Blackout The System is calling for a nationwide boycott, urging participants to not work or spend money from Nov. 25 to Dec. 2.

While the Supreme Court has largely enabled Trump’s power grab, lower-court judges have risen to the moment, calling out government lies and defending the Constitution under historic pressure. Former federal judge Michael Luttig notes that, in the absence of a Supreme Court willing to confront Trump’s abuses, lower courts have taken the extraordinary step of speaking directly to the American people through their opinions— breaking with centuries of judicial tradition — because, as he puts it, it is a paramount obligation of federal judges ”to condemn what’s happening in America today.” If the Supreme Court fails to meet the moment, Luttig is blunt about who is left to defend democracy: “It’s we the people in whom all power resides,“ he says. “If the Supreme Court will not come to the aid of the country, then all that’s left is for we, the people, to take back the country through elections and protests. We have no choice.“ 

Recent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed

Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.