Bill McKibben | The Resistance to Trump Will Be Local

20 January 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now:  Reader Supported News IF THE NEED FOR FUNDING WERE NOT SERIOUS WE WOULD NOT SAY SO - Funding is in fact critically lacking and the situation is now quite serious. Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Bill McKibben | The Resistance to Trump Will Be Local  Bill McKibben, The Nation  McKibben writes: "Whenever progress is blocked in Washington, the pressure for progress always finds other outlets. During the George W. Bush administration, for instance, environmentalists looked to state and local governments for action on climate change, and the result was a slew of commitments that helped build the renewable-energy industry."  READ MORE The Federal Government Just Shut Down. What Happens Next?  Michael Collins, USA TODAY  Collins writes: "The federal government ran out of funding at midnight, but you may not have noticed."  READ MORE Fusion GPS: Kremlin 'Purged' Suspected Spies After Trump Dossier Release  Betsy Woodruff and Julia Arciga, The Daily Beast  Excerpt: "Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of opposition research firm Fusion GPS, told Congress in November that the Russian government appeared to 'purge' people after his firm's research on President Donald Trump's alleged Kremlin connections became public."  READ MORE Supreme Court Takes Case Challenging Trump's Muslim Ban 3.0  Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress  Millhiser writes: "The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear a challenge to the third version of Donald Trump's Muslim Ban. The case is Trump v. Hawaii."  READ MORE Will the US Put a Journalist Behind Bars for Decades?  Al Jazeera  Excerpt: "Journalist Aaron Cantu is among 59 defendants still facing the grim prospect of decades behind bars after being arrested at a protest during US President Donald Trump's inauguration last year."  READ MORE El Salvador's Worst Shitholes Are 'Made in America'  Roberto Lovato, NACLA  Lovato writes: "My journalist's hiking boots still have leftover feces and dirt from the ultimate shitholes of El Salvador: its mass graves. Many of the thousands of graves that my sources there have mapped were dug by U.S.-trained and funded security forces in the '80s. Most of the rest were dug more recently by L.A. based-gangs steadily deported to El Salvador by U.S. immigration authorities since the '90s."  READ MORE Earth Just Had Hottest 4 Years in Recorded History, but Trump Dismantles Efforts to Fight Climate Change  Chris Mooney, The Washington Post  Mooney writes: "2017 was among the hottest years ever recorded, government scientists reported Thursday."  READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation