What’s coming up on Sunday Kos:
- Four years ago today Trump launched his campaign—media still haven’t figured out how to cover him, by Eric Boehlert
- Actually, we do know what Trumpcare is. And it's not good, by Ian Reifowitz
- Social justice, political correctness, human decency, bigotry, and total jerks, by Frank Vyan Walton
- The more things change, the more they stay the same, by Mark E Andersen
- A community read: the Mueller report, by Susan Grigsby
- Media's complicity with Trump continues: Acts of resistance are ignored, by Egberto Willies
- The movement against single-use plastic is growing. Try it for yourself in July, by Sher Watts Spooner
- The risk of not impeaching Trump, by David Akadjian
- Tuskegee Airman, actor, and activist: A Father's Day tribute to my dad, by Denise Oliver-Velez
• Center for Investigative Reporting finds 100s of police officers belong to hate groups on Facebook: Some of these groups, like Oathkeepers and Three Percenters, are prone to violence.
• Study—Climate crisis will increase risk of violent conflict: Researchers in the study published this week in the scientific journal Nature said that while climate change has not yet played a major role in stoking conflicts, it will do so as its destabilizing impacts grow.
MIDDAY TWEET
(Sigh. I guess it’s necessary to note that the above tweeted video is a parody.)
• Cheyenne River Sioux bar Keystone XL pipeline workers from reservation: Tribal Chairman Harold Frazier said Tuesday that “Any vehicles or personnel working on the Keystone XL pipeline are not welcome on this reservation." Frazier’s made the remark after tribal police escorted a KXL support truck off the reservation in South Dakota where the Sioux have instated a policy that "any and all Keystone XL trucks and escort vehicles that drive onto our reservation be turned around immediately and go back the way they entered the reservation. [...] This is Sioux Territory, we will not stand for more encroachments and defilement of our land," Frazier said.
• Trump International Hotel will host a conference of climate science deniers in July: It’s the notorious Heartland Institute’s annual climate conference. The theme this year is “Best Science, Winning Energy Policies.” Featured, according to promotional materials for the conference, will be “the courageous men and women who spoke the truth about climate change during the height of the global warming scare. Now, many of them are advising the new administration or joining it in senior positions.” Since the early 1990s, fossil fuel cash has filled the wallets of many of these poorly disguised industry-paid hacks posing as truth-speakers. They’re a perfect match for top officials in the Trump regime, which has placed some of the loudest deniers into posts where they can do major damage to policies designed to lessen the impacts of the climate crisis they claim doesn’t exist. Right across the street from the conference’s venue is the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency that Trump and his appointees have been doing what they can to wreck for the past two-and-a-half years.
• D.C. Circuit Court rules U.S. cannot stop migrant minors from getting abortions: In 2017, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which takes custody of minors who cross the U.S. border unaccompanied by an adult, adopted a policy of refusing to allow pregnant girls in its custody to obtain abortions, even in cases of rape. In 2018,, ORR denied requests for abortions by four unaccompanied minors. That brought on a class action suit that ended with a district court injunction against the policy. The Department of Justice appealed to the D.C. Circuit Court, which ruled 2-1 Friday in an unsigned 81-page decision that the Trump regime cannot force underage immigrants to carry their pregnancies to term.