176,000 gallons of oil spilled from a different pipeline just 150 miles from the Dakota Access route. / CNBC “The adverse impact it would have on watchdog reporting is one of the main reasons there is no other law like it anywhere in the nation.” Christie goes after the press
In response to the possibility that Republicans may cancel funding for NASA’s atmospheric sciences missions (which provide the bulk of climate data), Jerry Brown says California will “launch its own damn satellite.” / The Sacramento Bee Reminder: California’s ambitious climate leadership is now arguably the most important policy experiment
“I’d go around in Davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around, and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble also. I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill.” Duterte says he personally killed suspected criminals when he was mayor of a southern
A state judge in Texas ordered hundreds of women and children freed from a CoreCivic (formerly known as CCA)-run ICE “family detention” facility. / HuffPost The story of Cormac McCarthy, editor and writer for the Harvard Business Review. / andrewbatson.com The story of the first two people, back in 1937,
An ode to the Daily Mail’s penis-obsessed headlines. / Jezebel Look, we don’t feel bad for Lockheed Martin, necessarily, but it’s a little bit insane that Trump’s tweet casting aspersion on the price of the F-35 fighter plane cost the company $4 billion overnight. / The
Xi Jinping’s signature crackdown on political corruption, the centerpiece of his domestic policy, relies on an extrajudicial internal Communist Party disciplinary measure called shuanggui. / The New Yorker, hrw.org In the face of Trump, the LAPD promises it won’t hand over otherwise innocent undocumented immigrants to ICE. But
“Fiction is the most powerful method to experience what it’s like to live in someone else’s shoes—and such an experience is vital to citizenship, compassion, and a healthy society.” Our year in fiction: Announcing the long list for the 2017 Tournament of Books. / The Morning News The
“A feedback loop of political clout, content, advertising, and readers—with each node of influence dutifully echoing the core dictates of the political philosophy that rules the Democratic Party. Journalism finally has its unicorn.” Against Vox. / The Baffler If you have in-laws who love Boston basketball, or just Larry
TMN / The Morning News After San Francisco city officials ordered the large tent city on Division Street cleared in February, the San Francisco Chronicle followed seven former residents for months. / sfexaminer.com, San Francisco Chronicle An extensive Oregonian investigation finds that thousands of National Guard armories around the country—used
“We do not understand how GSA or its inspector general failed to anticipate the possibility of this eventuality or devise an exit strategy.… None of this happened quickly.” The General Services Administration needs to end its lease agreement with the Trump Organization, which controls Trump’s fancy new hotel down
