Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is The Donald Trump mysteries:
• Energy Secretary-designate Rick Perry vows to divest himself of companies building Dakota Access Pipeline:
...Perry has definitely benefited from his association with Dakota Access. The combined worth of his common stock and his unvested restricted stock in Energy Transfer and Sunoco ranges somewhere between $202,004 and $530,000, according to his disclosure form.
• More than 40 percent of California emerges from drought:
More than 40 percent of California has emerged from a punishing drought that covered the whole state a year ago, federal drought-watchers said Thursday, a stunning transformation caused by an unrelenting series of storms in the North that filled lakes, overflowed rivers and buried mountains in snow.
The weekly drought report by government and academic water experts showed 42 percent of the state free from drought. This time last year, 97 percent of the state was in drought.
• If the Trump regime dismantles the EPA, here are some kits for citizen monitoring of the environment.
• No protests, but lots of sexist comments in Elaine Chao hearing Wednesday:
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) focused on Chao's relationship to her father. "I keep thinking—last night, I was with you and your family, your daddy—how excited your daddy is right now thinking about the things that are going on, and that he is responsible for you and your performing and your cute little nieces," he said at the start of his questioning. "As you well know, I've got 20 kids and grandkids. You've got some more work to do, but that's all right."
Can you imagine: "Mr. Tillerson, your mommy must be so proud!"
• Monitors who had to view child abuse content sue Microsoft, claim PTSD:
Microsoft workers on the “online safety team” were forced to view photos and videos of “indescribable sexual assaults”, “horrible brutality”, murder and child abuse, resulting in severe post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a lawsuit.
The complaint, filed on behalf of two employees and their families, outlined the “inhumane and disgusting content” the moderators viewed on a regular basis and alleged that the psychological impact has been so extreme that the men are “triggered” by simply seeing children and can no longer use computers without breaking down.
• National Park Service grants $7.5 million to preserve African American civil rights movement sites:
The National Park Service (NPS) today announced funding for 39 projects in over 20 states that will preserve and highlight the sites and stories associated with the Civil Rights Movement and the African American experience.
“Through the African American Civil Rights Grant Program, we’re helping our public and private partners tell unique and powerful stories of the African American struggle for equality in the 20th Century,” National Park Service Acting Director Michael Reynolds said.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin & Armando join in recapping & discussing last night’s vote-a-rama (and a reminder of the mechanics ahead), the PR flops of the cabinet nomination hearings and the spiraling catastrophe of Trump’s purported ethics “solutions.”
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