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I know last week I promised to try to elevate the nation’s aesthetic sensibilities, but I lied. Because this week the 1980s returns in all its fluorescent glory.

Trump is doing everything he can to make sure he and his banker friends get richer. Not sure why since suuuuppperrrrr old.

Trump is doing everything he can to make sure he and his banker friends get richer. Not sure why since suuuuppperrrrr old.

A new PPP poll shows that 51% of Trump supporters believe that two Iraqis perpetrated the fictitious “Bowling Green Massacre.” And another takeaway that comes out of this poll is that “by a 48/43 spread, voters do think that the intent of the Executive Order is to be a Muslim ban.

Fox and Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade, who’s a rabid Trump supporter laid the ground work to blame any terrorist attack that happens in the U.S. on the courts when he angrily said, “I know it sounds harsh, but really, it’s on the courts now. If something happens with these refugees, you can’t blame the president.”

The latest, from a blog called Arctic News , warns that by 2026 — that’s just nine years from now — warming above the Arctic Circle could be so extreme that a massively disrupted and weakened jet stream could lead to global temperature rises so severe that a massive extinction event, including humans, could result. This latest blog post, written by Arctic News editor Sam Carana, draws on research by a number of scientists , who report on various feedback loops that will result from a dramatically warmer north polar region.

It’s v subjective In case you can’t watch the video, I’ll sum up: Trump GOP Rep. Duffy is defending the Trump GOP ban on refugees from countries that haven’t produced citizens who have attacked the U.S. He’s scaremongering about attacks in Europe, and CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota is asking why that’s the big focus now when actual white supremacist violence is occurring in North America. Duffy first claims that white supremacist violence like the mosque shooting in Canada are “one-offs.”

Slide 5 from the “NOAA/NASA Annual Global Analysis for 2016” . As you’ll read below, global temperature in 1910 is a good proxy for “pre-Industrial global temperature.”

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I rarely use the words “best ever” when describing anything because it is so subjective…but I am going to suspend my personal rule and declare this the best SNL skit in years. I have never laughed so loud at a skit on this show, ever.

From the address given by Imam Hassan Guillet at the funeral for 3 of the Quebec City mosque victims, Ibrahima Barry, Mamadou Tanou, Azzeddine Soufiane: The society that could not protect them, the society that could not benefit from their generosity still has a chance. The hands that didn’t shake the hands of Khaled or Aboubaker or Abdelkrim or Azzedine or Mamadou or Ibrahima, that society can shake the hands of their kids.