If he serves out his entire term, Donald Trump has 871 days left in office
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• Trump regime purposely excludes Native input on Bears Ears National Monument:
The monument, home to ancestral villages, burial grounds and sacred sites, was drastically reduced by President Donald Trumplast December. Tribes aren't happy about that action and are fighting in court to protect their aboriginal homelands from looting, development and other threats.
But even as that battle remains in litigation, the Trump administration is moving quickly to develop management plans for the new units that were created by presidential proclamation last year. The public is being asked to comment about the "future" of Bears Ears amid unresolved questions about the monument's much smaller boundaries.
And that future is increasingly looking like one without Indian Country's full involvement. The Department of the Interior is creating a new advisory committee that will not include representation from all of the five tribes that worked for the monument's creation.
• Eric Wemple weighs in on the death of the Village Voice:
Great publications don’t die all at once, they get dismembered over time.
The Village Voice, founded in 1955, had been losing staff for more than a decade. It lost its print edition last year. And on Friday came the news that it would cease publishing altogether. Owner Peter Barbey informed staffers, “Today is kind of a sucky day,” because half of the staff is now out of a job and no news stories will be posted. Talks with prospective new owners hadn’t produced a deal. “I’ve been having conversations with other entities for months now,” Barbey said in audio obtained by Gothamist. “This is something we have to do — for some of them this is something we’d have to do before they could talk to us any further.”
Alert for American oligarchs: Here’s an opportunity to lose money running an outfit whose storied, hyped past you have no hope of equaling.
• Erik Prince thinks 6,000 mercenaries can achieve what more than 110,000 troops couldn’t in Afghanistan.
MIDDAY TWEET
(The Don probably is ecstatic he wasn’t invited to the funeral even though it meant missing an opportunity to tell everyone in his eulogy how much more courageous and mavericky HE is compared with Senator McCain. … Anybody know if he adds those shots out of the rough on his scorecard?)
• Experts say reporters should not profile mass shooters:
A growing body of contagion effect research suggests such coverage can be perilous for the public, so much so that publishing profiles of shooting suspects and perpetrators should be considered a dangerous proposition. Any coverage of mass shootings, some researchers argue, contributes to the contagion effect, while profiles carry an extra risk of incentivizing fame-seeking shooters. These researchers, and their allies in activist groups like “No Notoriety,” would like to see news outlets avoid using the names and photos of mass shooters.
Contagion theory says that mass shootings breed more mass shootings. The exact mechanism isn’t always clear, but what seems to be happening is this: The more mass shootings there are, and the more attention they get, the more troubled people think that shooting a great number of random people is a normal thing that a troubled person does.
• Young Christians more diverse, more progressive than their parents.
• John McCain’s climate change legacy:
He wrote legislation that failed. He built a bipartisan coalition that crumbled. And when Congress came closest to passing a bill that embraced his central idea—a market-based cap-and-trade system—McCain turned his back.
And yet, McCain's nearly decade-long drive on global warming had an impact that reverberates in today's efforts to revive the U.S. role in the climate fight. In the Senate chamber and on the campaign trail, the Arizona Republican did more than any other U.S. politician has done before or since to advance the conservative argument for climate action. [...]
At the same time, McCain's climate journey and its abrupt end serve as a cautionary tale of how far the Republican party has moved from a mainstream conservatism that is receptive to such appeals.
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