Good morning. 
Friday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 43. Sunrise is 6:21 AM and sunset 5:50 PM, for 11h 25m 46s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 56.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1946, Churchill uses the phrase iron curtain in his speech (The Sinews of Peace) at Westminster College, Missouri.
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David Leonhardt writes Voting rights or the filibuster? Democrats will probably have to choose:
Republican legislators in dozens of states are trying to make voting more difficult, mostly because they believe that lower voter turnout helps their party win elections. (They say it’s to stop voter fraud, but widespread fraud doesn’t exist.) The Supreme Court, with six Republican appointees among the nine justices, has generally allowed those restrictions to stand.
“I don’t say this lightly,” Michael McDonald, a political scientist at the University of Florida, recently wrote. “We are witnessing the greatest roll back of voting rights in this country since the Jim Crow era.”
The only meaningful way for Democrats to respond is through federal legislation, like the voting-rights bill that the House passed on Wednesday. Among other things, it would require states to register many eligible voters automatically; allow others to register on Election Day; hold at least 15 days of early voting; expand voting by mail; and allow people with completed criminal sentences to vote. The bill also requires more disclosure of campaign donations and restricts partisan gerrymandering.
But the bill seems to have no chance of winning the 60 votes in the Senate needed to overcome a filibuster. The Senate is divided 50-50 between the two parties (including two independents, who usually vote with Democrats). The bill will pass only if all 50 Senate Democrats agree to scrap or alter the filibuster, as they have the power to do.
Maria Sacchetti, Nick Miroff, and Silvia Foster-Frau report Texas family detention centers expected to transform into rapid-processing hubs:
The Biden administration is preparing to convert its immigrant family detention centers in South Texas into Ellis Island-style rapid-processing hubs that will screen migrant parents and children with a goal of releasing them into the United States within 72 hours, according to Department of Homeland Security draft plans obtained by The Washington Post.
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“We welcome the change, because the detention of families — we never thought that was a good system or a good policy at all,” said Edna Yang, co-executive director of American Gateways, an immigration legal aid organization in Texas. “They shouldn’t be detained, and they should be given the opportunity to go before the immigration judge and be released in the community and not held like prisoners.”
(Yes, a thousand times over: free movement of people, capital, or goods.)
Tom Haudricourt reports Brewers will open 2021 season with 25% capacity of fans at American Family Field but no tailgating:
The Milwaukee Brewers expect to have between 11,000 and 12,000 fans in the stands at American Family Field when they open their 2021 season April 1 against the Minnesota Twins.
The Brewers announced Thursday morning they had reached agreement with the City of Milwaukee Health Department to begin the season at 25% capacity. They had requested 35% capacity in a 500-page health and safety report submitted to health officials last month.
The shortened 60-game season in 2020 was played with no fans in the stands because of the spreading coronavirus pandemic. MLB teams have put strict protocols in place and have agreed to seat fans in small groups, or pods, if allowed to have a certain percentage at games this season.
Facebook takes down hundreds of fake Russian Instagram accounts: