Today's News (2019/12/18)

Trump’s Interior Department stacks environmental panel with anti-environmentalists
Conflicts of interest abound among members of the advisory board for the controversial Bears Ears monument
https://www.salon.com/2019/12/14/trumps-interior-department-stacks-environmental-panel-with-anti-environmentalists_partner/

“We made it up”: Ex-Infowars editor says he published lies about Muslim community to spread hate
“And for what? Clickbait headlines, YouTube views?” former video editor Josh Owens writes in New York Times essay
https://www.salon.com/2019/12/06/we-made-it-up-ex-infowars-editor-says-he-published-lies-about-muslim-community-to-spread-hate/

More than 700 historians sign letter calling for House to impeach Trump
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/474838-more-than-700-historians-sign-letter-calling-for-house-to-impeach-trump

Impeach and Withhold
Senate Republicans have said they intend to violate their impeachment-trial oaths. The House shouldn’t let them.
https://thebulwark.com/impeach-and-withhold/

Have Trump supporters read the Ukraine call transcript? jordanklepper (The Daily Show) finds out: https://youtu.be/X-ZFoco_1gQ
https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1206945558679707649

THREAD:
I'd like to remind you that the president of the United State has his charity shut down this month for a “shocking pattern of illegality." And that's not even what he's being impeached for.
https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/1207307058476978176

Judge signs off on shutdown of Trump Foundation after ‘pattern of illegality’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/18/trump-foundation-shutdown-lawsuit

Robert Reich: If Impeached by the House, Trump is Literally Unpardonable | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-impeached-house-literally-unpardonable-1475096

Republicans to purge over 500,000 voters in two key 2020 states
https://news.yahoo.com/us-voting-rights-republicans-purge-163720617.html

The Arc of Conflict, Fragment s14,3: Everything She Needs is Here

Katya Volskaya's government in Russia has destroyed the omnium Koschei, and held their own against the Gods of Oasis. With no point to additional fighting, the overt war has paused. But covertly, the conflict carries on. The gods, after all, still have a plan, and will do what is needed - one way, or another.

Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict
Fragment s14,3: Everything She Needs is Here
solarbird and bzarcher

Aleksandra Zaryanova's walkabout is over.

Zarya's march has finally begun.

Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict is a continuance of The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and The Armourer and the Living Weapon. It will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, interludes, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.