it is Bernie Sanders, attacked by Hillary Clinton for not being a “real” Democrat, who is showing Democrats a way out of their ruinous endorsement of endless war as our bipartisan foreign policy default.
Read his speech at the Move On event yesterday.
And tonight, Sen. Sanders, Sen. Warren and Michael Moore conduct an online town hall on America’s buffeted middle class and our decline into oligarchy–and what we can do about it.
Robert Reich describes the “new and more dangerous phase” that the aspiring monarch is moving into.
“A narcissistic megalomaniac who’s unconstrained – and who’s also president of the United States – is about as dangerous as they come.”
leaves her morally, ethically, and ideologically exposed.
I didn’t realize she’d submitted to Enhanced enhancement techniques, but I knew she didn’t look the same as she did when she was grifting on her father’s connections with a taxpayer-subsidized sinecure.
Cheney, of course, has the right to alter herself any way she sees fit, but it would have been nice, if totally unrealistic, to think that she might have achieved an upgrading of conscience.
Forget it.
Frances Langum at Crooks and Liars holds a mirror up to one of the most corrupt, repellent viragos in Congress.
Where his back is pressed firmly against the wall.
Seth Abramson tweets:
“Trump is neither subtle nor intelligent. His dishonest tweets are now overtly laying the groundwork for Mueller’s firing. And this effort began the moment he found out the questions Mueller plans to ask him at a future interview. Trump’s guilt could not be more painfully obvious.”
Howard Dean tweets: “Based on what Brennan has said and what the Mercer’s did, I am thinking there will be treason charges before we are done with all this.”
Mark Sumner at Daily Kos reviews the official announcements–it’s here.
“If you’re waiting for the the secret police to come knocking on your door, or the maybe a few tanks in the streets, or perhaps a few of the more vocal people around you to suddenly disappear, that’s not it. That’s not the crisis. That’s what comes after.
. . .
“The constitutional crisis isn’t something that’s looming in the future, not even the near future. It’s here. We’re in the midst of it. This is what it looks like.”
Go to youtube.
Anna Spelman interacts, or moves in proximity to, or in dialogue
with Thomas Titone, Johan Renvall and Peter Fonseca
on stage at American Ballet Theatre in Paul Taylor’s Airs in 1985.
She’s a lone figure working in telepathic rapport with the three men, circling in a potent, animating orbit of her own —
Then Kristine Soleri, Lisa Rinehart, and Christine Spizzo enter and stand facing the three men,
and it’s a coupling that evolves the geometry into a new connotation. And it’s a microcosm of idealized space and spatial relations. . .
I saw them do this so many times–it speaks across the years.
Your calls to the GOP to act patriotically will, of course, fall on deaf ears.
Shut this traitorous totalitarian regime down yourselves.
Stop making nice–stop appealing to the better instincts of traitors.
Trump’s shyster lawyer John Dowd is now brazenly, overtly insisting that the Mueller investigation be shut down.
Trump and his camarilla are so desperate that they can’t even keep their stories coordinated.
Officially, McCabe’s alleged infractions had nothing to do with anything but the Clinton Foundation, yet Dowd is now hysterically using that as justification for closing down Mueller.
From The Guardian: By late 2015, Facebook “had found out that information had been harvested on an unprecedented scale. However, at the time it failed to alert users and took only limited steps to recover and secure the private information of more than 50 million individuals.”
UPDATE:
Senator Klobuchar tweets:
“Facebook breach: This is a major breach that must be investigated. It’s clear these platforms can’t police themselves. I’ve called for more transparency & accountability for online political ads. They say ‘trust us.’ Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before Senate Judiciary.”
