Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is If the media covered climate change the way it covers Hillary's email:
Today is the last day to register in person and on line in Utah, and on line in Connecticut. The latter also allows people to register at the polls on election day.
Other deadlines: Maryland: Nov. 3 in person; North Carolina: Nov. 5 in person; Vermont: Nov. 2 on line, by mail, and in person.
In addition to Connecticut, the following states allow people to register on Election Day: Colorado; Idaho; Illinois; Iowa; Maine; Minnesota; Montana; New Hampshire; Washington, DC; Wisconsin; Wyoming. No registration is required in North Dakota.
• Fossil fuels will be heavily represented at climate talks in Morocco next week: Diplomats will convene in Marrakech for a couple of weeks starting Monday to determine how the signers of the Paris climate agreement will meet their pledges.
[A]s the advocacy organization Corporate Accountability International shows, coal and gas representatives are also heavily involved. The long list of non-governmental organizations accepted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the body that runs the annual talks, includes groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Shell Foundation, linked to carbon-spewing companies such as Chevron and Shell. [...]
In May, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua called for an examination of “observers” at the talks, like NGOs and private companies, that represent a conflict of interest.
• Wired takes a look at what it would be like to admit 650 million into the U.S. in a single week.
• Trevor Timm points out that James Comey has been abusing his power for years:
Why he is celebrated as anything close to the hero is baffling. During the Bush administration, Comey also aggressively defended the arrest and due process-free imprisonment of a US citizen, Jose Padilla, on US soil. He was held as an “enemy combatant”, tortured, and refused a lawyer for three and half years – to this day, one of the most egregious violations of the constitution by the Bush administration. In addition, Comey also gave his legal sign-off on torture techniques during the Bush administration, despite harboring personal doubts.
Since taking over at the FBI, speaking up without all – or any – of the facts has become a Comey specialty. He has led a high-profile two-year fight to essentially outlaw end-to-end encryption, a vital tool that protects citizens’ privacy and security.
• Nightmare alien planets. One even looks like the eye of Sauron:
For starters, the exoplanet 55 Cancri e is oozing with poisonous liquid. About 40 light years away, it's known as a "super Earth," about eight times larger [than] the mass of our home planet and much hotter because it's so close to its star. In fact, the high heat of the planet has made it so that water and other liquids are unable to exist in their regular liquid state, pushing them to "supercritical" states under the pressure. The fluids become exotic, oozing non-liquids, also gleaming with the poisonous hydrogen cyanide, oozing below the surface.
• Male contraceptive study was cut short because men couldn’t handle side effects from hormonal birth control that women deal with every day.
• At current rate of improvement, black women will take 108 years to reach pay parity with white men. And Hispanic women will take 232 years:
Women of color have to deal with both the fact that women make less than men in every industry and virtually every job, and that people of color make less than white people. The gap between black and white earnings, for instance, is the largest it has been since 1979. Education can’t erase the gaps for women, nor for black people. Women make less than men at every educational level, while black and white wage gaps by educational level have actually been growing.
• On today's Kagro in the Morning show: Greg Dworkin rounds up the latest polling & forecasting. Russia’s back (many people are saying)! New contributor Paula Apynys (aka Paula Writer) shares David Atkins’ thoughts on “voter fraud” suspicions. Law & order candidate hates both laws & orders.
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