Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Make the FBI great again:
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- ‘See, I picked someone from the other party.’ That’s how we got Comey and President Andrew Johnson, by Ian Reifowitz
- Employers to drop 7 million people from healthcare insurance under Trumpcare, by David Akadjian
- What do bullets really do to bodies? Changing the conversation on gun violence, by Kelly Macias
- Comey’s firing demonstrates Trump presidency is exhausting—but we persist, by Sher Watts Spooner
- A Mother’s Day tribute to moms who buried their children due to police and gun violence, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Soup Sandwich, by Mark E Andersen
- NASA’s planetary science budget may have room to take us to a strange and exotic world, by DarkSyde
- Race and education make a bigger difference in who you vote for than ever before, by David Jarman
- Progressives blowing 2018 with too many resources relegated to Russia, by Egberto Willies
• The guy who lied under oath to Congress and got confirmed anyway is determined to send more people to prison for longer terms: It’s a flat-out reversal of the policy the Obama administration launched:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is directing federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges possible against the vast majority of suspects, a reversal of Obama-era policies that is sure to send more people to prison and for much longer terms.
The move has long been expected from Sessions, a former federal prosecutor who cut his teeth during the height of the crack-cocaine epidemic who has promised to make combating violence and drugs the Justice Department's top priority.
• Electricity customers pay for groups to lobby against clean energy:
Few political organizations have the “luxury of subsidization” enjoyed by the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and other trade groups that represent the utility industry, according to a new report.
Utility customers foot the costs of “political and public relations” activities of these industry trade groups, the report’s authors contend. Requiring customers to pay a portion of the annual membership dues means customers might be paying for political activities with which they may not agree and from which they may not benefit, the report says.
• Mamas Day campaign sends love to immigrant, Muslim mothers:
The social justice organization Forward Together has launched a “Mamas Day” campaign to show solidarity with immigrant and Muslim moms amid the fallout from President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant executive orders, including his “Muslim ban” and efforts to criminalize the 11 million undocumented people who call the United States home.
Each year coinciding with Mother’s Day, Forward Together launches a Mamas Day campaign to highlight mothers who are often invisible in popular representations of motherhood, including single moms, queer families, incarcerated parents, and immigrant mothers. In recent weeks, thousands of people nationwide have sent Mamas Day e-cards to express support to immigrant and Muslim moms.
• Kushner Companies will no longer attend Chinese investor events.
• The Donald’s appointees are quite a piece of work, but Dubya put some wacked-out people into high office, too:
[P]erhaps the most bonkers Bush appointee, to the office of deputy assistant secretary of population affairs at Health and Human Services (the same office Manning was appointed to), was Eric Keroack, an anti-choice ob-gyn who argued that condoms don’t work and that birth control is “demeaning to women.” Keroack got special attention from feminist blogs during the Bush years because of his pet theory that premarital sex distorted women’s oxytocin levels and made them unable to feel love once married, a theory that, needless to say, holds absolutely no scientific value.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: The president is still crazy, with few exceptions. Armando joins us for more discussion of the continuing fallout from the Comey firing, the three latest bizarro interviews, etc. Plus an explainer on discharge petitions, and some recommended weekend reading.
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