Today’s comic by Matt Fiore is Bart O'Kavanaugh reads: 'Justice is blind drunk':
• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Women are angry, by Susan Grigsby
- The ‘unthinkable’ may soon be inevitable: impeachment, removal, indictment and conviction, by Frank Vyan Walton
- Let's sharpen and embolden the progressive narrative (and the counter-narrative, too), by Egberto Willies
- Voting gender gap may become a chasm if GOP rams Kavanaugh in despite sexual assault allegation, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Brett Kavanaugh has no credibility, and Senate Republicans do not care, by Laurence Lewis
- Focus on 'winning' and 'losing' puts the country's best interests in the back seat, by Mark E Andersen
- When it comes to Hispanic Heritage Month, Trump is an incredible hypocrite, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Hurricane Florence won't stop Trump's march to undo Obama's environmental protections. Only we can, by Ian Reifowitz
• The rich are, in essence, privatizing California beaches, and the state is cranking up efforts to stop them. Sort of.
• NYT files federal complaint seeking information on possible Russia interference in the fight over net neutrality. When the Federal Communications Commission opened public comments on its decision to repeal the Obama administration’s rule forbidding internet service providers to interfere with download speeds, it received 22 million comments. A Pew Research Foundation analysis found that 57 percent of these were placed by robots, and that just 6 percent of all the net neutrality comments were unique. It also found that on nine occasions, 75,000 simultaneous comment submissions occurred at the “very same second.” Noting that at least some of the comments came from Russia—half a million, according to reports—the Times submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for the IP addresses, timestamps, and other data attached to all public comments sent to the FCC about net neutrality in April-June 2017 period. The FCC denied the request and follow-up requests, prompting the lawsuit.
• 56 Kavanaugh foes arrested in DC for protests at senators’ offices: The protesters appeared at several offices, including those of Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Susan Collins, a key Republican who has long touted her pro-choice abortion stance as making her different from the GOP’s misogynist majority. Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court to replace Anthony Kennedy, is widely viewed as the death knell for Roe v. Wade, the 45-year-old ruling that made abortion legal in every state. At times the protesters chanted “We believe Christine Ford,” a reference to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford who has alleged that Kavanaugh tried to rape her at a party when both were teenagers.
MIDDAY TWEET
• New report indicates possible 20-30 feet of sea-level rise at temperatures not much higher than they are now. The research, published in Nature, focuses on an area of East Antartica called the Wilkes Subglacial Basin. It alone contains the potential for unlocking 10 feet of sea rise. The ice there isn’t resting on land but on a deep depression in the sea floor, and that makes it especially vulnerable to a fast retreat. The researchers examined sediments, which revealed that some or all the ice in the basin disappeared at various periods in the past. What’s important about the findings is that the global temperature wasn’t much higher than now in some of those periods. Many questions remain, some of which can only be resolved by drilling to the bottom of the the basin’s ice cap, which, at the moment appears to be stable. A key question is how long it might take for the ice to melt—decades, centuries, millenniums?— if temperatures were just a little higher than they are now. Not so very long ago, most scientists thought that significant melting in the Antarctic would take thousands of years. More recent studies have indicated—though far from proved—that the melt could proceed a lot faster.
• Find out how fast renewable energy is expanding in your neck of the woods. Just plug in your state’s name at the link.
• Don Foster, the guy who outed Joe Klein as the author of “Primary Colors” in 1996, takes a stab at uncovering who wrote the NYT anonymous op-ed that trashed Trump. Jim Mattis gets a lot of his attention.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: More Kavanaugh crazy. A wacky "mistaken identity" theory is injected into the bloodstream, then deleted. The "elite" law student pipeline. (And maybe something else… weirder.) Trump says something else dumb. And Armando comments on it all.