1,027 days remain for Donald Trump in the White House if he finishes his term.
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• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Unhinged: Personal attacks on Parkland teens show right-wing fear it will lose on the issues, by Ian Reifowitz
- Trump's increasing poll numbers tell an important story. Democrats, are you listening? by Egberto Willies
- Voices of black and brown youth: 'We march for our lives every day,' by Sher Watts Spooner
- 'Periods of antiabortion activity mark moments of hostility to female independence,' by Susan Grigsby
- In regards to Puerto Rico—the 'F' in FEMA stands for 'f**ked-up,' by Denise Oliver Velez
- Twelve elitist facts about Tucker Carlson, Fox's 'sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, and smugness,' by David Akadjian
- Hillary Clinton is not going to be president, but this country needs her leadership more than ever, by Laurence Lewis
- 187,000 children have lived through a school shooting—but a generation has grown up under the threat, by Hunter
• Mental health crisis is overwhelming America’s prisons:
More than 50 years after [Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest], state psychiatric hospitals of the sort he described are, like lobotomies, long gone. Yet if we think that the hellish world Kesey captured belongs to another era, we are deluded.
It’s true that the hospitals have mostly disappeared: between 1950 and 2000 the number of people with serious mental illness living in psychiatric institutions dropped from almost half a million people to about 50,000. But none of the rest of it has gone away, not the cruelty, the filth, the bad food or the brutality. Nor, most importantly, has the large population of people with mental illness, like Rodriguez, who are kept largely out of sight, their poor treatment invisible to most ordinary Americans.
The only real difference between Kesey’s time and our own is that the mistreatment of people with mental illness now happens in jails and prisons. Today, the country’s largest providers of psychiatric care are not hospitals at all, but rather the jails in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City.
MIDDAY TWEET
• Where are the solar jobs? New resource can tell you:
A new tool from The Solar Foundation breaks down the latest solar jobs numbers by state, metropolitan area, county and congressional district, and looks at who makes up the solar industry. Here's a taste of what those numbers say, and why they matter.
• Iowan wins free-speech case over his city’s bad aroma:
When Josh Harms made a big stink on his website about a smelly animal-feed processor in his hometown of Sibley, Iowa, the city made a stink of its own by threatening to sue Harms if he didn’t take down the site.
Then the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa got involved.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit on March 8 against the city on behalf of Harms in Des Moines federal court, and a judge there issued a permanent injunction Thursday ordering Sibley to back off from its threats against Harms’ free expression.
219 days remain until the November election
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• César Chávez was born 91 years ago today:
Monday through Friday you can catch the Kagro in the Morning Show 9 AM ET by dropping in here, or you can download the Stitcher app (found in the app stores or at Stitcher.com), and find a live stream there, by searching for "Netroots Radio.”
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