Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Some plan suggestions for the Dems:
• More Baltimore cases tossed after second police body-cam video shows cops manufacturing evidence:
More get-out-of-jail-free cards are being issued by Baltimore prosecutors—and more are likely, after Monday's disclosure of a second police body cam video that defense attorneys say shows cops manufacturing evidence.
The Maryland Office of the Public Defender said that charges against at least one suspect were dropped on Monday in light of the new video that they said shows officers "working together to manufacture evidence." The development comes days after the state's top prosecutor announced Friday that 34 prosecuted or pending drug or weapons cases were dropped or dismissed because they were connected to three officers seen in a different body cam video showing one officer planting drugs.
• Farmer suicides are increasing in India because of climate change: A new study indicates that the rising temperatures in India are spurring more suicides among farmers affected by drought and erratic weather, including stronger storms. For ever 1.8 degrees above 68 degrees Fahrenheit during the growing season in India, there are 67 more suicides on average, according to the findings published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencess, or PNAS.
• Lawsuit: Fox News and wealthy Trump supporter fabricated story about death of DNC aide: And, it is claimed, Pr*sident Trump himself reviewed drafts of the story before it went on the air. The lawsuit was filed by Rod Wheeler, who has been a paid commentator at Fox for a long time. Wheeler accused Fox News and Trump supporter Ed Butowsky. Wheeler alleges the two of them met with then-Press Secretary Sean Spicer on April 20 to go over the story together. The suit claims that a Fox reporter, Malia Zimmerman, invented quotations and attributed them to Wheeler. Fox’s president of news, Jay Wallace, told NPR that there was no “concrete evidence” that Wheeler had been misquoted. The story aired in May but was retracted a week later. The story suggested that Democratic officials might have been involved in the death of Seth Rich, a young Democratic National Committee aide. Police said they believe the death was the result of a robbery gone wrong.
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• Corey Lewandowski Fired From One America News Network: The former Trump campaign manager, who is still an informal adviser to the pr*sident, has been fired from One America News Network, the Trump-aligned operation hoping to compete with Fox News.
• Jerry Garcia would have been 75 today: He co-founded The Grateful Dead in 1965, a band that went on to play more than 2,300 concerts over the next 30 years, only quitting after Garcia died in 1995 of a heart attack that was attributed to various health problems. Garcia was involved in a deluge of side projects over the years, including the Jerry Garcia Band, various bluegrass projects, Black Mountain Boy, Legion of Mary, and Reconstruction.
• Just-released documents used in suit claiming 'executives colluding with corrupted EPA officials to manipulate scientific data':
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the plaintiffs' lawyers said, "This trove marks a turning point in Monsanto's corporate life. They show Monsanto executives colluding with corrupted EPA officials to manipulate and bury scientific data to kill studies when preliminary data threatened Monsanto's commercial ambitions, bribing scientists and ghostwriting their publications, and purchasing peer review to conceal information about Roundup's carcinogenicity, its toxicity, its rapid absorption by the human body, and its horrendous risks to public health and the environment. We can now prove that all Monsanto's claims about glyphosate's safety were myths concocted by amoral propaganda and lobbying teams,"
• South Carolina pulls the plug on two unfinished Westinghouse reactors under construction: $9 billion had been spent on the reactors that were supposed to usher in a renaissance for U.S. nuclear power, but they were way behind schedule and cost overruns had increased the original estimate for completing them by 75 percent to $25 billion. Two reactors of the same model are still being built in Georgia, but they too are way over budget and way behind schedule.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Goodnight, Mooch. Trumpworld punked in (gasp!) private emails! Dad dictated Jr.’s collusion meeting statement & his lawyers lied about it. Dog eats sanctions bill. Fake news, meet fake legislation. Lindsey Graham wants to moderately nuke North Korea.