Midday open thread: Fathers, fighting back, a worrisome firing
Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is If social justice movements tried not to offend anyone:
● Cities are central to any serious plan to tackle climate change:
If they hope to avoid worse to come, cities will need to almost entirely rid themselves of carbon over the next few decades. How much could that help in the climate fight? And how can cities go about doing it? Two recent reports attempt to answer these questions.
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● Talk about grounds for a firing that are worrisome well beyond the individual firing:
The cultural manager and director of the polish culture institute in Berlin, Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska, was fired this past Tuesday from her position. According to the German left-leaning daily TAZ that broke the story, Poland’s right-wing PiS-led government called for her immediate departure due to her programming, which included “too much Jewish-themed content,” as Poland’s ambassador in Germany Andrzej Przyłębski had complained.
● What is a father's role in a post-family wage era?
● Fighting back against the white revolt of 2016:
Trump’s real triumph was his ability to shift Republican politics to straight racism, misogyny and xenophobia with a potent authoritarian tone, yet still create a winning voting coalition—time will tell how stable—that brought together the core Republican electorate, including right-wing evangelicals, as well as some disaffected former Democratic voters.
● Does the Pentagon really waste $125 billion on pencil pushers?
● On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Another weird Taiwan call story, and some new perspective on it. More on the #HighNoon proposal to confirm Garland. What if the POTUS blocks you on Twitter? A bot that trolls trolls. Your new NSA believes the Comet Pizza nuttery. MI recount woes.