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What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Aftab Pureval, Hamilton County, Ohio’s new Democratic Clerk of Courts, and how he won, by David Akadjian
- Racism is a battle that we’ve fought before, by Susan Grigsby
- How should journalism function in the age of Trump, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Hoosier daddy? The man who really delivered the jobs in Indiana, by Jon Perr
- My “identity” can get me killed, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Medicare is a battle for survival, by DarkSyde
- One silver lining to Trump’s win: Democrats could win key governors’ races for 2020s redistricting, by Stephen Wolf
- Censorship and President-elect Trump, by Mark E Andersen
- Don’t take Donald Trump lightly: He could be the economic Ronald Reagan, by Egberto Willies
• Cancer-surviving Aussie 12-year-old told the Make-A-Wish Foundation he just wanted to blow things up: The foundation never likes to disappoint so ...
• Cities not waiting for Washington, they’re moving on climate themselves:
St. Petersburg, Florida, is far from the largest city in the United States. It’s not even the largest city in the state of Florida. But it just pledged to do something that could make a big impact on climate action: transition its electricity to 100 percent renewable energy.
The pledge — which was voted on unanimously by the city council in November — makes St. Petersburg the 20th city in the United States to pledge to move its electricity generation to 100 percent carbon-free sources.
• White House, Defense Secretary support having women register for the draft: There is no draft and no move to reinstate one, but ...
While Secretary [Ash] Carter strongly supports our all-volunteer approach and does not advocate returning to a draft, as he has said in the past, he thinks it makes sense for women to register for selective service just as men must," Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement to NBC News. [...] A spokesman for Obama's National Security Council Ned Price echoed the sentiment in a statement to USA TODAY on Thursday, saying "As old barriers for military service are being removed, the administration supports -- as a logical next step -- women registering for the Selective Service."
• Some electric cars that go really fast but you probably cannot afford.•
• Oregonian gets jail time for sharing pornographic videos without his partner’s consent:
Though legislation lags behind rapidly changing technology, many states have enacted laws in recent years penalizing revenge porn: posting explicit images online without the subject’s consent. It is generally prosecuted as “nonconsensual pornography.”
The practice gained notoriety and condemnation through the website Is Anyone Up?, at which users could upload pornography and identifying information of the subjects. The site’s owner Hunter Moore was sentenced to 30 months in prison for hacking and identity theft.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin notes the varied ways in which Trump voters react to post-election contradictions. HuffPo reporters watch sausage making in action. Josie Duffy Rice on the expanding climate of fear, and reminds us of Trump’s enthusiasm for SLAPP suits.
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