France's Yellow Vest movement isn't over, but it is winding down.
So here's a summary:

Breaking news: Nervous Nancy has now proposed something which vaguely resembles human decency. Choke, gasp, wheeze. I can't believe I'm saying this but....Nervous Nancy demand Acosta resign

Thus, I can never again say that Nervous and is completely devoid of principle--or merely opportunism disguised as principle.

First of all, this is a fight that Pelosi wanted.

Who knew that socialism had already come to the US? I’d given some of these links a few days ago to Aspie Corner, but he seemed to have been off on another project.  I thought he’d enjoy a lot of this; I know I do.  First, some background:

June 28, 2019 ‘Socialism 2019: the Left at a Crossroads’, Louis Proyect, counterpunch.org, June 28, 2018 (some bits and bobs)

“For a number of years, the International Socialists Organization, once the largest Marxist group in the USA, held educational conferences either in Chicago or in various American cities. In 2004, I attended a plenary session of a regional conference at City College in New York, mostly to hear my old friend Peter Camejo who was the featured speaker alongside Ahmed Shawki, the disgraced former leader whose cover-up of multiple rapes in the ISO led to its dissolution this year.”

Good Morning!

Welcome to Tuesday’s Open Thread. As many of you may remember, last month I included a wine tasting in the OT rotation. So instead of offering you cooking recipes today, I will be presenting a selection of wines. But before we get to the tasting, I’d like to talk about wine pairings. It’s a subject that seems to have a lot of rules and sometimes feels as though you need the knowledge of a wine connoisseur. But guess what? You don't. Just some basics about taste components and the willingness to experiment a little.

Remember the famous rhyme lots of us learned in childhood? You know the one that starts "eenie, meenie, minie, moe"? I have paraphrased that rhyme consistent with the unfolding of the following essay:

Eenie, meenie, minie, moe
Catch a tiger by the tail.
When the tiger snarls,
You better bail.