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- Today's comic by is Three-eyed Billy embraces the apocalypse:
- What's coming up on Sunday Kos ...
- King v. Burwell unpopular, but anti-ACA propaganda having lasting effects, by Dante Atkins
- Income inequality: Good service is good business, by DarkSyde
- Ordinary people who made a difference: The Dunnes Stores strikers, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Paul Ryan's immoral act requires a response, by Egberto Willies
- More independent voters doesn't mean the country is moving toward the center, by David Jarman
- GOP's 2016 Iran Contrarians comically embrace Reagan as role model, by Jon Perr
- Left flank critique of Hillary Clinton: On Wall Street ties, by Armando
- Freeping the Hugo Awards, by Susan Grigsby
- Depression is nothing to be ashamed of, by Mark E Andersen
- Three reasons to be optimistic about the fight on climate change.
- Head of Canadian broadcast media ousted for news tampering:
Bell Media, Canada’s largest communication and broadcasting company, announced Thursday that its president Kevin Crull will step down, effective immediately. Crull had been discovered trying to interfere with reporting at CTV, the largest television network in the country.
On March 19, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the governmental body that regulates the Canadian television market, ruled to unbundle the cable packages sold by the country’s communications firms. According to The Globe and Mail, whose media reporter James Bradshaw first broke the story, Bell was furious over the CRTC’s decision and banned CTV’s news divisions from airing any interviews with Jean-Pierre Blais, the chairman of the CRTC.
Reporters decided they could not cover the story without interviewing Blais, so they defied Crull's order. He later made a public apology but it didn't save his job.
- Drone's eye view of Skagit Valley tulip fields, set to music.
- Speaking of drones, watch this pair act like flying spiders to weave a web in the air. Someday, maybe a sophisticated version of this experimental process will have applications in the construction industry.
- Sandy Hook "truther" begs for mercy:
According to WFSB News, 30-year-old Timothy Rogalski of Wallingford was arrested Tuesday and went before a judge on Wednesday after he made a series of threatening phone calls to the elementary school where 26 adults and children were murdered.
Rogalski is a believer of the so-called “truther” movement, which maintains that the massacre at Sandy Hook was not the work of disturbed gunman Adam Lanza, but an elaborately staged hoax portrayed by gun control advocates who want to disarm the population in order to make way for an authoritarian takeover by a unified, socialist world government.
He told a judge Wednesday that he didn't really mean it, that it was just words, not threats. He is being held on $50,000 bond.
- Elizabeth Warren says "I don't support the death penalty."
- Lauren Hill dead at 19:
Lauren Hill spent her final year polishing a layup and inspiring others to live fully. She succeeded at both as she fought an inoperable brain tumor.
The 19-year-old freshman basketball player at Mount St. Joseph University died at a hospital Friday morning, the co-founder of her nonprofit foundation, Brooke Desserich, told The Associated Press. [...]
Hill wouldn't let the tumor dictate her final days. Along the way, she became known simply as Lauren, someone who knew how to make the most of every day and who had a knack for encouraging others to do the same by the way she persevered.
- See how well a 1997 Lonely Planet tour guide of NYC worked out in the 2015 city.
- Team Blackness discussed how lawmakers seem to think that those on food stamps are out of control. That's the only explanation for some of the ridiculous restrictionsthat are being placed on recipients. Such as Kansas only allowing them to take out $25 a day and restricting where they're allowed to take their money out, barring spas and cruise ships. Also discussed were big changes in Ferguson, Missouri's election board after the recent voting, a prison hunger strike for Eric Garner's videographer, and Obama's call to end conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth.
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- On today's Kagro in the Morning show: Congrats to jlms qkw, recognized by local Dems for outstanding volunteer work! How long before we reconsider Civil War history? Sooner than the English? Armando launches the "Left Flank Critiques Project," kicking off on Sunday.