All News Articles for 2019-11-28

Thursday, November 28, 2019
Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, seen here in 2016, tore into acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday night at a Washington, D.C. bar. "God Bless Martin O'Malley": Former Maryland Governor Takes Trump Administration Immigration Hardliner Ken Cuccinelli to Task at DC Bar
"We all let him know how we felt about him putting refugee immigrant kids in cages."
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Nick Estes Our History Is the Future: Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving & Indigenous Resistance
"Instead of doing to settler society what they did to us—genociding, removing, excluding—there's a capaciousness to Indigenous resistance movements that welcomes in nonindigenous peoples into our struggle."
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People hold up signs and vent their frustrations during a Climate Change Awareness rally at Sydney Town Hall on March 15, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. 'Be on the Right Side of History': Ahead of COP 25, Demand for Govts to Break Free From Fossil Fuels
"We expect governments to come to these climate talks to live up to the moral urgency at hand."
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) attends Women's March 2019 on January 19, 2019 in New York City. 'An Unjust Society Is Far Costlier': AOC Says Beware the Deficit Scolds Who Only Complain About Paying for Stuff When It Benefits People
"I see decisions made every day that cost the American public billions of dollars a year for bogus reasons and nobody asks how we pay for it."
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"This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for everyone building Medicare for All." New Online Tool Aims to Help You Have That Big Medicare for All Talk at This Year's Thanksgiving Feast
"Turkey, mashed potatoes, and arguing politics with your family: the holidays are just around the corner! But talking about politics doesn't have to get heated. The vast majority of people are unhappy with our hugely expensive, profit-driven health care system and are ready for a change."
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Climate Emergency sign EU Lawmakers Declare 'Climate Emergency,' But Campaigners Say Only 'Emergency Action' Will Prove They Mean It
"Our house is on fire. The European Parliament has seen the blaze, but it's not enough to stand by and watch."
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While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) introduced the idea of tipping points two decades ago, the paper notes, it was long believed that what climatologists refer to as "large-scale discontinuities" in the planet's natural system were "considered likely only if global warming exceeded 5°C above pre-industrial levels." According to the researchers, however, more recent information and data—including the most recent IPCC summaries—suggest these frightening "tipping points could be exceede 'Existential Threat to Civilization': Planetary Tipping Points Make Climate Bets Too Dangerous, Scientists Warn
"I don't think people realize how little time we have left," said one co-author of a new paper warning that the systems of the natural world could cascade out of control sooner than was previously thought.
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