- What you missed on Sunday Kos ...
- Throughout our history, we have persisted, by Susan Grigsby
- Juan Escalante, the persistent Dreamer, by Gabe Ortiz
- Republicans running out of excuses why they're losing elections, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Sonia Sotomayor: 'The incredible spirit and strength of the Puerto Rican people is unbreakable,' by Denise Oliver Velez
- What can we learn from Conor Lamb's victory in Pennsylvania, by Egberto Willies
- Seven questions for Rasleen Krupp, high school activist and founder of the Young Feminists Coalition, by David Akadjian
- The lesson of Conor Lamb's victory is clear. Unions still matter, by Ian Reifowitz
- 2020 Census bring up deeper questions of ethnicity, identity for blacks in America, by Kelly Macias
One White House staffer, Ryan P. McAvoy, jotted his ProtonMail passwords and his address on a piece of White House stationery and left it at a bus stop near the White House. A source found it there and provided it to The Intercept, which confirmed its authenticity.
A D.C. lawmaker responded to a brief snowfall Friday by publishing a video in which he espoused a conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers control the weather. [...]
“Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y’all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation,” he says. “And D.C. keep talking about, ‘We a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful.”
It’s beyond strange that so many humans are clueless about how they should feed themselves. Every wild species on the planet knows how to do it; presumably ours did, too, before our oversized brains found new ways to complicate things. Now, we’re the only species that can be baffled about the “right” way to eat.
Really, we know how we should eat, but that understanding is continually undermined by hyperbolic headlines, internet echo chambers, and predatory profiteers all too happy to peddle purposefully addictive junk food and nutrition-limiting fad diets. Eating well remains difficult not because it’s complicated but because the choices are hard even when they’re clear.
- Fifteen years ago today, the war in Iraq began. Hundreds of thousands of death later and we’re still waiting to see how it ends.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: News fire hoses were on full-blast over the weekend. Greg Dworkin helps us catch up on Cambridge Analytica & Facebook abuses, and what mechanisms, if any might be able to bring this monster to heel. Maybe the government could do it. If there was one.
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