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• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- When is statutory rape not statutory rape? When you put a ring on it, by Susan Grigsby
- Are the teachers’ ‘strikes’ the beginning of a real worker revolt, by Egberto Willies
- Seven questions for Aftab Pureval, Democratic candidate for House in Ohio’s 1st congressional district, by David Akadjian
- Amidst all the other Trump administration crises, they’re actively making the climate crisis worse, by Laurence Lewis
- How the Parkland school shooting is shifting the electoral landscape, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Republican charter school privatization plague infects Puerto Rico. #JuliaGoHome, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Some heads are gonna roll, by Mark E Andersen
- Trump dumps ‘boring’ talk on rich man's tax cut for racist fear-mongering. That's his real passion, by Ian Reifowitz
• Former Democratic Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii dies at 93:
Former U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, the humble and gracious statesman who served in Washington with aloha for more than three and a half decades, died Thursday night at the age of 93. He had been hospitalized for months.
Akaka, the first native Hawaiian to serve in the Senate, was a strong advocate for native Hawaiians and veterans during a political career that started in the House of Representatives in 1976 and ended in the U.S. Senate in 2013.
Known for a modest political style and described as the embodiment of the aloha spirit, Akaka was widely respected in the islands and in Washington. But he rarely sought the national spotlight and instead worked largely under the radar, focusing on issues important to Hawaii.
• Pr*sident Trump won’t be at White House Correspondents Dinner April 28. But he is encouraging other members of the executive branch to attend, and Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be at the head table to represent the regime.
• Puerto Rico will close 283 schools this summer, a fourth of its total: The island territory has seen a sharp drop in enrollment because of the slump in the local economy and the departure of so many Puerto Ricans in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Education Secretary Julia Keleher said there would be no layoffs. Instead, teachers and staff are being reassigned to other schools. The closure is expected to save $150 million. Puerto Rico has more than 1,100 public schools serving 319,000 students.
MIDDAY TWEET
• Men STEM students rate themselves smarter than women STEM students: But women underrate themselves, too. The study published in Advances in Physiology Education pretty much confirmed what numerous previous studies have shown. Besides holding feelings of superiority, many men studying STEM subjects express disdain for women classmates:
“As a graduate student, a fellow male student said, to my face, that he had no idea how I was admitted to the program because I clearly wasn't smart enough to be there,” [recalls Gwen Pearson, who has a Ph.D in entomology from North Carolina State University].
“He said having me as a fellow graduate student ‘lessened the value of his degree.’ Direct quote. He seemed to think that I should leave for the good of the other students. It was pretty devastating.”
• Sixty years ago in March, a careful tally of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was begun: Here’s what that tally looks like:
• From Grist—Six ways Scott Pruitt manipulates the media: 1. Pruitt goes to right-wing news outlets to push his messages out [...] 2. Pruitt gives interviews to generalists instead of environmental reporters [...] 3. Pruitt’s EPA withholds basic information from the press and the public [...] 4. Pruitt’s EPA sends reporters articles by climate deniers instead of useful information [...] 5. Pruitt repeats misleading talking points [...] 6. Pruitt’s EPA retaliates against journalists.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Scott Pruitt drops more shoes than Imelda Marcos. WTF with MBS? Arliss Bunny helps clear up how unclear everything is in Saudish Arabia, while Kushner hands over the PDB. Blurred line between WH, Brietbart finally erased. Top Trump troll outed.
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