A ‘MOST SHAMEFUL ACT.’ A man who’s advised presidents of both parties calls President Trump’s decision to bail out of the Paris climate accords a “terrible setback for the planet.”
■ MIT researchers: Trump misunderstood their work when he cited it yesterday.
■ Neil Steinberg: Attacking science “comes easily to people who believe the earth is 5,000 years old, called into existence by their imaginary friend.”
■ Politico analysis: Trump “needed to troll the world.”
■ A Cornell fellow: This “will have a galvanizing effect” on environmentalists.
■ Among the losers in the White House debate that preceded Trump’s announcement: Ivanka Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
■ The New Yorker: “Donald Trump’s ‘screw you’ to the world.”
■ German newspaper headline: “Earth to Trump: F—k you!” (Photo: Wewius/Reddit).
■ Apple’s CEO: Trump “will have no impact on Apple’s efforts to protect the environment.”
■ New York, California and Washington are forming their own climate alliance.
■ Mayor Emanuel: Chicago will continue to cut its carbon emissions.
■ … And so will Pittsburgh, even though Trump used it to justify his call.
■ Hey, remember when George W. Bush did something similar?
■ Washington Post analysis: Trump’s sense of the Midwest is “decades-out-of-date.”
DISAPPEARING TAXIS. New statistical analysis commissioned by a union trying to organize Chicago cabbies finds the number of “monthly taxi trips” on Chicago’s streets is down 52 percent over the last three years.
■ Prosecutors want a reputed mob figure to step down from his union duties while he awaits trial on fraud charges.
■ Fresh numbers show the U.S. adding jobs—but not as many as some analysts expected.
■ Prominent Chicagoans tell the Tribune’s William Lee why they keep living here.
■ A Chicago bar criticized for a “racist” dress code may lose its liquor license.
PHONE BILLS RISING? Chicago is close to winning permission to increase taxes on phone bills $13.20 a year per cell or landline number.
■ Beleaguered Chicago State University spent $300,000 to build a West Side campus that it now says won’t happen.
‘MAKE AMERICA BAIT AGAIN.’ That’s the tagline for the next installment in Syfy’s series, “Sharknado 5: Global Swarming.”
■ Is Netflix tapped out?
■ It’s also National Leave the Office Early Day.
25 YEARS AGO SATURDAY … Mad Magazine founder William M. Gaines died. Almost 39 years ago, an inexperienced reporter (also a Mad fan) interviewed Gaines for a radio report the raw audio for which has been preserved here.