Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is ExTrumpAganza!
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- The difference between Paul Ryan and Donald Trump, by Jon Perr
- What’s the matter with Kansas? Republicans, by Susan Grigsby
- Much ado about raised fists, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Walker’s worst wallops on Wisconsin, by Mark E Anderson
- Anti-ISIS Muslims face death threats. Is that “enough” for Hannity and Trump lackey Ben Carson, by Ian Reifowitz
- A sustainable, progressive revolution requires patience and reality-based pragmatism, by Egberto Willies
- Urban farming: From floating food forests to vacant crops, by Sher Watts Spooner
• Former 9/11 commissioner claims Saudi gov’t officials involved in 2001 attacks:
A former member of the 9/11 Commission says Saudi government officials offered support to the hijackers, and he joined the growing chorus calling for the government to release 28 classified pages of the commission's report that may detail the roles those Saudi officials played.
John Lehman, a former Secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan, told the Guardian, "There was an awful lot of participation by Saudi individuals in supporting the hijackers, and some of those people worked in the Saudi government." Details of their involvement are found in the 28 classified pages of the 9/11 Commission report, he said. The Obama administration says it may release those pages soon.
• Has your favorite television show been canceled?
• Check out this photo tour and propulsion test of the HyperLoop track in Nevada:
It's only been five months since Hyperloop One, which is seemingly the only serious hyperloop company at the moment, broke ground on the track, which is so remote that—if you can believe it—there's not even a Snapchat geofilter for the site.
The propulsion test, which ran on a track and not inside a tube, was the first time anyone has seen anything concrete having to do with the hyperloop, Elon Musk's futuristic "fifth mode of transportation" that comes with lofty promises of sending people 700 miles per hour down a partially pressurized tube.
• Why do only four states have automatic voter registration when they all should?
Oregon announced this week that since taking effect on January 1, its new automatic voter registration law has added 51,588 voters to the state's rolls. More than half of the state's new registered voters this year came through the automatic registration process.
• #BreakFree activists engage in widespread civil disobedience. The climate change activists pushing the theme of breaking free of fossil fuels have been conducting actions since May 4:
Thursday marks the beginning of a week of Break Free protests in the United States. Activists are expected at a Bureau of Land Management auction in Denver, Colorado, to protest the leasing of public land for fracking. The Pacific Northwest is preparing for a new wave of kayaktivism, in what is anticipated to be the largest act of climate-related civil disobedience ever in the region; hundreds of people have agreed to risk arrest in an attempt to stop the flow of oil from two oil refineries in Anacortes, Washington. In Los Angeles, the country’s largest urban oil field and the site of gas leaks that pose long-term health risks to residents, activists plan to gather at City Hall on Saturday to call for an end to drilling in the city and a move toward 100 percent renewable energy. In Albany, they’ll be blockading railways to call attention to the “bomb trains” that carry crude oil from the Bakken shale region of North Dakota to the city’s port.
• In lecture you can watch at this link, Naomi Klein says radical solutions needed to deal with ‘Unyielding Science-Based Deadline’:
In a public lecture delivered last week and published online Tuesday, award-winning Canadian author and social justice activist Naomi Klein argues the dire situation of climate change, coupled with failing political and economic systems, is creating a world where nobody will be left unaffected.
“It is not about things getting hotter and wetter but things getting meaner and uglier, unless we change the corrosive values that are pitting people against each other,” Klein said last Wednesday as she gave the 2016 Edward W. Said London Lecture at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Hairspray von Clownstick had better hope the old saw about there being no such thing as bad publicity is true. Armando can’t resist taking a shot at him, either. UT Regents wrestle with campus carry implementation. Shopping, like banking, requires having $ to save $.
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