I've lost all patience with moderates, centrists, incrementalists and mainstream establishment democrats who think the status quo is not so bad, just needs a little tweaking around the edges. They'd be satisfied just getting rid of Trump – which is fine as far as that goes, it just doesn't go nearly far enough.

Around this time last year, West Virginia public school teachers shocked the world with a remarkably unified labor front. Last year was reactive.
This year they are PROactive.

Ha! I wondered how Booby was going to bury the findings (or lack of) this RUSSIAN!!! boondoggle eating up taxpayer money and preventing REAL problems from being dealt with by those opportunist in DC.

How Mueller's team fears Russia could learn US secrets in court case

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The Washington political establishment appears to be ready to do something that can't be undone. Once you sanction your allies either they fold, or they stop being allies.

I'm on the road and too busy to write a complete essay. But this article by Phil Weiss (AIPAC: a self-loathing Jew) channels my muse, Hannah.

Omar’s critique goes to the nature of Zionism; and it was anticipated by the Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt. Arendt’s prophetic writings about Zionism in the 1940s described the “double-loyalty” issue for American Jews that Israel would bring on them, by compelling them to be “the lobbies” for an embattled Jewish state.