Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is President of the locker room:
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- It’s time for ‘the ask,’ by David Akadjian
- With call to jail Hillary Clinton, Trump’s GOP demands the criminalization of politics, by Jon Perr
- Thank you, Donald Trump. Also, f*ck you, Donald Trump, by Ian Reifowitz
- When the smallest kindness counts, by Mark E Andersen
- Clinton peels off voters of Eastern European ancestry from Trump, by Sher Watts Spooner
- The black and brown firewall against Trump is being joined by more white women, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Mike Pence’s words illustrate the GOP’s psychological abuse of evangelical voters, by Egberto Willies
• Global wind capacity expected to reach 500 gigawatts by year’s end: And that amounts to 5 percent of the world’s total installed wind capacity. Because of wind’s intermittent nature, that means less than 5 percent of the electricity that is produced, but the milestone still marks a major leap from where we were just five years ago. “Wind power shows robust growth also in the year 2016, and the good news is especially that we can see strong markets now also in Latin America and in Africa,” said Stegan Gsänger, secretary general of the World Wind Energy Association. Five nations—China, the United States, Germany, India, and Spain—are responsible for 67 percent of this total. But that picture is changing year by year. In June 2013, these five countries had 73 percent of total installed wind capacity.
• Scientists say there are at least 1.8 trillion more galaxies than they thought:
The observable universe boasts at least 10 times as many galaxies as originally estimated, according to research published on Thursday in The Astrophysical Journal. This means that the cosmic census of galaxies, which has been conventionally pegged at around 100 to 200 billion, may be closer to a whopping two trillion individual galactic systems.
The surprising discovery is the result of a meticulous galactic survey mined from 15 years’ worth of deep space observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.
• President Obama lifts restrictions on Cuban rum and cigars:
Under the new rules, travelers can purchase unlimited quantities of Cuban rum and cigars in any country where they are sold so long as they are for personal consumption. Sorry American couch potatoes: You can't order Cuban rum and cigars online and have them shipped to your home.
The regulations issued by the U.S. Treasury Department will make it easier for U.S. companies to import Cuban-made pharmaceuticals, U.S. agricultural companies to sell their products to the island and Cubans to purchase U.S.-made goods online.
• Investors warn auto industry to speed up its readiness for a low-carbon world if it wants to continue to prosper: The warning appears in A new report, Investor Expectations of Automotive Companies, published this week by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC).
• Elizabeth Kolbert makes “A Modest Proposal for an Immodest Campaign”:
Men continue to occupy most positions of power in the United States. More than nine-tenths of the C.E.O.s of Fortune 500 companies are male. So are four-fifths of the members of Congress and eighty-eight per cent of state governors. Every President to date has been possessed of a Y chromosome. Assume for the moment that Hillary Clinton is elected next month, and that she serves just one term. If from then on only women were elected to the White House and each one served only four years, it would take until 2192 for the number of female Presidents to equal the number of males.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin mines the most granular information on the voter universe. Josie Duffy Rice discusses the inspiring career of Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson, mass incarceration & the definition of violent crime, and the CA ballot propositions on the death penalty.
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