Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Xenophobe trading cards: Trump's new immigration crew is getting worse:
What’s coming on Sunday Kos:
- Remember when Obama refused to work with GOP during Benghazi, Fast & Furious probes? Me neither, by Ian Reifowitz
- Can the press avoid another campaign train wreck in 2020, by Eric Boehlert
- House Democrats' 2018 victories came about in some ways that might surprise you, by David Jarman
- The American Frog is just about fully cooked, almost, by Frank Vyan Walton
- Democratic leadership needs to learn how to grandstand in the Trump era, by Egberto Willies
- Remember when Obama refused to work with GOP during Benghazi, Fast & Furious probes? Me neither, by Ian Reifowitz
- Abortion bans are only the latest offensive in long-running GOP war on women, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Hurricane season starts June 1. U.S. mainland media continues to fail Puerto Rico, by Denise Oliver Velez
• Theresa May to resign from U.K. prime ministership, effective June 7, ending her three years at the helm:
Speaking in Downing Street, May said it had been “the honour of my life” to serve as Britain’s second female prime minister. Her voice breaking, she said she would leave “with no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love”.
The prime minister listed a series of what she said were her government’s achievements, including tackling the deficit, reducing unemployment and boosting funding for mental health.
But she admitted: “It is and will always remain a matter of deep regret to me that I have not been able to deliver Brexit.”
• “Big Tech doesn't want you to be able to fix your things”: Vice digs into the right-to-repair movement.
MIDDAY TWEET
• ACLU files suit against twisted Alabama abortion ban.
• Wisconsin regulators reject attempt to rescind their approval of state’s first large solar farms: “These petitions are just a litany of regurgitated complaints … literally cut and pasted,” said Public Service Commissioner Ellen Nowak. “Nothing new was introduced.” Citizens objecting to the approval argued that one commissioner should have recused herself because an attorney for the law firm she used to work for represented a utility involved with one of the farms. They also complained that the PSC doesn’t have set rules for okaying such operations. The 300-megawatt Badger Hollow facility and the 150-megawatt Two Creeks operation will each be larger than any solar farm east of the Rocky Mountains, increasing Wisconsin’s solar capacity fivefold.
• $44 million settlement okayed in civil suits over sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein: The movie mogul’s attorneys told a Delaware bankruptcy judge Thursday that the payments will be made via insurance policies to the victims, creditors, and former employees, according to a CNN source. Of that total, $14 million will cover the legal fees of employees of Weinstein Co. who were named as defendants in the suit filed by the New York attorney general’s office last year. That suit alleged Harvey and his brother Bob Weinstein egregiously violated the state’s civil rights, human rights, and business laws. "I think this is positive for the victims involved and this helps them avoid the stress and trauma of full litigation," said Aaron Filler. He’s the attorney for actress Paz de la Huerta, who said Weinstein raped her in her apartment on two separate occasions in 2010. "This is a measure of justice," he said. The civil case has nothing to do with the criminal case involving two women in which Harvey Weinstein is charged with two counts of predatory sexual assault, one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree, and one count each of first-degree rape and third-degree rape. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Besides those women, more than 80 others have accused Weinstein of sexual conduct, everything from unwanted advances to rape.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: It's Friday and Dotard J. Trump is a danger to America. Barr gets to run the Kushner/MBS play, this time with the President himself (meaning Putin). By the way, that Trump Tower Moscow deal sucked anyway. Dems got those bank records! No, not those banks.