1033 days remain in Donald Trump’s term of office, if he lasts that long
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Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Locked & loaded Trump:
• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Predatory lenders are just one of the reasons we need the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, by Mark E Andersen
- Puerto Rico has passed the six month mark without full power. WTF is wrong with us, by Denise Oliver Velez
- States are working to make safe, legal abortions unsafe and illegal, by Susan Grigsby
- Trump’s crooked Cabinet: Liars, thieves and scoundrels edition, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Ohio Issue 1, the May fair elections issue, is a good deal because of the ballot initiative threat, by David Akadjian
- Education, gender and generation gaps in party ID are now larger than ever, by David Jarman
- These are not even close to the ‘best people,’ volume one, by Frank Vyan Walton
- When the former CIA chief thinks Putin owns Trump, that should concern every American, by Ian Reifowitz
- Here's why Jeff Sessions's war on marijuana doesn't make sense, by Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza
• Toxic releases caused by Hurricane Harvey were a lot worse than public was told:
More than a half-year after floodwaters swamped America’s fourth-largest city, the extent of this environmental assault is beginning to surface, while questions about the long-term consequences for human health remain unanswered.
County, state and federal records pieced together by The Associated Press and The Houston Chronicle reveal a far more widespread toxic impact than authorities publicly reported after the storm slammed into the Texas coast in late August and then stalled over the Houston area.
• Self-driving fatality sparks call to rein in testing:
Video of a fatal pedestrian crash involving a self-driving Uber vehicle that some experts say exposes flaws in autonomous vehicle technology is prompting calls to slow down testing on public roads and renewing concerns about regulatory readiness. [...]
Three experts who study the emerging technology concluded the video, which includes dashcam footage of the driver’s reaction, indicates the vehicle’s sensors should have spotted the pedestrian and that it should have initiated braking to avoid the crash that killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg on Sunday night.
MIDDAY TWEET
• Good guys with guns shoot a lot of good guys: At least 47 times since 2015, a person has shot a friend, family member, or emergency responder they mistook for an intruder in their home.
• People with red hair can be racially vilified and were, Ad Standards has ruled:
The ad, launched by Carlton United Breweries in February for the company's craft ginger ale (which is apparently a thing) Rusty Yak, was for a competition the company ran in conjunction the release of the ale. [...]
Fifteen and 30-second versions of the ad were made. In the 30-second ad the company claims that a ginger gene has been discovered, and features images of people with red hair, along with the line that the bottles need to be found to "stop the spread of the gene"
[One complaint to Ad Standards] said: "It’s very offensive for the advertisement to be discriminating against those with red hair, suggesting that they need to ‘stop the gene spreading’ as if it were some sort of disease. Children already get bullied at school for having red hair, and advertisements like this only further encourage that type of bullying."
• Legal aid services are being starved. And that’s bad news for those who really need them.
• Sales of SUVs and light trucks are nullifying car-efficiency gains and emissions reductions:
In many countries, greenhouse gas emissions have been falling in some sectors, thanks largely to a shift from coal-fired power. But they've been rising in the transportation sector. That's bad news. Transportation accounts for about 14 percent of global emissions and is now the largest source of CO2 emissions in the U.S., mostly from cars and trucks. [...]
According to the Government of Canada, car emissions went down by 23 percent over that period, but "emissions from light trucks (including trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles) doubled."
Fuel efficiency, hybrid and electric vehicles and cleaner transportation options such as car-share programs, transit and cycling infrastructure are necessary to reduce pollution and climate change. But the growing worldwide market for trucks, SUVs and "crossover vehicles," which combine car and SUV design, are negating advances in those areas.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: An evening of egregious insanity (Bolton’s appointment, Risch’s hissy fit) prompted calls from both Armando and Joan McCarter! Things only get worse with Trump's veto threat, the Saudi’s hint they're after the bomb and Iran getting busted for cyberattacks.
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