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Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is Judicial temperament:
• What you may have missed 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• Happy 94th birthday President Carter!
It was not a smooth road on his journey to 94. In August 2015, Carter began treatment for cancer in his liver and brain. By December that same year, the Nobel Peace Prize winner announced an MRI brain scan showed the cancer was gone. [...]
Carter’s treatment and recovery made such an impression on state Rep. Mike Cheokas, R-Americus, that he introduced a bill, which was passed unanimously, that enables more cancer patients in Georgia to receive the same drugs Carter got.
• Koreans begin removing landmines along the border between North and South:
Troops from North and South Korea began removing some landmines along their heavily fortified border on Monday, the South’s defense ministry said, as part of a pact to reduce tension and build trust on the divided peninsula.
Project details were agreed during last month’s summit in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, between its leader, Kim Jong Un, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
• Hurricane Maria has helped spur a food revolution in Puerto Rico:
"They say that during Maria, Puerto Rico only had enough food for one week," said Carmen YulÃn Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, who became an international figurehead after calling out President Trump for his inadequate response to the crisis. "I hate to say anything positive about Maria. But what the hurricane did was force us to look at the realities of life here and how our dependency on the outside weakens our ability to ensure our people are taken care of. Maria made it evident that we need agricultural sovereignty."
The story of Puerto Rico's food production is also the story of the island's own colonial history. Large-scale plantations replaced native farming during Puerto Rico's days as a Spanish colony, resulting in the consolidation of agricultural land and landholding, as well as the number of crops being grown on it. When the U.S. took over the island in the wake of the Spanish-American War in 1898, economic restructuring meant that the remaining agricultural activity focused only on cash crops like sugarcane and coffee.
• Happy birthday to NASA, 60 years old today.
• Debtor’s prison lawsuit reaches the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals:
The city of Ferguson, Missouri, fought at the Eighth Circuit on Friday to toss claims that it runs a debtor’s prison for people too poor to pay traffic tickets.
Keilee Fant and 10 other named plaintiffs brought the federal class action here back in 2015, claiming that Ferguson had them jailed on minor offenses until family members could produce enough cash to buy their freedom or until city jail officials decided, days or weeks later, to let them out for free. [...]
Fant and her co-plaintiffs say they languished in deplorable conditions inside the jails, forced to wear the same clothes for days and weeks. Their complaint described overcrowded facilities, insufficient food, walls smeared with mucus and blood, and inadequate medical care.
• Oil rises to $84 a barrel. Headed for $100?
• Check out the world’s most beautiful battery high in the Austrian Alps: Using a network of tunnels and reservoirs, the 70-year-old Kaprun hydroelectric station fulfills the need to generate power quickly when demand rises. The station uses energy when there is a lot of it—and cheap—to pump water to a mountaintop reservoir.
There it sits in the bluest of blue Alpine lakes until power demand spikes. At that moment traders 250 miles away in Vienna open the dam, spilling that same water downhill to spin those turbines, and selling the resulting electricity at higher prices. [...]
These plants are filling a crucial niche for utilities looking for ways to store energy. While batteries are gaining use on the grid, the length of time they can feed power is limited to a matter of hours at any given moment. Pumped-hydro plants like Kaprun, with 830 megawatts of capacity, can store enough power to cover almost 100,000 households for more than a week.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: We’re back from a relatively quiet weekend, Trump rage tweet-wise. Greg Dworkin and Armando offer their takes on the FBI "investigation," the politics of the vote, and more. Women are forced to—and do—find new ways to express their anger. x Embedded ContentRadioPublic|LibSyn|YouTube|Patreon|Square Cash (Share code: Send $5, get $5!)
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