Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Case closed!
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos:
- The president of the United States is not above the law, by Mark E Andersen
- The war against black Democratic voters, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Trump is daring Democrats to impeach. We must make sure he loses in the long run, by Sher Watts Spooner
- To 'democratic socialism' or not to 'democratic socialism': that is the question, by Egberto Willies
- We need new methods and strategies to fight the international anti-diversity hate movement, by Frank Vyan Walton
- How the press keeps sugar coating Trump’s unlawful defiance of Congress, by Eric Boehlert
- By Trump's own (birther) standards, there is 'something' on those tax returns 'he doesn't like,' by Ian Reifowitz
• Researchers find 2,624-year-old bald cypress tree along North Carolina’s Black River: That makes the tree the oldest known in the eastern part of the United States and one of the oldest on the entire planet. It grows on land bought and protected by the Nature Conservancy, but thousands more acres of bald cypresses should be added to the land already barred from development, say researchers:
The team say that the cypress tree which they determined to be 2,624 years old, is one of the oldest known continuously living trees on the planet. Only individual trees of Sierra juniper (2,675 years old), giant sequoia (3,266 years old), alerce (3,622 years old) and Great Basin bristlecone pine (5,066 years old) have been demonstrated to live longer.
• Fewer than half the households on tribal lands in Arizona have access to broadband: For instance, only 29% of Hopi households have broadband access, compared with the 78% national average.
• Fan who flashed white supremacist hand gesture banned from Wrigley Field for life.
• Naturalist Jim Fowler, host of 'Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom,' dead at 89: Even before taking on that effort, he had developed a reputation as an expert on predatory birds:
Fowler, an Emmy winner for his work on the nature program, also made more than 100 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, served as a wildlife correspondent for the Today show and showed up (with a hawk) as a guest on a talk show hosted by Kramer (Michael Richards) out of his apartment on a 1997 episode of Seinfeld.
Fowler and fellow zoologist Marlin Perkins worked on Wild Kingdom starting with the pilot episode that aired on Jan. 9, 1963, through Perkins' retirement in 1985. Fowler then went it alone for a few years and returned to the show when it was revived in 2002.
MIDDAY TWEET
• Why are so many ‘bad apple’ cops bad in the same way?
• Jared Diamond says there’s a 49% chance the world as we know it will be over by 2050: But he believes the future isn’t hopeless. With action by individuals, corporations, and government, the climate crisis can be effectively addressed, he says. But getting there means more people must acknowledge that we are in a crisis, and many Americans just don’t.
• Republicans bury two pro-tribal bills after Trump tweets another of his racist “Pocahontas” slurs against Elizabeth Warren, the senator who introduced one of them.
• Trump regime opens another 730,000 acres of public land to oil and gas drilling on the Central California coast: The expansion means an additional 1.7 million acres across the state will be opened to drilling leases:
Clare Lakewood, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity which filed the 2013 lawsuit, said in a statement Thursday that the plan is an “assault” on some of the Golden State’s most pristine landscapes.
“Trump’s new plan aims to stab oil derricks and fracking rigs into some of California’s most beautiful landscapes,” said Lakewood. “From Monterey to the Bay Area, the president wants to let oil companies drill and spill their way across our beloved public lands and wildlife habitat.”
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: School shootings now depleting the military, but muh hobby! Subpoena saga plods along. Giuliani plans trip in Kiev (maybe out a window). Ghostwriter reveals Trump's a dipsh*t. WTF’s the Epoch Times, and why are they cheating for Trump?