New York City fast food restaurants find a lot of ways to steal from their workers

84% of NYC fast food workers reported at least one instance of wage theft, 66% reported at least two, 45% reported at least three, 30% reported at least four wage theft violations.

Ford Denies Smoking Crack

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford “turned down three chances on Friday to address the specifics of media reports about a video in which he appears to smoke crack cocaine and utter an anti-gay slur,” the Toronto Star reports.

Hope for Medicaid expansion in Michigan fades

Rick Snyder

Donald Rumsfeld has written an advice book. Oh, yay.

Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. Tommy Franks

Open thread: Cato, outreach and shame

What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …

  • Big-thinking Cato Institute: 400ppm haz got what plants crave, by Hunter
  • The next biggest scandal ever, until the next one, by Hunter
  • Republican outreach report card: graded “F” for Fail, by Denise Oliver Velez
  • Climate change isn’t AN issue, it’s THE issue, by Laurence Lewis
  • Welcome to the Darrell Issa Hall of Shame, by Jon Perr
  • The Hard Lessons of the Post Partisan Unity Schtick, by Armando
  • The most vulnerable House members in 2014, in two charts, by David Jarman
  • An array of present day activities to an ancient life in the canopy, by DarkSyde

Monthlong investigation into cause of Texas fertilizer explosion leaves three possibilities

Smoke rises as water is sprayed at the burning remains of a fertilizer plant after an explosion at the plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas early April 18, 2013. The deadly explosion ripped through the fertilizer plant late on Wednesday, injuring m

Don’t buy an electric car because some dude likes something else

Chevy Volt

GunFAIL XVIII

concealed handgun

This week in the war on voting: North Carolina ‘ground zero’ in voter suppression fight

Obama agenda marches on despite controversies

President Barack Obama speaks about jobs, at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore, Friday, May 17, 2013, during his second "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour". (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office.