Today’s comic by Matt Bors is And now a world from Donald Trump…
• 7,000 cities already ahead on reducing greenhouse gas emissions:
The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement demanded that by 2020 cities reduce their emissions by 20% compared to 1990 levels. But the Covenant of Mayors, a project headed jointly by the European Union and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, set a more ambitious target of 27%. And they’re well on the way to meeting that, according to a new report by the European Commission’s Joint Research Center.
The cities have already seen a 23% overall reduction, with the building sector performing the best—dropping its emissions 27%.
• Gay, Jewish NY State Senator Brad Hoylman Finds Swastikas on His Home: From his Facebook page:
I came home this evening to news that two swastikas had been discovered in the apartment building where I live with my husband and daughter in Greenwich Village. The NYPD Hate Crimes unit is investigating. This comes three days after swastikas were drawn on the doors of nearby students at The New School. Meanwhile, Stephen Bannon, an anti-Semitic, white nationalist has been named as the senior strategist to President-elect Donald J. Trump. Connect the dots.
• How to encrypt your entire life in an hour.
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• Company apologizes for hawking bracelet: Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry said it was sorry Tuesday for marketing the bracelet that the president-elect’s eldest daughter wore during an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes.” After the interview, reporters received an email from the company touting the $10,800 Metropolis diamond-and-gold bangle that Ivanka Trump wore in the interview, asking them to share it with their “clients.” In a statement, the company’s president said the email was sent out because new protocols haven’t yet been worked out since the election.
• Dakota Access Pipeline builders say they don’t need easement document to drill under the Missouri River: In a court filing, they stated:
"The [Army Corps of Engineers] takes the position that Dakota Access will not have the right-of-way to cross beneath that land until the Corps gives it a document bearing the title of 'easement,'" attorneys for the pipeline partnership wrote on Tuesday.
"Dakota Access contends, instead, that the Corps has already made all of the relevant determinations and given Dakota Access its right-of-way; as a result, this additional documentation (a written easement) is not needed for Dakota Access to cross beneath that land," the filing continued.
• Interview with Moira Walsh, who went from waitress to state representative in Rhode Island:
The 2016 election rewarded candidates who could easily bat away accusations of being members of the establishment, and this held all the way down the ballot: In Rhode Island, voters decided not to re-elect six of the 18 incumbent state lawmakers facing primary challenges in September, including Thomas Palangio, who had served as a state representative for seven non-consecutive terms. His replacement, Moira Walsh, is a 26-year-old former labor organizer who worked as a waitress in the decade leading up to her campaign. In January, she will begin her term as a state representative from Providence’s third district.
• Your tuna may not be tuna says new study.
• Mose Allison dead at 89: The influential jazz and blues musician picked cotton as a child, but he also learned to play the piano. His songs have been covered by Van Morrison, the Who, the Clash, Elvis Costello and the Yardbirds, and he received the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts jazz masters fellowship in 2013.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Greg Dworkin and Joan McCarter discuss today’s news. Transition in disarray! Coal miners rewarded with possible Sago mine owner cabinet pick. 25th Amendment fever! Bannon secretly paid by a Super PAC? Medicare under attack. Filibuster’s fate?
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