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Daylight Savings Time is the devil.

Seriously, folks - Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly 

Here, have a pretty picture:

Links!

• Library Land
• Book Reading 2016  "A growing share of Americans are reading e-books on tablets and smartphones rather than dedicated e-readers, but print books remain much more popular than books in digital formats"
• Randomnesses
• I almost created a "NOPE" category just for this story: House in New York state encased in ice during cold spell:
  
  

  

  Noping All the Nopes

• Amazon launched a fake radio station to promote ‘The Man in the High Castle.’ Angry Trump supporters thought it was real. I'm just not going to comment on this one.
• International
• UN Says World Faces Largest Humanitarian Crisis Since 1945 "The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945 with starvation and famine threatening more than 20 million people in four countries, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Friday."
• U.S. News
• Not Trump
• How Disabled Americans Are Fighting the GOP Health-Care Bill "Within hours of Paul Ryan’s announcement of the American Health Care Act, press releases from disability rights organizations started to appear in my mailboxes and social-media feeds. The messages were consistent. First, the AHCA’s approach to Medicaid reform would end the program as we know it, spiraling millions of disabled Americans into poverty or back into institutions. Second, these advocates warned that too many Americans — including some who are disabled themselves or care for people with disabilities — don’t understand just how important Medicaid has been for improving millions of lives."
• Of Course Trump
• Why Does Trump Want to Cut National Weather Satellites? "My theory is that these cuts can only be explained by ignorance about the NOAA satellite program combined  with an ideological hostility to climate change research.  Trump's team apparently thinks that NOAA is doing liberal research about climate change, and doesn't understand that the data from these satellites is largely used for weather forecasting and not climate research."
• New York federal prosecutor Preet Bharara says he was fired by Trump administration 
• Related: The Big Winner in Donald Trump’s Decision to Fire Preet Bharara Might Be Rupert Murdoch "Trump’s decision to fire Bharara ignited speculation that it was designed to blunt investigations like the Fox News probe."
• Spicer: Trump didn't mean wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping Think that tactic will work with my boss? "I know I said I'd have that report in by noon, but when I said noon I didn't really mean noon." 
• Of course, if we don't buy that excuse, we have a bigger problem: An Obligation "We have to consider the possibility that these people in control of the Executive Branch believe that their appliances are being used to spy on them."