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Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is RNC recap:
What you may have missed on Sunday Kos ...
- The black and brown firewall blocking Trump, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Retracing Cold War memories: Part Four, Wildflecken/Rhone, by Mark E Andersen
- GOP platform breaks Trump’s 'no cuts' promise on Social Security and Medicare, by Jon Perr
- Netroots Nation atoned to Black Lives Matter, by Egberto Willies
- Trump's businesses may be his biggest liability, by Frank Vyan Walton
- It's still the economy, stupid—and that's a major plus for Hillary, by Ian Reifowitz
- America is angry. If we don’t speak to this anger, we’re in trouble, by David Akadjian
- GOP convention descended into deception, delusion, and detesting, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Meeting the two faces of 'All Lives Matter' by Chauncey de Vega
- Sextortion: To convict a creep, by Susan Grigsby
- A few problems with Young Earth creationism, by DarkSyde
• Day 163 of GOP blockade on Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland:
It's Monday, July 25, and Day 163 since Justice Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell laid down his Supreme Court blockade: No meetings, no hearings, no votes on his replacement. It's also Day 126 since President Obama named Merrick Garland to be Scalia's replacement. What's the Senate doing today instead of considering the Supreme Court nominee? They're on recess.
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• ‘GOP-lifer’ resigns from party post with an excoriating letter:
From his fairy-tale wall to his schoolyard bullying and his flirtation with violent racists, Donald Trump offers America a singular narrative – a tale of cowards. Fearful people, convinced of our inadequacy, trembling before a world alight with imaginary threats, crave a demagogue. Neither party has ever elevated to this level a more toxic figure, one that calls forth the darkest elements of our national character.
With three decades invested in the Republican Party, there is a powerful temptation to shrug and soldier on. Despite the bold rhetoric, we all know Trump will lose. Why throw away a great personal investment over one bad nominee? Trump is not merely a poor candidate, but an indictment of our character. Preserving a party is not a morally defensible goal if that party has lost its legitimacy.
• America’s most unsung singer dies of cancer at 86:
Marni Nixon, the American cinema’s most unsung singer, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 86. [...]
Classically trained, Ms. Nixon was throughout the 1950s and ’60s the unseen — and usually uncredited — singing voice of the stars in a spate of celebrated Hollywood films. She dubbed Deborah Kerr in “The King and I,” Natalie Wood in “West Side Story” and Audrey Hepburn in “My Fair Lady,” among many others.
• ‘Sand’ wildfire in Southern California forces 10,000 homes to be evacuated:
The Sand fire, which is named for Sand Canyon, continued to burn Monday in the hills toward Acton, prompting the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to order the evacuation of at least 10,000 homes. [...]
As water-dropping helicopters worked overnight, the firefight got a significant boost Monday: the number of firefighters increased from 1,600 to nearly 3,000 firefighters, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The fire remains only 10% contained.
• Advocacy group sues over megacorporations being awarded ‘small business’ federal contracts:
Verizon Communications is the largest wireless provider in the United States, with 177,000 employees and $91.7 billion in sales last year, and yet it somehow managed to wrangle more than $107 million in federal "small business contracts" last year through the US Small Business Administration.
Verizon isn't the only gargantuan company the SBA deems eligible for assistance. In 2015, according to a recent lawsuit by an advocacy group for actual small businesses, the SBA counted contracts with 150 other Fortune 500 companies in its fulfillment of the federal government's small business contracting obligations.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: the Kaine rollout changed a lot of minds, including Armando’s. He joined us to give us his take. Trump/Putin ‘16. DNC e-mail hack raises eyebrows. Ivanka slyly elbows in for the grift! From Philly: DWS is out, superdelegates compromise is in.
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