Must Read/Watch

• [Texas Senate candidate] Beto O’Rourke on NFL Players Kneeling During the National Anthem
• Tyler Pager, Blame Trump’s Tariffs and the Weather. New York’s Farmers Do. [“There was always something that did well,” Mr. Martens said about the variety of crops on his farm in Penn Yan, N.Y. “Now if nothing does well, what do you do?” Ed.:  This, on a continental scale, is what should put the fear of God into us with respect to climate change.  It’s all fun and games until climate change breaks agriculture.]
• Eric Lipton, E.P.A. Rule Change Could Let Dirtiest Coal Plants Keep Running (and Stay Dirty)
• William Wilkes, Hayley Warren and Brian Parkin, Germany’s Failed Climate Goals:  A Wake-Up Call for Governments Everywhere

Should Read

• Paul Kingsnorth, What If It’s Not a War?
• Clara Jeffrey, Lift the Lamp
• The Guardian, Elizabeth Warren unveils bold new plan to reshape American capitalism (“Accountable Capitalism Act would bring about ‘fundamental change’, redistribute wealth and give more power to workers”.)  [Ed.:  See also Sen. Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act One-Pager]

Worth Reading

• Mike the Mad Biologist, Some Thoughts About Senator Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act
• Dean Baker, Chicago Police and the Nike Bait Truck — Imagine Baiting Wall Street Bankers with Fraudulent Securities Scheme
• Rebecca Linke, Child Care Is So Expensive I Can’t Afford To Work [Ed.:  We had a similar situation in our household.  Note to Democrats – add child care to the list of basic societal needs which should be affordable for all.]
• WBUR, Mass. Emissions Ticked Up In 2015. They’re Now 19 Percent Below 1990 Levels
• Harper’s Magazine, As the World Burns
• Joshua Pearce, An alternative to propping up coal power plants: Retrain workers for solar
• William Driscoll, Distributed storage to yield $2-3 of grid savings for each dollar spent [Ed.:  Set aside climate change mitigation, looking only at the economics of electricity generation, batteries connected to rooftop solar panels will save a lot of money in the not-to-long run.]

Ending on a Positive Note

• Elaine Glusac, Returning to Montenegro
• Kirk Gibson’s homerun in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.  It never gets old.