RSN: Massive 2013 Oil Spill in North Dakota Still Not Cleaned Up, Why President Trump Will Continue to Hold Rallies

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Robert Reich | Why President Trump Will Continue to Hold Rallies 
 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 
Reich writes: "Donald Trump has just finished the last of his nine post-election 'thank you tour' rallies. Why did he do them? And why is he planning further rallies after he becomes president? One clue is that Trump conducted them only in the states he won." 
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Electoral College Revolt Fails to Stop Trump but Lands Democratic Blow 
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK 
Pilkington writes: "In the end, the so-called 'faithless electors' of the US electoral college failed resoundingly in their aim to stop Donald Trump from reaching the White House. But they did strike a small but significant blow for reform of America's arcane way of choosing the president." 
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to Step Down Jan. 20, Guaranteeing GOP Majority 
Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times 
Puzzanghera writes: "Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, announced Thursday that he would leave the agency on Jan. 20, guaranteeing Republicans will have a majority after President-elect Donald Trump takes office that day." 
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Factory Near Carrier Sends Jobs to Mexico, but Trump Just Tweets 
Zaid Jilani, The Intercept 
Jilani writes: "Just a few miles away from the Carrier plant in Indianapolis where President-elect Donald Trump celebrated his role in stopping 730 jobs from moving to Mexico earlier this month, another corporation is shutting its factory and moving it to Mexico." 
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Berlin Christmas Market Attack Detainee May Not Be Driver According to Police 
Frederik Pleitgen, Angela Dewan, James Griffiths, Darran Simon and Ralph Ellis, CNN 
Excerpt: "German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would be 'especially disgusting' if anyone in the attack had been given asylum. Dressed in black and making her first public comments on the attack late Tuesday morning, she called for unity in the country." 
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'Pride School Atlanta' First for LGBTQ Students in US South 
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Excerpt: "The non-profit private Pride School Atlanta is the first school in the U.S. South focused on LGBTQ students and one of the few addressing discrimination concerns across the nation. The school opened in September for students from K-12 who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, giving them a safe haven from discrimination and bullying." 
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Massive 2013 Oil Spill in North Dakota Still Not Cleaned Up 
James Macpherson, Associated Press 
Macpherson writes: "Three years and three months later, a massive oil spill in North Dakota still isn't fully cleaned up. The company responsible hasn't even set a date for completion." 
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RSN: Trump and Le Pen: What Would Hitler Say?

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FOCUS: Steve Weissman | Trump and Le Pen: What Would Hitler Say? 
 
Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News 
Weissman writes: "Trump empowers the alt-right, Ku Kluxers, and others who openly preach White Supremacy, explicit Nazi ideology, and extreme measures against Muslims, Jews, and immigrants." 
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RSN: Scientists and Hacktivists Frantically Copying Critical Climate Data Before Trump Admin Takes Over, Noam Chomsky: Seeing Donald Trump Win Reminded Me of Listening to Hitler's Rallies as a Boy

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Noam Chomsky: Seeing Donald Trump Win Reminded Me of Listening to Hitler's Rallies as a Boy 
 
Jon Sharman, The Independent 
Sharman writes: "Noam Chomsky has spoken of how watching the results come in on the night of Donald Trump's US election victory dredged up memories of his feelings after listening to Hitler's Nuremberg rallies as a boy." 
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How Moscow Aimed a Perfect Weapon at the US Election 
Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger and Scott Shane, The New York Times 
Excerpt: "While there's no way to be certain of the ultimate impact of the hack, this much is clear: A low-cost, high-impact weapon that Russia had test-fired in elections from Ukraine to Europe was trained on the United States, with devastating effectiveness." 
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Trump's Cabinet Picks Have More Wealth Than Third of American Households Combined 
Jennifer Calfas, The Hill 
Calfas writes: "The 17 people filling President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet and similar positions earn more money than a third of households in America combined, Quartz reported Thursday." 
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Trump's Team Reportedly Offered Ambassadorships to Talent Bookers in Exchange for Inauguration Singers 
Anna Silman, New York Magazine 
Silman writes: "Despite having Kanye West in his corner, Donald Trump is still having difficulty finding musicians to play at his inauguration." 
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A 'Coup'? A 'Power Grab'? There's Some Serious Political Drama in North Carolina Right Now. 
Amber Phillips, The Washington Post 
Phillips writes: "North Carolina is a state divided. Its incoming governor and attorney general are Democrats, but its legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. And true to North Carolina headline-grabbing politics, there's a knockdown, drag-out fight about who gets to control the levers of power before anyone is even sworn in." 
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"We Are Nothing but Machines to Them": Bangladesh Apparel Factories Still Have Appalling Worker Conditions 
Anjali Kamat, Slate 
Kamat writes: "When buyers for a brand visited, the workers said, they were instructed to say that they finished work at 5 p.m., even though most routinely had to work till 11 p.m. They wanted to be treated with dignity, they said. When I asked who these visiting buyers were, several replied in unison: Gap." 
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Scientists and Hacktivists Frantically Copying Critical Climate Data Before Trump Admin Takes Over 
Dan Zukowski, EcoWatch 
Zukowski writes: "The Department of Energy has refused to respond to the Trump transition team's chilling 74-question document seeking the names of anyone who has worked on climate change in the department. Climate scientists are also acting feverishly to preserve data after a senior Trump campaign adviser suggested eliminating funding for NASA's climate research programs." 
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