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AP’s Today in History for March 21st

Dr. Martlin Luther King, Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; the Sharkville massacre in South Africa occurs; Wrongly incarcerated Randall Dale Adams is released from prison; Musician Johann Bach born.

Breakfast Tune Jens Kruger plays Bach Cello Suite No. 1 on Banjo

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The real vaccine conspiracy is the fact that the Bayh-Dole Act allows the federal gov to set the price & distribution of publicly financed medicine but has never exercised that right, not on HIV/AIDS meds, covid vaccines or anything, ever. PhRMA always pushes back and wins.

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) March 15, 2021

• Democrats’ Revised Talking Points for the Biden Era
  Matt Lubchansky & Stephen Wood

• Laws Apparently Just Don’t Apply to Presidents
  Nathan J. Robinson

• Older Blue-Collar Workers Fear They’ll Be Left Behind As The Economy Reopens
  Molly Redden

• ‘Disturbing’: Rich Nations Vaccinating Person Per Second While Blocking Effort to Share Recipe With Poor Countries
  Jake Johnson

• Bandaging the corpse: Biden’s big bailout can’t pull America out of its death spiral
  CHRIS HEDGES

• Legendary social scientist Robert Putnam: We may be on the cusp of a new Progressive era
  CHAUNCEY DEVEGA

Something to think about over coffee prozac

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
The Onion

ATLANTA—In the hours following a violent rampage in Georgia in which a lone attacker killed eight individuals and injured one other, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Iowa resident Jamie Harkin, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”