Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is
• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- A free press: Part two—The politics of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, by Susan Grigsby
- Sorry, Zombie Trumpcare, but that’s not freedom, by Ian Reifowitz
- Chicago betting on Obama center to bring hope to South Side, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Trumpcare is the past insurance orthodoxy that bankrupted and killed many, by Egberto Willies
- How Trumpcare ends health insurance as we know it, by Jon Perr
- You are not one of us, by Mark E Andersen
- Seven questions for Michelle Dillingham, Cincinnati’s neighborhood candidate for city council, by David Akadjian
- The recession is long over. Are the jobs following for you, by DarkSyde
- White allies: thoughts and conversations for today’s movement, by Denise Oliver Velez
- International Elections Digest: Coverage of Sunday's French presidential election between Macron and Le Pen, by Elections
• State Department takes down retweet promoting Ivanka Trump’s book: From its official Twitter account, the department’s Office of Global Women’s retweeted a Trump post showing her sister Tiffany Trump and sister-in-law Lara Trump reading Women Who Work. Soon, faced with complaints from Twitter users, the OGW axed the retweet. No laws may have been broken, but ABC News reported that the retweet may have violated federal rules prohibiting the use of public office to promote commercial products.
• Donald Trump’s first campaign manager resigns from lobbying job: Under scrutiny for lobbying without having registered, Corey Lewandowski resigned from his firm Thursday. The government-ethics watchdog group Public Citizen sent a letter to the Department of Justice and congressional oversight offices seeking investigations into whether Lewandowski was violating lobbying laws by not registering his work for Avenue Strategies. In seeking clients, he frequently had boasted about his access to the White House.
• Edward Crawford, who appeared in iconic photo in Ferguson protests, found dead from bullet wound: Police said the wound was apparently self-inflicted, but his father says he would not have committed suicide. Police acknowledge that the gun may have been discharged accidentally.
• Florida trainer’s racing license revoked after five greyhound dogs found to have cocaine in their systems. The trainer, with 40 years in the business, said one of his hirelings must have doped the dogs. “It was not me.”
• Germany generated 85% of its electricity with renewables last weekend. The nation’s transformation of its energy system from one based on fossil fuels and nuclear to one based on renewables—known as the energiewende—has had many hiccups, not to mention calls for ending it fed by distorted reporting and failure to recognize that this is a long-term, pioneering effort bound to encounter bumps along the way. Patrick Graichen of the Agora Energiewende Initiative said: “Most of Germany’s coal-fired power stations were not even operating on Sunday April 30, with renewable sources accounting for 85 per cent of electricity across the country. Nuclear power sources, which are planned to be completely phased out by 2022, were also severely reduced.”
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, we briefly acknowledge the wild partying following the shaky start Trumpcare got. Then Trump knocks off early for more golf. Does Trump hate Joe & Mika, or what? Does Trump hate fish? Is he the most clueless guy in DC? Is he clueless even about Ivanka?
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