Companies Launch Unorthodox Campaign To Win Trump

As state officials and legislators debate how Colorado can build its way out of the housing crisis, one Denver nonprofit is taking a different approach: preserving what’s already here. In a bid to curb rent increases and gentrification in east Denver, the East Colfax Community Collective’s housing trust purchased its first property in September.

David Plouffe, a top adviser to the Kamala Harris presidential campaign, this week explained the failure to inspire independent voters: “This political environment sucked, okay?” But political environments don’t just happen. They’re driven by governance, campaigns, culture, and the media. Including journalism. According to a New York Times post-mortem of the Harris campaign, a Trump campaign ad and its followup had a devastating effect.

In 2016, when Tennessee OBGYN Susan Lacy learned she would be providing gender-affirming care to transgender patients in her new job at a reproductive health clinic in Memphis, she felt out of her depth. But it didn’t take long to realize that hormone treatments for trans folks weren’t so different from those she’d been providing for years to cisgender patients.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to kill offshore wind energy development “on day one” of his second term is already triggering project slowdowns on the East Coast, but the biggest wind farm proposed in the Gulf of Mexico will likely stay on track.

As if his actions as one of the most notorious arms-traffickers in government didn’t already suggest his contempt for law and order, he pops his ugly head back in to say it.

The FBI went rogue a very long time ago.