• Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Suffer the children:
• Join the team at Daily Kos Elections for a live-blog on the special election in Kansas’ 4th CD: Tonight, we'll learn the results of this unexpectedly—shockingly—competitive special election, a dark red seat in the Wichita area that Republicans are scrambling to save. Polls close at 8 PM ET, so check back around then. Drop in for our live-blog.
• New research shows more permafrost than previously thought likely to thaw:
More than 40 percent of the world's permafrost—landscape covered in frozen soil—is at risk of thawing even if the world succeeds in limiting global warming to the international goal of 2 degrees Celsius, according to a new study. [...]
Permafrost contains vast amounts of carbon in the form of plants that died since the last ice age and have remained frozen rather than decomposing. When permafrost thaws, this long-trapped carbon is released into the atmosphere, further propelling future warming. A 2015 study estimated that the thawing permafrost could release up to 92 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere by the century's end.
• Here’s a list of most and least popular governors. Charlie Baker, the Republican governor of Massachusetts is No. 1 at 75 percent approval. Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey is the least favored, at 25 percent. The most favored Democratic governor at No. 15 is Jim Justice of West Virginia at 61 percent. Dan Malloy of Connecticut ranked No. 47 at 29 percent.
• Join the “Week of Action” on April 22-April 29 at Science March and Peoples Climate March:
• Mass slayer Dylann Roof gets nine life sentences in state court. He already has been sentenced to death for his federal conviction and will ultimately be transferred to federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana.
• Starting Monday, April 17, Arkansas will execute seven men in 11 days, the first executions there since 2005. What’s the hurry? The state’s cache of execution drugs are reaching their expiration dates.
• Here are some videos on how to talk climate change to your friend who has given up, your friend who is a total hippie cliché, and your friend who reads nothing but fake news.
• Pot advocate's tweet saying TSA is now letting people fly with medical marijuana creates a stir. He was wrong. The tweet got so much attention that TSA had to add an explanation to its website where it already included the information that if marijuana were found in luggage, it would turn the matter over to local law enforcement. It added to its website:
“Whether or not marijuana is considered legal under local law is not relevant to TSA screening because TSA is governed by federal law. Federal law provides no basis to treat medical marijuana any differently than non-medical marijuana.”
• Email supporting Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke takes racist fund-raising up a notch.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Armando helps us play catch up with another Trump weekend. The Saga of Gov. Bentley. The Syria bombing. The Spanish Connection strikes again. The United fiasco. GunFAIL. Another school shooting. And The Donald is done with Trump Models.
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