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Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is MAGA staffing solutions:
• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
° Throughout our history, we have persisted, by Susan Grigsby
° Juan Escalante, the persistent Dreamer, by Gabe Ortiz
° Republicans running out of excuses why they’re losing elections, by Sher Watts Spooner
° The incredible spirit and strength of the Puerto Rican people is unbreakable’—Sonia Sotomayor, by Denise Oliver Velez
° What can we learn from Conor Lamb’s victory in Pennsylvania, by Egberto Willies
° Seven questions for Rasleen Krupp, high school activist and founder of the Young Feminists Coalition, by David Akadjian
° The lesson of Conor Lamb's victory is clear. Unions still matter, by Ian Reifowitz
° 2020 Census brings up deeper questions of ethnicity, identity for blacks in America, by Kelly Macias
• Seven U.S. military personnel die in helicopter crash in western Iraq: A military spokesperson said the crash is under investigation but "does not appear to be a result of enemy activity." The HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter went down near the city of Qaim. A U.S. military base there serves as a resupply hub and logistics center for the fight against the Islamic State. The helicopter that crashed is typically flown by the United States Air Force for medical evacuations. A modified version of the Black Hawk helicopter, the aircraft is typically used for medical evacuations and by Special Operations pararescue specialists.
MIDDAY TWEET
• 10th Circuit upholds lower court decision on paying pecan-picking children:
The 10th Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling Tuesday demanding a company compensate children of the Fundamental Church of Latter-day Saints who were forced to harvest pecans.
The Department of Labor first stepped in to ban Paragon Contractors Corporation from exploiting child laborers in 2007. DOL cited Paragon for contempt when the company with connections to the imprisoned cult leader Warren Jeffs was later found to have employed and cheated 1,400 children and adults out of two year’s wages for pecan harvest work.
• For 2013-2017, wage growth for the bottom economic tiers was strongest in states with minimum wage increases:
In 2017, the minimum wage was increased in 14 states and the District of Columbia through legislation. In seven more states, the minimum wage increased automatically because it is indexed to inflation. These changes came on the heels of other minimum wage increases in many of the same states over the previous couple of years. In fact, when we compare states with any minimum wage change since 2013 with those without any, as shown in the figure, the association between states with at least one minimum wage change and growth in wages for low-wage workers is quite strong.
• Contractors that built Florida pedestrian bridge which collapsed and killed six has deep political connections:
To Miami-Dade County insiders, it was no shock when Munilla Construction Management (MCM) beat out three other competitors to win a $14.2 million bid to build a high-tech pedestrian bridge at Florida International University. That's because Munilla is not only one of the biggest contractors in South Florida but also one of the most politically connected thanks to years of shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaigns.
Investigators are still sifting through the wreckage from yesterday's deadly bridge collapse that killed six, and there's no clear answer yet what went wrong. [...]
But questions are bound to be raised about Munilla's deep ties to local politicians, including U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez — especially because the firm has never been shy about turning its political generosity into favorable decision-making.
• This story is just like fusion. It’s just around the corner! “A Male Contraceptive Pill Can Be Ready Surprisingly Soon, Scientists Say.”
• NH Senate votes to repeal death penalty, but governor vows a veto: “State-sponsored execution is not justice,” said Sen. Bette Lasky, kicking off the chamber’s lengthy debate. “We stoop to the level of a killer, and it changes nothing.”
• 22 national science academies urge action on climate change:
As some of the world's biggest polluters resist efforts to address climate change—most glaringly, the United States—thousands of scientists from countries that make up the Commonwealth of Nations say their governments need to take bolder steps to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
On Monday, the national science academies of 22 Commonwealth countries, including from the UK, Canada, India and Australia, issued a "Consensus Statement on Climate Change," declaring that the "Commonwealth has the potential, and the responsibility, to help drive meaningful global efforts and outcomes that protect ourselves, our children and our planet."
• One percent of Subreddits responsible for most of the raids on the website.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Last one out of the government, please turn off the lights. A roundup of stories for the weekend, plus the Trump revival of the Gop's old government "burrowing" schemes, his first pardon by “tele-tele,” and the emerging Felix Sater counternarrative.
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