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- Today's comic by Mark Fiore is Commander-in-Drone:
- What's coming up on Sunday Kos ...
- 'Sir, are you injured anywhere?' vs. 'f*ck your breath'. Only one kind of approach provokes riots, by Ian Reifowitz
- Reclaiming secularism is the key to protecting religious liberty, by Jon Perr
- On "riots" and roots, by Denise Oliver Velez
- The White House Correspondents' Dinner: America's political saturnalia, by Dante Atkins
- The most racist areas in the United States, by Susan Grigsby
- Happy Birthday, Customer, by Mark E Andersen
- Do we all live in a giant hologram, by DarkSyde
- Hillary Clinton on Foreign Policy : Critical Perspectives from the Left, by koNko
- A constitutional amendment is the only solution to our fraudulent politics, by Egberto Willies
- Tesla announces its residential battery:
The residential battery, called the Powerwall, is available to installers in 10 kilowatt hours (kWh) or 7kWh sized at $3,500 and $3,000, respectively, and is available online now. The business version is not yet available.
In a Tweet on Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk referred to batteries as “The Missing Piece” in order “for the future to be good.”
- R&B legend Ben E. King dead at 76:
King started his career in the late 1950s with The Drifters, singing hits including There Goes My Baby and Save The Last Dance For Me. After going solo, he hit the US top five with Stand By Me in 1961.
Fellow musician Gary US Bonds wrote on Facebook that King was "one of the sweetest, gentlest and gifted souls that I have had the privilege of knowing and calling my friend for more than 50 years".
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Photo by 26-year-old Devin Allen lands on the cover of Time:
“For me, who’s from Baltimore city, to be on the cover of Time Magazine, I don’t even know what to say. I’m speechless,” Allen told Time. “It’s amazing. It’s life changing for me. It’s inspiring me to go further. It gives me hope and it gives a lot of people around me hope. After my daughter, who’s my pride and joy, this is the best thing that’s happened to me.”
Here's an interview with him.
- Satellite detects lowering of Everest and raising of Kathmandu:
The first good view of the aftermath of Nepal's deadly earthquake from a satellite reveals that a broad swath of ground near Kathmandu lifted vertically, by about 3 feet (1 meter), which could explain why damage in the city was so severe. The data also indicate the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, got a wee bit shorter.
- 1 in 6 species at risk from global warming:
If global warming continues unabated, up to 1 in 6 species on Earth could face extinction, scientists report in the May 1 Science. [...]
With current warming, about 2.8 percent of species worldwide are at risk of extinction. If global temperatures rise 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, 5.2 percent of species will face extinction. If temperatures rise 4.3 degrees C, about 16 percent of species will be threatened.
- First Air Force One rotting in Arizona.
- Aaron Schock disappears into the ether:
Aaron Schock once broadcast his worldly travels on Instagram for all to see.
But two weeks after a campaign donor filed a federal lawsuit against the former congressman, an attorney for the donor said Wednesday he can’t track the Peoria Republican down.
Attorney Daniel Kurowski told U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood he hasn’t managed to serve Schock with the lawsuit brought April 15 by his client, Howard Foster of Chicago, who gave $500 to Schock’s campaign in 2012.
- These Daily Kos community posts were the most shared on Facebook April 30:
Super El Nino Likely as Huge Warm Water Wave Hits West Coast, Extreme Marine Die Off Developing, by FishOutofWater
2014 Election results called into question by findings of electronic voting machine security experts, by windsong01
Rumsfeld: Looting Is Transition To Freedom, by AnnieJo
- Here's how Las Vegas protects Floyd Mayweather:
No pictures. That’s what the biggest name in boxing, poised for one of the signature fights of his career, says over and over again when asked about the overwhelming evidence that he has a history of abusing women. Ignore the police reports, the court records, and his own plea deals, he says into the camera lens, never an ounce of doubt on his face, because there are no pictures. It’s a cliché of Internet life—pics or it didn’t happen—and one that Mayweather has leveraged into making it okay for millions of sports fans to plunk down $100 to watch him fight Manny Pacquiao without an ounce of doubt about putting money directly in the pocket of a misogynist.
- Team Blackness discusses protests, unnecessary police presence, and curfews in Baltimore. The team also discussed what was learned speaking to native Baltimoreans about the politics of the city and their everyday involvement with the police.
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- On today's Kagro in the Morning show: Capitol GunFAIL! Greg Dworkin on Bridgegate, Sanders, Medicaid expansion, the invasion of TX & more! Armando on VT's GMO labeling & the TPP, and Dickerson's thoughts on Sanders. More on ShotSpotter & other everyday surveillance.