● Today’s comic by Matt Bors is How trans soldiers are destroying our big beautiful military:
● Amazing if you can afford it … How one Houston family saved their house from flooding using a rice farming tool.
● Lindy West nails it:
Ivanka Trump is never going to come through. Coming through isn’t her function. She is more a logo than a person, a scarecrow stuffed with branding, an heiress-turned-model-turned-multimillionaire’s-wife playacting as an authority on the challenges facing working women so that she can sell more pastel sheath dresses. [...]
Stop wondering which of these people will save us and when. There is not going to be a surprise silver lining to the Trump presidency — not from Ivanka Trump, not from Jared Kushner, not from Rex Tillerson, not from John Kelly. This is it. The Trump Doctrine is to say whatever makes you feel good and do whatever makes you the most money. And Ms. Trump isn’t anomalous; she’s emblematic. Don’t waste your time parsing what they say; spend it fighting what they do.
● Congress votes to honor Bob Dole with gold medal.
● Here’s a leak I’d want to read: What Donald Trump said (whined, squealed, yelled, pouted) when they told him he couldn’t keep all these gifts from Saudi Arabia.
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On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Greg Dworkin & Joan McCarter are back, loud & clear! DACA in disarray. Nunes’ bizarre subpoena game. Trump steals everything that isn’t nailed down, plus a crowbar. Disaster after disaster complicates September for Republicans. So do Harvey & Irma.