Brian Mickey

Ask Questions. Doubt everything. Trust in evidence.

"[W]e have to stop talking about how electric cars will save us; it takes too much stuff to make them all... We have to look... at making it easier for people to use... bikes, transit and feet.", @lloydalter. #RebelForLife: rebellion.earth treehugger.com/cars/why-elect…

47 cruise ships owned by @CarnivalPLC emitted 10-times more sulphur oxide than Europe’s 260 million cars while in European seas in 2017 Breathing SOx causes irritation of nose & throat, nausea, vomiting, stomach pain and damage to airways and lungs Shame on you @CarnivalPLC

"Senate Republicans blocked legislation on Thursday that would force campaigns to notify the Federal Election Commission and the FBI about attempts by foreign nationals to influence an election." thehill.com/blogs/floor-ac…

As India broils, people being killed over buckets of water. It's like a dispatch from the future of a rapidly heating planet epaper.timesgroup.com/olive/ODN/Time…

Climate Change Is the Symptom. Consumer Culture Is the Disease. And this individual action must occur collectively newrepublic.com/article/154147… @GhoshAmitav

"if the world is to stand a chance, the U.S. will have to take even bigger steps—nothing short of a wholesale rejection of modern American consumerism itself" newrepublic.com/article/154147…

Universal health care COULD NEVER WORK ...unless you live in: Australia Austria Belgium Canada Chile Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Japan Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal S Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey UK

Guess who thinks "look at the polls - we'll vote the bums out in 2020" is laughably naive? Mitch McConnell, who has learned there's no political cost for committing treason right out in the open, and has other plans for the future of America. newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…

In which I try to explain in detail the bizarre way that the Trump administration is bootstrapping Ken Cuccinelli into position as Acting Director of @USCIS, and why, as much as any prior abuses of the FVRA, this one ought to spur Congress into action. (It won't, but it should.)

This month our book club will be reading and discussing #TheMuellerReport Join me and *Redacted - Personal Privacy* as we discuss *Redacted - Harm to ongoing matter*. Hope to see you there!

Mitch McConnell has blocked over 100 bills passed by the House, many of which were bipartisan. He's even blocked ELECTION SECURITY bills. Next to trump, the traitorous turtle is the BIGGEST threat to democracy. #DitchMitch thehill.com/homenews/house…

This is the purest and most egregious corruption possible. Mr. Kushner should not finish the day as an employee of the US Government. theguardian.com/us-news/2019/j…

Today, @HouseJudiciary is holding a hearing on Presidential Obstruction & Other Crimes. These are the words Republicans have demanded us not to use... #CoverUp #WhatsHeHiding

‘It was horrific then. It’s horrific to hear it now.’ — @KenBurns is reminding everyone of Donald Trump’s extreme response to the Central Park Five case

🥳 BIG NEWS: Vermont’s new law protects abortion rights and forbids government interference with “an individual’s fundamental rights to choose or refuse contraception or sterilization or to choose to carry a pregnancy to term, to give birth to a child, or to obtain an abortion.”

basically democratic leadership should take a lead from grassroots activists and act like they have the public on their side, because they do nytimes.com/2019/06/10/opi…

The longer I think about @DNC insisting no-one hold a climate debate, the sillier it seems. We've literally never talked about this issue in a presidential debate, and we literally have to deal with it immediately. I don't understand why we shouldn't devote a night to it

Cleaning up Alberta's oil wells could take 2,800 years, report says. So one generation gets the well, and 93 generations get the shaft nationalobserver.com/2019/06/03/inv…

when i said “i got the horses in the back” it was in reference to reversing the ongoing climate change, water pollution, and catastrophic political climate we are witnessing in these trying times.

Whenever a wealthy donor threatens to “cut you off” from their cash unless you comply with their selfish greed-driven agenda, you must cut them off first. Your credibility depends on it.