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Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Scalia's death freak-out: Constitution alert!
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Ted Cruz wants to give the Pentagon an extra $155 billion when what's needed are significant cuts, by Meteor Blades
- No, Bernie Sanders is not a modern-day George McGovern, by Susan Grigsby
- Dear Bill Clinton: 'We are all 99.5 percent the same' will not protect people of color from racism, by Chauncey DeVega
- Living in Flint as the battle over lead pipes continues ... and how you can help, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Race In America: Keshia Thomas on saving KKK member and activism, by Egberto Willies
- No room for failure: How student debt impacts results, by David Akadjian
- Better than man, by DarkSyde
- Study shows Police Killings may be more about Blue on Black than Black and White, Frank Vyan Walton
- The gap in life expectancy between the rich and the poor is growing instead of shrinking, by David Jarman
- How Republicans turned the unprecedented into the new normal, by Jon Perr
- The Wisconsin Uprising, five years later, by Mark E Andersen
- Is Bernie Sanders the new Ronald Reagan, by Mark Sumner
- Imagine Bernie Sanders wins the White House. Then what, by David Nir
- Before Barack, Hillary and Bernie - there was Shirley Chisholm, by Denise Oliver Velez
Obama praises DeRay Mckesson after meeting Thursday:
DeRay Mckesson, the prominent activist and last-minute entrant into Baltimore's mayoral race, met Thursday with President Barack Obama and different generations of civil rights leaders at the White House for a Black History Month event. [...]
"We had a really strong conversation," Mckesson said. "We covered so many topics from policing contracts to use-of-force policies to Flint and the school-to-prison pipeline to the upcoming Supreme Court nomination." [...]
After the meeting, Obama praised Mckesson, saying he'd done "outstanding work mobilizing in Baltimore around these issues." "They are much better organizers than I was at their age," Obama said of the young activists at the meeting. "I am confident they are going to take America to new heights."
Nelle Harper Lee dead at 89: Lee won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her book To Kill a Mockingbird. She had been in declining health ever since having a stroke in 2007. An extremely private person, she was, according to the Montgomery Advertiser, respected and protected by residents of her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. The town displays Mockingbird-themed murals and each year stages theatrical productions of the novel. A 1962 film starring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, and a debuting Robert Duvall met with critical and audience acclaim.
A final look at the polls before Saturday’s South Carolina primary:
Harvard study says U.S. likely culprit in methane spike:
The United States alone could be responsible for between 30 percent and 60 percent of the global growth in human-caused atmospheric methane emissions since 2002 because of a 30 percent spike in methane emissions across the country, the study says.
The research shows that emissions increased the most in the middle of the country, but the authors said there is too little data to identify specific sources. However, the increase occurred at the same time as America’s shale oil and gas boom, which has been associated with large amounts of methane leaking from oil and gas wells and pipelines nationwide.
People pay respects to Antonin Scalia at the Supreme Court building: Pall-bearers carried Justice Antonin Scalia’s casket up the steps of the Supreme Court Friday as part of a day of ceremony and tribute to one of the Court’s most influential and controversial members. The casket was placed on a funeral bier first used after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Visitors wishing to pay their respects will be admitted until 8 PM ET. The eight living members of the Court were on hand, together with members of Scalia’s family and nearly 100 former law clerks, who will take turns standing vigil day and night until the funeral Mass Saturday morning at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin previews the next round of primaries, and covers Round 2 of Bernie vs. the wonks. Should the role of the president as party leader factor into your vote? Updates tie up some loose ends on a road rage GunFAIL, and a jerky tech-bro CEOFAIL.
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