If It’s Not Viral, It Didn’t Happen
The public phase of the Trump impeachment hearings began this morning. Here’s one of the headlines in the Washington Post: I don’t blame Alemany for writing this or the Post for running it. It’s almost certainly true, after all. But just think about how depressing this is. The president of the United States extorted a…
Bombshell Testimony: Trump Asked Sondland About Ukrainian “Investigations”
President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Evan Vucci/AP During his opening testimony on the first day of the House impeachment hearings, Bill Taylor, the top US diplomat in Ukraine, dropped a bombshell: A member of his staff had overheard a phone call between President Trump and US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland…
In Opening Statement, George Kent Says Giuliani Sabotaged US-Ukraine Policy
Alex Brandon/AP George Kent, the top State Department official in charge of Ukraine relations, said in his testimony at Wednesday morning’s impeachment hearing that Rudy Giuliani hijacked US foreign policy toward Ukraine in an effort to generate politically motivated investigations that would benefit his client, President Donald Trump. And he said that Giuliani and his…
Saudi Aramco Has a New Perspective on Peak Oil
Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS via ZUMA Here’s an interesting tidbit from Axios: The release of the Saudi Aramco IPO prospectus is putting a fresh spotlight on a big question: the date when global oil demand will peak. The document released over the weekend includes estimates that demand will grow until around 2035 before leveling off, but that…
How Fox Is Covering the Impeachment Testimony Vs. How MSNBC Is Covering the Impeachment Testimony
What a time to be alive. fox’s graphic for bill taylor vs. msnbc’s graphic you already know how this is gonna play out pic.twitter.com/Xv28fiaMJY — Danielle Misiak (@DanielleMisiak) November 13, 2019 Embeds of tweets with two photos don’t render right so here are the screenshots, courtesy of Danielle Misiak: Fox News MSNBC
The Photos of Wildfires Raging Across Australia Are Devastating
Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Residents of Sydney, Australia, are bracing for the worst as catastrophic bushfires rage across the state of New South Wales. Though Australia’s summer fire season has just begun, 150,000 hectares of land have already burned in one fire alone, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Since Friday, the fire has killed three people and…