Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is What would it take for the GOP to dump Trump?
• If Donald Trump manages to serve out his full term, he has 1,344 days left in his pr*sidency.
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• Possible 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are spending big for online ads:
This is a golden age of Democratic online organizing. According to experts, the wave of anti-Donald Trump sentiment may represent a rare opportunity for lawmakers to shift away from a reliance on big-money donors and toward a system popularized by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) during his presidential run: small-dollar giving that begets sustained forms of activism. [...]
“When you stack it up against other ways to raise money, it has the advantage that when you’re fundraising, you’re also mobilizing a base that you can use for other actions,” Michael Malbin, the head of the Campaign Finance Institute, told HuffPost. “The important thing is that these are people who might not only vote for them, but might recommend them to other people.”
• Prosecutors alarmed about Florida’s expanding “stand your ground” law:
Earlier this month, the Florida legislature passed a bill that shifted the burden of proof in “stand your ground” pre-trial hearings to the prosecution. If Governor Rick Scott signs the legislation, state attorneys will have to prove to a judge, in a “clear and convincing” manner — a legal bar just below the trial standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt” — that a defendant was not acting in self-defense. It’s a massive hurdle the prosecution must overcome just to go to trial.
“It turns 250 years of jurisprudence on its head,” Andrew Warren, another Florida state attorney, told The Trace.
• Perhaps more idleness should be the paradigm to replace the “work ethic.”
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• Online community DearTomorrow brings future into present with climate letters to children:
Back in 2014, Trisha Shrum and Jill Kubit had climate change on their minds. Both women were graduate students at Harvard — and also new moms. “I started thinking about what I would say to my daughter,” Shrum says. How would she explain society’s lack of urgent climate action? Could she say she had done enough to stop climate change?
Shrum captured her thoughts in a moving letter to her daughter, postmarked for 2050. When Kubit heard about the letter in a student group, something clicked, and the pair decided to publish a collection of public letters, from this generation to the next, which would recast climate change from vague to personal.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: OMFG! Jimmy Fallon says Trump may have plagiarized his Liberty U. speech from “Legally Blonde!” Dem energy rockets in TX, with a bumper crop of new candidates for 2020! Oh, BTW, Trump betrays our allies to the Russians & maybe killed an intel asset.
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