Today’s comic by Mario Fiore is Chemical liberty:
• What you have to look forward to in Sunday Kos:
• Obama humanizes undocumented immigrants and calls them Americans. Trump calls them vomit, by Ian Reifowitz
• International Elections Digest: New Zealand's Labour Party surges back to life with 'Jacindamania,' by Daily Kos Elections International
• To dismantle systemic racism and create a more just society, by Susan Grigsby
• Political malpractice kills, and the perpetrators should be dealt with accordingly, by Egberto Willies
• The heat is on: How climate change is making Western wildfires worse, by Sher Watts Spooner
• Let's talk about Black Evangelicals and social justice ministries, by Denise Oliver Velez
• So, you hate unions because … by Mark E Andersen
• Las Vegas police union asks NFL to persecute Michael Bennett:
On Thursday, a letter from Las Vegas detective Steve Grammas (and union head) to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was released on Twitter by local CBS reporter Vanessa Murphy. In the letter, Grammas tells the commissioner that Bennett made “false allegations” against Vegas officers, and that “while the NFL may condone Bennett’s disrespect for our American flag, and everything it symbolizes, we hope the League will not ignore Bennett’s false accusations against our police officers.” [,,,]
This would suggest that at least from the union side, they are not prepared to see an investigation the officers who arrested Bennett and whether or not it was just, but instead are looking for Bennett to continue to be harassed and bothered from this incident. Somehow, the Las Vegas police aren’t done looking into what Bennett has done “wrong” from that night a little less than two weeks ago.
• The wealthy guilty aren’t always eager for the price of their conspicious consumption to be known.
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• For third consecutive year young people put the climate crisis at the top of the world’s problems:
Far and wide, young people consider climate change to be the world's most serious issue, according to the World Economic Forum's 2017 Global Shaper Survey of more than 31,000 millennials from 186 countries and territories.
Close to half (48.8 percent) of those surveyed chose "climate change/destruction of nature" as their No. 1 concern. This is the third year in a row that 18-to-35-year-olds declared the issue as their biggest global concern.
The vast majority of survey participants also agreed about what causes climate change—91 percent answered "agree" and "strongly agree" with the statement "science has proven that humans are responsible for climate change."
• Trump regime working extra hard to hollow out EPA:
By October of this year, the staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be reduced to levels not seen since the Reagan administration, 30 years ago, according to a report by Brady Dennis with The Washington Post.
The dramatic reduction in staff will almost certainly include career scientists and other staff who are often called into local communities where an environmental disaster is occurring, like Houston following Hurricane Harvey. These staffers also work on less urgent, but serious problems like the widespread drinking water contamination that impacts virtually every American.
The push to downsize EPA staff comes as part of a larger effort to curtail the size and scope of an agency that President Trump once promised to eliminate "in almost every form."
• Gunmakers should have pushed for Obama to get a third term:
For one of America’s largest gun manufacturers, the “Trump slump” in sales has meant a nearly $100m fall in firearms revenue compared with the same quarter last year.
American Outdoor Brands, the rebranded name of historic gun company Smith & Wesson, reported a 48.5% decrease in firearms revenue compared with the same quarter last year, when many Americans believed Hillary Clinton, a supporter of gun control, would be elected president. [...]
In the perverse dynamics of the firearms market, politicians who threaten to ban guns are very good for the industry while politicians who oppose gun control, like Donald Trump, provide no boost. Barack Obama, who reacted with grief and outrage to a 2012 mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut that left 20 children and six adults dead, was dubbed the “best gun salesman on the planet”.
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• Fewer and fewer American Indians are ready for college:
Only 16 percent of Indian students met three or more benchmarks for college readiness in 2017, a report released by ACT on Thursday shows. The data shows they are trailing nearly all of their peers in other racial and ethnic groups.
“While it’s no surprise that underserved students fall behind their peers due to the inequities that exist, it is extremely alarming and concerning to see how large this achievement gap really is,” ACT Chief Executive Officer Marten Roorda said in a press release accompanying the report.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Trump rage-tweets at Republicans, basks in press love for doing the minimally right thing with Dems. Gop strives to win him back. “Bye,” Tomi. Yes, Facebook f*#&ed up the election. But did the Russians have help from Americans? Or just a lot of practice?
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