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06 October 19
Marc Ash | Will Trump Relinquish Power?
Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "If the moment lawfully arrives for Donald Trump to pass from the presidency in a peaceful and orderly manner, will he do so? The short answer is: Not if he can avoid it."
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Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "If the moment lawfully arrives for Donald Trump to pass from the presidency in a peaceful and orderly manner, will he do so? The short answer is: Not if he can avoid it."
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Rick Perry. (photo: Reuters)
Trump Claims Energy Secretary Rick Perry Is Behind Ukraine Call at Heart of Impeachment Inquiry
Anna Kaplan, The Daily Beast
Kaplan writes: "President Trump has reportedly tried to pin the explosive Ukraine call at the center of an impeachment inquiry on Energy Secretary Rick Perry."
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Anna Kaplan, The Daily Beast
Kaplan writes: "President Trump has reportedly tried to pin the explosive Ukraine call at the center of an impeachment inquiry on Energy Secretary Rick Perry."
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Pedestrians on the Puerta Mexico bridge, which crosses the Rio Grande, wait to enter Brownsville, Texas, at a legal port of entry in Matamoros, Mexico, in August. (photo: Emilio Espejel/AP)
ACLU Calls On Homeland Security to Stop Turning Away Pregnant Asylum-Seekers
Reynaldo Leaños Jr., NPR
Leanos writes: "To stem the flow of migrants across the southern border, the Trump administration is sending tens of thousands of asylum-seekers back to Mexico to await their day in U.S. immigration court - including some pregnant women."
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Reynaldo Leaños Jr., NPR
Leanos writes: "To stem the flow of migrants across the southern border, the Trump administration is sending tens of thousands of asylum-seekers back to Mexico to await their day in U.S. immigration court - including some pregnant women."
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Joshua Brown testifies during the trial of Amber Guyger for murdering her neighbour, Botham Jean. (photo: Tom Fox/AP)
Witness in Amber Guyger Murder Case Found Shot Dead in Dallas
Associated Press
Excerpt: "A witness in the murder trial of a white Dallas police officer who fatally shot her black neighbor has been killed in a shooting."
Associated Press
Excerpt: "A witness in the murder trial of a white Dallas police officer who fatally shot her black neighbor has been killed in a shooting."
EXCERPT:
In a statement he included with the tweet, he said authorities have not identified a suspect or determined a motive.
I just spoke with Joshua Browns mother. She is devastated. We all are. Joshua Brown was key witness in the murder of Botham Jean that helped put Amber Guyger away. We need answers.
23K people are talking about this
“Brown deserves the same justice he sought to ensure the Jean family,” Merritt said in the statement.
Dallas County prosecutor Jason Hermus said Brown “bravely came forward to testify when others wouldn’t,” according to the newspaper.
“If we had more people like him, we would have a better world,” said Hermus, who was lead prosecutor in the case.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent. (photo: Eric Gay/AP)
The Border Patrol Allegedly Thinks It Can Just Ignore Court Orders Now
Samantha Grasso, Splinter
Grasso writes: "Here's your regular dose of the hell that is our immigration system: An undocumented man living in New Mexico was detained by the border patrol last week-despite having documentation that showed a federal judge closed his immigration case years ago"
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Samantha Grasso, Splinter
Grasso writes: "Here's your regular dose of the hell that is our immigration system: An undocumented man living in New Mexico was detained by the border patrol last week-despite having documentation that showed a federal judge closed his immigration case years ago"
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to review an honor guard in Jerusalem on Sept. 1. (photo: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)
Netanyahu Indictment Could Follow as Jerusalem Hearing Reviews Corruption Case
Steve Hendrix, The Washington Post
Hendrix writes: "A long-brewing corruption case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shifted to the next phase Wednesday, escalating the embattled premier's legal peril even as he fights to retain office following last month's deadlocked election."
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Steve Hendrix, The Washington Post
Hendrix writes: "A long-brewing corruption case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shifted to the next phase Wednesday, escalating the embattled premier's legal peril even as he fights to retain office following last month's deadlocked election."
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A pronghorn runs through the Pinedale Anticline natural gas field in Wyoming in 2008. (photo: Theo Stein/USFWS)
We're Just Starting to Learn How Fracking Harms Wildlife
Tara Lohan, The Revelator
Lohan writes: "In January 2015 North Dakota experienced one of the worst environmental disasters in its history: A pipeline burst, spilling nearly 3 million gallons of briny, saltwater waste from nearby oil-drilling operations into two creek beds. The wastewater, which flowed all the way to the Missouri River, contained chloride concentrations high enough to kill any wildlife that encountered it."
Tara Lohan, The Revelator
Lohan writes: "In January 2015 North Dakota experienced one of the worst environmental disasters in its history: A pipeline burst, spilling nearly 3 million gallons of briny, saltwater waste from nearby oil-drilling operations into two creek beds. The wastewater, which flowed all the way to the Missouri River, contained chloride concentrations high enough to kill any wildlife that encountered it."
EXCERPT:
It’s in the Water
The fracking process uses a lot of water and much of that contaminated H2O returns to the surface, bringing with it heavy metals, radioactivity, toxic chemicals (many of which are industry trade secrets) and high levels of salinity. Disposing of all that wastewater has created headaches for the industry and in some cases it's now proving to endanger wildlife.
Spills or intentional dumping of wastewater or fracking fluid released 180 million gallons into the environment between 2009 and 2014, according to an investigation by the Associated Press. Unsafe levels of some contaminants have been found to persist for years, as was the case in North Dakota.
Not all spills and intentional releases of wastewater in streams create noticeable impacts like fish going belly up — some are more subtle and harder to see — but they may still take a real toll on aquatic life.
A 2019 study in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety looked at what happens when insects called water fleas encounter a fracking-fluid spill. Researchers found that even when the fluids were diluted in a stream, their high salinity could decrease insect mobility and survival. The Canadian province of Alberta, the researchers noted, has recorded 100 such large-volume spills.
Lowly water fleas — in this case a species called Daphnia magna — may not seem like animals we should worry about, but like so many small creatures, they occupy an important niche.
"They are the basis of the freshwater ecosystem," Steingraber explained. "When the water fleas are gone, the guys that feed on them are gone — frogs and fish die, and those that feed on them die and suddenly you have a biodiversity problem because you've knocked out a species at the bottom of the aquatic food chain."
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