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It's election day here in Los Angeles. Hence I've found something brief to post while I go out to do my civic duty and perform my necessary chores.

The news that the CIA can break into Signal and WhatsApp is big news, but possibly the biggest item was intentionally buried in this NY Times article. To quote Wikileaks:

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-07/cia-hackers-able-...

. . . Wikileaks has brought forth the first of multiple installments of alleged CIA documents (which all have so far indicated look to be the real thing), detailing the ways that the U.S. is spying upon others and upon its own citizens.

I hate the narrative that "the people" elected Donald Trump because they were tired of the status quo, that those who voted for him were those most affected by the jobs leaving the country, the white poor from the rust belt and rural areas, the "working class", the "99%".

It's amazing to watch Democrats get panicked and obsessed about imaginary and extremely unlikely dangers by the Great Russian Bear (example: invasion of Baltics).

Over the weekend, the son of former drug lord Pablo Escobar released a new book claiming that his father “worked for the CIA.”

When I wrote yesterday about a transgender child who was being mistreated by a Chicago-area hospital, I was not surprised to encounter a comment questioning the reality of young transgender children. It is a not-infrequent occurrence.

People who are not transgender have a difficult time understanding an issue that is so far from their own existence. That's why people who are different have such a hard time trying to fit into our society.

It's a stretch I know

This essay is absolutely outstanding. It completely destroys the normalization of the police state, the ‘Russian’s did it’ meme, and American Exceptionalism in general. Please read the whole thing.