Midday open thread: Jihadist cops in Florida, golf and following Trump on Twitter
- Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is Life during (endless) wartime:
- What you missed on Sunday Kos …
- What our nearest neighbor can tell us about Earth's future, by DarkSyde
- Chris Hayes' latest book, by Susan Grigsby
- Free market in health care kills Americans and this is no hyperbole, by Egberto Willies
- Six steps away from 64 million people, by David Akadjian
- The three iron laws of universal health care, by Jon Perr
- Jared Kushner's endless job list is just another Trump dump, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Red lines and green lights: the moral and strategic bankruptcy of Trump on Syria, by Ian Reifowitz
- The opioid overdose epidemic hypocrisy of Donald Trump, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Daily Kos International Elections Digest: April edition, by Daily Kos Elections
- No word on who these Florida cops are planning to behead:
- It was an exciting finish at this year’s Masters:
Golfer Sergio García of Spain slipped on the green jacket after a dramatic finish over Englishman Justin Rose at the 81st Masters in Augusta, Ga., on Sunday.
Before the sudden-death playoff, García trailed Rose by two shots with six holes remaining.
- In case you were wondering:
Trump’s 10 most-engaged Twitter followers over the past 30 days include five confirmed robots and three accounts that appear to be bots, according to audience data collected by Social Rank. Trump’s most prolific respondent, @Trump2016_Fan, has posted more than 18,000 times in the past year, mostly all-caps messages of support for the 45th president. The account appears to be automated and did not respond to a request for an interview. [...]
We set out to profile the lovers, haters, and robots that can be found in the replies to @realDonaldTrump to understand their motivations. Most, but not all, of the individuals interviewed are men. According to beta content-analysis software used by Social Rank, 19 percent of Trump’s followers are women. Among Trump’s 20 most-engaged followers, only two had traditionally female names—and both of those accounts appear to be automated.
- On this day in 1912, the Titanic set sail on its maiden—and only—voyage.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: More on Bannon & his weirdo patrons, the Mercers. The great danger of mixing politics & intel. The 27th Amendment: the feel-good procedure story of the century! And the Russia story doesn’t stop here. Do you know about The French Spanish connection?
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