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Jim Naureckas at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting finds it interesting and lamentable that “mainstream” “news” media journalists can’t seem to muster up any interest in the fact that Amy Goodman was arrested–by the state of North Dakota!– for trespassing when she practiced the public interest-protecting act of real journalism at the construction site of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

But Amy Goodman is indeed an actual journalist, not a corporate employed-and-muffled “journalist.” And she routinely puts to shame those I will generously call her colleagues.

Senator Warren shoots a shot across HRC’s bow:

Warren’s letters to the DOJ and FBI remind Hillary that she is not getting a free ride: support from Warren is conditional. Hillary’s love affair with Wall Street has to cool. You know, we’ll give each other some to think. . .

Pam Martens and Russ Martens at Wall Street on Parade have some things to say. . .

“It’s long past the time for the U.S. Senate to stop conducting isolated, piecemeal investigations and undertake the type of in-depth hearings that the Senate held from 1929 to 1932 that led to the public’s understanding of the serial criminal activities on Wall Street that had produced the Great Depression and which led to the passage of the Glass-Steagall Act — legislation which protected this nation for 66 years until its repeal in 1999 during the Bill Clinton administration.”

And of course, without Warren’s support, HRC may get about 100 Sanders supporters to vote for her.

Will HRC finally wake up?

It’s my birthday present from the hood, perhaps:

I actually heard a political comment made by someone in the West Village!
Not talking about his lovers, his career, his commodities.

Two guys sitting on a townhouse stoop. I walk by and catch:

“. . . Obama has been so harsh to whistleblowers. . . ”

Music to my ears.

It is a war, and it needs to be recognized and described as such, and it goes hand in hand with the wars on literacy, on public education, on enfranchisement.

Virtually no government funding, shamefully little “mainstream” commercial media attention, and perhaps worst of all, the end of arts programs in public schools.

You go to the coffee shop and peripherally take in the endless chatter by customers about whom and what they are consuming, and then you read “When Will New York City Sink?” by Andrew Rice in New York Magazine, and marvel at the folly of people’s refusal to see beyond the bridge of their own nose.

And you also look at the supposedly savvy political skills of Hillary Clinton, and wonder why she is not clobbering Trump about his deranged dismissal of the reality of catastrophic climate change, even as it is already happening all around us.

Now Streisand’s doing it. Isn’t it time you did?

The memoir thing.

Over last winter, a falling tree crashed into the garden fence, behaving with intolerable rudeness to a yellow day lilly. And so, over the course of day lilly blooming season, no yellow day lillies from this traumatized plant. But the tree was cleaned up, strips of barks it shed left to enrich the soil. And the day lilly slowly recharged itself. And now–lo and behold! A few tenacious yellow day lilly blossoms to enliven this torrid September week.

Yes, Krugman is right, Hillary is being mau-maued by the press–but no more so than was Sanders. And that’s what the “mainstream” “news” media does to Democrats: we have a media owned by right-wing moguls and corporations that espouses right-wing causes, agendas, frames—and I mean shamelessly. And endlessly. That is nothing more than a given, but it’s good Dr. K keeps reminding us. I’m not being sarcastic–he has a huge audience and a bully pulpit.

But the establishment liberal commentariat really has some explainin’ to do when it comes to Hillary’s conduct as a nominee. For one thing, her manic pivot to the right since realizing she had clinched the nomination. Are they addressing that? Ha!

At Commondreams, Sonali Kolhatar headlines: “This Election Is Hillary Clinton’s to Lose, and She’s Screwing It Up”

And man, does she enumerate the ways. Among them:

“Her refusal to even attempt to embrace bold progressive values and her inability to read the simmering nationwide anger over economic and racial injustice are the larger obstacles to her popularity.”

It always makes me laugh when professional dancers, particularly in ballet, are portrayed as masochists by the “mainstream” media.

The exact opposite is true; they’re if anything hedonists. Dancing is a great pleasure—perhaps a high that they can’t resist.

Of course, a true masochist would find suffering itself pleasure.

In the great tradition of husband Bill–he who hard-wired Reagan’s revolution into the American circuitry–and lame-duck Barack.

Trevor Timm at The Guardian asks why she is pretending that Trump’s ideas do not represent a reiteration of GOP dogma , why she is going at such lengths to make a false distinction between Trump and GOP orthoodoxy.

Trump is simply a more garish incarnation of Republicanism. He, is of course, a highly unstable personality, and that certainly does make him especially dangerous.

It will be up to progressives to save Hilary’s presidency–if in spite of her best efforts, she does indeed get elected–from herself. We failed to do that with Obama, but perhaps we are now more energized and organized.