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Among the stories covered on today's show: Devastating wildfires spread down the Southern California coast toward San Diego, in a record wildfire season that has lasted all the way into winter, as predicted by scientists a decade ago, had we bothered to heed their warnings. Clearly NOT heeding such warnings is Donald Trump who, according to a new AP analysis, is failing to appoint actual scientists to scores of Senate-confirmable scientific positions at multiple important federal agencies, from the EPA to the Energy Dept. to the White House itself. The former Chair of the CO Republican Party-turned rightwing radio host who claimed before last year's election that "every case of voter fraud I can remember was committed by Democrats" is found guilty of....you guessed it. On the eve of Tuesday's U.S. Senate special election in Alabama, multi-partisan Election Integrity advocates file suit to force the state to retain 'ballot images' from the state's paper ballot digital-scanners, and the New York Daily News' Editorial Board joins them in that call...for very good reason. After a spate of mass shootings, Congress finally moves gun legislation forward, as Republicans in the U.S. House do the bidding of their terrorist-enabling NRA masters in passing a bill to EXPAND the right to carry concealed weapons into states where laws prohibit it.\xa0 Plus listener e-mail on a few of the topics we've covered on recent shows, from guns to Democrats to Russia...