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• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- When is statutory rape not statutory rape? When you put a ring on it, by Susan Grigsby
- Are the teachers’ ‘strikes’ the beginning of a real worker revolt, by Egberto Willies
- Seven questions for Aftab Pureval, Democratic candidate for House in Ohio’s 1st congressional district, by David Akadjian
- Amidst all the other Trump administration crises, they’re actively making the climate crisis worse, by Laurence Lewis
- How the Parkland school shooting is shifting the electoral landscape, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Republican charter school privatization plague infects Puerto Rico. #JuliaGoHome, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Some heads are gonna roll, by Mark E Andersen
- Trump dumps ‘boring’ talk on rich man's tax cut for racist fear-mongering. That's his real passion, by Ian Reifowitz
• Scientist Reaffirms Claim That Roundup Causes Cancer:
Concluding a second round of expert testimony on the alleged link between non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Monsanto’s popular weed killer Roundup, a scientist said Friday that a new study finding no link between the two is flawed.
Cancer expert Christopher Portier testified that the 2018 study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suffered from measurement errors, leading its authors to conclude that there is no association between cancer in humans and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup. [...]
“After looking at the Andreotti study…I believe the strength of the observed association [between glyphosate and non-Hodgkin lymphoma] is high enough to warrant a strong opinion there,” Portier said. “We have epidemiological studies – or evidence in the real world – in real people at current exposures.”
• World’s richest 1% could own two-thirds of world’s wealth by 2030:
Since 2008, the wealth of the richest 1% has been growing at an average of 6% a year – much faster than the 3% growth in wealth of the remaining 99% of the world’s population. Should that continue, the top 1% would hold wealth equating to $305tn (£216.5tn) – up from $140tn today.
MIDDAY TWEET
• Europe, the UK, and the U.S invested less in renewables last year. U.S. cities are picking up the slack:
Here’s some bad news: A new report shows that U.S. investment in renewable energy fell by 6 percent last year. Ready for the good news? Six percent ain’t too shabby considering President Trump spent his first year in office announcing plans to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris agreement, slapping tariffs on solar panels, and reneging on decades of environmental policy.
In fact, despite federal setbacks, the report called the U.S. “relatively resilient.” Compare that 6 percent drop to Europe and the U.K, which saw investments in clean energy fall by 36 percent and 65 percent, respectively. The U.S. and its neighbors across the pond face a similar set of obstacles: the end of subsidies for renewables, growing interest rates, and policy uncertainties. [...]
One reason for U.S. resiliency? Our cities are stepping up to the plate. “The rise of solar power over the past decade has been largely driven by cities,” the Environment Texas Research & Policy Center found in a recent report.
• Saudi Arabia pondering Hyperloop that would cut 10-hour trip from Riyadh to Jeddah to just 76 minutes: But while Elon Musk’s concept of Hyperloops is intriguing, the actuality—from billions in funding to a vast array of technical issues—is years away from realization whether in the Middle East or Los Angeles.
• Photos reveal life in segregated work camps for black men during Great Depression:
A striking, sepia-toned picture recently acquired by the University of Michigan jumps out from the past and begs to tell a story: A man dressed in a heavy coat and hat is as big as the cabin door whose knob he is reaching to turn and enter.
The picture is labeled simply, “Big Jim.”
The rare photo is among 30 acquired by the Bentley Historical Library last year from a private donor that capture a place and time often overlooked by history: black Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Michigan and elsewhere during the Great Depression. The photos are the only known images of the state’s segregated, all-black camps. President Franklin Roosevelt established the corps in the early 1930s, offering shelter, clothing, food and wages to a “vast army” of unemployed men who worked to conserve and restore national resources.
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