Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is MAGA impeach: How to convince Trump's base to impeach him:
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos:
- Why would allies trust congenital liar Trump on Iran threat when he's already lied about Iran nukes? by Ian Reifowitz
- Just how much is confirmed from the Christopher Steele Dossier? by Frank Vyan Walton
- Three things I learned from Elizabeth Warren's amazing town hall, by David Akadjian
- Farmers are angry as Trump's trade war with China causes record losses, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Democrats beware: Trump could ride tariffs to a presidential win, by Egberto Willies
- Should the White House press corps be disbanded, by Eric Boehlert
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We should be discussing reparations for slavery. Beware those with a right-wing agenda, by Denise Oliver Velez
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Wrong-way Trump is on a one-way road to war with Iran, by Jon Perr
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Have we learned nothing about wars in the Middle East?, by Mark E Andersen
• Plenty of bluster and bluff, but there is no blueprint for confronting Iran:
...in the world of the Pentagon, there are plans you present to politicians, and then there are real plans. And three U.S. military officials involved in planning and overseeing military forces in the region tell TIME that no actual, executable plan, or anything like it, exists for a large-scale troop deployment to the Gulf.
• Gov. Jay Inslee releases his “Evergreen Economy Plan: At a press conference Thursday, the candidate for the Democratic nomination for president announced the 10-year, $9 trillion plan, which is detailed in a 34-page document. Inslee says it would generate 8 million jobs over the decade. Among the many elements of the plan would be ”…establishing a ReBuild America Initiative to upgrade millions of buildings over the next two-plus decades; a $90 billion Green Bank for clean energy deployment; a Next Generation Rural Electrification Initiative; programs to support energy democracy and community-led energy transformation; and grants in lieu of tax incentives for clean energy installation.” Inslee also wants to boost investment in clean energy and climate research to $35 billion annually, “more than 5 times the current funding.” He is also calling for empowering workers by reunionization and “enacting a ‘G.I. Bill’ for impacted fossil fuel workers and communities; repealing the Taft-Hartley Act provisions that allow so-called ‘Right-to-Work’ laws; redoubling commitment to national apprenticeship programs and creating and enforcing protections for gender pay equity.”
MIDDAY TWEET
• Master architect I.M. Pei dead at 102:
I. M. Pei, who began his long career designing buildings for a New York real estate developer and ended it as one of the most revered architects in the world, died early Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 102. [...]
Best known for designing the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the glass pyramid at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris, Mr. Pei was one of the few architects who were equally attractive to real estate developers, corporate chieftains and art museum boards (the third group, of course, often made up of members of the first two). And all of his work — from his commercial skyscrapers to his art museums — represented a careful balance of the cutting edge and the conservative.
• Grumpy Cat, the internet star, dead at 7 from urinary tract infection: The cat, whose real name was Tardar Sauce, became famous thanks to a 2012 Reddit post that went viral when she was just 5 months old. Grumpy Cat’s perpetual frown, a product of her small size and feline dwarfism, became a meme. Her owners announced on social media that the frown “helped millions of people smile all around the world.”
• What’s the results when science is used to gauge the environmental impact of the dragons in Game of Thrones? Short version: Disastrous.
• Study: Law enforcement agencies are using facial recognition software with few rules:
Police departments across the nation are generating leads and making arrests by feeding celebrity photos, CGI renderings, and manipulated images into facial recognition software.
Often unbeknownst to the public, law enforcement is identifying suspects based on “all manner of ‘probe photos,’ photos of unknown individuals submitted for search against a police or driver license database,” a study published on Thursday by the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology reported.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Weekend prep. Flynn, tariffs, hacks in FL and on WhatsApp, the abortion bills, Trump rager, his stupid wall, Iran, and nukes for the Sauds. Travis & Rachel of Irreverent Testimony, on unforced political errors after Highlands Ranch; Eric Posman on Beto.