Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Kushner! The Musical:
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• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos:
• What our nearest neighbor can tell us about Earth's future, by DarkSyde
• Chris Hayes' latest book, by Susan Grigsby
• Free market in healthcare kills Americans, and this is no hyperbole, by Egberto Willies
• Six steps away from 64 million people, by David Akadjian
• The three iron laws of universal health care, by Jon Perr
• Jared Kushner's endless job list is just another Trump dump, by Sher Watts Spooner
• Red lines and green lights: the moral and strategic bankruptcy of Trump on Syria, by Ian Reifowitz
• The opioid overdose epidemic hypocrisy of Donald Trump, by Denise Oliver Velez
• Daily Kos International Elections Digest: April Edition
• The story behind the meme mocking Pepsi’s attempts to brand rebellion.
• Coup, a new Manhattan bar meant to be an antidote to Trump, donates all profits to progressive causes. The owner found he was having a hard time getting out of bed each day after the election disaster. So he opened the bar:
The name is not a twist on coupe, as one might guess, given Mr. DeRossi’s cocktail connections. It’s just Coup, as in “d’état.” Mr. DeRossi intends to use the bar to convert his political paralysis into liquid action.
“One-hundred percent of the profits are going to organizations that are either being defunded by the current administration or need money to fight the current administration, like Planned Parenthood and the A.C.L.U.,” he said.
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• A visual guide to U.S. airstrikes in Syria.
• It’s official. OMB finalizes guidance on repealing two old rules for every new one:
• Kentucky Coal Mining Museum switching to solar. Savings: $8-$10,000 a year:
The museum, owned by Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, is located in Benham, a once thriving coal town portrayed in the 1976 Oscar-winning documentary Harlan County, USA. [...]
"In the current economic times we're in, any way to save money is always appreciated and helpful," Brandon Robinson, museum communications director, said. "Especially when that's money we put back toward teaching our students.
• Ontario teachers call for divestment of oil and gas from their $175 billion pension fund:
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s multi-billion dollar investments in fossil fuels include about $30 million in Exxon shares, $4.8 million in Kinder Morgan and a share of royalties for oilsands extractor Cenovus, which the fund bought for $3.3 billion in 2015. [...]
“We know it’s not going to happen overnight … but the faster it happens, the world gets the message that this is important,” [teacher Brian] Young said in an interview. “We’re trying to make as much noise as we can, to make sure that people understand that we’re not being irresponsible. We see ourselves as being very responsible in terms of the future of the funds’ members, of the children we teach and of the planet.”
• Sanders will travel with Perez to spur progressive candidates, grassroots activism:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is planning a national tour to give a boost to progressive Democratic candidates and energize activists in areas of the country that the party has long neglected, sources familiar with the planning told The Huffington Post. He will be joined on the road by prominent Democratic Party officials, including Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez.
Details of the tour are still being worked out, but Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, would have no shortage of potential whistle stops.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, we use the excuse of airing an all-new, pre-taped show to ignore Trump’s decision to bomb of Syria to impress the Chinese president at Mar-A-Loco to dive instead into the world of International Man O’ Mystery and Mercer “project,” Stephen K. Bannon.
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