Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Cheap-Labor-For-You, Inc.:
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Money, politics and death threats, by Susan Grigsby
- Studies prove linkage between racism and seething hot Obama hatred, by Frank Vyan Walton
- Seven things you can do to fund change, by David Akadjian
- Democrats, stop sending me crap! I’ll buy my own campaign swag, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Exploring the intersections of race, gender, class, ethnicity and disability, by Denise Oliver Velez
- The sociological imagination, racism, and Donald Trump, by Chauncey DeVega
- Book Review--Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud, by Joan McCarter
- Kids today are (fill in the blank), by Mark E Andersen
- The orbits above and the politics below, by DarkSyde
- There must be a better way to provide health care, by Egberto Willies
- Americans are better off than we were eight years ago, by Ian Reifowitz
• Nearly all new electric capacity installed in first three months of 2016 was renewable:
° A Q1 infrastructure update from FERC shows renewable energy made up almost all new capacity added in the United States so far this year: 1,291 MW, compared to 18 MW of new gas capacity and no nuclear or coal.
° More than 700 MW of wind and 500 MW of solar were added in the first quarter, from a combined 53 new generating facilities.
° Old-school fuel generation still dominates overall, however: Natural gas holds the largest generation share, with 500 GW or about 43% of U.S. capacity, followed by coal (26%) and nuclear (9%).
• Pedophile Dennis Hastert begins prison sentence June 22.
• ACLU sues Cleveland over delays in granting permits for protests at GOP Convention:
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio sent a letter to the City of Cleveland on Thursday, threatening legal action if it did not begin acting on applications for permits to assemble and hold marches and rallies during the Republican National Convention.
The convention is scheduled for July 18-21 in Cleveland. Organizers began applying for parade permits in February, the A.C.L.U. letter said, but have either received no response from the city or were told by city officials that no decisions on the permits would be made until about two weeks before the convention.
• Prosecutors finally drop ludicrous charges against two reporters over Ferguson reporting. Here’s Huffington Post reporter Ryan J. Reilly:
St. Louis County authorities finally agreed on Thursday to drop charges they filedagainst Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery and me in connection with our unlawful arrests in Ferguson on Aug. 13, 2014. In exchange, we’ve agreed not to sue the Missouri county for the illegal conduct of its police officers.
The deal is a win for me and Wes, as well as our employers. But it doesn’t quite feel like one.
• Trump delegate from Maryland indicted on child pornography, explosives and gun charges.
• Beastie Boy co-founder John Berry dies at 52 after long bout with frontotemporal dementia:
Berry died Thursday morning at a hospice in Danvers, Massachusetts, following a long battle with frontotemporal dementia, according to his stepmother, Louise Berry, of Stamford, Connecticut. He had been in declining health and spent the last three to four years in medical facilities, she said. Frontotemporal dementia is a progressive disease that has no cure, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Berry's interest in music blossomed as a teen after he moved to New York City, his father, John Berry III, told The Associated Press. Berry met future bandmate Michael Diamond at the Walden School in Manhattan. The pair founded the Beastie Boys as a punk outfit in 1981 along with Adam Yauch and Kate Schellenbach.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin explains why we might not be as divided as we think. There are still some Gop von Clownstick holdouts. That crazy House vote? It happens, when bending the rules is the rule. Plus your weekend chit-chat roundup: Zika, Huffington, Uber & GunFAIL.
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