The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wake up Washington. Wake up America. Wake up world. I’ve been a tad busy in the campground for the past couple of weeks and was not able to make it to Glasgow, Scotland for the big Climate Conference this year and have not had…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The most heavily armed man arrested and charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack investigation is from Alabama, and he now faces years in prison after pleading guilty Friday to bringing five loaded firearms and 11 molotov cocktails in his truck to Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally, intended to…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the face of mounting criticism of President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland for not bringing the full weight of the U.S. Department of Justice down hard on Trump loyalists involved in a plot to mount an insurrection Jan. 6 and stop Congress from legally certifying Biden…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A New Jersey man was sentenced to 41 months in prison this week for assaulting a Metropolitan Police Department officer and committing other criminal conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of Congress in the process of counting the electoral…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Colorado man was arrested this week for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of Congress in the process of counting the electoral votes in the the presidential election of 2020. Thomas Patrick Hamner, 48, of Peyton, Colo., is charged with…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Timing, technical details and the Biden administration’s old fashioned way of using media could be to blame for why the historic and future significance of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act got lost in the mediasphere and the meta verse over the weekend. Depending on what else…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Peak Autumn color arrived in the metro area this week, after cooler temperatures blew in from Canada and the first frost covered the ground in the campground here just 10 miles north of the Capitol and 11 miles from the White House. The color…
Staff Report – A week after Facebook Inc. announced its new corporate name Meta, along with a new logo as part of the company’s strategic shift toward focusing on the metaverse, the public’s initial reaction to the rebrand is less than enthusiastic, according to new data from Morning Consult. Americans feel even more unfavorably toward…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden administration says the United States will for the first time heavily regulate the potent greenhouse gas methane, which leaks from oil and natural gas platforms and is a significant source of air pollution that is contributing to warming the atmosphere 80 times as fast as carbon dioxide,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Up before the sun on Halloween 2021, viewing the world through a computer screen hooked up to the internet and a big TV connected to a broadcast antenna, we can see clearly what’s going on here and all over the world, even in Glasgow,…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Texas man has now been added to a list of insurrectionists arrested for crimes related to the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of Congress in the process of carrying out the peaceful transfer of power by certifying the electoral…
The Scary Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s the season for scary things, and nowhere are things more scary for democracy and the planet than here in the nation’s capital. In case you missed it because the Facebook news feed algorithm is hiding it from you, or none of your friends…
By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — Warm, humid October weather that could be attributed to climate change due to global warming from humans burning fossil fuels for energy has slowed the arrival of peak Autumn color in the mountains of Virginia. But it was a beautiful day in the park anyway on…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol met Tuesday night and voted unanimously to hold Trump brain trust Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for blatantly defying a Congressional subpoena to produce documents and testify about his role in inciting the insurrection and attempted…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A U.S. Capitol Police officer has been arrested following his indictment on federal charges of obstruction of justice for aiding and communicating with right-wing domestic terrorists involved in the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and destroying evidence. The insurrection and attempted coup disrupted a joint…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A proposal for a new space telescope that will study the recent history of star birth and death along with the chemical elements that formed the Milky Way has been selected by NASA and is expected to launch in 2025. The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a gamma-ray…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you could catch a ride in a time machine what time and place would you pick? Time and place weigh heavy on my mind this weekend as I make my 64th annual ride around the sun on this beautiful blue planet, as mixed…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the world turns on its axis and we observe human affairs through the lens of media and social media, it appears from here that we have turned another corner in the tenor of news coverage and public attention and opinion. The good news…
85 percent of the global population has experienced weather events made worse by climate change – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two new science reports out Monday show that climate change is leading to major health threats against humanity and that at least 85 percent of the global population has experienced weather events…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s looking more and more like the American people will never be told the whole truth about Trump’s insurrection and attempted coup d’état on January 6, 2021. The political news site Politico broke a story Friday afternoon based on an anonymous, “scathing” whistleblower letter to high ranking members…
