Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Happy Trumpsgiving!
• What you can expect at Sunday Kos…
- Seven questions for Mark Godsey, author of 'Blind Injustice', by David Akadjian
- Invasion of the body hackers, by Steven Andrew
- San Francisco: The year of hardening my heart, by Laura Clawson
- Join a peace vigil to mark Sandy Hook's five-year anniversary. Then demand action, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Book Review: 'Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidency', by Ian Reifowitz
- GOP tax plan is the worst jobs bill ever, by Jon Perr
- Nevertheless, she persisted. In 1863, she won, by Susan Grigsby
• Rage against Pr*sident Trump generates surge of local women candidates.
• Trump thinks F-35 fighter is completely invisible even when you’re right next to it:
“The Navy, I can tell you, we're ordering ships, with the Air Force i can tell you we're ordering a lot of planes, in particular the F-35 fighter jet, which is like almost like an invisible fighter. I was asking the Air Force guys, I said, how good is this plane? They said, well, sir, you can't see it.’ I said ‘but in a fight. You know, in a fight, like I watch on the movies. The fight, they're fighting. How good is this?’ They say, well, ‘it wins every time because the enemy cannot see it.’ Even if it's right next to them, it can't see it. I said that helps. That's a good thing.”
To be fair, it might just be a bit of rhetoric from Trump, surely the Commander-in-Chief knows that while yes, it is small for a fighter jet and tough to spot on radar—the super-duper expensive F-35 is quite visible to the human eye. Especially when it’s “right next to them.”
But this is your president America,—you’re lucky he didn’t get in the cockpit and just go
"VROOSH VROOSH" for ten minutes.
• 5,000-barrel Keystone pipeline spill could cause revocation of operator’s S.D. permit:
South Dakota regulators said they could revoke TransCanada's permit for the 7-year-old Keystone Pipeline if an investigation into a large oil spill discovered last week concludes the company violated its terms. If that happens, the company would have to correct any issues—in the worst case, even replace part of the pipeline—before oil shipments could resume.
The scrutiny comes as more challenges emerge to the company's recently approved expansion of its pipeline system: the Keystone XL.
• MIT study: Babies can tell how badly you want something:
Babies as young as 10 months can assess how much someone values a particular goal by observing how hard they are willing to work to achieve it, according to a new study. This ability requires integrating information about both the costs of obtaining a goal and the benefit gained by the person seeking it, suggesting that babies acquire very early an intuition about how people make decisions.
• Provision in Senate tax bill could mean even more breaks for corporations:
Under an obscure “trigger” provision, the Senate Finance Committee tax bill tilts its tax cuts even more to the nation’s wealthiest corporations at the expense of hard-working families: if federal revenues hit certain levels after nine years, businesses would get another $79 billion in tax cuts in 2027. That’s before a single dollar would go to protecting low- and moderate-income households from the tax increases they face under the bill.
As we’ve explained, even without this provision the bill clearly prioritizes corporate tax cuts over low- and middle-income people: it makes its deep corporate tax cuts permanent, including a much lower tax rate for multinationals’ foreign profits, but lets all its individual income tax cut provisions expire at the end of 2025. And to pay for those permanent corporate tax cuts, it would raise taxes on middle-class households and those with even lower incomes and would cause 13 million more people to go uninsured.
• New move on to free sex trafficking victim convicted of killing her abuser when she was 16:
The story of a Tennessee teen who was instrumental in the rewriting of the state’s human trafficking laws has gone viral, gaining national support for her case. Cyntoia Brown, a former child sex trafficking victim, is currently serving a life sentence after she was convicted in 2006 of killing one of her abusers in 2004, when she was only 16 years old. Internet activists have this week renewed interest in her case by spreading the hashtag #FreeCyntoiaBrown.
A documentary about Brown’s case, “Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story,” gained national attention when it first aired on PBS in 2011. While it is unclear exactly why her case is back in the public eye now—though it is likely in part from the attention from celebrities like Rihanna—her story has revived national concern about the difficulty that child sex trafficking victims face in navigating the criminal justice system.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, it’s another all-new episode, post-T-Day! This time, more on Trump-Russia, but closer to the heart of the matter. That is, the “real” estate money laundering. Hope Hicks! How did she do it? Plus listener contributions from Eric Posman & David Raatz!
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