Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is: Crisis management:
What you may have missed on Sunday Kos …
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Anatomy of a community poisoned: The water disaster in Flint, Michigan, by Denise Oliver Velez
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America's long, sad history of school shootings, by Sher Watts Spooner
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An ugly truth behind black gold: How racial injustices are behind California's fight against Big Oil, by Vann R Newkirk II
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Eight years later, I still believe in Obama's America, by Ian Reifowitz
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Everything the GOP believes in is a conspiracy theory, by Frank Vyan Walton
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: An icon for the millennial generation, by Susan Grigsby
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43 U.S. presidents who would be considered 'libtards' today, by David Akadjain
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How do You feel? I am lost and confused at the end of the age of Obama, by Chauncey DeVega
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An interactive look at the new 2016 Florida and Virginia congressional maps and their stats, by Stephen Wolf
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The lottery is just another tax on the poor and middle class, by Mark E Andersen
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Hillary Clinton’s RW attack on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer/Medicare-for-all plan may prove costly, by Egberto Willies
Milky Way’s second most massive black hole found:
Astronomers have detected what could be the second most massive black hole in our galaxy and it may be the missing piece of a cosmic puzzle.
But radio astronomers didn’t directly detect the candidate black hole, rather they spied the whirling gases caught in its powerful gravitational grasp, potentially establishing a new method to track down elusive “intermediate-mass” black holes.
Christopher Hooks watched Michael Bay’s Benghazi film with 30,000 others at Cowboy stadium:
“Why didn’t we bomb the shit out of them?” a man asked me. “Why aren’t we bombing the shit out of ‘em? Give me a B-52 and I’ll go over there right now.” It was a chilly night in Texas, but his mind was more than 6,000 miles away, in Libya. He and I and some 30,000 other people had come to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas—home of the Dallas Cowboys—for the outsized world premiere of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. [...]
Bay insists—and much of the coverage about the movie accepts—that 13 Hours, which follows a group of military contractors during the attack, is “non-political.” That’s true inasmuch as the movie does not mention Hillary Clinton’s name. In every other way, of course, the claim is horseshit —and not even in the sense that all movies, let alone war movies, are political. As it shows in theaters over the coming months, it will make an indelible mark on the presidential race, and conservatives know it. Donald Trump is renting out a movie theater in Iowa to show it. Last night, when it came time for Ted Cruz [to] deliver his closing statement in the Republican debate, the first words out of his mouth were “Thirteen Hours.”
The tennis racket:
Betting worth billions. Elite players. Violent threats. Covert messages with Sicilian gamblers. And suspicious matches at Wimbledon. Leaked files expose match-fixing evidence that tennis authorities have kept secret for years.
Protests force Scholastic to pull its happy slave book: The book depicts two of George Washington’s house slaves as happy-go-lucky characters. There is no mention that one of them, Hercules, later escaped from his owner, the nation’s first president.
62 people now own as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population. But you can be sure all five dozen of them won’t be satisfied until they own as much as three-fourths of humanity.
Site of Salem witch-trial hangings confirmed: A seven-person team that included Salem State University history professor Emerson "Tad" Baker concluded the location after lengthy research. Nineteen innocents were strung up and one man crushed under rocks after a “trial” fed by superstition, fear of disease and strangers. "We are happy to be able to bring years of debate to an end," Baker told the city of Salem. "Our analysis draws upon multiple lines of research to confirm the location of the executions."
Major forecasters say growth in U.S. gross domestic product was probably under one percent in fourth quarter. But some put growth even lower. The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow model puts it at 0.6 percent, and Morgan Stanley is forecasting 0.1 percent.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Political stagecraft gone awry. Guncraft gone awry. Enforce the laws already on the books! Unless the NRA doesn’t want to! Uberization of work. Bundypalooza’s “legal” word salad. What if wildlife refuge occupiers were black? Well, they once were.
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