[mpen-dayton] FW: "Get. Out. The. VOTE!" & "Need to Impeach, Censored by Fox News" & "Trump's giant tax giveaway" and more
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- FW: Get. Out. The. VOTE!
- FW: Open Enrollment is up and running for Obamacare
- FW: [Info] October 31, 1978 - NBA intergrates & [Info] November 1, 1961 - Women Strike for Peace
- FW: Need to Impeach, Censored by Fox News
- FW: It's Mueller Time!
- FW: I told my abortion story. You can too.
- FW: Signature needed: Don't ban abortion
- FW: We are taking this into our own hands
- FW: Trumplandia
- FW: It's coming soon - Trump's giant tax giveaway
- FW: Hit the outrage button: Republican Tax Proposal Gets Failing Grade
- FW: Today's Headlines: U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials
- FW: Trump administration releases report finding 'no convincing alternative explanation' for climate change
- FW: "Inside Hillary Clinton's Secret Takeover of the DNC" by Donna Brazile I POLITICO Magazine
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From: Lizet Ocampo; Political Director, People For the American Way
Subject: Get. Out. The. VOTE!
A Washington Post headline today reads, "A year after Trump's win, Democrats have a lot to prove in Tuesday's elections" ... and the article continues, if progressives and Democrats "lose a high-profile governor's race in Virginia, it could throw the whole party off its axis."
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Your support has kept us on the air with hard-hitting TV ads that directly push back against Trump and Republican Ed Gillespie's racist campaign tactics.
NOW it's time to GET OUT THE VOTE ... all weekend and through Election Day, our staff and volunteers will be working on intense voter outreach to get out every last progressive and drive home the monumental importance of this election.
But this is your campaign too and this work can only be done with your help and support in these crucial final days.
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This election is just too important for every progressive not to do all they can to pitch in to the effort.
- The races for governor and State House have now been thoroughly nationalized as a referendum on Trump and his first year in office. SO much is at stake for Democrats and progressives.
- If Republicans win again on the ugly racist tactics used by Trump in 2016, our politics will never be the same and the GOP will be emboldened to be even MORE aggressive in pushing their extreme right-wing agenda.
- If Trump and his allies are allowed to win in a defining swing state like Virginia, even under the cloud of INDICTMENTS against his top campaign officials just one week prior to Election Day -- for "conspiracy against the United States" no less, then we, as a country, could be seriously lost...
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From: The HealthCare.gov Team
Subject: Open Enrollment is up and running
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From: carl bunin
Subject: [Info] October 31, 1978 - NBA intergrates
October 31, 1950 | November 1, 1961 |
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From: Tom Steyer
Subject: Need to Impeach, Censored by Fox News
Last week, we ran an ad on Fox & Friends calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump.
The president, unsurprisingly, was none too happy about it -- and his friends at Fox News heard the message loud and clear. Without warning, our ad was pulled off the air in blatant act of censorship.
Fox News violated our First Amendment rights in an effort to appease their #1 fan -- a volatile, thin-skinned President Trump. That's why we've brought in Bernie Sanders' lawyer, Brad Deutsch. He's joining the fight against Donald Trump and is helping to defend our right to freedom of speech.
A plurality of Americans favor impeachment. Our impeachment campaign has clearly struck a nerve with the president and is gaining more momentum by the day. Please share our video and keep up the pressure on Congress.
The time to impeach is now. |
From: Eric Kramer
Subject: It's Mueller Time!
Inexpressibly wonderful. - 
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https://youtu.be/hEG41O5Y9-k
From: Andrew J. Tierman
Subject: FW: I told my abortion story. You can too.
Dear Munsup,
I am an unabashed supporter of NARAL. I understand that some good people, liberals too, have strong reservations about abortion. After reading The Nation for a near quarter century, I cancelled my subscription about 15 years ago, because of writing in the Nation that appeared to favor only those people who agreed with every single position in a dogmatic way - to the point that Catholic women of religious order who were in fact strong advocates on the left, putting themselves on the line in political action were condemned by the magazine's ideologues because, on the position of abortion, these women did not agree with the whole cloth of an inflexible dogma that, for The Nation, defined being "on the right side." [This was not the only issue on which Nation ideologues summarily condemned those who did not agree, in almost Puritanical self-righteousness, because their views, opinions, even asserted knowledge were contrary to what the Nation exclusively deemed 'correct' - leaving no room for reasoned disagreement.
During those times, this included banishing stirring and insightful intellectual writers such as Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan for not toeing the righteous line of The Nation's 'progressivism.'] That is Bull; I can disagree with the politically active liberal nuns on abortion, yet appreciate their position and their solidarity on matters of labor rights, world peace, the poor, a just economy, etc. etc.
That said, as NARAL appreciates, the way to make the case for freedom of choice (which Catholics I know agree with, taking abortion as a personal matter, not one for governmental coercion) is precisely to tell the stories, such as that below, that succinctly explain the importance of the right to abortion. – Andrew
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From: Dr. Cheryl Axelrod; OBGYN, Member, NARAL Pro-Choice America
To: Andrew J. Tierman
Subject: I told my abortion story. You can too.
It isn't easy but sharing your story can make a difference.
When I first began my job as an obstetrician, I thought I had it all. I was eager to start the family I'd always wanted with the man I loved. Yet 12 weeks into my pregnancy, my husband and I received news that would change our lives and shake our entire foundation.
During what we thought was a routine checkup, we found out that my first son's lower abdominal wall had not formed correctly and as a result, he had a mass as big as his head between his little legs. In the ultrasound, I could barely see his legs, and his tiny feet were already clubbed. His spinal cord was tethered, and the doctor told us if he survived that he would never walk or have a functioning bladder.
The doctor predicted our baby would die by suffocation upon delivery. Faced with horrible and difficult odds, my husband and I did what we knew was best for our son and our family — we decided to end the pregnancy.
These situations are incredibly personal and difficult, and women need to be able to make these decisions for themselves—without interference from politicians with a judgmental, ideological agenda.
Yet, anti-choice Republicans in Congress are meddling with women's lives by pushing through a dangerous, unconstitutional abortion ban. Abortion bans hurt women and families in their most crucially vulnerable situations, and serve no other purpose than a "win" for anti-choice extremists.
By sharing our candid, personal abortion stories with our communities and legislators, we can authentically fight against this injustice, inspire activism, and change hearts and minds. We know the power and impact of storytelling, and for those of us who are ready and willing, we must speak up in this time of uncertainty, struggle, and resistance.
As someone who has openly talked about my abortion, it isn't easy but sharing your story can make a difference. If enough of us bravely speak up, we can show how access to abortion has changed our lives and is only a choice we can make and no one else—it's our body and our decision.
Take a moment to tell us about your abortion.
From: Heidi Hess; Senior Campaign Manager, CREDO Action from Working Assets
Subject: Signature needed: Don't ban abortion
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Republicans in Congress have been waging war on women for decades. Now, emboldened by Donald Trump's misogyny and Mike Pence's right-wing religious extremism, the House just passed an abortion ban.1 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised to bring the bill to the floor of the Senate as well.
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From: CODEPINK
Subject: We are taking this into our own hands
While Donald Trump is gunning for war with North Korea, we, the people of the United States, declare peace. Inspired by the Vietnam-era People's Peace Treaty, concerned U.S. peace groups have initiated a People's Peace Treaty with North Korea.
Sign this historic document here and get at least 10 friends to sign on. The five people who get the most signatures will all get special gifts from South Korea, where we are working with our allies who are desperate to stop a new war on the Korean Peninsula.
The plan is to collect 100,000 signatures and to publicize the People's Peace Treaty in conjunction with Armistice Day (aka Veterans Day) on November 11, when many local actions for peace will take place throughout the U.S.
The People's Peace Treaty with North Korea is a united campaign of many organizations, including Veterans For Peace, Peace Action, United For Peace and Justice, Women Cross DMZ, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, World Beyond War, Roots Action, the American Friends Service Committee, and CODEPiNK.
CODEPINK's goal is to get 20,000 of the 100,000 signatures we need before sending the treaty to the governments and peoples of North Korea, as well as to the U.S. Government.
So we need your help. Please sign the treaty but don't stop there. We need each of you to get at least 10 others to sign. Send it out on social media. Solicit your family and friends, your coworkers and neighbors, your colleagues at church or the PTA or your book club.
We're also making this a fun contest. If you are one of the top five signature gatherers, you will get a special gift from South Korea. Top signature gatherers will be tracked on this leaderboard.
Please sign this Peace Treaty to show that you reject Trump's reckless threats to annihilate North Korea and insist on negotiations instead. Don't forget to share it on Facebook and Twitter!
Leading the way to peace with North Korea,
Ann, Ariel, Brienne, Haley, Jodie, Katie, Mariana, Mark, Mary, Medea, Nancy, Paki, Taylor, and Tighe
P.S. November 9 is the Global Day of Action for a World Without Walls. Organize an action in your city to say No to walls from Palestine to Mexico!
From: Thomas Scott
Subject: Trumplandia
Bob McNair shows that some owners have no idea where players are coming from
Academic Freedom in the Age of Trump
Black Professor To Confederate Descendant: 'I Have No Respect For Your Ancestors' (Video)
From: Robert B. Reich
Subject: It's coming soon - Trump's giant tax giveaway
The tax plan put forward by Trump and the GOP is nothing more than a Trojan horse.
They may release this tax scheme as soon as tomorrow—and they're trying to scam us out of more than $1 trillion in tax revenue and fork it over to the richest of the rich (who are already richer than ever).¹
What's more, they're selling it to us packaged in a bunch of full-on smoke-and-mirrors lies that it will really benefit the middle class—even though it will put a greater burden on the vast majority of us.
It's up to MoveOn members to sound the alarm about these lies by watching and sharing my latest video with MoveOn with everyone you know. It's critical to share this information now so we won't be fooled when we see news of this tax scheme that will likely be spun in a lot of different directions.
(Not on Facebook? You can watch and share via YouTube.)
Who wins with the GOP tax cut? Folks like Trump himself. And corporations. Who else?!
And how do Republicans intend to pay for this gift of more than $1 trillion to the wealthiest among us? Spending cuts to health care, public education, housing assistance. For goodness' sake, even cancer research could face cuts.
Let's make sure that our friends and family won't be fooled by this Trojan horse of a tax plan, which promises middle-class tax cuts but delivers near to none—while slashing social spending.
Source: 1. "Benefits of GOP-Trump Framework Tilted Toward the Richest Taxpayers in Each State," Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, October 4, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/20342?t=18&akid=192582%2E1195276%2EK_ff7p
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From: Jason Knapp
Subject: Hit the outrage button: Republican Tax Proposal Gets Failing Grade
Gee, I wonder why they came up with this. – Jason
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Republican-Tax-Proposal-Gets/241662
From: 
Subject: Today's Headlines: U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials
U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials
By LISA FRIEDMAN and GLENN THRUSH
A report from 13 federal agencies says humans are the main cause of global warming, a position at odds with some in the Trump administration.
From: Munsup @SISCOM
Subject: FW: Trump administration releases report finding 'no convincing alternative explanation' for climate change
Trump administration releases report finding 'no convincing
alternative explanation' for climate change
Christopher Mooney, Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis - The Washington Post - Friday, November 3, 2017
The Trump administration released a dire scientific report Friday detailing the growing threats of climate change. The report stands in stark contrast to the administration's efforts to downplay humans' role in global warming, withdraw from an international climate accord and reverse Obama-era policies aimed at curbing America's greenhouse-gas output.
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The White House did not seek to prevent the release of the government's National Climate Assessment, which is mandated by law, despite the fact that its findings sharply contradict the administration's policies. The report affirms that climate change is driven almost entirely by human action, warns of potential sea level rise as high as 8 feet by the year 2100, and enumerates myriad climate-related damages across the United States that are already occurring due to 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit of global warming since 1900.
"It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century," the document reports. "For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence."
The report's release underscores the extent to which the machinery of the federal scientific establishment, operating in multiple agencies across the government, continues to grind on even as top administration officials have minimized or disparaged its findings. Federal scientists have continued to author papers and issue reports on climate change, for example, even as political appointees have altered the wording of news releases or blocked civil servants from speaking about their conclusions in public forums. The climate assessment process is dictated by a 1990 law that Democratic and Republican administrations have followed.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and President Trump have all questioned the extent of humans' contribution to climate change. One of EPA's Web pages posted scientific conclusions similar to those in the new report until earlier this year, when Pruitt's deputies ordered it removed.
The report comes as President Trump and members of his Cabinet are working to promote U.S. fossil fuel production and repeal several federal rules aimed at curbing the nation's carbon output, including ones limiting greenhouse-gas emissions from existing power plants, oil and gas operations on federal land and carbon emissions from cars and trucks. Trump has also announced he will exit the Paris climate agreement, under which the U.S. has pledged to cut its overall greenhouse-gas emissions between 26 percent and 28 percent compared to 2005 levels by 2025.
The report could have considerable legal and policy significance, as the scientific matter provides new and stronger support for EPA's greenhouse gas "endangerment finding" under the Clean Air Act, which lays the foundation for regulations on emissions.
"This is a federal government report whose contents completely undercut their policies, completely undercut the statements made by senior members of the administration," said Phil Duffy, the director of the Woods Hole Research Center.
The government is required to produce the National Assessment every four years. This time, the report is split into two documents, one that lays out the fundamental science of climate change and the other that shows how the United States is being impacted on a regional basis. Combined, the two documents total over 2,000 pages.
The first document, called the Climate Science Special Report, is now a finalized report, having been peer reviewed by the National Academy of Sciences and vetted by experts across government agencies. It was formally unveiled Friday.
"I think this report is basically the most comprehensive climate science report in the world right now," said Robert Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers who is an expert on sea-level rise and served as one of the report's lead authors.
It affirms that the U.S. is already experiencing more extreme heat and rainfall events and more large wildfires in the West, that more than 25 U.S. coastal cities are already experiencing more flooding, and that seas could rise by between 1 and 4 feet by the year 2100, and perhaps even more than that if Antarctica proves to be unstable, as is currently feared. The report says that a rise of over 8 feet is "physically possible" with high levels of greenhouse-gas emissions, but there's no way right now to predict how likely it is to happen.
When it comes to rapidly escalating levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the report states, "there is no climate analog for this century at any time in at least the last 50 million years."
Most striking, perhaps, the report warns of the unpredictable — changes that scientists cannot foresee that could involve tipping points or fast changes in the climate system. These could switch the climate into "new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past."
Given these strong statements — and how they contradict Trump administration statements and policies — some members of the scientific community had speculated that the administration might refuse to publish the report or alter its conclusions. During the last Republican presidential administration, that of George W. Bush, the national assessment process was highly controversial, and a senior official at the White House Council on Environmental Quality edited aspects of some government science reports.
Yet multiple experts, as well as some administration officials and federal scientists, said that Trump political appointees did not change the special report's scientific conclusions. While some edits have been made to its final version — for instance, omitting or softening some references to the Paris climate agreement — those are focused on policy.
A senior administration official, who asked for anonymity because the process is still underway, said in an interview that top Trump officials decided to put out the assessment without changing the findings of its contributors even if some appointees may have different views.
A federal scientist involved in writing the report, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the press, said that political appointees made no effort to change the scientific findings after being briefed on them.
Glynis Lough, who is deputy director of the food and environment program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and had served as chief of staff for the National Climate Assessment at the U.S. Global Change Research Program until mid-2016, said in an interview that the changes made by government officials to the latest report "are consistent with the types of changes that were made in the previous administration for the 2014 National Climate Assessment, to avoid policy prescriptiveness."
Perhaps no agency under Trump has tried to downplay and undermine climate science more than the EPA. Most recently, political appointees at the EPA instructed two agency scientists and one contractor not to speak as planned at a scientific conference in Rhode Island. The conference marked the culmination of a three-year report on the status of Narragansett Bay, New England's largest estuary, in which climate change featured prominently.
The EPA also has altered parts of its website containing detailed climate data and scientific information. As part of that overhaul, in April the agency took down pages that had existed for years and contained a wealth of information on the scientific causes of global warming, its consequences and ways for communities to mitigate or adapt. The agency said it was simply making changes to better reflect the new administration's priorities, and that any pages taken down would be archived.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has repeatedly advocated for the creation of a governmentwide "red team/blue team" exercise, in which a group of outside critics would challenge the validity of mainstream scientific conclusions around climate change.
Other departments have also removed climate change documents online: Interior's Bureau of Land Management, for example, no longer provides access to documents assessing the danger that future warming poses to deserts in the Southwest.
And when U.S. Geological Survey scientists working with international researchers published an article in the journal Nature evaluating how climate change and human population growth would affect where rain-fed agriculture could thrive, USGS published a news release that omitted the words "climate change" altogether.
The Agriculture Department's climate hubs, however, remain freely available online. And researchers at the U.S. Forest Service have continued to publish papers this year on how climate change is affecting wildfires, wetlands and aquatic habitat across the country.
While the Trump administration has not altered the new climate science report substantially, it is already coming under fire from some of the administration's allies.
The day before it was published, Steven Koonin, a New York University physicist who has met with EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and advocated for the "red team/blue team" exercise, pre-emptively criticized the document in the Wall Street Journal, calling it "deceptive."
Koonin argued that the report "ominously notes that while global sea level rose an average 0.05 inch a year during most of the 20th century, it has risen at about twice that rate since 1993. But it fails to mention that the rate fluctuated by comparable amounts several times during the 20th century."
But one of the report's authors suggested Koonin is creating a straw man. "The report does not state that the rate since 1993 is the fastest than during any comparable period since 1900 (though in my informal assessment it likely is), which is the non-statement Steve seems to be objecting to," Kopp countered by email.
Still, the line of criticism could be amplified by conservatives in the coming days.
Meanwhile, the administration also released, in draft form, the longer volume 2 of the National Climate Assessment, which looks at regional impacts across the United States. This document is not final, but is now available for public comment and will itself now begin a peer review process, with final publication expected in late 2018.
Already, however, it is possible to discern some of what it will conclude. For instance, a peer reviewed Environmental Protection Agency technical document released to inform the assessment finds that the monetary costs of climate change in the U.S. could be dramatic.
That document, dubbed the Climate Change Impacts and Risk Analysis, finds that in a high end warming scenario, high temperatures could lead to the loss per year of "almost 1.9 billion labor hours across the national workforce" by 2090. That would mean $ 160 billion annually in lost income to workers.
With high levels of warming, coastal property damages in 2090 could total another $ 120 billion annually, and deaths from temperature extremes could reach 9,300 per year, or in monetized terms, $ 140 billion annually in damages. Additional tens of billions annually could occur in the form of damages to roads, rail lines, and electrical infrastructure, the report finds.
This could all be lessened considerably, the report notes, if warming is held to lower levels.
— Jason Samenow contributed to this report.
Read more at Energy & Environment:
- White House reviewing new report that finds strong link between climate change, human activity
- Obama left Trump a major climate-change report — and independent scientists just said it's accurate
- EPA website removes climate science site from public view after two decades
From: Judy Burnette
Subject: "Inside Hillary Clinton's Secret Takeover of the DNC" by Donna Brazile I POLITICO Magazine
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774
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