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Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Supreme Court silver lining:
• Most leading U.S. newspapers failed to mention landmark U.N. climate change report. Media Matters scrutinized the top 50 U.S. newspapers between 9 AM and noon ET on Monday and found most did not mention on their website homepages the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sunday release of its report on the devastating impacts of a global temperature increase of 1.5-degree Celsius (2.7-degree Fahrenheit) above the temperature of the pre-industrial era. Although The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune gave the report prominence, 28 of the 50 newspapers didn’t mention it at all on their homepages, and most of those that did only provided headlines:
Of [those 28] newspapers, 10 serve cities that are listed among the "25 U.S. Cities Most Affected by Climate Change" in a 2015 weather.com report: Baltimore, Buffalo, Columbus, Denver, Louisville, Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, and St. Paul. [...]
The Miami Herald also did not mention the IPCC report on its homepage, though it did link to an article about how the risk of sea-level rise threatens real estate prices. Miami will be particularly affected by sea-level rise; a study published last year in the journal Nature concluded that rising seas as a result of climate change could cause more than 2.5 million Miami residents to flee the city.
• Hurricane Michael headed for Florida as North Carolina prepares for heavy rains: The National Hurricane Center says Michael will come ashore as a Category 3 storm with winds of 120 mph around the Florida Panhandle Wednesday. The storm surge in low-lying areas of the state could reach 12 feet. Florida Governor Rick Scott issued a state of emergency order for 26 counties and activated 500 members of the Florida national guard in preparation for the hurricane’s landfall. Michael is expected to track through Georgia and Carolinas. In North Carolina, still nowhere near being fully recovered from last month’s Hurricane Florence, officials are preparing for rains and gusty winds that could uproot trees and take out power lines.
MIDDAY TWEET
• “South Park” episode featuring Mr. Hankey mocks Kavanaugh’s testimony.
• Nuns on a Bus launch tour challenging Republican tax law: After a send-off in Santa Monica, California, by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Monday morning, the nuns began a 44-city, 21-state tour that will ultimately take them to Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s lavish Florida compound:
The aim is to highlight economic inequality from the GOP’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which critics say benefits the highest-income households while ignoring middle and lower-income Americans.
In an interview, the group’s lead organization Sister Simone Campbell said, “We’re not against people benefitting. We’re all for everyone benefiting. But that’s everyone – not just a few.” [...]
“Right now, people are so hopeless, so angry, so separated, without vision. We’re presenting an alternative vision,” Campbell said.
• Author explains how evangelical “purity culture” as a girl messed up her sex life as adult and that of countless other women.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: The Interpol case gets weird. But Russia & China have made things weird there for quite a while. More wrap-up on Kavanaugh, what Dems might do about it after the election & a Paula Writer pep talk on this rough patch. Breaking news: Nikki Haley's out.
