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“the fractured nature of the Democratic race” – the fracture is between the 1% and the rest of us.

DHS is just a crony-enrichment machine.

I’m curious whether this might be a charter school?

This is horrifying.

But I worry the story is part of elites’ push for greater net censorship and control.

It’s very important that we get this story out there.  A lot of people have no clue about it.

Here’s another article not behind a paywall: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/11/obama-bill-daley-wells-fargo-elizabeth-warren-revolving-door.html .

It’s not centrism; it’s allegiance to the writers of their paychecks.

There have been several interludes like this, where it seems like there’s something going on inside her that’s screwing up both her commitment to real reform and also her ability to respond strategically.  It’s a bit Hilary-esque.

It’s not just Trump.  Among other considerations, there were something like 57 “ex-” CIA agents running for Congress in 2016.  It couldn’t have been Trump backing them all.

Lol, yeah, that’s how I feel!

I tend to believe she’d be preferable to other, even more corporate candidates; but her lack of forthrightness on this point is disturbing for both for its evasiveness and because it seems to me to be a strategic error.

Actually… I only hate it in the spring.

How is this not a taking of property without just compensation?  Fine to take it if needed to protect public safety (which it wasn’t – they could have starved him out; but say it was).  Just cause or not, it’s still a taking.

Sometimes I wonder about lawyers’ lack of imagination.  (I still don’t understand why fraud was not among the claims asse…[Read more]

@tk2kewl, thanks!  It looked like him, but there’s a lot of hair there.  ;)

@tk2kewl, who said/wrote that, again?  So good.

^This^ (agreeing with @Voltairine).

I think few people appreciate the enormity of what we’re going through.  The human race is evolving (or dying) into something different, and it’s going to take a lot of care and effort on the part of the more humane and thoughtful among us to mitigate the negative potentials.

Sorry to be so vague, but it’s a…[Read more]