Today’s comic by Matt Bors is Oregon's Republicans go full militia:
• Former NAACP leader Ben Jealous announces candidacy for Maryland governorship:
Jealous, 44, will seek the Democratic nomination in his first bid for political office. He joins a growing field of potential challengers to Gov. Larry Hogan, who is expected to attempt to become the state's first two-term Republican governor since the 1950s.
In an interview Tuesday with The Baltimore Sun, Jealous took aim at Hogan's record on education, the economy and the environment. And he faulted Hogan for failing to take on the Trump administration, comparing the incumbent to the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz."
• Scott Pelley out as “CBS Evening News” anchor. Headed back to “60 Minutes” full time.
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• NYT dumping its “public editor” position: The position was established in 2003 after the Jayson Blair scandal. Elizabeth Spayd, named as the paper’s sixth public editor in 2016, is slated to remain in the post until the summer of 2018.
• Surface water lasted on Mars much longer than previously thought:
Lighter-toned bedrock that surrounds fractures and comprises high concentrations of silica—called "halos"—has been found in Gale crater on Mars, indicating that the planet had liquid water much longer than previously believed. The new finding is reported in a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. [...]
[Said Jens Frydenvang, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Copenhagen and lead author of the paper:] “The goal of NASA's Curiosity rover mission has been to find out if Mars was ever habitable, and it has been very successful in showing that Gale crater once held a lake with water that we would even have been able to drink, but we still don't know how long this habitable environment endured. What this finding tells us is that, even when the lake eventually evaporated, substantial amounts of groundwater were present for much longer than we previously thought—thus further expanding the window for when life might have existed on Mars."
• Swiss company Climeworks switches on the world’s first commercial CO2 capture plant: The plant is designed to remove CO2 and sell it. Situated near Zurich, the plant will compress CO2 and use it to fertilize greenhouse crops. Long-term goal? Scale up so that by 2025 such facilities will capture 1 percent of global annual CO2 emissions.
• House committee examines crucial American Indian issue without inviting tribal leaders to appear: That, of course, is typical of the 226 years the United States has been the United States: The government says to Indians—We Talk, You Listen. The House Committee on Natural Resources met May 24 to discuss “Examining Impacts of Federal Natural Resources Laws Gone Astray.” Republican Chairman Raúl Labrador of Idaho blasted the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act for keeping tribes not federally recognized by that year from following the land-into-trust process. That process allows tribes to buy or annex ancestral lands stolen in the past and bring them under tribal governance, although the Bureau of <s>Indifference and Arrogance</s> Indian Affairs holds the communal land in trust. Labrador failed to mention that the BIA has come up with an approach that does allow land-into-trust for newly recognized tribes and the courts have accepted it. If that’s not solid enough, and some tribes say it’s not, then it falls to Congress to legislate a change. But despite tribal lobbying for eight years, Congress has failed to act, something else Labrador also conveniently forgot to note.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, it’s the Greg Dworkin & Armando in the Morning show! While the KITMHQ fridge was not being repaired, there was polling news to parse, a Trump typo to laugh at, the Virginia primary to ponder, and a Dem Unity proposal with which to become incensed.
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