Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is What gets called "treason"?
• Federal scientist warns that budget cuts could “reduce or eliminate” access to important data:
A U.S. Geological Survey program coordinator has sent an alert to colleagues around the world, warning that the Trump administration's proposed 2018 budget cuts, if approved, will undermine important data-gathering programs and cooperative studies in areas including forests, volcanoes, flooding, wildfires, extreme precipitation and climate change.
The email went to 500 researchers on June 19 to give them time to comment on the proposed changes and prepare. In it, Debra Willard, coordinator for the USGS Climate Research and Development Program, wrote that the cuts "would reduce or eliminate the availability of current data and collaborations between the USGS, other agencies and universities."
• Bodies of Swiss couple missing 75 years found frozen in the ice: Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin had gone to milk their cows in a meadow above Chandolin in the Valais canton in August 1942. “We spent our whole lives looking for them, without stopping. We thought that we could give them the funeral they deserved one day,” their youngest daughter, Marceline Udry-Dumoulin, 75, told the Lausanne daily Le Matin.
• Trump regime quietly pulled the plug on $213.6 million in teen pregnancy prevention programs and research: The move affects more than 80 institutions. Department of Health and Human Services ended five-year grants the Obama administration awarded to entities looking for scientifically valid ways to find scientifically valid ways to help teenagers make decisions that avoid unwanted pregnancies. HHS Secretary Tom Price and other top Trump appointees are no friends of federal funding for birth control, and like much of the right wing in America, they advocate abstinence for teens. One thing can be said about abstinence—it works for those who stick to it.
• Doctors find 27 contact lenses in the eye of woman being prepped for cataract surgery.
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• Critiques of millennials for “ruining everything” are nothing new. “Kids these days” have long been blamed for everything from disrespect of elders to bad poetry:
In medieval England, young people were also ruining sex. Late in the 15th century, Thomas Malory compiled the “Morte d'Arthur,” an amalgam of stories about King Arthur and the Round Table. In one tale, Malory complains that young lovers are too quick to jump into bed.
“But the old love was not so,” he writes wistfully.
Riiiiiiiiiight.
• Has Donald Trump lost The Wall Street Journal?
• Forced-birther fake clinics in Hawaii sue for the right to lie to pregnant women:
A Hawaii crisis pregnancy center (CPC) and a prominent anti-choice group are suing in federal court to block a new state lawrequiring anti-abortion clinics inform pregnant people of the availability of comprehensive family planning services.
A Place for Women in Waipio, a crisis pregnancy center, or fake clinic, and National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) claim the law violates the facilities’ First Amendment rights to free speech and free exercise of religion, according to a complaint filed last week.
• People in Denmark are happier than people in the United States. Here’s why.
• International tourism to United States exceeds last year’s: Such travel grew in May despite the Trump regime’s general xenophobia and its efforts to impose a Muslim ban on six Middle Eastern nations. The U.S. Travel Association announced that the number of international travelers entering the country in May grew 5.2 percent compared to May 2016. The trade association also said its revised Travel Trends Index showed a 6.6 percent increase in international travel to the United States in April, year over year.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: It’s like they bring in trucks to play with and distract Trump whenever his Treasoncare bills are failing! We keep an eye on the shifting sands beneath the zombie bill and its prime mover, McConnell. Plus, we examine Trump’s zombie lie about his productivity.
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