The Pentagon says 34 US service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after an Iranian attack on US forces in Iraq earlier this month https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/politics/34-injuries-iran-missile-strike/index.html 

WHAT THE HELL, THEY'RE ONLY ATOMIC SCIENTISTS...

"It is 100 seconds to midnight. We are now expressing how close the world is to catastrophe in seconds—not hours, or even minutes," Bronson said Thursday. "It is the closest to Doomsday we have ever been in the history of the Doomsday Clock. We now face a true emergency—an absolutely unacceptable state of world affairs that has eliminated any margin for error or further delay."

Today's rollback removes protections from more than half of the nation’s wetlands and hundreds of thousands of small waterways. Pesticides and fertilizers could be dumped directly into these waterways

One group backing this change: golf course developers

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/climate/trump-environment-water.html

This was the UK passport that the Daily Express used in an article about the change of passports.
Look closely at the words.

GOP senator asks if he can use the decorative spittoons on the Senate floor during impeachment trial

On the second day of the Senate impeachment trial, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) caused a slight stir when the Sergeant at Arms requested he put away a pouch of chewing tobacco on his desk.

Sasse reportedly responded by asking the Sergeant at Arms whether the spittoons on the Senate floor are decorative.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/gop-senator-asks-if-he-can-use-the-decorative-spittoons-on-the-senate-floor-during-impeachment-trial/

We are in the part of the argument when Schiff is intelligently and coherently laying out the timeline of Trump's coordinated efforts to withhold aid until the President of Ukraine announces investigations into Hunter Biden. And Fox News has Tucker Carlson on, talking with Darrell Issa about Obama.

Is there any wonder why Fox watchers have no idea the gravity of what is happening?

Washington Post issues a startling warning: Senate GOP is ‘laying the groundwork’ to sabotage democracy

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/washington-post-issues-a-startling-warning-senate-gop-is-laying-the-groundwork-to-sabotage-democracy/

Oh! A document dump from last year as ordered by a judge by midnight. During the trial. Cool!

https://www.americanoversight.org/omb-releases-ukraine-documents-to-american-oversight

I didn't ask you Clippy.

Mitch McConnell blinks and dials back Senate rules on excluding evidence and midnight hearings

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/mitch-mcconnell-blinks-and-dials-back-senate-rules-on-excluding-evidence-and-midnight-hearings/

Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security believes it's entirely above the law.

COURT ORDER, WHAT'S THAT? NO STINKING COURT CAN TELL US WHAT WE CAN OR CAN'T DO.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/01/21/metro/iranian-student-removed-us-before-court-hearing-lawyer-says/

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/28/133275198/astronauts-brother-recalls-a-man-who-dreamed-big?fbclid=IwAR0o_ZDuAFh1bttBTygB4izqtl4fSGI1FVjtMuQ_SEZ-T4kav-IvtGApGhY

Joyce White Vance explained that the idea of “witness reciprocity” that Republicans seem to think exists, isn’t actually a thing.

“Witness ‘reciprocity’ isn’t a thing. So no, there can’t be a Biden for every Bolton. Only testimony that bolsters or casts doubt on facts necessary to deciding on the articles of impeachment is relevant at trial,” she wrote

Get you some art!

#cosoart

Random shout to @th3j35t3r for creating CoSo. Thanks J.

🔥🌍Climate Catastrophe

412.92 ppm

Each week, I am going to remind you of the CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

The latest measurement (as of January 17): 412.92 ppm
12 months ago: 409.94 ppm
10 years ago: 388.21 ppm
250 years ago, est: 250 ppm

3,786 days
How many days until we reach a sustained average of 450.00 ppm?
(the threshold where things get really bad)

NASA data shows CO2 concentration and the global temperature anomaly is highly correlated.

#ClimateCatastrophe