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What you may have missed on Sunday Kos...
- Republicans show how it's done, by Jon Perr
- Look in the mirror: Our police are but a reflection of who we are, by Egberto Willies
- How Republicans celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary, by Susan Grigsby
- Oil and ISIS: If we hadn't needed one, the other wouldn't exist, by Ian Reifowitz
- Rio Olympics: Faster, higher, stronger? How about tardier, broker, sicker, by Sher Watts Spooner
- International Elections Digest: All-you-can-eat Brexit, by Daily Kos Elections International
- What do the American people really want? Reflections on the Socialism 2016 conference, by Chauncey DeVega
- Why some states get polled more than others, even when it makes no apparent sense, by Steve Singiser
- How far have we come since the Scopes ‘Monkey Trial,’ by Denise Oliver Velez
- The simulation hypothesis, by DarkSyde
- Retracing Cold War Memories - Part Two, Dachau, by Mark E Anderson
• Tesla co-founder seeks to use jet turbines to power electric garbage trucks:
These 66,000-pound trucks won’t win any drag races (no ludicrous mode), but the innovative drivetrain could reduce fuel consumption by 70 percent. The electric motors provide 400 horsepower and enough torque to happily trundle up a 40 percent grade. The motors double as generators, capturing energy as the truck slows. It’s a seriously beefed up version of what your Prius offers: They provide 1,000 horsepower of stopping power—the kind of might a truck driver with a heavy load on a stop-start route tends to demand.
• Arizona measles outbreak blamed partly on workers refusing vaccinations:
Authorities have confirmed 22 measles cases in Arizona since late May. All stem from the Eloy Detention Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility managed by the private Corrections Corp. of America.
Pinal County health director Thomas Schryer said that the outbreak probably began with a migrant but that detainees have since been vaccinated. Persuading employees to get vaccinated or show proof of immunity has proved more difficult, he said.
• Check out the 5 superhuman members of the U.S. Olympics Gymnastics Team: Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian, and Simone Biles.
After two nights of trials in San Jose, California, and months of observation by the selection committee, we have our team. The winner of the trials automatically gets a spot. The other four members are chosen by the committee, which considers their performance at trials, their international competition experience, their consistency at meets and their ability to deliver strong performances. The team won gold in London, and they want to do it again in Rio. If the group is assembled correctly, there’s a good chance they will.
• California surpasses customer-installed solar goal a year early: The California Public Utilities Commission announced that the state’s California Solar Initiative program had installed 1,753.6 megawatts of solar, beating the 1,750-megawatt goal set for the end of 2017. These installations were achieved without any rebate incentive.
• 9 spectacular photos shot from drones:
• Osama bin Laden’s twentysomething son vows revenge over father’s death.
• Where DC lobbyists love to see and be seen:
Perhaps it won't surprise you to learn that lobbying remains one of the nation's persistently prosperous industries, and that, since 2011, it has been the focus of Influence, one of the daily email newsletters published byPolitico, that great chronicler of the Obama years. Influence was to be, as its very first edition declared, "the must-read crib sheet for Washington's influence class," with news of developments on K Street done up in tones of sycophantic smugness. For my money, it is one of the quintessential journalistic artifacts of our time: the constantly unfolding tale of power-for-hire, told always with a discreet sympathy for the man on top.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin helps us round up continuing fallout from last week’s tragedies: “The Talk;” Philando Castile’s endless efforts at compliance; the weapons & training of the Dallas shooter, and; hard data on police stops. Plus, the Trump veepstakes now in full swing.
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