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Video shows Arizona sheriff's deputy tackle a 15-year-old boy with no arms or legs; internal investigation launched. nbcnews.to/2rRqgUY

This is the simplest graphical representation of ongoing, repeated foresight failure I've ever seen. . (graph: @CarbonBrief )

This is BRILLIANT! “It means you spend a lot of money now for a very short-term benefit." “I guess for $300 billion dollars we were hoping for something a little more dramatic.” #JevonsParadox isn’t a death metal band. It’s #inducedTraffic. Via @ABCTV:

Remember Juli Briskman, the Virginia woman who was fired for flipping off Trump? She just won an election to her local county Board of Supervisors.

With Trump abandoning Kurds and pulling troops from northern Syria to clear the way for Turkish attack - a reminder of how Erdogan’s security staff beat Kurdish protesters in Washington DC in May 2017

Whether we have the space to move more & more people, plus room for all the other things that make streets & cities great, depends entirely on HOW we choose to move. And how Design makes better choices easier or harder. HT @NACTO

Zelensky can’t afford to alienate the United States. He is at war with Putin. Please everyone remember this fact as you parse the words of the Ukrainian President and his government.

"Coal is not back. Nobody saved the coal industry," @CecilRoberts, International President of United @MineWorkers said at a @PressClubDC news briefing today. The coal fields of Appalachia are "devastated" & workers are losing healthcare & pensions in bankruptcy court. THREAD/

New: Elizabeth Warren is endorsing Jay Inslee’s climate change plan. The two met in Seattle last weekend, and in that meeting, Warren told the governor she’s getting behind his climate platform. W/ @GregJKrieg cnn.com/2019/09/03/pol…

In 100 years, very few people will remember or care about how we handled many of the political issues we think are important today. Everyone on Earth will care about how we handled the planetary emergency.

Using a smashed mobile phone and a broken microphone stand, meet the Nigerian teens creating short sci-fi movies 🔥

US agricultural landscape is now 48 times more toxic to honeybees, and likely other insects, than it was 25 years ago, almost entirely due to widespread use of so-called neonicotinoid pesticides, according to a new study buff.ly/2McyMqz

I spent today with a man whose mom saved the July 21, 1969 Chicago Daily News for the moon landing coverage. (Column coming tomorrow.) It also contained this op-ed. 50 years ago. Unbelievable.

My latest: how Trump could lose by *5 million+* votes and still win reelection (guess @Nate_Cohn and I are thinking alike today). nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…

'They were saying no one would ride it.' 10 years on, Burrard bike lane is North America's busiest, officials say. buff.ly/2lPxgPa

This is the face of pure evil

This is what a real national security threat looks like. And it’s just beginning.

A 17 year time lapse of the stars orbiting around the black hole at the center of our galaxy buff.ly/2jgdPge