Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is The mysterious stranger:
What you might have missed on Sunday Kos …
- Aftab Pureval, Hamilton County, Ohio’s new Democratic Clerk of Courts, and how he won, by David Akadjian
- Racism is a battle that we’ve fought before, by Susan Grigsby
- How should journalism function in the age of Trump, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Hoosier daddy? The man who really delivered the jobs in Indiana, by Jon Perr
- My “identity” can get me killed, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Medicare is a battle for survival, by DarkSyde
- One silver lining to Trump’s win: Democrats could win key governors’ races for 2020s redistricting, by Stephen Wolf
- Censorship and President-elect Trump, by Mark E Andersen
- Don’t take Donald Trump lightly: He could be the economic Ronald Reagan, by Egberto Willies
● Towards a working-class environmentalism:
The state of American environmental policy would have been unthinkable to environmentalists four decades ago. Environmentalism, once a bipartisan movement with tremendous political power to pass sweeping legislation with almost no organized opposition, is now a mere interest group in the Democratic Party. It is locked in a running battle with often hostile courts to maintain past gains, and is often seen as a threat to jobs by working Americans. What was once a popular movement now pushes a technocratic elite agenda with few connections in the American working class. Understanding and changing this is critical to building a popular political movement that again appeals to average Americans.
● Ha ha ha ha ha, oh, Chris Christie.
● Sometimes there are more important goals than civility:
In the aggregate, though, these calls for civility threaten to impose a burden on people of color. If calling out racism is largely counterproductive, using a systemic definition like white supremacy is also unacceptable, and stigmatizing or shaming those who espouse racist beliefs is self-defeating, what tools remain? The only form of productive debate that people of color can engage in, it seems, is the gentle persuasion of white people who may or may not hold retrograde views.
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● On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Cheers for the #NoDAPL activists! Greg Dworkin reminds us jobs talk was key, plus points us to a powerful new video. Trump might not bother with a budget. Comet Pizza insanity & Gop bare knuckles crazy should have us thinking nuclear Senate strategy.
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