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December 18, 2018

The Daily Show: Trump's New Chief of Staff & Stephen Miller's New Hairline



Mick Mulvaney becomes Trump’s acting chief of staff despite calling the president a “terrible human being,” Ryan Zinke is pushed out of his Secretary of the Interior post, and Stephen Miller debuts a new sprayed-on hairstyle while discussing the potential government shutdown on “Face the Nation.”


December 18, 2018

The Daily Show: Bob Woodward - "Fear" in America & President Trump's War on Truth



Journalist and “Fear” author Bob Woodward describes the depth of Donald Trump’s incompetence and explains how accurate the comparisons to the Nixon era may be.


December 18, 2018

The Daily Show: Bob Woodward - "Fear" in America & President Trump's War on Truth



Journalist and “Fear” author Bob Woodward describes the depth of Donald Trump’s incompetence and explains how accurate the comparisons to the Nixon era may be.


December 18, 2018

The Daily Show: Trump's New Chief of Staff & Stephen Miller's New Hairline



Mick Mulvaney becomes Trump’s acting chief of staff despite calling the president a “terrible human being,” Ryan Zinke is pushed out of his Secretary of the Interior post, and Stephen Miller debuts a new sprayed-on hairstyle while discussing the potential government shutdown on “Face the Nation.”


December 18, 2018

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Brexit Update - UK Version



On our last episode of the year, we couldn’t show our Brexit segment in the UK because of their stupid ban on using footage from Parliament. What did they get instead? They got this.


December 16, 2018

SNL - Christmas Ornaments



A drunk Santa ornament (Beck Bennett) is hung on the back of the Christmas tree alongside an old Good Will Hunting ornament (Matt Damon) and other tacky ornaments (Kenan Thompson, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Cecily Strong, Mikey Day) only seen by the wall.


December 16, 2018

SNL - Weekend Update

Trump Worries About Impeachment



Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like President Trump's growing risk of impeachment.




Angel Reacts to Good Holiday News



Angel, Every Boxer's Girlfriend from Every Movie About Boxing Ever (Heidi Gardner), has some strong opinions about positive holiday headlines until her boxer boyfriend, Tommy (Matt Damon), interrupts with some big news.




Colin Jost and Michael Che Swap Jokes



Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news and make each other tell jokes they've never seen to close out 2019.


December 16, 2018

SNL - Happy Christmas, Britain



Prime Minister Theresa May (Kate McKinnon) hosts the talk show Happy Christmas, Britain, speaking with the likes of former Prime Minister David Cameron (Matt Damon) and Lord Voldemort (Mikey Day).


December 16, 2018

SNL - It's a Wonderful Trump Cold Open



Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) gets his wish to have never been president granted and sees how the lives of Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller), Brett Kavanaugh (Matt Damon), Robert Mueller (Robert De Niro) and more have changed in an alternate reality.


December 15, 2018

Trump Administration's Alaska Oil and Gas Lease Sale a 'Major Flop'

Despite the Trump administration's unrelenting quest to drill the Arctic, Wednesday's oil and gas lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) yielded a "disappointing" return of $1.5 million, E&E News reported.

Oil and gas giants ConocoPhillips, Emerald House and Nordaq Energy were the three companies that made uncontested bids on 16 tracts of land out of 254 tracts made available by the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) annual sale in the western Arctic.

https://twitter.com/BLMAlaska/status/1072927915040362497

In all, the companies swooped up roughly 174,000 acres of the 2.85 million acres offered, working out to an average of just $6.50 an acre.

"Federal officials [cited] a lack of access to the most promising areas as a reason for the modest bidding," the Anchorage Daily News reported.

But the Center for American Progress said the result was a "major flop that shortchanged taxpayers" and also puts the nearby Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) environment at risk.

"These results show that the fiscal arguments—including promises of more than $1 billion, or bids of $1,000 per acre—made for drilling in the neighboring Arctic National Wildlife Refuge were a complete scam," the organization tweeted. "Taxpayers are being sold a false bill of goods in the Arctic Refuge, and stand to lose America's last best wilderness in the process."


Read more: https://www.ecowatch.com/alaska-oil-gas-lease-sale-2623304775.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=8359602284-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-8359602284-85350385

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