Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is Still more primary phenomena:
What you may have missed on Sunday Kos …
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Democracy makes the news—in America, by David Akadjian
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Gender bias and the millennial generation, by Susan Grigsby
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How's this for in your face? Trump speaks 200 yards from where racists murdered a Latino immigrant, by Ian Reifowitz
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'An open door and a helping hand' for homeless youth, by Sher Watts Spooner
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Are our election seasons too long?, by Mark E Andersen
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Does single payer/Medicare for All sound good now?, by Egberto Willies
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No longer “erased”—Afro-Mexicans, by Denise Oliver Velez
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The politics of white doctors and black pain, by Chauncey DeVega
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Hillary Clinton wanted to regulate Wall Street before the crash, and has concrete plans to do it now, by Laurence Lewis
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The race to find Planet Nine, by DarkSyde
• Ben Adler notes the downside of the attention climate change is getting this election year:
But there’s a big caveat — this discussion involves only the candidates from one party. Republican candidates virtually never mention the subject. When they do, it’s often to minimize its importance.
During Obama’s presidency, just as Democratic politicians have become more motivated to fight climate change, Republicans have grown less motivated — and more inclined to deny that it’s a problem at all. Global warming has become an intensely polarized partisan issue.
It wasn’t always this way. In 1998, almost the exact same share of Democratic and Republican voters — 46 percent and 47 percent, respectively — recognized that “the effects of global warming have already begun,” according to Gallup.
• Bill O’Reilly’s caterwauling about tattooed foreheads is just one more of his racist characterizations of black people in a long history of such remarks from him.
• Drinking coffee (probably) won’t kill you:
It's a familiar feeling for any caffeine addict: a racing heart, fluttering away after one too many espresso shots. For years, that’s been enough to steer people with certain heart conditions away from coffee. But as it turns out, there's little evidence that a caffeine habit could send us into cardiac arrest.
That's according to Dr. Greg Marcus, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco and this week's guest on the Inquiring Minds podcast. Marcus specializes in the treatment of arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats—the fast, sluggish, or off-kilter rhythms that can trigger sudden cardiac arrest, an unexpected loss of heart function.
• Internet poll picks “Boaty McBoatface” as name for $300 million UK polar research vessel:
The internet has done it again, illustrating why you can never trust the online masses to take on a serious task. As was widely expected, Boaty McBoatface won the online poll to name the United Kingdom’s new royal research ship. And it wasn’t even close. Boaty McBoatface obtained 124,109 votes, four times more than the second-placed Poppy-Mai after a 16-month-old girl with incurable cancer.
• Dave Gilson gives us a look at the six most niche lobbying groups. Among them:
California Dried Plum Board: Don't you mean "prune"? Yes—but in 2000, the then-California Prune Board successfully lobbied the Food and Drug Administration to let it use the more female-friendly (really, that's what it said) "dried plum."
• How eating bugs empowers women:
The farming of insects (and arachnids) will play a significant role in the struggle for global food security. Ten kilogrammes of feed produces six kilogrammes of edible crickets, but just one kilogramme of beef. Urging the consumption of insects as a panacea to food insecurity, a 2013 UN report also noted that “empowering rural women can significantly increase productivity, improve rural livelihoods and reduce hunger and malnutrition.” As such, the authors argue that the edible insect market can enable some of the world’s most vulnerable women to escape economic and nutritional insecurity.
Women are responsible for cultivating up to 80 percent of the crops in many agricultural nations, and yet patrilineal land laws and customs often prevent them from owning their own property. The typical seed is planted by a woman in earth owned by a man.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin takes a last look at NY polling & looks ahead to CT. Trump destroys his own myth, failing time & again to close the deal on delegates. Armando wonders how the Gop disposes of him; ponders US v. TX. From WI: a voter ID compliance nightmare.
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