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Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is The Election News Network:
What you may have missed on Sunday Kos …
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Ken Light’s 'What's Going On? 1969-74,’ by Susan Grigsby
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It's all about the vote, and all of us are complicit, by Egberto Willies
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What is it about political correctness that pisses off the right? by Mark E Andersen
- Planet Nine from (way) outer spacePlanet Nine from (way) outer space, by DarkSyde
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Are anti-poverty programs really substitutes for reparations, by Vann R Newkirk II
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Do Janet Yellen and Bernie Sanders agree on more than what's the coolest hair color?, by Ian Reifowitz
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How to really make America great again: Get rid of 'the dumbest idea in the world',’ by David Akadjian
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Bernie vs. Hillary: Idealist vs. pragmatist? Or revolution vs. establishment?, by Sher Watts Spooner
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Why we need Black History Month more than ever, by Denise Oliver Velez
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Emails, little Eichmanns, lifeworlds, and right-wing trolls, by Chauncey DeVega
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The two certainties of health care reform, by Jon Perr
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Making many murderers, by Frank Vyan Walton
• And on Saturday you may have missed the first installment of the serialization of Mark Sumner’s new novel, On Whetsday.
• The New York Times digs old photos from its archives that it will be publishing for the first time during Black History Month:
Hundreds of stunning images from black history, drawn from old negatives, have long been buried in the musty envelopes and crowded bins of the New York Times archives.
None of them were published by The Times until now.
• France plans to pave 1,000 kilometers of road with solar panels.
• San Francisco v. Frisco fight steams up. Most people likely don’t care one way or the other:
When they're not arguing about lettuce in burritos or their love-hate relationship with tech, San Franciscans are duking it out over "Frisco"—the 165-year-old nickname for The City that inspires a remarkable amount of vehemence. For many years, "Don't call it 'Frisco'" was a kind of shibboleth for SF natives. But a backlash to anti-"Frisco" hegemony has been growing, culminating with today's Buzzfeed-sponsored Call It Frisco Day. In the interests of teaching the controversy, here's a timeline that will provide plenty of ammo for partisans on both sides of the "F word" debate.
• Really gigantic off-shore wind turbines could be the next thing:
Sandia National Laboratories — with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy — is setting out to create towering offshore wind turbines with blades 650 feet long. That’s two and a half times the length of any that exist today, according to Sandia’s announcement. [...]
From Motherboard:
Most conventional wind turbine blades measure over 100 feet, and can generate 1 or 2 megawatts of power. Sandia thinks that by expanding the blade size dramatically, it can increase the amount of energy a windmill can scare up even more dramatically — by as much as tenfold. The lab projects its Trump [Tower]-sized turbine blades will allow a single towering unit to boast a capacity of 50 MW of electricity. That’s like a small power plant, unto itself.
• Cuba for sale: “Havana is now the big cake – and everyone is trying to get a slice”:
Meyer Lansky must be wishing he were still alive.
Property developers are queuing up to pounce as Cuba opens its doors to the world. Proposals for Havana’s old harbour are described as ‘Las Vegas meets Miami in the Caribbean’. So can the city cope with the commercial storm ahead?
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin and Armando review the data, punditry & strategery heading into the Iowa caucuses. Guns continue to help clear up everyday traffic issues. VA reverses course on gun permit reciprocity, and gun Gimmetarians square off against property rights.
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