Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is Terror group gains ground in U.S.
• Meet the eight young black leaders who are reshaping the climate movement: Nakisa Glover, Nathaniel Smith, Esther Ngumbi, Melanie Harrison Okoro, Quentin James, Tina Johnson, Marcus Franklin, Ciara Williams.
• Sweden is reintroducing conscription:
In 2010, Sweden’s centre-right government of the time abolished the draft after more than 100 years, arguing that targeted recruitment would increase the quality of a military that had shrunk by more than 90% since the end of the cold war.[...]
On Thursday, the Social Democrat-Green coalition government voted to adopt measures, recommended in a report last September, which mean that about 100,000 male and female teenagers born between 1999 and 2000 will soon be asked to complete questionnaires for recruitment.
• Paleolithic? Neolithic? Chamber of Commerce’s Labor Board recommendations would send workers’ rights back to the Stone Age.
Yesterday, the Chamber of Commerce released ten recommendations to “fix” the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The Chamber’s policy suggestions are recycled positions that have been the subject of the nearly two dozen hearings on the agency since Republicans assumed control of the House in 2011. Arguing that President Obama’s board “overturned over 4,500 years of precedent,” the Chamber advances a platform that would roll back workers’ rights to the Stone Age.
• Lawmaker calls for release of Trump’s tax returns, then votes against it:
Rep. David Young (R-IA) called for President Trump to release his tax returns during a town hall meeting with constituents, but then voted against a Democratic-led resolution that would require the president to release his taxes to Congress, the AP reports.
• Conservatives back action on climate change as long as it’s not called climate change:
The problem is that many communities have conservative populations that, for ideological reasons, refuse to accept that climate change is real, and as such will resist local leaders who attempt interventions that appear to be rooted in an acceptance of the scientific facts. But there may be a way to prompt conservative constituents to agree to actions that would address climate change: packaging the policies using other terms.
As Rebecca J. Romsdahl, an environmental science and policy professor at the University of North Dakota, and her team of researchers have discovered, that’s what a number of local leaders are already doing. In 2013 and 2014, Romsdahl and her colleagues published findings from a survey of local leaders in the Great Plains states in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences and Review of Policy Research that indicated that many local leaders are framing their climate change policies under banners like “sustainability” or “energy savings” instead of invoking a concept that rings too many alarm bells.
• Why do big stories keep breaking at night?
• Pope now has an electric car. He turned down offer of a Tesla:
Pope Francis, long known for his commitment to environmental stewardship, has taken his call for climate action one step further. He now owns an electric car, a Nissan LEAF.
The LEAF was given to the Pope in late February by German asset manager and mathematician Jochen Wermuth. The Pope's Nissan LEAF can travel up to 107 miles with a 30 kilowatt-hour battery. Wermuth tried to give the Pope a Tesla Model S electric limousine but the Pope preferred a smaller vehicle. The two men took a small test drive through the Vatican. Wermuth drove and the Pope sat next to him in the front seat.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: The “didn’t fall off the rostrum” honeymoon ends. Greg Dworkin & Armando hit the Sessions story. Recusal was mandatory even without the lies. Trump lies to network anchors, but whatevs. WH nixed ethics training. Kushner’s not divesting, either.
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