1981 - the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publish a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), describing cases of a rare lung infection, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), in five young, previously healthy, gay men in Los Angeles. All the men have other unusual infections as well, indicating that their immune systems are not working; two have already died by the time the report is published. This edition of the MMWR marks the first official reporting of what will become known as the AIDS epidemic.

Rachel Maddow laid out a timeline of the escalating violence at the Trump rallies on last night's show. Having to listen to Trump is sickening but the video does make her point that the Chicago melee was orchestrated by Trump. Donald Trump is a disgraceful human being and has absolutely no business running for president of the United States.

Students turning out-...http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2016-03-12/does-c-u-feel-bern.html

Bernie from Illinois last night

The loudest booing of the night, however, came when Sanders mentioned to the crowd that Clinton had received "the strong endorsement of (Chicago) Mayor Rahm Emanuel."

This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all. And the dead will be commemorated, and we'll struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.

Here's the idea, take something like this:

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1499582/60250210#comment_60250210

Hey 99%ers, I posted this up today on DK: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/11/1499870/-Keith-Emerson-Is-Gone#...
I have no idea how to post up the entire thing here, but I hope you can check it out. RIP, Keith...SSK

[Inspired by my conversations here earlier today and cross-posted to the GOS - I know a lot of people here are banned or wont go there, so this is in its entirety ~ Thumb]

One of my closest friends is gay. My gay doppelganger in fact. He’s in town and in an hour we head out for one of our favorite restaurants where we’ll talk politics for the next hour. (He’s from New Hampshire — like crack for a politics junkie)