Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is The battle of doughnuts:
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- The moral high ground …, by Mark E Andersen
- Reforming the presidential nomination contest: The mandate of the DNC Unity and Reform Commission, by Armando
- Trump’s golden showers, by Jon Perr
- How to like people you don’t like (and why this is important), by David Akadjian
- Why I do not hate Cuba and no person of color should, nor should their white allies, by Egberto Willies
- We need more women in power. In media, government, entertainment …, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Media report card: Grade the coverage of the crisis in Puerto Rico and the USVI, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Trump retweets white fascists. Imagine if Obama retweeted so-called 'black identity extremists', by Ian Reifowitz
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• Sam Seder blasts concerted right-wing attack smearing him over satirical 8-year-old tweet focusing on Roman Polanski.
• Trump may boost Middle East tensions next week by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital:
President Donald Trump is considering recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, officials say, a highly charged declaration that risks inflaming tensions across the Middle East but would be a way to offset a likely decision delaying his campaign promise to move the U.S. Embassy there.
Trump’s announcement is expected next week and follows months of internal deliberations that grew particularly intense in recent days, officials familiar with the talks said Thursday.
• Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Lows Off Alaska: While ice is growing in some parts of the Arctic, a mix of warm Pacific water and fierce storms has stunted the sea ice off Alaska and damaged coastal towns.
• Group says global warming pause hasn’t ended. Rather it never happened:
Just weeks after one group of scientists officially declared an end to the global warming pause, the so-called hiatus, another group has returned to the argument.
They argue that there never was a pause in global warming. There was instead a global misperception that warming slowed between 1998 and 2012, but only because of gaps in the data, in particular from the Arctic, the fastest-warming region of the planet.
“We recalculated the average global temperatures from 1998 to 2012 and found that the rate of global warming had continued to rise at 0.112°C per decade instead of slowing down to 0.05°C per decade as previously thought,” said Xiangdong Zhang, of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
• It’s World AIDS Day and the Office of National AIDS Policy is vacant. The ONAP webpage is empty, a reflection on how seriously Donald Trump takes AIDS:
“There is no appointed Director of AIDS Policy nor is there anyone in an acting director role,” [AIDS United president and CEO Jesse Milan] said. “The HHS Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy has been helping to fill this gap, but there is no specific White House leadership on the issue.”
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Guess what? Drudge & Hannity were puppets, disguising straight-up Russian troll droppings as regular, American scumbaggery for their audiences. “Trump Friends & Family” tax bill lumbers on, thanks to Republican reconciliation rigging. Flynn pleads guilty!