Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Storytime with the president:
• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- They fought and died for freedom—Black soldiers in the U.S. Civil War, by Denise Oliver Velez
- CBO: Conservative Bulls**t Obliterator, by Jon Perr
- ‘Because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook, by Susan Grigsby
- There’s so much wrong with Trumpcare that it’s hard to know where to start, by Ian Reifowitz
- You cannot fight a war against terror, by Mark E Andersen
- As Americans learn how policies affect their personal economies, they will activate, by Egberto Willies
- Who wants to be the next H.R. McMaster, by David Akadjian
• In letter to Trump, Sen. Jim “Climate-Change-Is-a-Hoax” Inhofe and 21 other Republican senators ask for clean break from Paris climate agreement. The letter, signed by the usual suspects in such matters, states among other things: “It is clear that those advocating for greenhouse gas regulations will use the Paris Agreement as a legal defense against your actions to rescind the Clean Power Plan if you decide to remain in the Paris Agreement. This is why it is so important for you to make a clean exit from the Agreement.”
• Trump regime wants to gut DOE energy research: Through its basic research at a network of 17 national laboratories, the Energy Department has for nearly 40 years helped to commercialize innovative technologies in solar, wind, batteries, and carbon capture. But Pr*sident Trump proposes to cut the department’s budget by $3.1 billion. Four-fifths of the DOE’s annual $30 billion budget goes to maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, cleaning up messes like the contaminated Hanford complex in Washington, and for scientific experiments in areas like high-energy physics. The proposed cuts, however, would be directed at the energy programs. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, for instance, which has done much over the years to reduce the cost of solar and wind power, would get a 69 percent cut. The budget would eliminate the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, which looks into technologies that might not bear fruit for decades. The Office of Fossil Energy, which researches “clean coal,” would see its carbon-capture studies slashed by 85 percent.
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• Had he lived, JFK would have been 100 this coming Monday: At his 46th and last birthday party aboard a yacht in 1963, there were two dozen guests that included First Lady Jackie Kennedy, Ben Bradlee, the publisher of The Washington Post, his wife Tony, actors David Niven and Peter Lawford, Kennedy’s two brothers, and one of the president’s paramours, Mary Pinchot Meyer, who a year later was shot to death in a still-unsolved murder. Meyer was the sister of Tony Bradlee who later told a biographer that JFK chased her around the yacht, catching up with her in a restroom where he groped her. He also chased a young Hungarian translator who said she resisted his sexual advances.
• John Glenn’s remains disrespected at Dover AFB mortuary: A senior employee at the mortuary offered to show the body of the senator, Marine Corps officer and space pioneer to inspectors, according to an internal memo. The inspectors were horrified and refused the offer and an investigation is underway. The May 11 memo was written by Deborah Skillman, the Defense Department's director of casualty and mortuary affairs. She wrote that the employee's alleged actions were "clearly inappropriate and personally shocking.” The employee, William Zwicharowski, was one of three whistle-blowing mortuary employees who revealed that body parts had gone missing or were disposed of improperly. The three were nearly fired for having gone outside their chain of command to make their revelations, but later received Public Servant of the Year awards.
• New Hampshire governor vows family of wandering bears won’t be killed.
• Arkansas Democrats drop Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson from name of group’s annual dinner: Democrats in Iowa, Georgia, Missouri, Connecticut, and South Carolina have already removed the two presidents’ names from their annual get-togethers. Jefferson and Jackson were both slave owners, and Jackson has become notorious for his part in the murderous removal of tens of thousands of Indians from east of the Mississippi River to what would later become Oklahoma. The Arkansas Democrats renamed their dinner after Bill Clinton.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, The Trumpshambles continue, this time at NATO HQ. Then, time to catch up on Kushner news, before it’s too late. The feds are interested in his Russian & financial dealings. But did you know he was also a jerkass gonif? And that you’re paying for it?
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