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I'm reading a lot of reaction to the push back by Abortion Rights activists against the policy articulated by Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Ben Ray Luján not to withhold financial support from anti-Choice candidates (which I wrote about Monday), most of it from Corporatist Institutional Democrats and their centrist sycophants.

Their argument goes something like this-

"Hey you Hippies, you said you wanted us to get serious about the 'economy stupid' so we made up this crappy slogan 'A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages, Papa John's' and slapped together some tepid and ineffectual 'reforms' that don't bother our Plutocrat paymasters much and to prove our sincerity we're abandoning all that 'Social Justice' stuff that pisses off the angry white male Trump voters.

Remember, we're the less evil ones."

Where to begin?

We elected a Neo-Liberal's Neo-Liberal

His popularity is tanking faster than Hollande's did.

Persephone Smith is a 46-year-old veteran, who served in the Navy special forces as an Explosive Ordinance Disposal technician. She's also a transgender woman.

Smith is running for the City Council in Brooklyn.

With the governor of West Virginia switching back to being a Republican, this is what the political map of the United States looks like.

Is national health insurance Constitutional? It's an issue we supporters of single-payer need to take seriously because our opponents will almost certainly argue that it is not in an attempt to prevent passage and will also challenge the Medicare for All Act on constitutional grounds when it becomes law.

Our blindness to what these words are telling us is really astounding. My first time to fully comprehend the contradiction came from an experience while I was teaching at Harvard in 1969. The medical community in the Boston area put together a “Health University” which was a sixteen week course contributed by health care professionals at every level. At the end they distilled what the many discussions and brainstorming sessions had produced and came up with a set of wonderful proposals.

Well, that didn't take long.
Someone in the Trump Administration pondered pulling our troops out of Afghanistan, but it appears that it was never taken seriously.

Remember the 'accidental hero' that stopped one of the largest cyberattacks in history?
Today he got arrested for unrelated cybercrimes.

Yesterday Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin was out and about and was asked about Trump's transgender tweet (can't call it a ban in its present state). He claimed that the VA has compassion for transgender veterans.

If anyone -- transgender people included -- serves in the military, they will get medical and other care for life.