Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is Bizarro Trump:
What you may have missed on Sunday Kos …
- The tax loopholes Donald Trump would write for himself, by David Akadjian
- Misogyny in politics, by Denise Oliver Velez
- A well-crafted system of criminal injustice, by Frank Vyan Walton
- 'He tells it like it is:' The privileged politics of personal insult, by Propane Jane
- Why Hillary Clinton has avoided painting Trump as a byproduct of typical Republican extremism, by Stephen Wolf
- Remembering election night 2008 in Grant Park: Thanks, Obama, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Our delegitimized media created the Donald Trump voter, by Egberto Willies
- Donald Trump represents change? In what universe, by Ian Reifowitz
- International Elections Digest: Landmark peace referendum in Colombia suffers painfully narrow loss, by Daily Kos Elections
• World needs $90 trillion makeover to avoid disaster from climate change:
A gigantic overhaul of the world’s buildings, public transport and energy infrastructure costing trillions of dollars is required if dangerous climate change is to be avoided, according to a major new report.
The study by the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, which is co-chaired by prominent climate economist Lord Nicholas Stern, found that the world is expected to invest about $90tn in infrastructure over the next 15 years, requiring an “urgent” shift to ensure that this money is spent on low-carbon, energy-efficient projects. Such smart investment over the next two or three years could help ameliorate the climate crisis, but “the window for making the right choices is narrow and closing fast”.
• British journalist tries to understand American gun culture. Gary Younge has written a book about the subject. "If very few people have guns, then very few people feel the need for guns. If lots of people have guns, then lots of people feel the need for guns."
• Hopi boy plans to run from Arizona to North Dakota in support of water protectors:
Meet Riley Ortega, a Hopi Spider clan long-distance runner who has every intention of running from Flagstaff, Arizona to Cannonball, North Dakota, near the Standing Rock Nation. His parents, Lori and Erin Ortega fully support their son’s run to North Dakota.
“He will be missing out on the cross country state championship. It’s important to our youth to be part of something bigger than themselves,” said Erin. [...]
“The reason why I want to do this journey is because I want to be able to run for my people that need my help. I want to run for the water because people can live without oil but people need water to live,” said young Ortega.
• Kate Aronoff hangs out with millennials in Brooklyn for the second debate:
For Sunday’s debate, I decided to spend time with some bona fide millennials. #AllofUs, profiled here, is a millennial-led group looking to ramp up pressure on Trump and the GOP in the few weeks remaining before November 8. Its leadership is culled from the so-called millennial movements, spanning from Occupy Wall Street to the climate fight to the movement for black lives and immigrant justice. This coming week, it will host an action in Washington, D.C., of millennial women and femmes in response to what it calls Trump's and the GOP’s “politics of hate.”
“Trump is despicable,” the group writes. “But we know where he came from. The GOP has pushed a 50-year politics of hate towards black people, immigrants, Muslims, women and LGBTQ people.”
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• Rajan Menon: U.S. military intervention cannot save Syria:
States obviously don’t always avoid war. The United States would presumably defend the Baltic states were Russia to attack them. But there are no American interests, let alone treaty obligations, that warrant courting a military clash with Russia in Syria. (That does not make the suffering of Syrians irrelevant. But more can be done about that on the non-military front. The options include taking in more refugees, which, to their credit, Cohen and Kristof have called for and funding relief agencies such as the World Food Program adequately. Most wealthy countries—not just those in the West—have not done either to the extent feasible.)
• Ursula LeGuin, 87, has stopped writing fiction: Too bad, we need her more than ever.
• Feeding graphene to silkworms produces supersilk:
The Tsinghua University-based researchers behind the new study don't actually know how introducing graphene and carbon-nanotubes into the silkworm diet—a process in which mulberry leaves are sprayed with a liquid containing bits and pieces of added material—fits into all of this. Somehow the added synthetic material is conserved rather than excreted as waste and is then reincorporated into newly produced silk.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin helps review the last of the “pre-tape” polls, and that debate-shaped thing that was on TV last night. Trump’s top dirty tricksters choked, big league. Trump lobbied hard for those yooge tax deductions he claimed (and blamed Hillary for).
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