Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Welcome to Camp Suburbia:
• Hallelujah News, Judiciary Department: U.S. Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will retire from the bench at the end of August. The libertarian-leaning Brown appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005 has a record of challenging 80-plus years of U.S. economic policy, having called the New Deal as a win for “socialist revolution.” Not the only federal judge appointed in the 21st Century to hold such views, of course, but Brown has been one of the most vocal in her judicial opinions, injecting a tone of disdain in her written judgments.
• Desk, meet forehead:
• Shocker: Mika B. lands three-book deal in “high six figures”:
The newly closed deal will include a revised edition of “Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth,” which will be released next spring with fresh interviews from female trailblazers about getting recognition in the business space and in personal relationships. [...]
We’re told that Brzezinski plans to follow up with two more books in fall 2018, one titled “Comeback Careers” and a currently untitled book for millennials entering the job market.
• Riverside County, California, deputy sheriff cited in federal complaint for alleged needless shooting: The deputy claimed that Manuel Vasquez pulled a gun on him and took up a shooting stance whereupon he shot him. In his complaint, Vasquez said he was talking with his girlfriend through a window when the deputy approached, told him to put his hands in the air, and fired 13 times as Vasquez turned around. Vasquez was struck four times. Each of those bullets entered him from the back, the complaint states, noting that he was unarmed and made no aggressive moves toward the deputy.
• Here’s how a working-class Buffalo suburb retired a coal plant the right way.
• Just 25 companies responsible for half the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions the past 30 years: Removing agriculture and land-use changes from the equation, and just 25 producers accounted for more half of greenhouse gas emissions in the past three decades, according to a "Carbon Majors" report from Carbon Majors, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project. The top 100 companies account for 71 percent of these industrial emissions.
• Bill introduced in Congress to remove “blood quantum” requirement for “Five Civilized Tribes.”
• Imagine if the Clintons had done what the Trumps did on Russia:
Can you imagine what Fox News would be saying? What Rush Limbaugh would be saying? How deafening the calls for impeachment and investigation would be?
But this is where we are. The best defense of Trump’s associates, at this point, is they were too dumb to know what they were doing — a defense that doesn’t work when it includes experienced international operators like campaign manager Paul Manafort and ex-Defense Intelligence Agency Director Michael Flynn. Donald Trump Jr.’s own defense of himself is that he attempted to collude with Russian agents but they didn’t have any useful information and so he didn’t. This is, as my colleague Zack Beauchamp notes, no defense at all — even if it is true, Trump Jr. may well have committed a crime.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: OK, so, there was some treason, or whatever. But what about the Qatar story everyone who wasn’t talking about treason was talking about? Or that Medicaid repeal bill that will cost millions their insurance? If “moderates” say it’s fixed, can you believe them?
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