Midday open thread: Persuading teachers to be climate deniers; hacking Clinton team's email accounts
Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Head exploding news:
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Behind the plexiglass: Darren Rainey, immigrant detention, and mass incarceration, by Kelly Macias
- ‘A dire collapse of hope,’ by Susan Grigsby
- Democrats are willing to step up to the plate on health reform, by Frank Vyan Walton
- The ancient past can tell us a lot about our immediate future, by DarkSyde
- From Title IX to a victory for women’s hockey, by Sher Watts Spooner
- No good that Comey does on Trump/Russia can undo his legacy: He poisoned a presidential election, by Ian Reifowitz
- Republicans must be punished for lying about health care for eight years, by Egberto Willies
- Wake up Democrats and pay attention to voter suppression and felony disenfranchisement, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Let’s talk about ‘job-killing’ regulations, by Mark E Andersen
• Russia hacked more than 100 email accounts of Clinton staffers last year:
The email accounts of at least 109 Hillary Clinton staffers were targeted by Russian military hackers last year, a cybersecurity expert told lawmakers Thursday. During a Senate intelligence committee hearing on Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, Thomas Rid, a professor at King's College in London, laid out the extraordinary efforts undertaken by the Russian military intelligence agency known as GRU to target the Clinton camp.
• Tiny house revolution reaches Tampa:
Stephanie Henschen's tiny home takes up a total of 210 square-feet including the loft where she sleeps. A graduate of the architecture program at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Henschen (above) spent 10 months building the home for her thesis project. Now she lives in it.
There's no standard definition of tiny houses, but they're widely considered to be about 500 square-feet or less. They're seen as a way to live a simpler, less cluttered life. They're more affordable and sustainable, ranging in price from $10,000 to up to $60,000.
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I sure hope for household sanity somebody stashes those bells in a double-locked cabinet at night.
• Section of bridge on I-85 in Atlanta collapses after intense fire. Repair ETA unknown.
• Used SpaceX Rocket Launches Satellite, Then Lands in Historic 1st Reflight
SpaceX has now launched and landed Falcon 9 first stages nine different times. Six of these touchdowns have occurred on drone ships, and three have taken place on terra firma at Cape Canaveral. (SpaceX would ideally like to bring all its boosters back on land, Musk has said, but some missions use so much fuel on the ascent phase that ocean touchdowns are necessary.)
The Heartland Institute is trying to nurture the next generation of climate change deniers.
The conservative and libertarian think tank has sent out 25,000 copies of the organization's book, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming, and an accompanying 10-minute DVD to 25,000 science teachers this month, according to a Frontline report. The book argues that climate change is not settled science.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Will Flynn flip? Steven K. (G) Bannon, International Man of Mystery! No fixed address. Hot tub full of acid. And a “right hand woman” from Beverly Hills who hates coastal elites. The Russian Laundromat. Trump has stopped announcing troop deployments.
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