Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Turning a corner:
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Only Hillary Clinton will continue the Obama jobs recovery, by Ian Reifowitz
- Women politicians owe a debt to … Phyllis Schlafly, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Is there anybody out there, by DarkSyde
- Is Donald Trump an existential threat to the U.S. as we know it, by Egberto Willies
- Defining Trump’s deviancy down, by Jon Perr
- Speaking ill of the dead, by Mark E Andersen
- Learn from the message of the Survivor Trees, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Dispatches from the drug war: Or why are Americans subsidizing the Europeans, by Susan Grigsby
- Daily Kos International Elections Digest: September edition, by Daily Kos International
• Japan denounces North Korea for latest nuclear test:
North Korea said it conducted a "higher level" nuclear test explosion on Friday that will allow it to finally build "at will" an array of stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons. It was the North's fifth atomic test and the second in eight months.
South Korea's president called the detonation, which Seoul estimated was the North's biggest-ever in explosive yield, an act of "fanatic recklessness." Japan called North Korea an "outlaw nation."
• Twin Mattress Towers ad for 9/11 pushes the envelope on raw stupidity. But we can probably count on some of the published remembrances on the 15th anniversary of the Al Qaeda attacks to be equally bad in their own way.
• Billionaire co-founder of Facebook pledges $20 million to beat Donald Trump.
• FAA warns airline passengers about Samsung smartphone:
U.S. aviation safety officials took the extraordinary step late Thursday of warning airline passengers not to turn on or charge a new-model Samsung smartphone during flights following numerous reports of the devices catching fire.
• Humans have destroyed 10% of world’s wilderness in just 20 years. At the current rate that it’s being wrecked, wilderness could all be gone in half a century. The new study containing this dire data appears in the latest issue of Current Biology:
“Even though 10 percent is quite a small number in some ways, it really means that if we keep this trajectory going we will lose all wilderness in the next 50 years,” said James Watson, lead author and director of science and research initiative at the Wildlife Conservation Society, in an interview with ThinkProgress.
”Without any policies to protect these areas, they are falling victim to widespread development,” he said. “We probably have one to two decades to turn this around.”
• NOAA reports we’ve just had the hottest summer nights in the 121 years of measuring them: Also, each of the 48 contiguous states experienced above average temperatures between June and August, with California, Connecticut and Rhode Island recording their warmest summer ever. Average low temperatures were about 2.4° F above normal. Among other concerns, hotter nights are a big problem because they mean less relief from daytime heatwaves.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: A Friday smörgåsbord! In Norway, Facebook censors an iconic war photo. Who do they think they are, Björn Nittmo? EarpieceGhazi! Trump loves vertical integration: 3+ beauty pageants & a modeling agency keep young ladies flowing across the border.
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