- What you missed on Sunday Kos …
- If Trump in the White House can't stop Democratic circular firing squads, we really are finished, by Ian Reifowitz
- 'Our children are dying, every day,' by Susan Grigsby
- The YUGE job losses Trump is ignoring: Retail workers, by Sher Watts Spooner
- If progressives win locally, the national wins will follow, by Egberto Willies
- The activist's dilemma: Extreme protest tactics decrease support for movement, by David Akadjian
- On Trump can save ISIS now, by Jon Perr
- The future of science in America, by Mark E Andersen
- A white ally in the battle against Reconstruction white supremacy, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Montana: The (fossil) treasure state, by DarkSyde
- DNC, DCCC, DSCC: How to decipher the alphabet soup of Democratic party organizations, by David Jarman
- Ooh la la. (Note: Major eye-roll at “firebrand” and “global populist wave.”)
Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right firebrand Marine Le Pen appeared positioned Sunday to move to the second round of the most tightly contested French presidential election in decades, in the latest test of a global populist wave that led to surprise electoral results in the United States and elsewhere.
New Orleans officials removed the first of four prominent Confederate monuments early Monday, the latest Southern institution to sever itself from symbols viewed by many as a representation racism and white supremacy.
The first memorial to come down was the Liberty Monument, an 1891 obelisk honoring the Crescent City White League. Workers arrived to begin removing the statue, which commemorates whites who tried to topple a biracial post-Civil War government in New Orleans, around 1:25 a.m. in an attempt to avoid disruption from supporters who want the monuments to stay, some of whom city officials said have made death threats.
The workers inspecting the statue ahead of its removal could be seen wearing flak jackets and helmets.
Harassment, vandalism and other hostile acts against Jewish people and sites in the U.S. increased by 34 percent last year and are up 86 percent through the first three months of 2017, according to data released on Monday.
President Donald Trump raised more than a few eyebrows during his first visit as president to Walter Reed National Medical Center on Saturday when he awarded the Purple Heart to Army Sergeant First Class Alvaro Barrientos.
"When I heard about this, I wanted to do it myself," Trump told Barrientos as he placed the Purple Heart on the soldier's lapel. "Congratulations … tremendous." [...]
This isn’t the first time the president has been criticized for remarks he made about the Purple Heart. During the campaign, a veteran gave the then-nominee his Purple heart.
"I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier," Trump said at the time.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin rounds up weekend news, the worst of the gobbledygook AP interview, the science march, and the search for self-reflection on 2016. As sexual harassment suits come in from all quarters, a reminder that the culture at Fox begins with Murdoch.
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