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MoveOn Slams Advertisers Sticking with Fox News After Outrageous Segment Asserting Canadian Wildfire Smoke Causes No Adverse Health Issues and Denying Impact of Climate Change

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Washington, D.C. – Today, MoveOn released a new video as part of its Stop Funding Fox campaign to spotlight consumer brands that are still inexplicably advertising on Fox News, despite the network’s track record of promoting lies and propaganda. The group debuted another “Bought and Paid For” video highlighting a segment on Fox News from June 7 where host Laura Ingraham egged a guest on to promote rampant falsehoods and deny the health emergencies resulting from the air pollution caused by the Canadian wildfires.  On last night’s “The Ingraham Angle,”…

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Climate Change Extremists Detained After Attack on Degas Statue at National Gallery of Art

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The FBI is investigating the climate change alarmists with the group Declare Emergency who defaced the protective box around Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” statue at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning.   “The Federal Bureau of Investigation is assisting in the investigation, which is still active,” said Kaywin Feldman, director of the National Gallery of Art. Museum security guards detained the two Declare Emergency protesters.   The extremists covered their hands in red and black tempura paint to mimic oil and blood, painted the box,…

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Langevin pressing on cybersecurity, climate change in final act

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Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.), a nearly 22-year veteran in Congress and champion of cyber issues, plans to retire at the end of this term, but there are still some loose ends he wants to tie up before calling it quits. Langevin is chairman of the House Armed Services Cyber, Innovative Technologies and IT Subcommittee and previous leader of the now-defunct Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Intelligence Subcommittee. In those positions he pushed to make cybersecurity a top issue in the Defense Department before it was on many people’s radar. His efforts…

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2021’s Climate Disasters Revealed An East-West Divide

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<p class=”is-style-sans-serif”><em>This article is part of&nbsp;<a href=”https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe”>TPM Cafe</a>, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It first appeared at&nbsp;<a href=”https://theconversation.com/2021s-climate-disasters-revealed-an-east-west-weather-divide-with-one-side-of-the-country-too-wet-the-other-dangerously-dry-173402″>The Conversation</a>.</em></p> <p>Alongside a lingering global pandemic, the year 2021 was filled with climate disasters, some so intense they surprised even the scientists who study them.</p> <p>Extreme rainstorms turned to raging flash floods that <a href=”https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/heavy-rainfall-which-led-to-severe-flooding-in-western-europe-made-more-likely-by-climate-change/”>swept through mountain towns in Europe</a>, killing <a href=”https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58992093″>over 200 people</a>. Across Asia, <a href=”https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/over-57-million-affected-climate-disasters-across-asia-pacific-2021″>excessive rainfall inundated wide areas</a> and flooded <a href=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/21/china-floods-subway-people-trapped/”>subway stations in China</a>. Heat waves shattered records in <a href=”https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-american-extreme-heat-virtually-impossible-without-human-caused-climate-change/”>the Pacific Northwest</a>, <a…

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Biden administration challenged on climate claims over tornado disaster

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The Biden administration faced pushback Monday for pushing a climate change link to the deadly tornadoes that cut a path of destruction across Kentucky and neighboring states, leaving a trail of leveled buildings, shredded trees and mangled cars. President Biden said Sunday that “we all know everything is more intense … The Washington Times stories: White House

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