Saturday midday open thread: Gov. Brown signs gun restriction bills; giant solar farm in Appalachia?
• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos….
After Lyin' Brett and the midterms, we might have our last opportunity to fix the Supreme Court, by Ian Reifowitz The soaring cost of climate change, especially for the U.S., by Sher Watts Spooner Dark pleas and the justice gap: 7 questions for Michael Donnelly, candidate for Ohio's Supreme Court, by David Adkadjian Which congressional districts are growing (or shrinking) the fastest? by David Jarman Tucker Carlson: the favorite go-to program for White Nationalist and alt-Right supremacists, by Frank Vyan Walton Make a promise to support Puerto Rico, by Denise Oliver Velez The Republicans stand up for sexual predators because the Republicans are tearing this nation down, by Laurence Lewis Why do some Republican women support Brett Kavanaugh, by Egberto Willies Veterans are not all heroes, but we weren't bullet catchers either, by Mark E Andersen• Trump regime is subisidizing companies that send jobs overseas.
• Rod Rosenstein called on to testify behind closed doors:
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., revealed Friday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has been invited to testify behind closed doors about his alleged proposal that the Justice Department secretly record President Donald Trump and invoke the 25th Amendment to oust him from the Oval Office.
In a tweet Friday morning, Rep. Meadows said: “Leadership has agreed to call Rod Rosenstein before Congress, for a closed door hearing with our panel investigating, so he can explain his alleged comments on ‘wiring’ POTUS – as well as other inconsistent statements.”
Meadows added: “If Mr. Rosenstein fails to show up, we will subpoena him.”
xThe House’s passed a new bill new $3.1 trillion tax cut on Friday. It takes effect starting in 2025, and would add $600 billion to the national debt within the next decade, and then $3.2 trillion in the 10 years after thathttps://t.co/skpI0mtORk
— 🇺🇸Ellie🇺🇸 #GlovesOff #DemsWork4USA (@ellievan65) September 29, 2018• If Ohio regulators approve, Appalachia could host the largest solar farm east of the Rockies:
American Electric Power submitted a plan Thursday evening to work with two developers to build 400 megawatts of solar in Highland County, Ohio. It would more than triple the state's current solar capacity and be a big step forward for solar energy in a part of the country where renewable energy has been slow to develop.
AEP says the plan would save consumers $218 million over 20 years because solar power from the project would be less expensive than conventional energy sources.
• Did key building blocks of life on Earth come from deep space?
Little was known about a key element in the building blocks, phosphates, until now. University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers, in collaboration with colleagues in France and Taiwan, provide compelling new evidence that this component for life was found to be generated in outer space and delivered to Earth in its first one billion years by meteorites or comets. The phosphorus compounds were then incorporated in biomolecules found in cells in living beings on Earth.
The breakthrough research is outlined in "An Interstellar Synthesis of Phosphorus Oxoacids," authored by UH Manoa graduate student Andrew Turner, now assistant professor at the University of Pikeville, and UH Manoa chemistry Professor Ralf Kaiser in the September issue of Nature Communications.
• Gov. Jerry Brown signs bill barring firearms sales to most people under 21: Federal law has long prohibited the sale by licensed dealers of handguns to nearly everyone under 21, and everyone under 18 for shotguns and rifles. State laws set their own requirements, and as of January California will join five other states—Connecticut, Hawai’i, Florida, Illinois, and Vermont (without a hunting permit)—that bar the sale of handguns to most people under 21.
Despite the exception for members of the military, Craig DeLuz, a spokesman for the pro-gun Firearms Policy Coalition, said: “Governor Brown just told millions of people under 21 that they can fight and die for our state and country with machine guns, but they can’t buy a gun for self-defense in their homes. That’s nuts.”
Brown also signed a bill to prohibit gun ownership for people who have been hospitalized or otherwise placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold for risk of hurting themselves or others twice in one year. That law would let those people ask a court every five years to return their guns.
He also signed a bill to ban people with certain domestic violence misdemeanors from owning guns for life.
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