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Rhiannon12866's JournalSeth Meyers - Trump and Republicans Rush to Pass Their Radical Tax Plan: A Closer Look
Seth takes a closer look at how Republicans in the Senate are rushing to pass a radical overhaul of the tax code that would slash taxes for corporations and the wealthy.
Seth Meyers - Late Night White House Press Briefing: What Does Paul Ryan Think About During Sex?
Sarah Huckabee Sanders holds an impromptu press briefing to answer burning questions, like how does the president's urologist describe Donald Trump?
The Daily Show: The Truth About Trump's "Pocahontas" Slur
Trevor explains why President Trump referred to Senator Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas" at a ceremony honoring Native American veterans.
Trump Is Continuing the War on Drugs That Kept Me Addicted
I’m a former heroin addict. I know all too well where Trump’s opioid plan goes wrong.By ELIZABETH BRICO November 28, 2017
All eyes were on President Donald Trump last month while he formally declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. But how many people noticed the woman to his left? Dressed in neutral tones, firmly in frame throughout the speech, stood Sara Dean Collier, a woman in recovery from opioid addiction whom first lady Melania Trump cited during her introduction. Collier was the single source mentioned from the recovery community, the token addict—and she looked as uncomfortable standing there as that designation sounds.
I understand why she was invited. A tidy white woman, 10 years in recovery, positioned neatly behind the president's shoulder gives the impression that the White House is listening to the people most affected by the crisis—people like Collier and myself who know firsthand the struggle of addiction. But is the White House listening? I’m asking because the “just say no” rhetoric and emphasis on arresting and imprisoning drug dealers is exactly the opposite of what those of us in recovery—or those still engaged in an active addiction—most need to hear. It’s the opposite of what we should be doing to stem the epidemic of opioid addiction.
It was at that October 26 announcement that Trump outlined his response to the opioid drug epidemic sweeping the country—a plan that’s inadequate at best, and more likely counterproductive. Let’s start with the funding: At that address, Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, opening up a mere $57,000 in funds to cover everything from telemedicine to naloxone distribution expansions—partial solutions for a crisis the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates carries a $78.5 billion price tag. If Trump had declared it a national disaster, which several on his staff were pushing for, he would have unlocked up to billions of dollars in Federal Emergency Management Agency relief funds. That massive funding shortfall, paired with Medicaid cuts the White House supports, means the addiction community will be less able to access the care it needs, from medication-assisted therapy to substance abuse counseling
These funding shortfalls, though, are nothing compared with moves his administration has taken to return to the ruthless criminalization of drugs that we saw in the 1980s and 1990s. Trump’s emphasis at that October speech on a Nancy Reagan-style ad campaign—ads likely to cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars—is enough to bring back memories of the golden age of the war on drugs. Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has asked prosecutors to pursue the “most serious, readily provable offense,” ending an Obama-era reform that aimed to charge nonviolent drug offenders with less serious crimes.
More: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/28/donald-trump-opioids-drug-war-215872
Prince Harry is quite friendly with Michelle Obama. She makes friends wherever she goes:
3 Major Spills in 7 Years: Keystone Has Leaked Far More Than TransCanada Estimated
TransCanada's existing Keystone pipeline has already leaked a significant amount of oil three times in less than seven years. That's a much higher rate than the company predicted in its risk assessments provided to regulators, Reuters reported.
Since the 2,147-mile pipeline began operating in 2010, it has gushed 5,000-barrels just this month in Marshall County, South Dakota, and about 400 barrels each in Hutchinson County, South Dakota in 2016 and in Sargent County, North Dakota in 2011.
However, TransCanada's spill risk assessment estimated that the chance of a leak of more than 50 barrels to be “not more than once every seven to 11 years over the entire length of the pipeline in the United States,"
And in South Dakota, where the line has leaked twice, the estimate was for a “spill no more than once every 41 years."
More: https://www.ecowatch.com/keystone-oil-spills-2512913573.html?utm_source=EcoWatch%2BList&utm_campaign=a505cc33e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-a505cc33e4-85350385
TransCanada to restart Keystone pipeline on Tuesday
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The Keystone crude oil pipeline will restart at reduced pressure on Tuesday, TransCanada Corp (TRP.TO) said, nearly two weeks after closing the line after it leaked 5,000 barrels of crude in rural South Dakota.
Calgary-based TransCanada shut down the 590,000 barrel-per-day pipeline, one of Canada’s main crude export routes linking Alberta’s oil fields to U.S. refineries, on Nov. 16. The company is still cleaning up the spill and investigating the cause.
TransCanada said on Monday the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) reviewed its repair and restart plans. It said it will start operating the pipeline at reduced pressure, and gradually boost the volume of crude moving through.
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In its most recent update, TransCanada said it has so far cleaned up 1,065 barrels of oil.
The cleanup “is going as fast as we would hope, they are working 24 hours a day,” said Brian Walsh, environmental scientist manager with the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
More: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-transcanada-keystone/transcanada-to-restart-keystone-pipeline-on-tuesday-idUSKBN1DR2DW
An aerial view shows the darkened ground of an oil spill which shut down the Keystone pipeline between Canada and the United States, located in an agricultural area near Amherst, South Dakota, U.S., in this photo provided November 18, 2017. REUTERS/Dronebase MANDATORY CREDIT.
CNN panel derails after Rick Wilson calls Sarah Sanders 'a congenital liar' with a 'shriveled husk..
CNN panel derails after Rick Wilson calls Sarah Sanders ‘a congenital liar’ with a ‘shriveled husk left in her soul'
A CNN panel on Monday veered off-course after GOP strategist Rick Wilson called White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders “a serial, congenital liar” for her defense of Donald Trump’s “Pocahontas” attack on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
“How can Sarah Sanders stand there at the podium and say, ‘Oh it’s not a slur, the president doesn’t mean it as a slur,’” host Don Lemon asked, referring to Trump’s comments at a Native American World War II veteran tribute in the Oval Office on Monday, and Sanders’ subsequent claim it was not a racial attack on Warren.
“Don, the reason she does that is because her job is contingent on her being a serial, congenital liar in defense of Donald Trump’s latest outrages,” Wilson opined. “She probably has some tiny, shriveled husk left in her soul where she realizes this is the wrong thing to do, but she does it anyway because otherwise they’ll replace her.”
Trump defender Mike Shields countered that every press secretary “advocates on behalf of the president,” but Wilson buying it.
More: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/cnn-panel-derails-after-rick-wilson-calls-sarah-sanders-a-congenital-liar-with-a-shriveled-husk-left-in-her-soul/
The Daily Show - Trump's Christmas Gift to the Poor: Tax Hikes
After President Trump called to reform the tax code, Trevor breaks down how a proposed GOP plan will affect low-income Americans.
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