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Harvey &quot;could become the first major natural disaster of the Trump presidency,&quot; warns Eric Holthaus at Grist. &quot;This is the kind of storm you drop everything to pay attention to.&quot; It has already been a wet August for the Texas Gulf Coast, and so the ground is saturated and primed to flood, while Houston is especially vulnerable to devastating floods because of poor city planning and lots of pavement, he notes, and the worst models have 20 to 40 inches of rain dumping on parts of Texas and Louisiana.

GFS 12z solution for #Harvey is an epic deluge as system meanders through SE Texas for many days. Flooding obviously major concern. pic.twitter.com/b13ge4jIoR
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Floods like the one in the worst Harvey forecasts have come at an increasingly frequent pace. Since the 1950s, the Houston area has seen a 167 percent increase in heavy downpours. At least four rainstorms so severe they would occur only once in 100 years under normal conditions have hit the area since May 2015. With a warmer climate comes faster evaporation and a greater capacity for thunderstorms to produce epic deluges. ... If Harvey's rains hit the coast with anywhere near the force of the most alarming predictions, we'd be in for disaster. And judging by how New Orleans and Houston have handled recent rains, coupled with the state of federal disaster relief, we're not ready for it. [Grist]

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Harvey &quot;could become the first major natural disaster of the Trump presidency,&quot; warns Eric Holthaus at Grist. &quot;This is the kind of storm you drop everything to pay attention to.&quot; It has already been a wet August for the Texas Gulf Coast, and so the ground is saturated and primed to flood, while Houston is especially vulnerable to devastating floods because of poor city planning and lots of pavement, he notes, and the worst models have 20 to 40 inches of rain dumping on parts of Texas and Louisiana.

GFS 12z solution for #Harvey is an epic deluge as system meanders through SE Texas for many days. Flooding obviously major concern. pic.twitter.com/b13ge4jIoR
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Then there's the warming climate, Holthaus says:
Floods like the one in the worst Harvey forecasts have come at an increasingly frequent pace. Since the 1950s, the Houston area has seen a 167 percent increase in heavy downpours. At least four rainstorms so severe they would occur only once in 100 years under normal conditions have hit the area since May 2015. With a warmer climate comes faster evaporation and a greater capacity for thunderstorms to produce epic deluges. ... If Harvey's rains hit the coast with anywhere near the force of the most alarming predictions, we'd be in for disaster. And judging by how New Orleans and Houston have handled recent rains, coupled with the state of federal disaster relief, we're not ready for it. [Grist]

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<p>Democrat Margaret Good defeated Republican James Buchanan 52 to 45 percent during a special election Tuesday, held due to the resignation of state Rep. Alex Miller; she resigned halfway through her first term, after winning in 2016 by about 16 percentage points. Republicans still retain control of both of the state's legislative chambers.</p>
<p>Good, an attorney, told constituents she would protect public lands, wants to expand Medicaid, and is opposed to using public funds to pay for charter schools, <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-florida-state-house-win_us_5a838997e4b0cf06751f92f4?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004" target="_blank"><em>HuffPost</em> reports.</a> Democrats have picked up 36 state legislative seats since Trump's election. <a class="author" href=/authors/catherine-garcia><em>Catherine Garcia</em></a></p>
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							 <p>Last fall, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) made the surprise announcement that he would not seek re-election, but now — with Republicans worried about losing Senate seats to Democrats and Corker's relationship with President Trump somewhat mended — he's listening to people who are asking him to reconsider.</p>
<p>On Monday night, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/02/13/585376134/corker-listening-closely-as-some-have-encouraged-him-to-reconsider-retiring" target="_blank">Corker told NPR he didn't have anything to say,</a> but on Tuesday evening, his spokeswoman Micah Johnson put out a statement saying Corker has been approached by people in Tennessee who have "concerns about the outcome of this election because they believe it could determine control of the Senate and the future of our agenda. The senator has been encouraged to reconsider his decision and is listening closely."</p>
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							 <p>A federal judge has blocked President Trump from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying the administration's justification was not "legally adequate." Under DACA, which Barack Obama created via executive order, young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children can apply for legal protections. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/politics/daca-trump-congress/index.html">The Trump administration announced in September</a> that the program would expire on March 5. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued to protect DACA, eventually resulting in today's ruling.</p>
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							 <p class="p1">You know that phrase you start to hear all the time on TV in the fall, something like "<em>I'm Angus and I approve this message</em>" or "<a href="http://theweek.com/speedreads/754930/dogs-gubernatorial-bid-crushed-kansas" target="_blank"><em>This ad was paid for by Canines for a Better America</em></a>?" The Federal Election Commission clarified in an opinion in December that such a disclaimer needs to be visible on ads on websites like Facebook too — only it doesn't seem like anyone is actually obeying. <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/i-approved-this-facebook-message-but-you-dont-know-that" target="_blank">A <em>ProPublica</em> investigation</a> found that of 300 political ads that have run on Facebook, fewer than 40 actually met the FEC's disclaimer laws.</p>
<p class="p1">Ads lacking the proper FEC language include ones paid for by the Democratic National Committee and President Trump's 2020 campaign. Fines for "knowing and willful" violations of the law can be over $1,000.</p>
<p class="p3">The regulations are under particular scrutiny now, as it has become increasingly clear that Russian agents used Facebook to promote their agenda during the 2016 election. "Foreign contributions to campaigns for U.S. federal office are illegal," <em>ProPublica</em> notes. "Online, advertisers can target ads to relatively small groups of people. Once the marketing campaign is over, the ads disappear. This makes it difficult for the public to scrutinize them."</p>
<p class="p3">The FEC's rules have changed as the nature of online advertising has, too. In 2011, when ads on Facebook were limited to small thumbnails and short text, the FEC agreed that the disclaimer could appear after clicking <em>through</em> the ad. "The functionality and capabilities of today's Facebook Video and Image ads can accommodate the information without the same constrictions imposed by the character-limited ads that Facebook presented to the Commission in 2011," the commission wrote in December.</p>
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							 <p>Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo took House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to task Tuesday for voting for a budget <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/us/politics/white-house-budget-congress.html" target="_blank">that would increase the deficit</a> by $7 trillion by 2027. In theory, such robust spending should infuriate Ryan, who railed <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/02/06/republicans-ready-to-reject-obama-budget-facing-spending-fights-of-their-own/?utm_term=.93bbfe592cb0">against deficits</a> and sounded the alarm about an impending "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwv5EbxXSmE">debt crisis</a>" during President Obama's time in office. But in the age of President Trump, Ryan is <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/372902-paul-ryan-says-he-has-the-votes-for-budget-deal">whipping up support</a> for the debt-inducing budget — and being forced to defend his reversal.</p>
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							 <p class="p1">Louise Linton has found herself at the center of several angry media frenzies ever since her husband, Steven Mnuchin, joined the Trump administration as Treasury secretary. As one close friend <a href="http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a15895367/louise-linton-march-2018/" target="_blank">carefully put it to <em>Elle</em></a>: "Louise was blessed and fortunate enough to be raised in a Scottish castle, and to not understand the reality of some human beings with a different background."</p>
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<blockquote><p class="p2">After the Instagram scandal, Linton tried to take her image into her own hands. She reached out to wives of Cabinet members for advice, one of whom referred her to a Washington protocol expert. She is now learning a lot. "It's actually really a fascinating world. The world of political etiquette [...] When I went to the Middle East, they helped me: What is the appropriate thing to wear in Jerusalem? In Saudi Arabia? What's the appropriate way to greet a gentleman in Saudi? What's the appropriate way to greet sheiks or whomever?" [<a href="http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a15895367/louise-linton-march-2018/" target="_blank"><em>Elle</em></a>]</p>
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