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AP’s Today in History for March 24
NATO launches airstrikes over Yugoslavia; Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska; Elvis Presley inducted into US Army; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway.
Breakfast Tune Cat on a Leash – Fiddle & Banjo
Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below
Progressives Refuse to Back Down as DCCC Moves to Kneecap Primary Challengers
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
Progressives made clear they have no intention of backing down to the party establishment after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Friday threatened to cut off funds to firms and strategists that support primary challengers against incumbents.
“The DCCC can do anything it wants to try to prevent the next generation of Democrats from taking power. They will not succeed,” Sean McElwee—co-founder of Data for Progress, which is recruiting progressives to oust conservative Democrats—said in a statement.
The new policy was included in the DCCC’s list of vendor hiring standards, which state that the organization “will not conduct business with, nor recommend to any of its targeted campaigns, any consultant that works with an opponent of a sitting member of the House Democratic Caucus.”
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- Alarm over leaked US database targeting journalists and immigration activists
Amanda Holpuch and Lauren Aratani
- The Disrespect Of Floating Stacey Abrams As Joe Biden’s Running Mate
Maxwell Strachan
- Elizabeth Warren Versus Joe Biden
Ruth Conniff
Something to think about over coffee prozac
Drugged orangutan found in Russian’s airline luggage
Agence France-Presse
A Russian tourist attempting to smuggle a drugged orangutan out of Indonesia in his suitcase to bring home and keep as a pet has been arrested in Bali, police said on Saturday.
Andrei Zhestkov was detained in Denpasar airport late on Friday while passing through a security screening before a planned flight back to Russia.
Suspicious officers stopped him and opened his luggage to find a two-year-old male orangutan sleeping inside a rattan basket.
“We believe the orangutan was fed allergy pills which caused him to sleep. We found the pills inside the suitcase,” Bali conservation agency official I Ketut Catur Marbawa said.
“[Zhestkov] seemed prepared, like he was transporting a baby,” he added.
The 27-year-old also packed baby formula and blankets for the orangutan, Marbawa said.
Police also found two live geckos and five lizards inside the suitcase.
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