Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Trump administration poetry in motion:
What’s coming on Sunday Kos:
- If Trump really cared about Jews, he'd resign and just go away, by Ian Reifowitz
- The Republican Party is laying the foundation for minority rule, by Egberto Willies
- All white men who own property and have a certain level of income are created equal, by Mark E Andersen
- The only response anyone should ever give to the question: 'How do we pay for it?', by David Akadjian
- Trump and his cohorts just don't understand what America truly is, by Frank Vyan Walton
- When will the media finally admit that the Trump economy hasn't been so 'great'? by Sher Watts Spooner
- Why are Trump's political donors so ashamed to be publicly known? by Laurence Lewis
- D.C. media's dirty little secret: It has no idea what's happening inside Trump's White House, by Eric Boehlert
- 1619. The 400th anniversary of the real founding of America, by Denise Oliver Velez
• Adoption agency linked to Education Secretary DeVos exposed children’s sensitive medical information on its website.
• Federal judge hits “reply all” and sets off a discussion about his decorum among colleagues: The judge got into with another judge over a climate change seminar. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan made note in an email to 45 judges that the seminar put on by the Environmental Law Institute was important because the courts are dealing with more scientific questions than they have in the past. But Judge A. Raymond Randolph took offense that Sullivan had shared information about the seminar and wrote an acid reply blasting him for “subjecting our colleagues to this nonsense” [...] “The jurisdiction assigned to you does not include saving the planet. A little hubris [sic] would be welcomed in many of your latest public displays [...] The supposedly science and stuff you are now sponsoring is nothing of the sort [...] Get out of this business and back into the business of judging, which are what you are being paid to do.” The email sparked defense of Sullivan from a couple of other judges, calls for Randolph to recuse himself from climate cases, concerns about possible violation of ethics, and a few weeks later, a partial apology from Randolph, and a four-page memo from him to another colleague explaining judges attending the climate seminar would “lend credence to one side of the climate change debate that is quite improper” because of upcoming litigation.
MIDDAY TWEET
• A tale of Amazon and rip-offs of the cat litter dealers and other retail arbitrageurs.
• The reach of shootings in America:
Nearly 200 people have been killed in mass shootings in the past two years, including the Las Vegas concert massacre, the worst attack by a gunman in the country’s history. Scores more have been wounded. The victims leave behind networks of family and friends, who themselves become trauma survivors, as are many in the community where such events occur.
The Wall Street Journal looked at shootings in public places that killed four or more people, a common definition of a mass shooting, starting with the Las Vegas shooting in 2017. The map shows where the victims were from and where at least one relative lives.
• State officials say they need federal funding to block attacks on 2020 elections: At a public forum hosted by the Election Assistance Commission on Thursday, election officials from Connecticut and Louisiana said poorly funded election infrastructure in their states are at risk from hacking that could alter the outcome of the vote.“We all have the same expectation, which is a secure environment for our elections, and that every vote is accurately counted and everybody gets to participate who wishes to participate,” said Kyle Ardoin, Louisiana’s secretary of state. A Senate Intelligence Committee report estimated that it would cost $900 million to replace electronic voter machines throughout the country and shield America’s elections from online attacks. Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and other Republicans have made it repeatedly clear in word and deed that they don’t care about election security. Trump has even said he would accept help in the election from foreign sources, which, he was reminded by the chair of the Federal Election Commission is illegal.
• U.S. officials threaten sanctions against any port, company, or nation that deals with previously impounded Iranian oil tanker that Gibraltar has released under court order.
On
today’s Kagro in the Morning show:
Go retro, with our 8/16/18 episode. Greg Dworkin says the Pelosi bomb's a dud. Breaking: Not all "Trump Country" voters are the same. Old ideas coming back: one dumb, one not. Is the "casting couch" really just sex trafficking? Yes. Yes it is.