Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Presidential pens:
• Assuming Donald J. Trump finishes out his term squatting in the White House, he has 1,320 days left in office.
• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- A brief burp in time, by DarkSyde
- Right-wingers scared of California single payer resurrect a health care lie debunked seven years ago, by Ian Reifowitz
- Loving Day: 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Trump really is making America angry and racist again, by Frank Vyan Walton
- Republicans betray their gray-haired base with Trumpcare, by Jon Perr
- Obamacare is in danger of laying the path for Trumpcare, by Egberto Willies
- We need a leader, and instead we have a carnival barker, by Mark E Andersen
- With apologies to Cole Porter on his birthday: You’re the Trump, by Sher Watts Spooner
- International Elections Digest: Labour surprises in United Kingdom as Tories lose their majority, by Elections
• Standing Rock Sioux receive Henry A. Wallace Award along with $250,000:
The Wallace Global Fund awarded the inaugural Henry A. Wallace Award and a $250,000 prize to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for its unyielding courage in the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, and its dedication to transitioning to renewable energy. In addition to the $250,000 prize, the tribe will receive up to a $1 million investment from the Wallace Global Fund to support its transition toward fossil fuel independence. [...]
The Henry A. Wallace Award was established in 2017 by the Wallace Global Fund to lift up the extraordinary courage and will it takes to stand up to oppressive corporate and political power.
The leftist Wallace was vice president during President Franklin Roosevelt’s third term of office. You can see video relating to the award here.
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• Rep. Gianforte expected to plead “no-contest” next week instead of “guilty”: The new Congressman from Montana was charged with misdemeanor assault after throwing Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs to the floor, punching him repeatedly, and breaking his glasses on election eve last week. Gianforte offered an unqualified apology Wednesday and pledged to donate $50,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists. In return, Jacobs agreed not to press a civil action and to contact the judge in the case to tell him that he is not opposed to Gianforte’s pleading no-contest instead of guilty. Gianforte could theoretically get six months in the slam for the assault, plus a $500 fine. If he gets a single weekend in jail, we’ll all need smelling salts to recover.
• Federal Judge denies bail for Reality Winner: The 25-year-old Farsi and Arabic linguist is accused of leaking classified information to an unnamed reporter. The government has not said what the leaked material was about, but prosecutors say Winner, a former National Security Agency contractor, may still have stolen secrets in her possession. They have not claimed that she is a terrorist or jihadist, but they nevertheless view her as a flight risk in part because of what she wrote in notebooks now in the government’s possession. Winner has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of collecting and passing along defense information in violation of the Espionage and Censorship Act.
• Rewritten new energy page at Interior Department’s website focuses on fossil fuels and their extraction.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: The “counterpuncher” manages only a weak swat. Armando has some more thoughts on Comey. Did Trump even know about our base in Qatar? The latest reconciliation obstacle: abortion, of course. Rep. Chris Collins loves bragging about insider trading.
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