Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Deplorables:
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Donald Trump is the establishment, by David Akadjian
- Women for Hillary: We get the job done, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Hillary Clinton’s biggest problems isn’t lack of trust and transparency, it is misogyny, by Egberto Willies
- What kind of future do we want to leave for our children, by Mark E Andersen
- Remember how Republicans like Trump said minimum wage increases hurt the economy and cost jobs, by Ian Reifowitz
- The 100 year journey: The National Museum of African American History and Culture, by Denise Oliver Velez
- A closer look at those in Hillary Clinton’s other basket, by Susan Grigsby
- Donald Trump, the subprime president, by Jon Perr
- The deplorables: From the Trump campaign to the media that are normalizing him, by Laurence Lewis
• Auschwitz survivor will finally have his bar mitzvah—a century late: Israel Kristal was 13 in 1916. His mother was dead and his father, fighting in World War I, soon would be. So he missed his bar mitzvah. When the next war came, the Polish-born Kristal was held captive in the Lodz ghetto until he was shipped with his wife and children to the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz. His family didn’t survive but he did. In fact, he is now counted as the oldest man alive by the Guinness Book of World Records, having turned 113 Thursday. He lives in Haifa, Israel. He long ago remarried and is now a great-grandfather:
His daughter, Shulimath Kristal Kuperstoch, told the DTA news agency that his family was planning a bar mitzvah for him, and about 100 relatives would attend. "We will bless him, we will dance with him, we will be happy," she said.
• Report: Local police getting as much military gear as ever: When images of police armed with assault rifles and sitting atop armored vehicles in Ferguson, Mo., spread through the media, it prompted changes in the federal 1033 program. This Pentagon program transfers surplus military equipment to police departments nationwide. In May last year, President Obama announced he would freeze the giveaways of certain equipment, sparking an outraged response from law enforcement groups that said the matériel was needed to deal with terrorists and violent criminals. After uniformed officers were targeted and killed in Dallas and Baton Rouge in July, Obama said he would revisit the freeze. But an investigation by the democratic socialist publication In These Times shows that the administration’s reforms to the 1033 program have done little to stem the flow of battlefield gear to local cops.
• Michelle Obama should get her own television show on January 21, 2017: Watch her hilarious visit to CVS with Ellen DeGeneres (and the Secret Service). Together with the video of her karaoke drive around the White House grounds singing Stevie Wonder and Beyoncé songs with James Corden of “The Late Late Show,” she’s done all the auditioning she needs to land a prime spot.
• Trump wants to dump food safety regulations. Which is okay for folks rich enough to employ tasters:
Trump’s proposal may be surprising, but it is not especially new. Libertarian theorists have long claimed that the free market can take care of food safety. People want to be healthy. Food producers want to have customers. So food producers that make people unhealthy will develop a bad reputation and eventually lose their customers. And food producers that have good reputations will preserve it by choosing to sell safe food.
So, that’s the theory. But, as it turns out, this theory has already been tested in the real world. And it didn’t perform so well.
• “Class of ‘27” shows how political leaders and media have failed rural America:
“Class of ’27” premiered Tuesday as part of public media’s “America Reframed” series. The hourlong documentary brings viewers to a remote county in Kentucky, an indigenous community in Minnesota and isolated farms of the Pacific Northwest.
Beneath these deeply personal explorations into small communities lies an underlying national narrative: that the various effects of poverty have the potential to disrupt future generations. In each of the three films, these challenges are met by passionate educators determined to make a difference and improve the possibilities for the current young generation.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Time elapsed to TX campus carry GunFAIL: 2 weeks. Trump clowns the media with his birther circus & Armando nails it. Daily Kos’ own criminal justice beat phenom Josie Duffy Rice discusses her top stories & the challenges of covering the system.
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