Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Backseat driver in Charlottesville:
• President Obama's tweet quoting former South African President Nelson Mandela after the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville has become one of the most liked in Twitter history with over 2.4 million likes and counting. It has surpassed talk show host Ellen Degeneres' 2014 selfie tweet at the Academy Awards.
• Nuclear power advocates want billions of tax dollars to resurrect failed SC reactor project: The two uncompleted reactors were part of what was meant to be a renaissance of U.S. nuclear power construction after a 30-year hiatus. Rather than individually customized like previous nuclear power plants, the South Carolina reactors and a pair still being built in Georgia are standardized Westinghouse models that would supposedly be cheaper and quicker to build. But critics warned they would cost more than their $14 billion estimate and take longer to complete. Sure enough, billions in cost overruns, construction delays, competition from natural gas, lower growth in electricity demand, and the bankruptcy of Toshiba-owned Westinghouse combined to force the project to be shuttered before it switched on. The nukes were granted $8.4 billion in federal loan guarantees. Now South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham wants Congress after the August recess to extend a production tax credit that would revive the reactor project. The Georgia project has also been afflicted with cost overruns and missed deadlines. Its Atlanta-based Southern Co. owner has announced it will decide in the next few weeks if it will continue construction.
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• American World War II veteran returns dead Japanese soldier’s flag to his family:
Tatsuya Yasue buried his face into the flag and smelled it. Then he held the 93-year-old hands that brought this treasure home, and kissed them.
Marvin Strombo, who had taken the calligraphy-covered Japanese flag from a dead soldier at World War II island battlefield 73 years ago, returned it Tuesday to the family of Sadao Yasue. They had never gotten his body or — until that moment — anything else of his.
• “I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links Worked.”
• Palast—Gun in his face, journalist Zach D. Roberts still photographed the beating of special education teacher De’Andre Harris in Charlottesville:
Don’t look away. Four white neo-Nazis are beating a Black man, crawling on the ground, with their metal poles and a yellow hunk of lumber. The beating continues — there’s blood on the pavement.
Our photographer, Zach D. Roberts, continues to shoot — even as a white militant raises a 9mm pistol to his face.
Zach got a shot of the gun and gunman, too. Luckily, the gunman didn’t shoot back.
One photo has gone viral internationally. These others we bring you here because they must be seen. Including, for the first time, the gunman.
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On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: The enduring MBA culture myth of “maximizing shareholder value.” How we got it & the damage done. Another random, bizarre Trump lie. Each sip of Fiji Water® contains more than the recommended daily requirement of shameful feelings.
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