- What you missed on Sunday Kos …
- Urgent! Help stop the looming Medicaid disaster in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Fox News, GOP media now warn of bloodshed if Democrats win in 2020, by Eric Boehlert
- Students plan a worldwide climate strike on Sept. 20. It's time for adults to join the fight, by Sher Watts Spooner
- As Trump undermines U.S. national security, Moscow Mitch McConnell is his loyal ally, by Laurence Lewis
- Republican hypocrisy on the Electoral College and gerrymandering goes way beyond Trump, by Ian Reifowitz
- Progressives will win in 2020, but beware the attempt to make us seem far left of mainstream America, by Egberto Willies
- CNN's climate forum shows what is wrong with the Democratic Party’s debate plan, by Chris Reeves
- Is Trump killing the Obama boom in bellwether Elkhart, by Jon Perr
- The difficult task of impeachment, by Frank Vyan Walton
- Justice is a bargain: 7 questions for Charmaine McGuffey, candidate for Hamilton County sheriff, by David Akadjian
- The paranoia of gun rights activists, by Mark E Andersen
The State Highway Administration removed four signs for “Negro Mountain” from Western Maryland roads in April over concerns about racial sensitivity, an agency spokeswoman confirmed Sunday. [...]
Historical accounts point to the mountain being named for a black man who died in a skirmish with Native Americans, The Times-News reported, and one historian told the paper she had researched the topic and learned of an area on the west side of the mountain called [N-word] Hollow, where lynchings took place.
- In case you missed this one (be sure to read the entire article):
When an Alaska Airlines employee yelled "evacuate" at a major New York–area airport on Labor Day, one of the busiest travel days of the year, it sent 200 panicked people fleeing amid fears of a mass shooting attack.
Dozens of Port Authority police responded to Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey on Monday night around 8.30 p.m. after the female airline employee yelled for people to evacuate before setting off an emergency alarm. Initial reports said she believed two male passengers were acting suspiciously, and when she approached them they started running.
But the two Chinese-born men at the center of the incident told BuzzFeed News it all began as a case of racial profiling. In their first media interview, the men said they did not know each other, did not run away, and that it was the airline employee who had been acting erratically.
A Monticello tour guide was explaining earlier this summer how enslaved people built, planted and tended a terrace of vegetables at Thomas Jefferson’s estate when a woman interrupted to share her annoyance.
“Why are you talking about that?” she demanded, according to Gary Sandling, vice president of Monticello’s visitor programs and services. “You should be talking about the plants."
At Monticello, George Washington’s Mount Vernon and other plantations across the South, an effort is underway to deal more honestly with the brutal institution that the Founding Fathers relied on to build their homes and their wealth: slavery.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: It was literally impossible to get to it all today, but Greg Dworkin helped us cram in mentions of the Flaming Dancer, Camp David & the Taliban, MIT & Epstein, Trump refusing Bahamian refugees, Prestwick, NOAA, Falwell, and even the latest polling.
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