Bill McKibben | How the Iconic 1968 Earthrise Photo Changed Our Relationship to the Planet

08 December 18

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Bill McKibben | How the Iconic 1968 Earthrise Photo Changed Our Relationship to the Planet 

Bill McKibben, Reader Supported News
McKibben writes: "1968 was a crazy year, its events moving at a horrific pace. The Tet Offensive. The My Lai Massacre. Bobby Kennedy announcing the news that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated."
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John F. Kelly. (photo: Al Drago/NYT)

John Kelly Is Out as White House Chief of Staff, Trump Announces
Andrew Prokop, Vox
Prokop writes: "John Kelly will depart as White House chief of staff near the end of this year, President Trump told reporters Saturday. The president said he would announce Kelly's replacement in the next few days."
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Victorina Morales at her home in Bound Brook, New Jersey. She left Guatemala in 1999 and illegally entered the United States. She started working at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, in 2013. (photo: Christopher Gregory/NYT)

Making President Trump's Bed: A Housekeeper Without Papers
Miriam Jordan, The New York Times
Jordan writes: "During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trump's bed, cleaned his toilet and dusted his crystal golf trophies. When he visited as president, she was directed to wear a pin in the shape of the American flag adorned with a Secret Service logo."
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Scott Pruitt. (photo: Getty Images)

Ex-EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Used Personal Email for Government Work
Emily Holden, Guardian UK
Holden writes: "Donald Trump's first Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator repeatedly violated agency policy to use personal email for government business, according to newly released public records."
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Dozens of family members and friends of four women who authorities say were killed by U.S. Border Patrol agent Juan David Ortiz gather for a candlelight vigil at a park in downtown Laredo, Texas, September 18, 2018. (photo: Susan Montoya Bryan/Shutterstock)

'Serial' Killer Border Patrol Agent Faces Execution, but Victims' Families Rebuke Death Penalty
USA TODAY
Excerpt: "Prosecutors here will seek the death penalty for Juan David Ortiz, a U.S. Border Patrol agent charged with killing four women around Laredo earlier this year."
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For the better part of three weeks, protesters - clad in high-visibility yellow vests - took to the streets across France. (photo: AFP)

Paris Under Siege as Gilets Jaunes Open 'Act IV' - a Fourth Weekend of Protest
Kim Willsher, Guardian UK
Willsher writes: "Even before the sun had risen on Place de la Bastille, the enduring symbol of the revolution, France's security forces were taking no chances."
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Tar sands. (photo: Ben Nelms/Getty Images)

Beginning of the End for Canada's Tar Sands or Just a Blip?
Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News
Kusnetz writes: "When hundreds of activists protesting the Keystone XL pipeline were arrested at the White House in 2011, their ultimate target lay thousands of miles away: Canada's tar sands."
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