The vaquita is the world’s smallest porpoise, and there are only several dozen left. Somehow, it makes more sense for the United States to train heroic mine-detecting dolphins to find the vaquitas than it does for China to crack down on the imports of totoaba fish bladder that
1. Ford cancels a $1.6 billion plant in Mexico and gives credit/thanks to Trump. (Not much discussed: The cars that would’ve been built in the new plant will be built now in an existing Mexico plant.) Trump’s tweets also “nailed the coffin” on the House GOP’
A hijabi beauty contestant in Minnesota. A bipolar woman who founded Kenya’s first mental health hotline. A female police chief in Cyprus fighting human trafficking. Women all around the world are changing it every day. Meet seven of them. / NPR “My commitment to the public and my commitment to
Trump’s pick for National Security Adviser, former Defense Intelligence Agency head Michael Flynn, allegedly met the leader of a far-right Austrian party founded by Nazis with direct ties to the Kremlin this week. / The Washington Post, HuffPost, The New York Times Related: An analysis of Flynn’s tweets
Over the last year and change, conservative lawmakers in Congress and across state governments and legislatures have systematically cut down funding to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers to record lows. Per a Guttmacher Policy Review article, that may just have been the beginning. / guttmacher.org Internal Facebook training documents
“It has been ‘Let’s give the façade we are negotiating and complying.’ But there has been no enforcement. We haven’t been serious about compliance.” In Panama, it proves particularly hard to reform offshore banking laws when the president has what his critics refer to as an “offshore cabinet”
“We were painting them a dire picture, and I couldn’t help but think they literally looked like they had no idea what was going on here. I remember their faces, it was like they had never fucking heard this stuff before.” For the “Bernie would’ve won” schadenfreudist, Sanders
A fun dispatch from Shanghai’s IKEA, where the cafeteria twice a week turns into a senior citizens singles mixer that management isn’t quite sure what to do about. / Quartz “I guess I’m a fair-weather cartoonist. Or the opposite?” How Trump’s campaign and impending presidency got
In case you need to a reason to watch Jeopardy!, the story of Cindy Stowell—who went on the show with Stage 4 colon cancer, and died before she could see her episodes air—is moving and inspiring. / jeopardy.com, The A.V. Club “I still have a sour taste
The true end of an era: Roger Ailes has sold his local newspapers in Putnam County, NY, which he had previously bought, tried to instill with his “own brand of American values,” put under the day-to-day control of his wife, and set about creating a newspaper war. / New
