"Researchers are hoping to send up Española chili pepper plants (Capsicum annuum), which could make peppers the very first fruit to be grown in space by US astronauts." Little mentioned part of the space program is how bland food tastes in microgravity.
"In news that will surely come as a shock to James Bond fans and the film industry at large, it was revealed today that longtime 007 Daniel Craig will pass the Walther PPK to black British actress Lashana Lynch in the iconic role." Personally I would have like to see Idris Elba as a new but aging Bond (the complexity he could have brought to the role, along with the physicality, I think would have been fantastic to move Bond into the 21st Century), but passing the torch to a new character is an interesting twist. I hope they pull it off.
"New York City tried to regain its footing Sunday after the restoration of power from a massive blackout late Saturday amid questions about how the outage happened."
Solidarity forever. "Several years of rising and near-record auto sales have made companies flush, but workers have not forgotten the sacrifices they made to stabilize the industry during the financial crisis, including by lowering the pay scale for new hires. Meanwhile, Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler will point to a burgeoning sales slowdown and the need to invest in electric and automated vehicles as reasons they can’t afford higher costs."
"Scepticism over AB InBev’s high valuations doomed Budweiser APAC’s IPO of up to $9.8 billion - poised to be the world’s biggest this year - investors and bankers said, putting would-be floats on notice that careful pricing remains key to success." I guess investors prefer micro-brews.
Sure it was just a few low-level CBP employees? "Carla Provost, the acting chief of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under Trump, was a member of a secret Facebook group where vile and bigoted posts mocking migrants were frequently exchanged." (Grokked from Kathryn Cramer)
"Before Sunday, there were weekend reports of attempted arrests by ICE in New York, New Jersey and Chicago, where The New York Times reported that a mother and her daughters were apprehended but the family was immediately released. But those actions appeared to be part of routine enforcement activity, not connected to a massive raid operation." So, yes, it's just a progrom to incite terror.
"President Trump said on Sunday that a group of four minority congresswomen feuding with Speaker Nancy Pelosi should 'go back' to the countries they came from rather than “loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States” how to run the government… Wrapped inside that insult, which was widely established as a racist trope, was a factually inaccurate claim: Only one of the lawmakers was born outside the country." The president is a racist and is using racism to rally his base.
"A group of four minority Democratic congresswomen targeted by President Trump in a series of Sunday morning tweets denounced his racist remarks and accused him of 'stoking white nationalism.'" A long time ago I raised the question of just whom conservatives feel are "real Americans", I have a feeling we're about to have that discussion. Related (and because I love Christine Lavin and this song), Christine Lavin's "We Are the True Americans."
"Guatemala announced Sunday that it would postpone President Jimmy Morales’s visit to the White House, where he and President Trump were expected to discuss a safe third country agreement."
"Federal immigration officials agreed to a court settlement late Wednesday that prohibits them from randomly checking the papers of passengers on domestic flights, ending a two-year lawsuit that was filed after Customs officers did just that on a flight from San Francisco to New York City." (Grokked from Xeni Jardin)
Remember that Kentucky Trump Campaign chair that's going to jail for child sex trafficking? "Ralph Shortey, a former Oklahoma state senator who last year served as Donald Trump's campaign chair in the state, was meticulous about keeping up his reputation as a pious man, according to several fellow Oklahomans. That reputation, however, has all but disappeared. According to Shortey's attorney, the former Republican lawmaker will plead guilty to one count of child sex trafficking on Nov. 30." So, the possibility of a child sex ring during the last campaign is looking more real, but it was the Republicans, not the Democrats. (Grokked from Jim Wright)
"Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK's former ambassador in the US." It's not exactly a revelation or admission, but the opinion of the British Ambassador to the US. However it lines up with other opinions.
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