Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is If Gorsuch actually looked as radical as he is:
• Climate march on April 29 coincides with Pr*sident’s 100th Day in office: With not quite a month to go before the Peoples Climate Movement March for Climate, Jobs and Justice takes place in Washington, the organizers have released the route for the march. It will start near the Capitol, surround the White House for collective action and then meet at the Washington Monument to discuss solutions and participate in art and music:
“The Trump administration continues to push an agenda that endangers our jobs, our health and our planet,” said Paul Getsos, National Coordinator, Peoples Climate Movement. “Just yesterday, the President continued to dismantle the progress of the last Administration made on combating climate change under the guise of creating jobs. He is wrong. The path to creating good paying jobs is by rapidly investing in clean and renewable energy infrastructure. This will protect the climate and provide family sustaining jobs. That is why we need every person who cares about jobs and the planet to march in Washington, D.C., on April 29.”
• Ruben Bolling has won the 2017 Herblock Prize for “Tom the Dancing Bug”: Bolling, the pen name of Ken Fisher, invented the weekly strip more than 25 years ago. Besides Daily Kos, it appears at BoingBoing.net and Gocomics.com and numerous publications. The Herblock Foundation notes that has created “a free-format comic strip that uses varying types of humor, artistic styles and formats. It’s an unusual strip in that in any given week, it could feature a spoof, a multi-panel sketch, political or absurdist humor, recurring characters or caricatures of real people. But during 2016, political subject matter was at its heart, as it mostly dealt with the election and the rise to power of Donald Trump.” You can watch his acceptance speech here.
• For 18 years of hassles, Lisa Davis thought another woman was stealing my identity. But it was a different story when she found her.
• Chicago Police Detective Renaldo Guevara is accused of framing at least 51 people for murder:
When a group of mothers, aunts and sisters found that no officials — not the state’s attorney’s office, not the mayor’s office — wanted to take up their cause, the women went in search of justice themselves. Next week a man convicted in one of Guevara’s most dubious cases will be in court for what could be his last chance at freedom. Will prosecutors continue fighting to keep Roberto Almodovar behind bars?
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• Shop sign grammar vigilante’s speciality is apostrophes:
For years, it has been rumoured that somebody has been going out late at night, correcting bad punctuation on Bristol shop fronts.
The self-proclaimed "grammar vigilante" goes out undercover in the dead of night correcting street signs and shop fronts where the apostrophes are in the wrong place.
• The new 200 mph F-Type Jaguar is being labeled “driftable,” as if there weren’t enough problems on the road.
• Pennsylvania Republicans want to kill state contracts with Planned Parenthood:
Senate Bill 300, which was introduced by Sen. John Eichelberger, would prevent the Department of Health from entering into contracts with “any entity that performs abortions that are not federally qualified abortions or maintains or operates a facility where such abortions are performed.”
“SB 300 is the latest attempt to try to make it harder for women to have access to health care,”Rep. Michael Schlossberg, a Democrat and advocate of women’s health and reproductive rights, told Salon.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Oh noz! The Gop is “frustrated” about Gorsuch. Armando & David Waldman discuss absurdities; document atrocities. WTF with Seychelles? Can privatized war profiteers conduct privatized diplomacy? How does Erik Prince not have a hollowed-out volcano lair?
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