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Garrison Keillor | The Old Man's Sunday Sermon to Himself
 Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website Keillor writes: "Probably the greenhouse gas report of the U.N. Environment Program shouldn't have come out the week of Thanksgiving, a time when gassy emissions are quite heavy in the U.S." READ MORE  Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. (photo: Getty)
Giuliani Continues Bid to Dig Dirt on Trump Political Rivals in Kiev
Mary Ilyushina and Nathan Hodge, CNN Excerpt: "Rudy Giuliani on Friday continued a series of meetings in Kiev as part of a bid to keep digging for dirt on President Donald Trump's political rivals." READ MORE  Yearbook memorializing the children killed in school shootings. (photo: Cathy Dickson)
2018 'Yearbook' Memorializing School Shooting Victims to Be Sent to Trump, Senate
KC Baker, People Baker writes: "This is a yearbook no one wants to be in. It's also the yearbook that could help prevent yet another school shooting." READ MORE  President Donald Trump greets Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after the State of the Union address on February 5, 2019. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
The Supreme Court Considers a $12 Billion Plan to Sabotage Obamacare
Ian Millhiser, Vox Millhiser writes: "Maine Community and its companion cases are, by any objective measure, huge. They involve an interesting question about what Congress must do if it wants to repeal part of a law." READ MORE  U.S. senator Bernie Sanders speaks during Bernie Sanders Rally 'Bernie’s Back' in Queensbridge Park. (photo: Lev Radin/Getty)
Bernie Sanders Unveils Plan to Boost Broadband Access, Break Up Internet and Cable Titans
Jacob Pramuk, CNBC Pramuk writes: "Bernie Sanders unveiled a plan Friday to expand broadband internet access as part of a push to boost the economy and reduce corporate power over Americans." READ MORE  Pete Buttigieg takes part in a discussion about how to address poverty in America in Goldsboro, North Carolina, on December 1, 2019. (photo: Logan Cyrus/Getty)
Immigration Rights Groups Call on Buttigieg to Return McKinsey-Related Donations
Jack Turman, CBS News Turman writes: "Four immigration rights organizations have written to Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg to ask him to return any donations connected to the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, following a New York Times and Pro Publica report about how McKinsey helped ICE 'accelerate the deportation process.'"
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Among the recommendations McKinsey offered were cuts to spending on food and medical care for migrants.
The letter, cosigned by Center for Popular Democracy Action, Make the Road Action, Progressive Leadership of Alliance of Nevada Action and United We Dream Action, called on Buttigieg, who worked at the prestigious consulting firm for three years, to return the donations, which total $53,000.
"We believe that all candidates for higher office – especially those who claim to stand with immigrants, like you – should immediately return any money from McKinsey & Company and its employees," the letter states.
Asked if he would return donations from McKinsey employees in light of the Times reporting, the South Bend mayor responded on Wednesday, "I don't believe that anybody involved in that (ICE) effort has had anything to do with our campaign. And, and so, you know, that's separate from anything related to us."
Buttigieg, who wrote in his memoir that he worked on North American grocery store pricing while at McKinsey, has been critical of his former employer on the trail. When asked Wednesday about Times report on McKinsey's work for ICE, he told reporters it was "disgusting" what McKinsey did. He told CNN that "seeing what certain people in that firm have decided to do is extremely frustrating and extremely disappointing."
According to the Times, McKinsey's contract with ICE ended in July 2018, but the firm has has two more contracts with Customs and Border Protection worth up to $10.4 million.
Buttigieg's silence about his own work for McKinsey is the subject of a New York Times Editorial Board column published Thursday evening. It argues that Buttigieg "owes voters a more complete account of his time at the company." Buttigieg, who has faced pressure to describe his work at McKinsey, is currently bound by a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with McKinsey and can't disclose his clients.
A Buttigieg spokesperson said the campaign has asked the consulting firm if he can be released from his NDA and if the campaign can release his list of clients while working at the company. But McKinsey has not agreed to waive the NDA, the spokesperson said.
But the Times editorial argues that despite the NDA, it's up to Buttigieg to "find a way to give voters a more complete accounting of his time at the company" — and that those three years add up to 20% of the young candidate's post-college career.
 USGS hydrologist Eugene LaRue gauges the flow in Havasu Creek, a tributary to the Colorado River. (photo: USGC)
Politicians Knew the Inconvenient Truth About the Colorado River 100 Years Ago - and Ignored It
Naveena Sadasivam, Grist Sadasivam writes: "Turn-of-the-century hydrologists actually had a pretty good idea of how much water the river could spare, water experts John Fleck and Eric Kuhn write in Science be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River."
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 arlier this year, the seven states that depend on the Colorado River made history. For the first time, Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico agreed to find ways to reduce the amount of water they draw from the river as levels drop further at Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the country.
The Colorado River provides water for 40 million people. But its flows are shrinking as the planet heats up, reducing the snowpack that feeds the river and causing more water to evaporate as the river snakes its way from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California.
But even if climate change weren’t an issue, the Colorado would probably still be in trouble. Back in 1922, when states originally divvied up water from the river, they grossly overestimated the amount of water flowing through it. This set in motion a series of decisions that led to the shortages today. States are dipping into Lake Mead’s reserves, overdrawing 1.2 million acre feet of water annually — enough to quench the thirst of a couple million households for a year.
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he scientific imprimatur fell on us just six months ago: Yes, the extinction crisis we are witnessing is only the beginning of a wave of mass ecocide of non-human life on Earth, a process that 
