For the last two years, I have been posting political essays at Medium.com. Many of these essays dealt with Russiagate, of which I have been severely skeptical from the very start. And by that I mean not just the idiot partisan fantasy that the Trump campaign "colluded" with the Russian government, but the underlying predicate that the Russian government executed a plan to interfere in the 2016 election.

I told her I’d spent the day weeding. She was annoyed.

“Weeding is pointless,” she said. ”They just come back. Or a fire comes through and burns everything. And then who comes back first? Weeds.”

“Well,” I tried, “I—“

“And there aren’t even really anything such as weeds,” she decreed. “A weed is just a plant somebody doesn’t want. You don’t even know what a weed is.”

“I know what is a weed,” I said. ”It’s whoever is trying to choke out the true violets, or the little trees.”

“You and your trees!” She’d never liked the thing about the trees. “Letting grow any tree who happens to come up from seed. So that now you can’t even use a lawnmower, or a weedeater: you have to crawl along, weeding by hand, so you don’t whack some tree that can barely be seen. Which is nuts. And since you’re a male, meaning controlled by sloth, and now also depressed as hell, that means half the time your place looks, like even you’ve said, like a Boo Radley house, so wild are the weeds, because you never get to them.”

The DCCC refused to acknowledge that anything changed with 2016. So to prevent another AOC they decided to blacklist anyone that works with any primary challenger.

The UK European elections are about to happen, and it couldn't be worse for the Tories.

Welcome to this first organic Spring Fund Drive: “What does c99 mean to you?"

Why have a community fund drive? Because monthly recurring contributions have dropped more than sixty percent from two years ago; and presently, the site is at the mercy of less than a handful of generous monthly contributors. That’s why. Thought you all would want to know.

Let’s do what we can, renew and increase our past commitments a little or step forward and help for the first time. In community and collectively, whatever you can afford, goes a long way.