Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is Trump two step:
What you may have missed on Sunday Kos …
- GOP’s top priority? Giving the Trump clan a multi-billion dollar tax cut, by Jon Perr
- Not a Confederate general: This man’s statue has got to go, by Denise Oliver Velez
- A love letter to white kin grappling with white supremacy, by Irna L Landrum
- Paying your taxes is not a sacrifice, by Mark E Andersen
- Fire and ice can be nice, depending on your perspective in time, by DarkSyde
- Netroots Nation 2017 proved the progressive movement is still strong and vibrant, by Egberto Willies
- Former white supremacists now living Life after Hate, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Democrats fight for consumers. Republicans fight for those trying to screw consumers, by Ian Reifowitz
- Twenty-two million Americans think white supremacy and neo-Nazism are acceptable, by David Akadjian
- From Charlottesville to Netroots Nation: white supremacy is everywhere—even progressive spaces, by Kelly Macias
• Scientists: Switch to renewables would save 7 million lives a year and create 24 million jobs:
Californian scientists said a fossil fuel phase-out is achievable that would contain climate change, deliver energy entirely from wind, water and sunlight to 139 nations, and save up to 7 million lives each year.
They said it would also create a net gain of 24 million long-term jobs, all by 2050, and at the same time limit global warming to 1.5°C or less.
• City governments raise standards for working people—but state legislators lower them again:
[This month] low-wage workers in St. Louis, Missouri, became the latest victims of state preemption laws. “Preemption” in this context refers to a situation in which a state law is enacted to block a local ordinance from taking effect—or dismantle an existing ordinance. In this case, St. Louis had raised its minimum wage above the state minimum—but was then forced to lower it back down when the Missouri state legislature preempted the local ordinance.
This [Economic Policy Institute] report looks at the rising use of preemption by state legislatures to undercut local labor standards. It provides an overview of five key areas of labor and employment policy affected by preemption—including minimum wage, paid leave, fair work scheduling, prevailing wage, and project labor agreements—and details the extent and impact of such preemption practices throughout the United States.
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• Trump’s most popular cabinet member? An Obama holdover:
VA Secretary David Shulkin has proved to be something unique in President Donald Trump's Washington: an Obama appointee nominated by Trump who is beloved by almost everyone and getting stuff done.
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• White supremacist violence in Charlottesville sparks calls for “truth and reconciliation.”
• What does the stock market do for workers’ wage? Nothing:
Our political leaders seem to suggest a soaring stock market means great things for our country. But, what does the stock market do for average Americans? More specifically, what does it do for their wages?
• Will rumored range of 200-300 miles be enough for Tesla to break into electric trucking?
[I]f the report is true, would a truck with a range of 200-300 miles be enough to win entry into the freight trucking market? Possibly. A 2013 report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado notes that “trucks dominate the market today for freight shipments under 500 miles, which account for almost 80 percent of all domestic freight tonnage.” Freight that needs to travel 500 miles or more tends to be transported by rail, waterways, or pipeline, at least if you’re counting by tonnage (the Bureau of Transportation Statistics counts oil and gas pipeline deliveries as freight).
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin rounds up the weekend’s headlines on the Arpaio pardon, the hurricane, etc.. Armando discusses the DNC’s “unity” efforts, the future of Dem primaries, caucuses, etc. And we learn about the Russian deals Trump totally didn’t have any of.