justifies upending the lives of people who are doing nothing wrong except living here.

Regardless, philosophically the government should not take more than 50% of any dollar I make, whether it is my first dollar or my last dollar.