Happy Friday. On this day in 1970, Queen Latifah was born or, technically, coronated.

MICHIGAN GOVERNOR RICK SNYDER came to Washington D.C. on Thursday to testify in front of the House Oversight Committee over his most notable accomplishment, the lead poisoning of the city of Flint.

A PART OF THE FLINT STORY that often gets missed is that replacing struggling local governments with unelected “Emergency Managers” was a core part of Snyder’s plan to run the state like a business – apparently a business that can poison a city and not go out of business.

YOU KNOW REPUBLICANS HAVE MESSED UP when they’re calling for new regulations and a more active role for the Environmental Protection Agency, which many leading Republicans usually want abolished and replaced with a fan club for Oily, the friendly mascot of Big Oil who cures winter.

REPUBLICAN JOHN KASICH has a tiny decision to make: “If Kasich doesn’t bow out before [late April], Trump is probably going to be the Republican nominee,” Real Clear Politics’ Sean Trende writes.

ULTIMATELY KASICH'S DILEMMA comes down to: Is it worth being known as the guy who stopped Trump, if you end up being the guy who gave America...gulp...Ted Cruz?

THE BASIC LOGIC of this analysis is that Kasich draws mostly from the same voter pool as Marco Rubio did – Republicans with professional degrees, Netflix accounts and topless photos of Mitt Romney in their gym lockers for inspiration.

IT FEELS LIKE MONTHS AGO – back when America still made a lick of sense – but just last week Donald Trump’s campaign manager was accused of assaulting a conservative female reporter because she asked a tough question.

THE REPORTER MICHELLE FIELDS had regularly appeared on the Fox News show Cashin’ In hosted by Eric Bolling, a guy who looks like a cross between Dr. Bruce Banner and the Incredible Hulk.

BUT NOW FIELDS HAS BEEN TOLD that she’s off the show because she is no longer ‘impartial’ to Trump. Because being impartial is very important for a channel that features Sean Hannity, who spends his weekend as a hype man at Trump rallies.

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THIS PHOTO SHOWING HARRISON FORD HOLDING A TRUMP SIGN is fake. Now we can go back to worshipping him for flying an imaginary spaceship.

DO THE ROBOT, LITERALLY—Expectations that sex robots would be normalized by 2050 were too optimistic, according to a guy who has spent entirely too much time thinking about sex robots.

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