Linked List: November 21, 2018

Wednesday, 21 November 2018

California’s 2018 Wildfires Should Be a Turning Point on Climate Change ★

Mat Honan, writing at BuzzFeed:

2018 is the year when everyone, everyone, in the state ran from the fires or choked on the fumes. It is a before-and-after moment. In California, in mid-November of 2018, it became as clear as it did in New York in mid-September of 2001 that what was a once-distant threat has now arrived.

Climate change denialists — and thus the entire Republican party — have blood on their hands.

Trump’s Statement on Saudi Arabia, Explained! ★

What a disgrace this guy is. He has effectively given Mohammed bin Salman a license to kill Americans and western critics of the Saudi regime. And the disrespect Trump shows to our own intelligence agencies is embarrassing.

(I know Khashoggi wasn’t a U.S. citizen. He was a legal resident, though, and his children are U.S. citizens. Even if he had been a citizen, nothing would change in Trump’s calculus of this scandal.)