Here's an interesting read when you factor
Submitted by importer on Wed, 07/13/2016 - 1:54pmJill Stein and Gary Johnson into the mix - which the MSM has scrupulously avoid doing up to this point.
Danger in the Restroom
Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 07/13/2016 - 1:28pmPreliminary data has been released from the 2015 US Transgender Survey, which was conducted last summer and had 28,000 adult respondents. Full data will be released later this year.
The data released concern bathrooms...which is not what our lives are about, but which dominate all perception of us.
Last Night I Spoke to Ashley Wolthuis, Bernie Delegate Behind Claim Sanders Was Coerced to Endorse Hillary
Submitted by Steven D on Wed, 07/13/2016 - 9:53amYesterday, on Twitter and Facebook a post was making the rounds that Bernie had been "threatened" by the Clinton campaign" with losing all the concessions he achieved on the DNC platform, unless he endorsed Clinton. Here is a screenshot of the text of that post:
Open Thread - Wed. July 13, 2016 - Cutting Expenditures for the Social Safety Net
Submitted by gulfgal98 on Wed, 07/13/2016 - 5:00am
Good Morning 99%'ers. Today's Open Thread topic in another in the series on neo-liberalism. For those who may be interested in previous essays on this subject, here are the links to those essays.
Reddit Crosspost: Bernie Conf call to delegates: DID NOT CONCEDE
Submitted by martini on Wed, 07/13/2016 - 1:38amMahakali Overdrive (of LOF past history) was on Bernie's quickly formed conference call with delegates tonight and has "leaked" her first-hand summary as well as posting a second thread on the same topic, with extra details from another delegate on FaceBook.
The Brits seem to be ahead of us at this point
Submitted by ThomM on Tue, 07/12/2016 - 11:35pmI don't know much about the UK's politics, but it appears that their "Bernie" is not so willing to throw in the towel. I could be completely misunderstanding this, but it sounds to me like the MP's (super delegates?) have just been handed a defeat.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/12/jeremy-corbyn-must-be-on...
Bernie won't contest platform: no floor fight.
Submitted by tapu dali on Tue, 07/12/2016 - 9:40pmhttp://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/bernie-sanders-rules-out-c...
Last chance for a progressive platform is gone.
Bernie, age 74, has clearly given up the fight. Sad.
Overnight Caption Contest XV
Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Tue, 07/12/2016 - 9:24pm
Rachel Maddow
Submitted by UnBlinkingEye on Tue, 07/12/2016 - 8:06pmIs an ass. She just announced Bernie no longer has secret service protection.
WHAT IS THE POINT IN DOING THAT?????
Jill Stein Live at 9:30 eastern - What's next for the Revolution?
Submitted by Scott Crowder on Tue, 07/12/2016 - 7:48pmYou can tune in here
As Tim Black says "It was never about one person."
So tune in tonight and listen to what Jill has to say. Here's an excerpt from an email I received today that will probably be touched upon in tonight's live show:
We are the last campaign standing that is running a clean-money campaign - the only one.
