Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is Thanksgiving:
What you may have missed on Sunday Kos …
- You have the right to be mad, by Propane Jane
- More strong wage and job numbers thanks to Obama policies: Don’t let Trump claim he “fixed” things, by Ian Reifowitz
- Ways to fight back after Trump win: Start with voting, by Sher Watts Spooner
- We must not forget Flint, by Susan Grigsby
- “Each One Teach One” a call for partisan community political education, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Liberals and progressives: Being right is not good enough, by Egberto Willies
- Trump’s “forgotten Americans” will get lower taxes on the rich and higher income inequality, by Jon Perr
- The voters gave Democrats a mandate to fight the extremist Trump agenda, by Laurence Lewis
- What is NATO, and why should you care? by Mark E Andersen
- New Horizons prepares for distant encounter beyond Pluto, by DarkSyde
- If you want to build a big movement, pick a big fight, by David Akadjian
- International Elections Digest: Iceland's Pirate Party limps ashore with a third-place finish, by Daily Kos Elections
• Uh-huh. In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine, cosmopolitan conservative Edward Luttwak, brilliant but stubbornly wrong in so many of his foreign policy assertions, reiterates the argument he made in an op-ed from the March 13, 2016, issue of The Wall Street Journal, saying that there likely won’t be anything to worry about in Donald Trump’s foreign policy pronouncements and behavior.
• A record number of fur seals are washing up, dead or emaciated, on the California coast.
• Official “Star Wars” quadcopter drones will be yours for Xmas, if you’ve got a spare $240: The flying speeder bike, X-Wing, Millennium Falcon, and Tie fighter drones will soon be available to order online.
• An interactive look at how four U.S. East Coast cities might look like in 84 years under a Trump climate legacy: Boston, West Palm Beach, Fla., Norfolk, Va., Charleston, S.C.
• Newt Gingrich won’t be in the Cabinet, but the “chief planner” position he’s signed up for could be a powerful one: In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine:
...Gingrich described his upcoming role as an informal advisory position for the “Republican coalition,” between the broader GOP and White House. He described the job — which he said he’d do for free — alternately as “chief planner,” or some combination of “chief,” “senior,” “advisor” and “planner.” It will examine how to “modernize and reform” the federal government. [...]
“I just want a letter from the president that says I can look at any office and any program and offer advice directly to the president,” he said, first describing the position in an interview last month. Asked what authority he’d operate under, he said, “The letter from the president. You don’t need much more than that.”
• More than 120 groups sign letter to Trump, asking him to denounce hate acts, intimidation and harassment by people unleashed by his rhetoric in the campaign. The letter was initiated by the Southern Poverty Law Center. From the letter:
The presidency is about many things. Chiefly, it is about setting an example through your leadership. You have said that you will be the president for all Americans, Mr. Trump. We ask that you keep your promise by loudly, forcefully, unequivocally and consistently denouncing these acts and the ideology that drives them. We ask you to use your position, your considerable platform and even your tweets to send a clear message that hate has no place in our public discourse, in our public policy or in our society.
• A white supremacy euphemism generator for journalists:
Reading recent coverage of Donald Trump's friends on the far right, it struck me that even when people pander to the idea Western culture's wellbeing is inseparable from European ethnicity, they somehow avoid being called white nationalists or supremacists by journalists.
It must be hard work coming up with all the "conservative firebrand" allusions and some say implications required to make facts clear without stating them. So I thought I'd help out by putting together another journalistic euphemism generator!
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Time to prepare yourself for Thanksgiving with Trump voting relatives. What lies ahead for Obamacare? For Medicare? Speaking of preparing yourself, it’s time to get ready for an era of unparalleled corruption! Why wait for January? Trump isn’t!
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