Though I like reading your links it occurs to me that they’re not really random. Virtually all of them seem to be from the Daily Kos and a good percentage of those are from the “community” - i.e., not vetted by staff.
This is true, much as I consider it to be more of an easy gathering point. Nearly all the posts that I link have links to the source material, which is spread across a wide range of sources. I fully admit to misusing the word "random," either way.
The only reason that bothers me is that I don’t want to only read stuff I’m already inclined to agree with.
Which is fair, much as I'm mostly poking at things that I think are of noteworthy interest in their own right. I've poked at the Democrats a number of times, but... really, that the Republicans are just that overtly bad is something that should not be equivocated about.
Because generally I don’t seek out pro-Trump media, and I develop a skewed sense that a large majority of people agree with me.
The last thing anti-Trumpers need is a false sense of security. That helped put Trump in office IMO.
It did help put Trump in office. With that said, though... I may just be an oddity, but... I don't think I've ever really had a false sense of security about Trump and his odds. I'm not likely to until he's actually out of office, though, one way or another, and even then, I always considered him a symptom of the larger underlying problems. He's a serious problem, in and of himself, but getting rid of him doesn't address how we got him in the first place at all or how he's made those problems so much worse and added more problems on top of those. The failure to appreciate the underlying problems has more to do with a false sense of security, IMO.
A couple not really all that random things to poke at then.
Exclusive: U.S. withholding $105 million in security aid for Lebanon - sources
Without actually giving any reason for such, of course. With that said, an Israeli news outlet might have an explanation.
After Israeli plea, US cutting $105 million in military aid to Lebanon — report
Reported decision by State Department comes day after Israeli officials said diplomats had asked allies to condition funds on action against Hezbollah missile program
If true, why we would need to go to Israeli news to learn why is plenty problematic in and of itself.
Whistleblower Reveals Flawed Construction at North Dakota Gas Plants Where Massive Spill Was Downplayed
This article is from earlier October. 'Downplayed.' They reported 10. The actual number was more like 11,000,000. Also...
This puts the release, in terms of gallons spilled, on par with the infamous 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and secures Garden Creek a spot as one of the largest industry spills in U.S. history. ONEOK has not received any fines from North Dakota regulators for the spill.
Not even a fine. That's pretty clear reason to believe that something's very broken in ND - because of fossil fuel industry corruption of the government, fairly certainly.
RNC Knew When Wikileaks Would Dump the Emails In 2016.
And coordinated with that. Also, Trump said to get the e-mails from Russia and it looks like Flynn said that he would indeed try to do so.
Sure sounds like collusion to me.
DOE Delaying Study That Shows $80 Billion In Net Benefits Of Coast-to-Coast “Super-Grid”
A new analysis by the Department of Energy shows that such a grid would cost $80 billion, but would return more than twice that amount in economic gains. It would allow for renewable energy generated during sunny California afternoons to power the evening electricity load on the East Coast, and evening winds that whip across the plains to smooth out the West Coast’s nighttime peak.
It would be a boon, in other words, for the renewable energy industry.
Which is probably why the DOE still hasn’t released the two-year study, which, as E&E reports, has apparently “been finished for a while,” according to Vibrant Clean Energy LLC CEO Christopher Clack.
The Trump Administration, trying to prevent the death of the coal industry at immense cost to everyone but the owners of the coal companies.
