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Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Absurd reality:
What’s coming up 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 justice, 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
- Recalling 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
- Daily Kos International Elections Digest: October edition, by Daily Kos Elections
• Study shows methane emissions may be 60% higher than previously thought: The study—Upward revision of global fossil fuel methane emissions based on isotope database (behind a paywall at Nature)—was produced by a team led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). In the short-run, methane is far more potent than CO2 in that it has a greater global warming potential (GWP, a measure created by the EPA). But it remains in the atmosphere for a much shorter time. The findings show that, starting in 2007, methane releases from agriculture, landfills, and wetlands increased even as methane as a portion of production of natural gas fell from 8 percent to 2 percent:
“If the methane is mainly coming from cows or ag, then we could potentially do something about it,” lead scientist Stefan Schwietzke of NOAA said in a press release. “If it’s coming from decaying vegetation in wetlands or fresh waters, then … it could be part of a self-reinforcing feedback loop leading to more climate change. Those are big ifs.”
• Some tongue-in-cheek advice on how to persuade climate-change deniers: Flatter them.
• Rudy Giuliani’s daughter endorses … Hillary Clinton:
Rudy Giuliani, famous for his unhinged meltdowns as he tries and fails to defend the increasingly indefensible behavior of his candidate Donald Trump, now has an even bigger reason to melt down. His own daughter, Caroline Rose Giuliani – who has apparently been a Hillary Clinton supporter in private all along – has decided that now is the time to go ahead and publicly endorse Hillary in defiance of whatever her father thinks about it.
It’s not clear what specifically prompted Caroline Giuliani to go ahead and make her support so publicly blatant on her Facebook page, as she merely stated “pro-Hillary all along.” But her post was made just hours after Donald Trump stayed up all night bashing Miss Universe on Twitter, an incident which prompted a number of Americans to conclude that he’s temperamentally unfit to be President, while others have wondered aloud if he might be suffering from a psychological break or perhaps feeling the effects of some kind of substance abuse.
• Another piece of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been found: It’s part of a wing flap. It’s also the sixth piece of wreckage that investigators believe is definitely or almost certainly part of the plane that mysteriously disappeared March 8, 2014, with 239 people aboard.
• Here’s a video—Little Dream Catchers—on the legacy of the forced assimilation of American Indians.
• New UN chief is, once again, a guy:
António Guterres, who faces one final formality before he is named as the next secretary-general of the United Nations, is by all accounts a fine candidate for the job. [...] What Guterres is not is a woman—and his selection by the U.N. Security Council on Thursday represents the failure of a high-profile effort to elect a woman to the job.
The United Nations has had eight male leaders in its 70-year history, and even incumbent Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, whose term expires at the end of the year, said that it was “high time” for a woman to be the ninth. Seven of the 13 candidates for the job were female, many of them, according to the BBC, “arguably even more experienced than Mr. Guterres.” They included a former prime minister of New Zealand, the director-general of UNESCO, foreign ministers, and high-level U.N. officials.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin says both polls & jobs are looking up. Trump tries to Make Bigotry Acceptable Again, and Ryan can’t wait to leverage it. Gun dummies freak out over clowns & BLM. New contributor JJR1971 notes TX schools are still fighting desegregation orders.
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