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Today’s comic by Matt Bors is Socialist surprise:
• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- More signs point to #BlueWave in midterms, by Sher Watts Spooner
- A higher patriotism, by Jon Perr
- They lost their homes on the island. Now Puerto Ricans are fighting FEMA evictions here, by Denise Oliver Velez
- ECOT: $2.1 million in donations to Ohio politicians, $1 billion in charter school contracts, by David Akadjian
- Immigration could be a fatal Achilles heel for progressives in 2018, by Egberto Willies
- Falling down, by Mark E Andersen
- What California's June primary might have told us about the midterms this November, by Steve Singiser
- Will Trump make the Clarence Thomas, right-wing identity politics move and appoint a woman, by Ian Reifowitz
- White Extinction Anxiety: Lessons for America in the age of Donald Trump, by Kelly Macias
• Hurricane Beryl, first of the season, will bring heavy rains to Puerto Rico and the rest of the Caribbean.
• Anne Frank’s diary needs an update: Researchers have discovered that the family of Anne Frank—the renowned young Jewish diarist who was murdered at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944 as part of the Nazis’ “Final Solution”—couldn’t obtain the necessary permission to come to the United States because of the restrictive immigration policy at the time. Paperwork had been filed with the U.S. consulate in The Netherlands as early as 1938, a very bad year for Jews in Germany. Those papers were destroyed in the bombing of Rotterdam in 1940. But even if they hadn’t been, the Franks quite likely would have been rejected. At the time, the U.S. was only approving 30,000 visas annually, and it often took years to complete the process from start to finish. The family wasn’t explicitly turned down for a visa, but the bureaucratic ins-and-outs blocked their way.
MIDDAY TWEET
• Trump regime has drafted proposal to replace Obama’s Clean Power Plan: The CPP was designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fire power plants. It sparked heavy opposition, including lawsuits involving 27 states, and is still entangled in the federal courts. When he was attorney general of Oklahoma, Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency chief who resigned Thursday, was a big mover in getting those states on board. The new rule, according to Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer at The New York Times, appears not to be as bad as it might have been. It seems to accept that the government is legally obligated under the Clean Air Act to regulate harmful greenhouse gases. But the draft proposal definitely means those gases will not be reduced as much as under the CPP.
• Settlement will allow distressed homeowners facing foreclosure to keep their homes: Signed by a judge on Tuesday, the settlement Michiganders to pay $1,000 to stay in their homes and seek exemption from property taxes. The settlement stems from a class action lawsuit filed by American Civil Liberties Union two years ago against Detroit and Wayne County. The plaintiffs said Detroit had relied on inflated property values to calculate nonpayment of property taxes. This, according to the ACLU led to tens of thousands of foreclosures that disproportionately affected black residents.
• Pseudo-AI—Tech companies use humans to do bots’ work: Building service with actual artificial intelligence is a difficult task, so some companies have avoided doing that work by getting human employees to behave like robots. (Some wags might say this has been going on since long before the electronic age was upon us.) Two years ago, Bloomberg focused on “the plight of the humans spending 12 hours a day pretending to be chatbots for calendar scheduling services such as X.ai and Clara.” So deadening were these jobs, that the humans doing them said they would be glad when they were replaced by bots.
• Despite overfishing, NOAA acting chief proposes opening commercial fishing in national monuments within 90 days:
When reports surfaced in June that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) might shift the language of its mission statement away from climate and conservation and towards security and the economy, acting head Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet rushed to reassure reporters that the agency's mission would remain unchanged.
But a copy of the presentation in which Gallaudet floated the language change, reviewed by The Huffington Post Thursday, reveals a much more specific proposal which exemplifies what a shift away from conservation might mean: opening marine national monuments to commercial fishing.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: By special request, it’s an “encore performance” of our "greatest episode," from 10/12/16, featuring Swedish Jewfish’s "We All Knew About the Trafficking" - The Untold Story of Trump Model Management (Part 1). So shocking, you 2on’t even need Part 2.
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