Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is The return of Baby-Man:
• What you may have missed on Sunday Kos:
• A Women's History Shero: Ida B. Wells, by Denise Oliver Velez
• The buck stops with the President, by Mark E Andersen
• We’re your neighbors (not enemies): Why I couldn’t be prouder of our Steve Chabot protest, by David Akadjian
• Obama's America vs. Trump's America: Divisive demagoguery on immigrants and crime, by Ian Reifowitz
• Fascism doesn't come cheap, by Susan Grigsby
• Sniveling idiots: The media, a teleprompter, and the toxic bigotry of sycophantic desperation, by Laurence Lewis
• GOP Obamacare ‘replacement’ is a 25-year old straw man, by Jon Perr
• The cracks in Trump's Kremlin cover-up appear to be collapsing, by Frank Vyan Walton
• Hey media: People under 30 don't trust you, by Sher Watts Spooner
• When it comes to Trump’s speech, liberals pundits and gullible press do us a disservice, by Egberto Willies
• Resistance sends spuds to Ron Johnson: The co-creator of the off-color game Cards Against Humanity is urging people to send potatoes to the office of Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson until he holds an in-person town hall meeting. At johnsonpotato.com, a person can donate $5 to have a potato with his or her name on it mailed to Johnson's Milwaukee office. The website states: "Legally, we’re not allowed to call Senator Johnson a cruel idiot who doesn’t understand how health insurance works. But we are allowed to mail thousands of potatoes to his office demanding that he listen to his constituents and hold a town hall meeting."
• Shanghai plant plans to replace all human workers with robots as soon as it can:
[Cambridge Industries Group factory] has reorganized to become robot-centric. The job of the human staff is to code and maintain the bots. "We're not a typical company," Wong said. "We program the robots in-house." It's probably safe to say that the workers who take care of CIG's robots are the only people at the company outside of senior management who can rest assured they'll still have a job in 10 years.
• Koch-connected ‘dark money’ funds more than climate science denial:
Investigative writers Jane Mayer, Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway and others have exposed how "the story of dark money and the story of climate change denial are the same story: two sides of the same coin," as U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse described it last year in a speech. [...]
While these strategies have been well-tracked in the climate sphere, less reported is the fact that the funders behind climate-science denial also bankroll a network of PR operatives who have built careers spinning science to deny the health risks of toxic chemicals in the food we eat and products we use every day.
• Here’s how California utilities are managing the flow of its excess power from renewables.
• Five cabinet members who lied to senators, four of them under oath: It’s a criminal offense to “knowingly” lie in testimony to Congress, but something that rarely gets prosecuted.
• A quarter of deaths of children chalked up to pollution by World Health Organization:
Pollution is responsible for one in four deaths among all children under five, according to new World Health Organisation reports, with toxic air, unsafe water and and lack of sanitation the leading causes.
The reports found polluted environments cause the deaths of 1.7 million children every year, but that many of the deaths could be prevented by interventions already known to work, such as providing cleaner cooking fuels to prevent indoor air pollution.
• Valentina Tereshkova, first woman into space, just turned 80:
Sally Ride was the first American woman in space, launched aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983 amidst controversy. At 32, she was the youngest astronaut in history, surrounded by questions such as “will it ruin her reproductive organs,” “what if she’s menstruating” and “will she weep if something goes wrong on the job?” But 20 years prior, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova proved that women had every bit as much mettle and ability as the men.
• Betting website giving odds on whether Trump will still be in office by year’s end:
British betting behemoth, Ladbrokes is speculating that Trump may not even finish out the year, offering 2-to-1 odds that Trump is replaced before the end of this year. To put it in perspective, those are the same odds that he’ll be replaced in 2021 — as in Jan. 20, 2021. There’s even money that he’ll serve his full term — meaning no President Mike Pence — and 4-to-5 odds that he’ll leave office before the end of the term. As an added bit of trolling, Ladbrokes gives it 6-to-4 odds that he’ll visit Russia before the end of the year.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin is back on Monday Trump clean-up duty. Trump goes on a Fox News Grandpa rage bender over “wiretapping.” Now even TradMed types are contemplating how much of our world falls apart if Trump literally can not ever be taken at his word.
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