Today’s comic by Matt Bors is President Bannon?
• Possibly unprecedentedly large audience tunes into live streaming of court’s hearing on Muslim ban.
• Women’s Marches likely generated the largest single-day of demonstrations in recorded U.S. history:
We arrived at these figures by relying on publicly reported estimates of march locations and the number of participants involved in each. [...] When reports were imprecise, we aimed for conservative counts; for example, if observers reported “hundreds” of participants, we reported a value of 200 (“thousands” was 2,000, “tens of thousands” was 20,000, etc). [...]
there were some places with surprisingly high turnout. For instance, in Wyoming, eight marches brought out between 3,800 and 5,000 people statewide. And in Alaska, 25 marches mobilized nearly 9,000 people statewide.
In total, the women’s march involved between 3,267,134 and 5,246,670 people in the United States (our best guess is 4,157,894). That translates into 1 percent to 1.6 percent of the U.S. population of 318,900,000 people (our best guess is 1.3 percent).
• A health note from Charlie Rose.
• You know those animal welfare records the USDA deleted? This blog Is republishing them:
It's a well known edict that once something has been posted online, it can never be removed. That's turning out to be the case for thousands of animal welfare records that the Department of Agriculture removed from the web last week. Now, a government transparency blog is on a mission to recover, and republish, as many of these records as possible.
"Whenever there are documents that were online, but got pulled offline, they're automatically important," said Russ Kick, who runs the blog The Memory Hole 2, where many of the documents have already been re-published. "Nobody's going to go through the trouble to delete something that doesn't matter."
• Both the film about the guy who scared the world with 3D printed firearms and the guy himself gets mixed reviews at Sundance.
• Poll shows most Democrats want their elected leaders to RESIST:
The Democratic base wants its leaders to resist. A new poll from Politico and Morning Consult of registered Democrats shows that a 56 percent majority want the party to stick to their principles, even “if that means blocking all legislation or nominees for government posts.”
• How can we stop so many people from pleading guilty to crimes they didn’t commit?
“Lots of people take guilty pleas, not because they feel they’re guilty of the crime they’re being accused of, but because they do a calculation of how much they want to risk,” said Ekow N. Yankah, professor of criminal procedures at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, in a phone interview with Rewire.
Yankah also noted that “under conditions of fear, anxiety, stress, exhaustion, people confess to crimes they didn’t commit.”
• In first electoral test of Trump era, progressives sweep New Mexico school boards. Building a deep bench of candidates, a key element of creating party majorities from the bottom up across the nation, progressive candidates school board candidates in several New Mexico cities won their elections. Here’s just two of several examples:
“Voter turnout in Albuquerque was almost double what it was two years ago, and early numbers show that those voters came out for a slate of progressive candidates endorsed by educators unions, progressive elected leaders and community organizations, including ProgressNowNM,” says Pat Davis, executive director of ProgressNowNM. [...]
In Las Cruces, Governor Susana Martinez’s PAC launched last minute negative attacks against progressive union and ProgressNowNM-endorsed candidates. ProgressNowNM’s Progressive Champions PAC used that attack to turn out progressive voters to vote against that outside interference in local elections.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: The chaos continues! Greg Dworkin & Joan McCarter help document the atrocities. Advocacy vs. activism. Scientists to march. McConnell v. Warren. ACA repeal loses another wheel. Trump swipes at courts, again, this time with the Gorsuch nomination pending.
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