(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest for August 17, 2022 (Lock him up! edition, part deux) [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2022-08-17 , Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and now moi, JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man, wader , Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. OND is a regularon Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments. Top Stories: Biden takes the high road, while Trump spins his wheels in the ditch x "Today, too often we confuse noise with substance. Too often we confuse setbacks with defeat. Too often, we hand the biggest microphone to the critics and the cynics who delight in declaring failure, while those committed to making real progress do the hard work of governing." pic.twitter.com/SKYNxWUGm0 — Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) August 16, 2022 NY Times: Plea Deal Requires Weisselberg to Testify at Trump Organization Trial This is the good stuff… a couple of days ago it looked like Weisselberg, Trump’s top man at his center of business operations, would be allowed to skate without cooperating. Now the Times is reporting that he will testify. (And hopefully dude has some protection… how long has it been since Ivana fell down those stairs?) Allen H. Weisselberg, for decades one of Donald J. Trump’s most trusted executives, has reached a deal to plead guilty on Thursday and admit to participating in a long-running tax scheme at the former president’s family business… Mr. Weisselberg will have to admit to all 15 felonies that prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s office accused him of... But Mr. Weisselberg will not implicate Mr. Trump or his family if he takes the stand in that trial, the people said, and he has refused to cooperate with prosecutors in their broader investigation into Mr. Trump, who has not been accused of wrongdoing. Even so, his potential testimony will put the Trump Organization at a disadvantage and is likely to make Mr. Weisselberg a central witness at the October trial, where the company will face many of the same charges… Mr. Weisselberg’s testimony — an acknowledgment from one of the Trump Organization’s top executives that he committed the crimes listed in the indictment — would undercut any effort by the company’s lawyers to contend that no crime was committed. ...The executive, who entered the Trump orbit as a junior bookkeeper for Mr. Trump’s father and climbed the ranks at the Trump Organization in the decades that followed, possessed a peerless knowledge of its business practices, and prosecutors had pressured him to cooperate with their wider investigation into the former president. But the district attorney who indicted him, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., was not able to sway him, and Mr. Vance’s successor, Alvin L. Bragg, has also been unsuccessful. x Reminder: Weisselberg was CEO of Trump’s casinos during the time when they paid the largest ever fine for “Significant & long-term” #MoneyLaundering.https://t.co/GW7tkZPiq6 — just thinking (@isawthesethings) August 17, 2022 Couldn’t happen to a nicer person, as my grandfather used to say... x pic.twitter.com/lrJk1gNxri — Tracy Gore (@nyTracyGore) August 17, 2022 Midterm Election 2022 — things are looking up! There are BIG SHIFTS happening in the polling. Generic Congressional ballot is trending toward the Democrats. The difference between May’s numbers and this week’s Fox News poll are impressive: Women: +7D White Women: +8D Nonwhite Women: +10 D Suburban Women: +9D Men: +4D Dads: +28D x I've always been against Big Goverment sticking its nose into doctors' discussions with patients on family health issues. As a father, I'm encouraged to see more men sharing this view. Check out this @FoxNews poll discussed on @Morning_Joe: https://t.co/xGGISSzh60 via @msnbc — Brian Meek (@Brian_G_Meek) August 15, 2022 Meanwhile, the Kansas effect continues, with angry women registering in numbers that make a blue wave all but inevitable x Women are out-registering men to vote in states where politicians want to mandate our pregnancies. Since Roe was overturned, new women voters outnumber men in: PA by 17% 🙋🏻‍♀️ WI by 15.6% 🙋🏾‍♀️ OH by 11% 🙋🏼‍♀️ MI by 8.1% 🙋🏽‍♀️ This isn’t the 1950s. We won’t go down without a fight. https://t.co/IvfYDfUpI5 — Katie Paris (@katiebparis) August 17, 2022 And specific races are trending blue. Val Demings is leading Marco Rubio by 4: x 🚨A new poll shows me ahead of Rubio 48-44. I’m grateful for the support I had before any of the polls showed that we can win this race. Together we will flip Florida blue. — Val Demings (@valdemings) August 16, 2022 And there’s good news out of Wisconsin as well. Liz Chaney lost her Congressional primary to… THIS. Unfortunately, it won’t be enough to turn Wyoming’s House seat blue: x Harriet Hageman: "Joe Biden is the largest or the most destructive human trafficker in our history." This is the nutjob who's running against Liz Cheney. pic.twitter.com/xoiQuihVck — The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) August 12, 2022 x The next Rep. from Wyoming has spent decades “opposing federal rules protecting land, water and endangered species,” & successfully challenged “federal regulations to protect millions of acres of National Forests from road-building, mining.” https://t.co/DJa7PnChMC — Taniel (@Taniel) August 17, 2022 Drill, baby drill This science just gets more and more clear — fossil fuels kill. Both short-term in individuals, and long-term for the planet. The Hill — Children who live near fracking sites at birth face increased risk of leukemia: study Pennsylvania children living near fracking sites at birth are two to three times more likely to be diagnosed with leukemia during early childhood than those who did not live near such facilities, a new study has found. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives on Wednesday, explored the connection between the development of cancer and proximity to such unconventional oil and gas development — also known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” ... children with at least one fracking well within 2 kilometers of their birth residence during the perinatal window were 2.8 times more likely to develop [leukemia] than their peers who had no wells nearby. ...Setback distances are under debate across the U.S., with some communities calling for these measures to be extended to more than 1,000 feet or as far as 3,281 feet, according to the authors. More on the Inflation Reduction Act Dr Michael Mann and other University of Pennsylvania experts offer some pointers: Though not referenced in the bill’s name, the provisions to address climate change are some of the legislation’s most noteworthy, totaling nearly $370 billion and representing “the most aggressive climate investment ever taken by Congress,” says climate scientist Michael Mann... “The most critical provisions incentivize renewable energy: grants, loans, and text incentives for solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles,” he says. “The provisions have the potential to greatly accelerate the clean energy transition and are a primary reason that this bill has the potential to cut U.S. carbon emissions by 40% by the end of the decade.” Among these incentives are tax credits for consumers who purchase heat pumps, solar panels, and new and used electric vehicles. For companies, the bill includes loan guarantees for clean energy projects and payments for slashing emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas with 80 times the climate-warming power of carbon dioxide. The IRA ups the tax credits for EVs, and reopens availability for some vehicles that had tapped out of previous rounds of credits (including most Teslas), but puts some new provisions. Thinking of buying an EV, but want to know if the credits apply? The Alternative Fuels Data Center has all the info you need. If you’re as much of a news junkie as I am, you probably read reports about these bastards years ago: Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner awarded $106 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages to nearly 300 people in a long-running civil suit against the judges, writing the plaintiffs are “the tragic human casualties of a scandal of epic proportions.” In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups. Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, pushed a zero-tolerance policy that guaranteed large numbers of kids would be sent to PA Child Care and its sister facility, Western PA Child Care. Ciavarella, 72, is serving a 28-year prison sentence in Kentucky. His projected release date is 2035. Conahan, 70, was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison but was released to home confinement in 2020 — with six years left on his sentence — because of the coronavirus pandemic. x You know who can STOP those awful voter suppression & abortion bans that Republicans are passing? State supreme courts! That's why I'm working with Daily Kos to make sure we win 7 crucial races in 3 swing states. Donate here & let me know when you do:https://t.co/u0sihikN8z pic.twitter.com/uG78nuLujz — Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD) August 17, 2022 And speaking of Justice… you can read more about this here in David Nir’s diary , but it’s great seeing this on Twitter! And finally: x ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ https://t.co/duPIT5FPIj — Moms #climateaction Now! (@CleanAirMoms) August 17, 2022 What are you reading tonight? Post some more goodies in the comments! 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