Today’s comic by Matt Bors is Don't say 'Hillary Clinton':
• Join us here tonight at 8 PM ET for live coverage of the Commander-in-Chief forum: This one-hour event conducted by NBC News and the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, will feature Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump answering questions on national security, military affairs and veterans issues asked by NBC and an audience comprised mainly of military veterans and active service members.
• Oopsy. Independent conservative running as Trump alternative accidentally picks running mate: Evan McMullin intended for Nathan Johnson, the vice presidential candidate listed on his applications for ballots in the nine states he is running, to be only a placeholder, but eight of those states say the name will appear on their ballots in November.
• Mural depicting Maine Gov. LePage as Klansman kindles graffiti and claims of hate speech: But Portland officials say the mural will remain on a city wall because it’s free speech.
• Construction of new coal plants took a big hit worldwide the first half of 2016:
According to a new report from CoalSwarm’s Global Coal Plant Tracker, the total amount of coal-fired generating capacity in pre-construction planning dropped from 1,090 gigawatts (GW) in January 2016 to 932 GW in July. That’s a reduction approximately the size of the entire coal-generating capacity of the E.U.
The largest decreases come from from India and China, whose governments announced they would be (slowly) moving away from coal in the aftermath of last December’s climate talks in Paris. In June, India said that no coal plant construction would be needed for at least three years; and in April, China announced restrictions on new coal-fired power plants in 13 provinces.
• Another reason to hate clowns.
• Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein may be charged with vandalism for spray painting equipment at North Dakota pipeline: Stein on Tuesday had briefly joined in solidarity with protestors —mostly Indians from numerous tribes who prefer the label “protectors” and who object to the pipeline. That’s because it would carry oil from the Bakken formation to tank farms in Illinois by crossing ancestral Sioux lands and threatening their drinking water supplies. While Stein may be charged, don’t count on pipeline builder Energy Transfer Partners being charged for bulldozing an ancient Indian burial site over the weekend, a move that sparked a violent confrontation that pitted protectors against attack dogs and pepper spray:
Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II compared illegal actions taken by protesters, like those that bound themselves to equipment, to Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat during the Civil Rights movement: "It was illegal but it was the right thing to do."
• Richard Samans explains why we should take a page from Teddy Roosevelt and establish a 21st Century “Square Detail” to restore growth and opportunity.
• Idaho watches as big wildfires create their own weather:
Huge clouds rising from the Pioneer Fire north of Lowman the last week of August displayed the fierce behavior of the fire that has burned out one of the largest holes of unburned timber left in the Boise National Forest.
Pyrocumulus clouds, caused by the rising heat of windblown fires burning in thick, dry fuel, could be seen over the Boise Foothills as the Pioneer Fire near Lowman grew to more than 181,065 acres as of Sunday. Cooler temperatures over the holiday weekend reduced the energy that creates these meteorological phenomena that have become more frequent across the West over the past 30 years.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin gives us all a crash course in understanding that “special sauce” pollsters use to try to get things right. And Joan McCarter gives us the best possible look at the return of a do-nothing Congress. Meanwhile, the Pam Bondi story heats up.
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