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Thomas Frank plus the new Guccifer leaks

Hope you all don't mind me dumping these two different issues in one essay, but caught them all this morning while busying around and thought they were worth sharing.

Here is Thomas Frank talking about his new book LISTEN, LIBERAL!

The subject of my new book is the Democratic Party’s failure over the last few decades to do anything really meaningful about income inequality.

What I learned on NPR today

I caught the Diane Rehm show while in the car running errands. The segment to which I listened seemed to be all about the Trump campaign and his relative lack of SuperPac money and organization compared to the Clinton campaign. I heard next to nothing about any policy differences. All I heard was how critically important big money donors are in this election. Here's specifically what I learned from NPR's "expert" panel today:

Are you a sheep?

Please excuse me, but a rant that has been building within me during the last several days- with all the terrible news of both presidential candidates. This essay is my therapeutic efforts to share something with you and I hope help you reflect on our current state of this historic and sad state of affairs for the 2016 presidential election. Moreover, I am just calling things as I see them, so if you get mad at me that is fine, but do something about it.

Hate strikes in Linn County, Iowa

 photo Alyssa2_zpsbgyzlyme.jpgAlyssa Eve is a 23-year-old transgender woman who transitioned six years ago. One might think people had gotten over that by now.

But around 11:30 pm Friday Alyssa heard banging on the windows of her apartment.

She quickly called her mother, let out her Labrador retriever and went to investigate.

The first thing I saw was, ‘Kill yourself’ on my door.

--Alyssa Eve

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