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While most Americans still see Moscow as a key U.S. adversary, new polling suggests that view is changing, most notably among the households of military members.

An attorney for indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas warned Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., that “Lev remembers” their phone calls — even if the Intelligence Committee’s top Republican does not.

A Texas consultant who devised a controversial approach to addressing homelessness in San Antonio a decade ago was tapped by President Donald Trump this month to bring his strategy to the rest of the country.

Robert Marbut Jr., the founding president of San Antonio’s homeless shelter Haven for Hope, will lead the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which coordinates with 19 federal departments and agencies to address homelessness.

The scope of trump and Republicon viciousness on this issue is informative. Or it would be, if we had not been hearing for years how they treat people they rate as less valuable or worthwhile humans, such as immigrants and asylum applicants.

Most Americans realize the complexities of homelessness. Most will also find it repulsive for people to be treated like dogs. Most would also like dogs treated better than the methods preferred and implemented by trump’s choice for a homelessness czar.

Many believe people should be “enabled” with food, and that gets to part of the heartlessness of this latest trump atrocity.

Americans who are already forced to ration between health care and necessary medications, and food, will find food more immediately imperative than shelter. Connect the dots: trump’s policies are going to lead to an explosion of homelessness. That’s why he needs his homelessness czar.

This is a planned assault on poor Americans, because Republicon wealthy people are working to reduce taxes further by killing public safety net programs. trump began talking up the eyesore of inconvenient, dirty street people months ago. The orderly roll-out of this brutality probably means it is one of the correlated agendas of trump’s White House neo-Nazi, Stephen Miller.

Miller and trump’s newest czar, Marbut, clearly share a similar lack of humanity.

“In the ‘guiding principles’ listed on his website, Marbut writes that homeless people who exhibit good behavior should get 'privileges such as higher quality sleeping arrangements, more privacy and elective learning opportunities.’

…"In developing Haven for Hope, Marbut and other planners” visited various homeless shelters when he was devising a plan for San Antonio, and “conclud[ed] a single campus with centralized services would be most helpful to San Antonio’s homeless population.

"The shelter’s opening resulted in a decrease in visible homelessness downtown, the organization’s CEO and president, Kenny Wilson, told the Tribune this summer.

The other day, two older ladies were buying briskets and told me they was for their Hanukkah celebration that night, so I responded something like “Well Happy Hanukkah! It’s the third night, right?” 

I shit you not these two old ladies were so tickled that someone at a store wished them a happy Hanukkah. One of them literally told me I was “the first one to do that”. 

David Badash at NCRM:

The White House has just sent Congress a letter attacking the impeachment inquiry as “completely baseless” while suggesting to the Judiciary Committee that neither the president nor his attorneys will participate in any manner. Chairman Jerry Nadler had set a deadline of Friday 6 PM for a response.

Claiming Congress has “violated basic principles of due process and fundamental fairness,” which is false, White House Counsel Pat Cipillone also falsely claimed the Committee has not “heard a single shred of evidence” against the president.

The tone of the letter is highly-partisan, calling the impeachment a “charade,” claiming congressional Democrats have “wasted” Americans’ time, and saying if Democrats adopt Articles of Impeachment it will constitute an “abuse of power.”

“Low oxygen levels are also associated with global heating, because the warmer water holds less oxygen and the heating causes stratification, so there is less of the vital mixing of oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor layers. Oceans are expected to lose about 3-4% of their oxygen by the end of this century, but the impact will be much greater in the levels closest to the surface, where many species are concentrated, and in the mid to high latitudes.

“Intensive farming also plays a major role. When excess artificial fertiliser from crops, or manure from the meat industry, runs off the land and into rivers and seas, it feeds algae which bloom and then cause oxygen depletion as they decompose.

"The problem of dead zones has been known about for decades, but little has been done to tackle it. Farmers rarely bear the brunt of the damage, which mainly affects fishing fleets and coastal areas. Two years ago, the meat industry in the US was found to be responsible for a massive dead zone measuring more than 8,000 sq miles in the Gulf of Mexico.

…"Protecting marine life could help the oceans to function better, soaking up more carbon and providing barriers against sea level rises and storm surges, in the form of coral reefs and mangrove swamps.

Some lost limbs. Others suffered horrific burns, head injuries or wounds that left them infertile. Still others live with the memory of injured coworkers screaming in agony or dying under heaps of rubble.

Since then, dozens of other incidents have killed workers and endangered residents near petrochemical plants. But tragedies like these don’t have to happen.

Michigan’s second-highest court has dealt a legal blow to Nestlé’s Ice Mountain water brand, ruling that the company’s commercial water-bottling operation is “not an essential public service” or a public water supply.