Midday open thread: Fingerprints, shoes and citizenship

• Today's comic by Ruben Bolling is Unpopular Mechanics: How to build a clock:
  
  
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  CNN's live feed of Pope Francis' Thursday address to a joint session of Congress picked up audio of a woman saying she would "take my shoe off and throw it at his head" just before the pontiff entered the House chamber.

  Neither the identity of the speaker nor the theoretical target of her airborne shoe were clear from the live feed. Pope Francis had yet to enter the chamber when the audio was picked up.

• One more thing about the life and death of Yogi Berra:
  

  Yogi was born in 1925 and 1930 U.S. Census records show that Yogi’s father, Pietro, who arrived in the U.S. from northern Italy in 1909, still declared as an alien five years after Yogi was born. So did his mother, Pauline. It didn’t matter to Yogi, of course. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed him citizenship.

  Berra died Tuesday, and here’s the Sports Illustrated headline on its obituary: “Remembering the great American life of Yankees Legend Yogi Berra.” Yogi’s certainly was a great American life. Emphasis on “American.” And it was a life made possible by the 14th Amendment.

• Your fingerprints may not be yours alone:
  

  On the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping's first state visit to Washington, DC, the Obama administration released alarming new numbers about one of the biggest computer hacks in American history—traceable, officials say, to China—a move that could potentially heighten tension ahead of the historic meeting.

  The Office of Personnel Management announced that it had substantially underestimated the number of people whose fingerprints were stolen during the attack earlier this year. About 5.6 million of 21.5 million federal employees, contractors, applicants, and others had their fingerprints stolen during a hack of the OPM's background check databases, the agency reported Wednesday morning. That figure is higher than the 1.1 million previously reported.

• These Daily Kos community posts were the most shared on Facebook September 23:
  

  Misogyny Does not Depend on Your Anatomical Parts: Carly Fiorina is Part of the War on Women, by Djhbutler

  Sheriff's Deputy Shot & Killed, But Right Wing Media Doesn't Seem to Care, by Steven D

  We Must End For-Profit Prisons, by Senator Bernie Sanders

• Horrifying:
  

  A stampede during one of the last rituals of the Hajj season -- the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca -- has killed more than 700 people and injured 800 others in Saudi Arabia.

  The stampede occurred Thursday morning during the ritual known as "stoning the devil" in the tent city of Mina, about 2 miles from Mecca, Islam's holiest city.

• On today's Kagro in the Morning show, we allow WaPo to reignite the Bernie & BLM flame. Joan McCarter reminds us the shutdown looms, and plugs Saturday's Daily Kos Connects event! Armando stops by for a quick 40 min. comment on BLM, Ben Carson & more.
  
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• So here's a new and disturbing statistic: In a recent Survey USA poll Donald Trump not only beat out Democratic nominees Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Al Gore, but he receivedmore than 20 percent support from African-Americansin every matchup. “Donald Trump has a certain swagger about him that I think registers with people. Especially if he is talking about trying to make government work for the people,” said Donald E. Scoggins, a lifelong Republican and president of the Republicans for Black Empowerment. “I think Trump’s support is primarily personality driven.” We've just decided that this is a case of black people trolling, because, seriously? It's Trump. Team Blackness also discussed a rabbi's request that Jews rescind their whiteness, a man who embezzled $8.7 million and then lived on the Appalachian trail, and David Cameron's "bae of pigs" controversy.
  
  

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