Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Trump’s ultimate sacrifice:
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Donald Trump and the ‘decent’ Republicans, by Chauncey DeVega
- Daily Kos International Elections Digest: August edition, by Daily Kos Elections International
- The epitome of Republican ideology, by Susan Grigsby
- Remembering Dr. Ralph Bunche. Activist-statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Scolding an attack on the Khans is easy. What’ll they do when Trump says Hillary stole the election, by Ian Reifowitz
- Three lessons from the rise of Donald Trump, by Jon Perr
- How 2016 presidential players fit in Harry Potter world, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Democrats are already gearing up for our next redistricting battle in 2020, by Stephen Wolf
- Tribal leadership tips on how to upgrade tribes, by David Akadjian
- Thoughts going forward as a Bernie Sanders delegate, by Egberto Willies
- Retracing Cold War memories: Part Six, Dresden, by Mark E Andersen
• A thousand U.S. spies have been assigned to Olympic security in Rio: They are part of highly classified effort to protect the Summer Games and American athletes and staff, according to NBC News. In addition to hundreds of analysts, law enforcement and special operations personnel already on the ground in Rio de Janeiro, there are than a dozen Navy and Marine Corps commandos from the U.S. Special Operations Command in Brazil, working with the Brazilian Federal Police and the Brazilian Navy. The Games begin today.
• It’s International Beer Day!!
• It’s Day 174 of the GOP’s obstinate refusal to hold a hearing on Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland: It’s Friday, August 5, and Day 174 since Justice Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell decided no nominee would get any Senate attention: No meetings, no hearings, no votes. It's also Day 137 since President Obama named Merrick Garland as Scalia's replacement. Help turn the Senate blue with your donation and get all branches of government working again.
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• Joe Lieberman hasn’t decided who he will support in the election. But he’s still talking trash about Obama administration:
“I may get involved as time goes on. I’m one of those people, and there’re a lot of us I think, who can’t feel quite comfortable either way yet.”
• Architects are designing buildings for the age of mass shootings:
Our culture of fear has changed the role of architecture in the United States. In just 2016 alone, the country has seen 221 mass shootings, and we struggle to keep up with the stream of international terrorism attacks by groups like ISIS and Boko Haram. If you listen to the news for too long, every building we enter seems compromised, from malls and movie theaters to schools. So while legislators falter over gun control laws, architects and building designers are working to rethink the concept of a safe space.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin has more amazing polling numbers, Gop defections, and concerns about Trump cannibalism. Armando chimed in on Melania’s immigration status, The Donald’s fake-lanthropy & those tax returns. Oh, and George Zimmerman got punched.
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