FINALLY: Coldplay Won’t Tour Because It’s Killing the Planet or Something.

But they shouldn’t stop there, of course. Refusing to tour is a good first step toward saving our planet, but it’s not nearly enough. The band should quit making music entirely. I’m not exactly sure how much carbon is produced by recording and releasing music in 2019, but I doubt you can plant trees quickly enough to offset it. Even if you just count the carbon dioxide that’s released whenever Chris Martin opens his gob to sing, that’s tipping the balance. Gaia can’t take much more of it, and neither can lovers of good music.

Save the planet, Coldplay. Go away!

Hopefully this will start a trend — Hollywood and the news industry could really learn from these guys.

FIGHT THE POWER: Virginia counties approve ‘Second Amendment Sanctuaries.’

NETFLIX AND CHILL, BUT WITHOUT THE NETFLIX: Airmen in Subzero Temps Discover F-35 Survival Kit Works Better Than Advertised. “A testing malfunction accidentally subjected airmen to -65 degrees Fahrenheit. Luckily, the survival kits worked regardless.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: VIDEO: College Republicans president hit in face for holding ‘All Lives Matter’ sign.

THE PLANET — THANKFULLY — HAS BEEN DEGLACIATING FOR ALMOST 12,000 YEARS, BUT SOMEHOW THIS IS OUR FAULT: Paired Images of Melting Glaciers and Flooding Wetlands Tell the Story of Global Climate Change.

WELL, HATE IS BERKELEY’S BRAND THESE DAYS: Berkeley chancellor promotes College Dems’ ‘hate rally’ slated during same time as Ann Coulter speech. And the Dems’.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong About Everything. “As this socialist battle royale has played out, the standard take from pundits on both sides is that Warren is more deep from a policy standpoint than Sanders is. Admittedly, it is quite easy to present oneself as being less crazy and possessing more intellectual heft than Bernie Sanders. However, a quick pass over what Warren offers on any given day as she campaigns proves that she may be even loonier.”

BUT REMEMBER, TRUMP IS THE ONE WHO’S DEBASING OUR GOVERNMENT AND JOURNALISM: IG Horowitz Finds Evidence FBI Employee Altered Russia Probe Document; WaPo Stealth-Deletes Strzok Connection.

IF THEY DO THAT, NATIONALIZE THEIR HOLDINGS. China could ‘turn off power’ in the Philippines, senate hears. “China’s State Grid Corp has a 40% stake in the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) – which runs the country’s lone power transmission line. It transmits electricity all the way from Luzon – the northern end of the country – down to Mindanao in the south.”

China has big stakes in a lot of countries, but it lacks the military and the diplomatic muscle to keep them from being nationalized, especially if the United States backs the nationalizers. Hey, people did it to us for decades; let them learn what it’s like to be a global power.

FINISHED BRAD TORGERSEN’S A Star-Wheeled Sky last night. Really well done, and left me waiting impatiently for the next book.

FIGHT THE POWER: Giles County declared Second Amendment sanctuary after 5-0 vote.

WOW: Dramatic Color Footage Shows a Bombed-Out Berlin a Month After Germany’s WWII Defeat.

THE SCHIFF SHOW IS THE ALL-FEMALE GHOSTBUSTERS OF CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS: Epic fail: Most now oppose impeachment as Trump approval turns positive, 48% to 47%.

House impeachment proceedings have helped — not hurt — President Trump’s approval in the eyes of voters, and in the latest survey, his rating has turned positive thanks to a massive revolt against impeachment by independents.

The just-released Emerson Poll found that 48% approve of Trump, and 47% do not.

What’s more, support for impeachment is now negative, a finding that backs up other recent polling.

The Democrats can’t catch a break, and they don’t deserve to.

FIGHT THE POWER: With cheers from crowd, Pittsylvania County supervisors officially back gun rights with ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary’ designation.

DO TELL, SNOWFLAKE: How to identify (and handle) your emotional triggers before they cause real harm.

FLASHBACK: Ukrainian to US prosecutors: Why don’t you want our evidence on Democrats?

EVERYTHING LEADS TO THE GULAG WITH THESE PEOPLE: Sanders: We Should Consider ‘Prosecuting’ Fossil Fuel Executives.

THEY WERE EPSTEINED: High ‘Suicide’ Rate of Hong Kong Protesters Points to Chinese Regime.

PRIVACY: Telegram Founder Says Users Should ‘Delete WhatsApp.’ “WhatsApp doesn’t only fail to protect its users’ messages, it is consistently being used as a Trojan horse to spy on their users’ non-WhatsApp content, including photos kept on their phones. Founder of rival app Telegram, Pavel Durov, says people should just delete it.”

Yes, Durov is trying to get people to move from WhatsApp to his own Telegram, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong about WhatsApp.

HYPOTHESIS: What’s coming out about Ukraine — basically U.S. aid money going in, and then part of the money in the form of kickbacks funneled back to U.S. political figures via financial firms and family members — is not unusual, but rather something closer to the norm.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Which law schools have the best and worst debt-to-income ratios among recent graduates?