Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is The new Monsters, Inc.
• Sailing through garbage bag ocean.
• Trump’s doctor is yapping, perhaps with The Donald’s permission: Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, Trump’s longtime physician, said in recent interviews that the pr*sident takes a prostate-related drug to promote hair growth, antibiotics to control rosacea, a statin to reduce elevated blood cholesterol and lipids, and a baby aspirin to reduce the potential for heart attack. He said Trump is
• Fabulous resource: A running list of addresses, dates, and times of congressional town halls.
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• Eco-advocates not happy with Rex Tillerson confirmation as secretary of State:
“A vote for Rex Tillerson is a vote for climate disaster,” said May Boeve, 350 executive director. “Negotiating oil deals with human-rights abusing heads of state does not qualify you to lead international diplomacy. The fight against Tillerson’s nomination revealed just how much fossil fuel industry money has corrupted Congress.”
“In the face of this corruption, we all must come together to fight for the renewable energy revolution and an economy that works for all of us,” she said.
• A real live war criminal may get picked to serve as Tillerson’s deputy. His name is Elliott Abrams, and The Washington Post, there’s a good chance he’ll get the job. Eric Alterman has some words about this possibility:
I don’t mean someone that we on the left like to call a “war criminal,” such as Henry Kissinger or Dick Cheney. These people might actually qualify, but the cases are at best arguable, and no one in authority has ever been asked to rule on them. Not so for Trump’s potential pick, the onetime neocon golden boy (and son-in-law to Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter) Elliott Abrams. [...]
Like Trump himself, Abrams has behaved so badly in so many different arenas, it actually works in his favor: No one can keep up.
• Scientists say the trend toward fewer days below 32°F will continue. There are many reasons why that’s not a good thing.
• Koch Brothers plan to invest millions in 2018 races:
The Koch brothers’ vast network of conservative organizations and allies reportedly plans to spend $300 million to $400 million on policy and politics leading up to the 2018 midterm elections.
Officials from the Koch network disclosed their spending plans for looming political battles during a Saturday donor conference in California. Much of the money would be “devoted to the organization’s nationwide grassroots organization to help educate voters and hold elected officials accountable,” suggested network Spokesperson James Davis according to the Associated Press.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin lends a hand with the daily “Dammit, Donald!” Disaster Roundup: foreign leader calls, Black History Month & covering for white nationalists. Then, a KITM explainer on the nuke option used to clear nominees over Dem boycotts.
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