The show notes for Episode 41 are at http://www.eclectablog.com/2017/07/episode-41-die-trumpcare-zombie-die-with-special-guest-topher-spiro.html

The Bat Signal from Andy Slavitt:

They are still pushing the Motion to Proceed on Trumpcare even having lost 3-4 votes. We have to apparently kill it, kill its ghost, then kill its zombie.

Topher Spiro on Twitter: @TopherSpiro

https://twitter.com/CitizenCohn/status/886237880800210945

Chris Savage at Eclectablog: The tea party’s silence on Trump shows their hypocrisy and true goal: the advancement of white people

The Washington Post: House GOP unveils budget plan that attaches major spending cuts to coming tax overhaul bill

Los Angeles Times: House Republicans unveil budget blueprint that boosts military spending and favors Medicare cuts

CNN.com: House Republican budget slashes billions in spending, paving path to tax cuts

Nick Hanauer at Politico: To My Fellow Plutocrats: You Can Cure Trumpism

Nick Hanauer interview on the Sit and Spin Room: Episode 36 – One Trillion Reasons the GOP Won’t Give Up on Trickle-Down with special guest Nick Hanauer

E.A. Crunden at Think Progress: Trump’s war on ISIS is causing staggering civilian casualties

Colum Lynch at Foreign Policy: Tillerson to Shutter State Department War Crimes Office

FLINT UPDATE

The Detroit Free Press: Flint says 2,181 lead pipes replaced

City of Flint's FAST Start Initiative website on the replacement of lead and galvanized steel water service lines in the city is HERE.

Many thanks to Mike and Dawn Wagner for reaching out to us to offer Mike's song "Unclaimed" by his band Total Strangers from the album "Lost in a Crowd” for the intro into our weekly Flint update.

Here's Mike's artist statement about this song:

The album "Lost in a Crowd" is an album about the consequences of abdication of responsibility. The song "Unclaimed" deals with the notion of how, when things go wrong, all the pieces of that process, and the ensuing liabilities, go unclaimed. It also deals with how many of the subsequent efforts made are not really efforts but attempts to try to ease one's conscience and not really deal with the issue(s). This is reflected in the "half a cup of half baked measures" line.

The video and lyrics are below.