We’ll host open threads here tonight for MSNBC’s hour-long town halls with the two Democratic presidential candidates. At 5 PM PT, Chris Hayes will moderate the town hall with Sen. Bernie Sanders. At 6 PM PT, Rachel Maddow will moderate the town hall with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is Trump pivots:
What you may have missed on Sunday Kos …
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A look at Rebecca Traister's new book, 'All the Single Ladies',' by Susan Grigsby
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Retracing my Cold War history, by Mark E Andersen
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Why Britain's possible 'Brexit' from the EU matters to the U.S., by Sher Watts Spooner
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Feeding the black and brown poor to the maw of neoliberalism and military academies, by Chauncey DeVega
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New Obamacare data shows how the struggles for economic justice and racial justice are connected, by Ian Reifowitz
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Why we must not accept the new normal by Egberto Willies
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Blacks, Black Jews and Black Panthers in Israel, by Denise Oliver Velez
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Let's not party like it's 1984, by Jon Perr
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Why the SpaceX barge landing is such a big deal, by DarkSyde
• Economist calls for cap on big banks. Liberal economist Simon Johnson has written a proposal for capping the size banks are allowed to grow to at 2 percent of gross domestic product. Currently, that would mean $350 billion in assets. Seven banks—including U.S. Bank Corp. ($415 billion), Wells Fargo & Co. ($1.75 trillion), Bank of America ($2.15 trillion), and JPMorgan Chase & Co ($2.4 trillion)—fall into that category.
• House bill could increase food insecurity in high poverty areas:
A child nutrition reauthorization bill (H.R. 5003) introduced yesterday by Rep. Todd Rokita, chair of the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, includes a provision that would severely restrict schools’ eligibility for community eligibility, an option within the national school lunch and breakfast programs allowing high-poverty schools to provide meals at no charge to all students.[1] If this bill becomes law, 7,022 schools now using community eligibility to simplify their meal programs and improve access for low-income students would have to reinstate applications and return to monitoring eligibility in the lunch line within two years. These schools serve nearly 3.4 million students. Another 11,647, schools that qualify for community eligibility but have not yet adopted it would lose eligibility.
• Solar Impulse 2 cruises over San Francisco:
• Joe Romm—Cli-Fi, climate fiction movies and TV, are so far doing a really bad job:
Memo to Hollywood: We sort of appreciate that you are injecting climate change into more stories, since climate change is the story of the century. And we know great stories have bad guys. But those who take the threat of catastrophic global warming seriously — which pretty much includes all the governments of the world, the overwhelming majority of climate scientists, every major scientific association, and frankly, most of the public — aren’t actually the villains. The real villains aren’t hard to find.
• Campaign apps of Ted Cruz and John Kasich fail to safeguard private data:
People who share their personal information with presidential campaign apps may be putting their privacy at risk, according to new research from the cybersecurity firm Symantec — which found that more than half of mobile apps related to campaigns for the White House "leak" user data by failing to secure it properly.
• Founding “Laws of Base Ball” from 1857 auctioned for $3.26 million:
A group of documents from 1857 that set down some of the fundamental rules of baseball was acquired at auction Sunday by an unidentified buyer for $3.26 million, making it one of the highest-priced pieces of sports memorabilia.
• More than 10.35 million people are imprisoned around the world: 2.2 million of those are in the United States. Countries with the highest prison population rate—the number of prisoners per 100,000 of the national population—are Seychelles (799 per 100,000), followed by the United States (698), St. Kitts & Nevis (607), Turkmenistan (583), U.S. Virgin Islands (542), Cuba (510), El Salvador (492), Guam (469), Thailand (461), Belize (449), Russian Federation (445), Rwanda (434) and British Virgin Islands (425).
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Gearing up for tomorrow’s primaries. CT looks tightest. Will guns make the difference? Tamir Rice settlement. Former Sen. Harris Wofford to wed. Escalation against ISIS. Just your average in-church shooting. The endorsement game gets tricky: PA & MD-SEN.
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