Today’s comic by Matt Bors is Mr. Gotcha:
• Bill O’Reilly says all the black people he knows have ID good for voting:
"I'm saying to myself, every African American I know has an ID," he then said. "And not only that, the states that want that will send you an ID, they’ll come to your house with the ID and ice cream. They’ll give you ice cream with the ID."
Just how many blacks are known and have been “carded” by this guy who in 2007 reported that he "couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship. There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.'"
• As solar prices drop, utilities’ interest sparks growth in non-traditional markets:
It’s becoming a somewhat redundant story: Solar prices are continuing to fall, and utilities are developing more and more of the resource, especially on the utility-scale side of things. This is a fact highlighted by recent reports from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Titled “Tracking the Sun IX,” the first report shows that since 2015, the national median installed price for residential solar systems have fallen 5%, while non-residential systems have seen costs drop between 7% and 9%. Meanwhile, utility-scale solar has fallen the most, totaling 12% since last year. And the price of building solar power plant generation has fallen 60% since 2009.
• Clinton ad on Trump’s scam foundation is way too gentle.
• Chelsea Manning ends hunger strike after Army agrees to medical treatment, including surgery. The transgender woman is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking military and diplomatic secrets.
ACLU attorney Chase Strangio said Manning should "enjoy some peace" knowing the medical care was coming.
"Thankfully the government has recognized its constitutional obligation to provide Chelsea with the medical care that she needs and we hope that they will act without delay to ensure that her suffering does not needlessly continue."
• The time the Pentagon thought about nuking the moon to impress the Soviets:
The details of the program, dubbed Project A119, were first made public in 2000 by Leonard Reiffel, the physicist in charge of looking into the possibility of detonating a nuke on the moon's surface or just above it. Reiffel told the UK paper the Observer that Air Force officials had told him to look into the idea in 1958. The previous year, the USSR had launched Sputnik, the first manmade satellite, into orbit, and Reiffel said that the military brass he spoke to were worried about the Russians beating the Americans in the space race.
"It was clear the main aim of the proposed detonation was a PR exercise and a show of one-upmanship," Reiffel said. "The Air Force wanted a mushroom cloud so large it would be visible on Earth."
• David Suzuki discusses the world’s top predator—humans:
Humans are the world's top predator. The way we fulfill this role is often mired in controversy, from factory farming to trophy hunting to predator control. The latter is the process governments use to kill carnivores like wolves, coyotes and cougars to stop them from hunting threatened species like caribou—even though human activity is the root cause of caribou's decline.
• If you were in Pittsburgh, would you accept a ride from a driverless Uber car? If so, would you wear your seatbelt?
Uber is turning the streets of Pittsburgh into its own experimental lab, summoning the public to participate before any laws have been written. Uber is inviting up to 1,000 of its “most loyal” Pittsburgh customers to experience the futuristic vehicles starting Wednesday in the first real-world test of self-driving cars for regular people.
• Melania Trump’s promised press conference on her immigration story is now a tweet with an attachment.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: The Donald’s biz ventures begin to draw scrutiny. Updates on the polls from Greg Dworkin, and the latest from the laggards in Congress, with Joan McCarter. Plus, your host: David Waldman. Did I ever mention that he hosts the show? Well, he does.
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