#WheresMitch? Not Ending Shutdown, But Voting on Extremist Anti-Choice Bill | News & Views

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[] ['Our Nation's Capital Has Officially Become a Playground': Trump Sends 'Childish' Letter Canceling Pelosi's Overseas Trip](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) 1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY by Jake Johnson, staff writer The president's letter came a day after the House Speaker suggested delaying the State of the Union address due to security concerns caused by the shutdown --------------------------------------------------------------- [Scientists Call for 'Global Agricultural Revolution' and 'Planetary Health Diet' to Save Lives—and Earth](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) [meal examples for "flexitarian" or "planetary health" diet](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer While scientists continue to call for immediately phasing out fossil fuels across the global to avert climate catastrophe, a team of international experts on Thursday unveiled a proposal to address another major driver of the climate crisis: the world's unhealthy and unsustainable food system. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Terrible News' for GOP as Survey Shows Generation Z Shaping Up To Be Most Progressive Ever](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY by Jake Johnson, staff writer "This data suggests there is a reason why Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets so much heat from conservatives—she and this new congressional class not only represent the demographic changes that scare some, but she embodies the ideological trends, too." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['We Have Monsters Leading America': Trump's DHS Locked Up More Children Than Previously Known](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) 1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY by Julia Conley, staff writer Confirming the fears of human rights groups, the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reported on Thursday that thousands more children were separated from their parents at the southern U.S. border by the Trump administration, long before it unveiled its official family separation policy. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Step Up or Step Aside': Youth Climate Leaders Occupy Schumer's Office to Demand Support for Green New Deal](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) 1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Real climate leadership means a commitment to bold climate action and a just transition. It means a Green New Deal." --------------------------------------------------------------- ["I'm Sure Dinosaurs Thought They Had Time, Too': Over 12,000 Students Strike in Brussels Demanding Bold Climate Action](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) 1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY by Julia Conley, staff writer An estimated 12,500 students walked out of their classrooms in Belgium on Thursday to join the country's second youth-led climate march in the past week, demanding that government leaders take bold action to help stem the global climate crisis. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) [] [] Views... [] [10 Things We All Lose If Bernie Chooses Not to Run in 2020](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) 1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY by RoseAnn DeMoro What policy issues would be off the table? What demands for transformation would be watered down? --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s Federal Government Shutdown and Unpaid Dishwashers](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) [This shutdown, then, is a wake-up call for all working women and men–whether organized or unorganized, government or private sector. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) by Alycee Lane Steeped in Trump’s anti-labor practices, this shutdown must be seen for what it is: a war on working people, executed from the Oval Office --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bar Barr or Regret this Dictatorial Attorney General](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) [Barr was also George H.W. Bush’s Attorney General and has been a long-time defender of executive branch lawlessness. (Photo: AP)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) by Ralph Nader There is much more in Barr’s secretive, corporatist, anti-consumer, labor, and environmental record to get the Senate Democrats’ dander up and throw down the gauntlet. But, no, they prefer to be polite and in so doing let the American people down --------------------------------------------------------------- [Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization?](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) 1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY by Richard Heinberg To fully and systematically address the climate/energy crisis, the plan will have to be far broader in scope than what is currently being proposed. And while we need to mobilize society as a whole with a World War II-level of effort, the reality is that there's never been a challenge like this... --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tax the Rich, Fight the Climate Crisis](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) 1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY by Bill Bigelow Why we need much more of what solidarity and organizing just accomplished in Oregon --------------------------------------------------------------- [Against Forgetting: Ground Zero Nagasaki](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) [In Nagasaki alone, by the end of 1945 when a first count was possible, 74,000 men, women, and children were dead. Of those, only 150 were military personnel. Seventy-five thousand more civilians were injured or irradiated. (Photo: Getty) ](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) by Susan Southard Living the nuclear past—and future --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFFvCJmeOY) [] [] Newswire... 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