DL Open Thread: Tues., Aug. 20, 2019

Trump Sabotages First Big US Offshore Wind Farm. While approving every fossil fuel project imaginable, he slow-walks the wind farm and places its funding in jeopardy.

How Trump Loyalists Harassed State Department Employees Into Leaving.  Nobody’s home at the State Department. What could go wrong?

Oil Lobbyists Successfully Push For Laws To Criminalize Pipeline Protests. You know, because of policing costs. As opposed to say, costs for Trump rallies where expenses never get reimbursed.

How To Escape The ‘Meritocracy Trap’.  Create a new economic New Deal. It can happen as the R’s hurtle towards extinction.

Warren Proposes Plan To Return Property To Black Heirs Who Had Their Land Stolen.  MY kind of reparations. I’m all-in on Warren.

Four Mass Shootings Thwarted Since El Paso.  That’s the good news. The bad news? You’re not gonna thwart all of ’em.  These dopes may soon figure out that going online and braggin’ about their upcoming exploits ain’t the way to git ‘er done.

What do you want to talk about?