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Scott Pruitt and the White House are still bickering over his pet project: Superfund.

“There is such a thing as being too late,” he told an audience at a food summit in Milan, Italy. “When it comes to climate change, the hour is almost upon us.”

The global problems of climate change, poverty, and obesity create an imperative for agricultural innovation, Obama said. This was no small-is-beautiful, back-to-the-land, beauty-of-a-single-carrot speech. Instead, Obama argued for sweeping technological progress.

“The path to the sustainable food future will require unleashing the creative power of our best scientists, and engineers, and entrepreneurs,” he said.

In an onstage conversation with his former food czar, Sam Kass, Obama said people in richer countries should also waste less food and eat less meat. But we can’t rely on getting people to change their habits, Obama said. “No matter what, we are going to see an increase in meat consumption, just by virtue of more Indians, Chinese, Vietnamese, and others moving into middle-income territory,” he said.

The goal, then, is to produce food, including meat, more efficiently.

To put it less Obama-like: Unleash the scientists! Free the entrepreneurs!

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A massive climate march is coming soon to Washington.

The People’s Climate March will descend on D.C. with an intersectional coalition of green and environmental-justice groups, indigenous and civil-rights organizations, students and labor unions. The march will take place on Saturday, April 29, exactly 100 days into Trump’s presidency.

In January, the Women’s March gathered half a million demonstrators in D.C. alone. There have also been talks of an upcoming Science March, which has no set date but almost 300,000 followers on Twitter.

April’s climate march is being organized by a coalition that emerged from the People’s Climate March of 2014, a rally that brought 400,000 people to New York City before the United Nations convened there for a summit on climate change. It was the largest climate march in history — a record that may soon be broken.

“Communities across the country have been working for environmental and social justice for centuries. Now it’s time for our struggles to unite and work together across borders to fight racism, sexism, xenophobia, and environmental destruction,” Chloe Jackson, an activist with Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, said in a statement. “We have a lot of work to do, and we are stronger together.”

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Carly Fiorina: Is She America’s Next Millard Fillmore?

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From George Colony, chief executive of tech research firm Forrester, judging Carly Fiorina’s tenure as head of Hewlett-Packard:

I’d put her at the top of the bottom third of C.E.O.s.

Good enough for me! In round numbers, this means she’s another Millard Fillmore. I suppose this also means we’ll soon be getting a rash of conservative essays telling us that we really need to reevaluate Fillmore’s place in history. Also, I guess I can expect some flak from residents of Buffalo and from fanciers of the Whig Party. Bring it on.

But that’s enough about Carly’s business record. How about her political record? She does have one, you know. In case you’ve forgotten, here is Carly’s greatest claim to political fame. Fast forward to 2:20 if you just want to see the good part.

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GOP Candidate’s Twitter Feed Calls Neo-Confederate Website an "Interesting Read"

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In a race that could decide which party controls the Colorado state senate, Republican state senate candidate Don Suppes is fending off accusations that his campaign tweeted out a link to a neo-Confederate website that denigrates gay people, women, and African-Americans, and complains that white people can’t use the N-word.

Colorado Democrats are circulating this screenshot of the tweet, dated May 26, in which the Suppes campaign shares a link to the website SuthenBoy.com, with the words, “Interesting read…”

Suppes, through a campaign spokesman, claims the Twitter account was hacked. Both his official campaign account and what appears to be his personal Twitter account have been deactivated.

SuthenBoy.com’s author goes by the name Gen. Robert E. Lee. A Confederate flag adorns the top of the site, and the site’s tagline is, “The Old South’s Gonna Rise Again.” On the day the Suppes campaign’s Twitter account posted the link, the blog entry displayed on the website’s home page was titled “Islam’s Threat To America: An Unintended Consequence Of Cultural Marxism.” In the post, Gen. Lee calls Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton “vermin.” “Muslims are demanding and receiving far more special treatment than other minorities,” he adds. “Broadly speaking there is very little difference between the ultimate goal of Cultural Marxism and Islam.”

The author derides multiculturalism and progressivism as “euphemisms for Marxism” and defines political correctness as “an anti-Western hate filled ideology designed to divide and conquer by using man’s natural divisions, e.g., color, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation to foment, nurture and magnify strife between the groups. Their grain of commonality is disdain for the White male who is considered to epitomize evil.”

Tirades about political correctness are typical on SuthenBoy.com. In a February 25 post, Gen. Lee complained about his inability to use certain words: “Homosexuals are now gay or folks with an alternative life style. Using the ‘N’ word uttered by a White is a societal taboo. Thug is considered offensive to blacks, regardless of how appropriate.”

“Critical Theory ‘studies’ are the breeding ground of Political Correctness,” the author writes in an earlier post. “Included therein are: black studies; feminist studies; Muslim studies; gay studies; lesbian studies; transgender studies; Indian studies; and every other marginal group that claims to be oppressed or the subject of discrimination.”

Suppes is the two-term mayor of the 3,100-person town of Orchard City and runs a heating and cooling business. Democrats are also circulating a video of Suppes claiming that members of the US Senate were supporting UN plans to control parts of the United States. Suppes goes on to describe a plaque he saw on his vacation to Mexico bearing the number 21—the plaque is proof, he implies, that the UN has used “Agenda 21,” a non-binding resolution that encourages sustainable growth, to encroach on sovereign nations; conservatives often describe Agenda 21 as a plan to evict US residents from rural communities and turn that land back into wilderness. “I do my homework,” says Suppes. “If that makes me a conspiracy theorist, I’m sorry.”

Suppes is facing Democrat Kerry Donovan in the race for central Colorado’s sprawling fifth Senate district. They are vying to replace a term-limited Democrat, and the outcome of the race may decide which party has a majority in the chamber. Colorado’s state senate is now split along party lines 18-17, with Democrats controlling the majority. Democrats currently hold the state House by a comfortable margin, and the incumbent Democratic governor is locked in a tight reelection battle. Suppes enjoys strong support from the state’s Republican leaders, including the backing of political action committee that expects to spend $3 to $5 million on a handful of competitive state Senate races.

Suppes’ campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

Update Sept. 23, 2014 at 3:30 pm: In an email to Mother Jones, Suppes confirms that his campaign reported unauthorized activity on the @DonSuppes2014 Twitter account. Suppes adds that he has taken steps recommended for victims of identity theft.

At the same time, Suppes notes that he did not manage his campaign’s Twitter account. “The campaign Twitter account had been managed by a staffer who has since been terminated,” Suppes writes. “No authorization was ever granted to comment on articles. I had never heard of Southernboy and only recently investigated the bizarre postings which were of great concern to me.”

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