Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is Press briefing:
In case you missed it on Sunday Kos ...
- Behind the plexiglass: Darren Rainey, immigrant detention, and mass incarceration, by Kelly Macias
- ‘A dire collapse of hope,’ by Susan Grigsby
- Democrats are willing to step up to the plate on health reform, by Frank Vyan Walton
- The ancient past can tell us a lot about our immediate future, by DarkSyde
- From Title IX to a victory for women’s hockey, by Sher Watts Spooner
- No good that Comey does on Trump/Russia can undo his legacy: He poisoned a presidential election, by Ian Reifowitz
- Republicans must be punished for lying about health care for eight years, by Egberto Willies
- Wake up Democrats and pay attention to voter suppression and felony disenfranchisement, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Let’s talk about ‘job-killing’ regulations, by Mark E Andersen
● Explosion in the St. Petersburg, Russia, metro kills at least 10.
● Transparency is not really Tesla's thing.
● Meet Donald Trump's White House counsel. His stint on the FEC was something special:
To his critics, McGahn was on a one-man crusade to destroy the FEC from within. An analysis by the good-government organization Public Citizen found that the number of deadlocked enforcement votes spiked after his arrival, from an average of 1 or 2 percent in the early and mid-2000s to 15 percent in 2011. McGahn had no qualms about undermining the FEC's nonpartisan lawyers—in one case, he posted a memo to the agency's website contradicting the commission's attorneys in an ongoing lawsuit. He bragged about disregarding parts of the law he disputed or saw as out of sync with court rulings. "I'm not enforcing the law as Congress passed it," he told a group of law students in 2011, referring to the McCain-Feingold Act of 2002, which was partially invalidated by the 2010 Citizens United ruling. "I plead guilty as charged."
● How Uber uses psychological tricks to push its drivers' buttons:
Employing hundreds of social scientists and data scientists, Uber has experimented with video game techniques, graphics and noncash rewards of little value that can prod drivers into working longer and harder — and sometimes at hours and locations that are less lucrative for them.
● If you don't know about Jane, you should. This oral history will get you started.
● On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin rounds up weekend news, including the fire emoji-inspiring LAT editorials & several Gop in Disarray pieces. Is Kushner right for the every job? Law firm that whitewashed Trump’s “divestment” roasted. Were “Bernie Bros” really Russian bots?
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