The Daily Populous

Washington's state Senate passed a bill this week that would drop President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on potential candidacy: 'I have the most progressive record' Left-wing Dems in minority with new approach to spending Washington Senate passes bill that would keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns MORE from the state's 2020 presidential ballot until he releases his tax returns.

Democrats who supported the bill said the provision was necessary to force a return to norms surrounding the release of presidential candidates' tax returns.

A similar bill recently advanced in New Jersey's state Senate and is currently sitting in the state's General Assembly. »

WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton defended his decision to sell his company to Facebook for $19 billion and encouraged students to delete their accounts from the social network in a rare public appearance at Stanford University on Wednesday.

“I sold my users’ privacy to a larger benefit,” Acton told Forbes in September, detailing the conflicts that eventually led to his departure.

The WhatsApp cofounder called Facebook “a bit of a monoculture,” where he was the outlier. »

Rupert Murdoch’s 24-hour Sky News Australia has been pulled off the air by independently-owned Sky New Zealand.

“Police are aware there is extremely distressing footage relating to the incident in Christchurch circulating online,” the New Zealand police said in a statement.

On Saturday, the New Zealand broadcaster announced the decision to pull the channel off the air. »

Oceans absorb more than 90% of the heat that results from greenhouse gases, so if you want to measure global warming you really have to measure ocean warming.

The numbers are huge: in 2018 the extra ocean heat compared to a 1981-2010 baseline amounted to 196,700,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules.

Approximately a third of the rise in ocean waters is a result of the heat absorbed by the oceans. »