Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Paul Ryan’s publicity stunt
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- 'Lift ev'ry voice and sing'— Honoring an anthem and its author, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Two weeks after Orlando, Trump’s reaction looks even crazier, by Ian Reifowitz
- America’s national priorities: Police thuggery, broken schools, and the 'Wages of Whiteness,’ by Chauncey DeVega
- Passing a new rubicon on gun violence and terrorism, by Frank Vyan Walton
- Clinton’s gamble on gun safety is paying off, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Big businesses are hurting small businesses, by David Akadjian
- Her homophobia reminds me of me, by Irna L Landrum
- Interview with the undocumented valedictorians who created a firestorm, by Egberto Willies
- Donald Trump and the 53-inch penis, by Jon Perr
- Some common signs of an investor with a liquidity problem, by DarkSyde
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• Stupid, stupid, stupid Republicans shoot down funding for Pentagon climate change plan: You don’t have to be a dumbass to be a House Republican, but it seems nevertheless to be a feature on the résumés of most of them. On Thursday, by a vote of 216-205, Republican representatives approved an amendment to block the Department of Defense from financing its climate change and national security plan. The DoD has for years warned that climate change will have a big effect on national security. But while Republicans have for decades made a big deal (especially around election time) about how Democrats are supposedly “weak on defense,” when it comes to a choice between defending the nation and sticking with climate-change denierism, idiocy wins out. “It’s actually crazy to me and it should be crazy to anyone in the military, that Congress is telling them not to do this,” Andrew Holland, the senior fellow for energy and climate at the American Security Project, said.
• Ralph Stanley, whose “mountain music” gave rise to bluegrass, dies at 89:
Ralph Stanley, the singer, banjo player and guardian of unvarnished mountain music who was also a pivotal figure in the recent revival of interest in bluegrass, died on Thursday. He was 89. [...]
Though widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of bluegrass, Mr. Stanley said on numerous occasions that he did not believe his music was representative of the genre.
• More than 30 people treated for burns in Dallas after Tony Robbins persuaded them to walk on hot coals.
• Josh Harkinson of Mother Jones gives us a look inside the shadowy world of America’s 10 biggest gunmakers:
Many of these companies' top executives have donned the jacket bestowed to members of the Golden Ring of Freedom, an exclusive club for $1 million-plus donors to the National Rifle Association. Several have been the focus of criminal investigations and lawsuits over everything from arms trafficking and fraud to armed robbery and racketeering.
• Indonesia is fighting illegal fishermen by blowing up their boats.
• Volkswagen will pay up to $10,000 to owners of emissions-cheating cars:
Volkswagen will pay between $1,000 and $7,000, and in some cases as much as $10,000, to owners of cars that were affected by the diesel emissions scandal, according to reports from Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal. The reports state that the payouts will vary depending on factors like the age of each vehicle, and each attributes the information to unnamed sources close to the ongoing talks — no surprise, considering that a gag order has been issued by the US District Judge who is overseeing the case. The deadline for the settlement decision is June 28th.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, we stumbled our way through Brexit news, with Greg Dworkin & Arliss Bunny. Trump factchecked again on his charitable giving. This time, all of it. And there’s not much to speak of. Plus a last-minute roundup of weekend reading what’s good fer soundin’ smart.
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