Trees Will Not Save Us From Climate Change
A new paper is getting a lot of attention for its claim that the earth has about 2 billion acres of land that are currently unused and could support the planting of 500 billion trees. Once the trees were grown, they’d capture about 205 gigatonnes of carbon. That sounds great, but let’s give it some…
Trump Says Citizenship Question Needed for “Many Reasons,” None of Which He Can Explain
Shutterstock Here is the head of the executive branch of government explaining why we need a citizenship question on the census: Q: What’s the reason for trying to get a citizenship question on the census? pic.twitter.com/KXhUOLcMcR — Redacted🐞 (@rkfatheree) July 5, 2019 I guess I don’t need to point out that we don’t need a…
Trump Administration Shockingly Revives Push for Census Citizenship Question
Demonstrators gather at the Supreme Court as the justices issue a decision on the constitutionality of asking a citizenship question on the 2020 census, June 27, 2019. J. Scott Applewhite/AP In a shocking reversal, Justice Department lawyers told a federal court on Friday that they were exploring how to revive the Trump administration’s push to…
Trump Explains George Washington’s Air Superiority Strategy
An exhausted George Washington leads his troops after their historic victory at Trenton Airport.Edward Percy Moran (c. 1914) Our commander-in-chief said yesterday that the Continental Army “suffered the bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware, and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown.” Fine. But then he said that they…
Bikini Hut Loses Landmark First Amendment Appeal for Female Empowerment
This is Raquel Welch as Loana in the classic 1966 remake of One Million BC. I am including it purely for illustrative purposes to show what a barista wearing a bikini might look like.20th Century Fox Up in Everett, Washington, an establishment called Bikini Hut employs baristas who, um, wear bikinis. The city was unamused…
How Decriminalizing Sex Work Became a 2020 Campaign Issue
Erik Mcgregor/Zuma When Julia Salazar, the 28-year-old Democratic Socialist state senator for New York’s 18th district, was campaigning last year, one of her most reliable set of volunteers was a group that has been largely cast out of mainstream political coalitions. Hundreds of sex workers and sex work advocates signed up to canvass for Salazar…