Trump Breaks His Silence About Undocumented Immigrants Working at his Properties
Shealah Craighead via ZUMA News outlets have reported over the past several months that undocumented immigrants, a group that since he began his presidential campaign President Trump has aggressively maligned, disparaged, and wanted out of the country, work in a number of Trump’s properties. The President hasn’t spoken on the matter for months, but recently…
The Nation’s Largest Commercial Insurance Company Has Ditched Covering Coal. That’s a Big Deal.
Chubb Ltd., the nation’s largest commercial insurance company, announced it will move away from insuring and investing in coal. It becomes the first major U.S. insurance company to take such action, joining more than a dozen European and Australian insurers that have already adopted similar policies. Chubb will no longer underwrite the construction of new…
What Will Be Left When We’re Gone? Bones, Plastic, Radioactive Waste, and Lots of Garbage.
Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Millions of years from now, what will be left of us? At the rate we’re going, nature might well have taken over. Moscow and Mumbai will be sand and gravel cast across the desert expanse; New…
There May Be More Racist Border Patrol Facebook Groups
John Moore/Getty Images On Saturday, CNN reported that it had found another Facebook group in which Border Patrol frequently posted racist and generally bigoted memes, called “The Real CBP Nation.” Thousands of members had left the group in the wake of ProPublica’s report on “I’m 10-15” according to one of the posts on CNN. The…
On the Road with the Black Pumas
The Black Pumas are a heavy-grooving soul-rock band from Austin that came together around the collaboration of big-hearted singer Eric Burton and Grammy-winning guitarist and producer Adrian Quesada. Quesada has a rich background playing and producing soul, funk, and Latin music, and he earned his Grammy as a member of Grupo Fantasma in 2010. (The…
Trump Is Going to Brag About All He’s Done for the Environment. No. Really.
Donald Trump on a tour of the Flint, Michigan water plant in 2016, when he was the Republican presidential nominee.Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty This story was originally published by the Guardian and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump plans to go on the offensive against criticism of his industry-friendly rollbacks of environment…