caucus99percent

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No good deed goes unpunished, as the saying goes, but sometimes a wrongful act can lead to something good. A few days ago, I made fun of the Kos Katalogue, thinking it was just another way for Markos to make a buck. Turns out I was dead wrong, as Elena in the comments let me know (in the most polite way possible):

In another depraved act of inhumanity, the militarized forces in North Dakota have deployed razor wire all around the base of Turtle Island, the scene of one of the water protesters' actions yesterday (November 24). Please remember that when the Sioux and other indigenous people speak of "sacred sites," they often mean places where their ancestors are buried. Here's a 4-minute video from the Young Turks showing the razor wire being installed today (November 25).

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7UavuUxOGM&feature=youtu.be]

It’s a funny thing about fraud. It’s a bit like poisoning a well. Once you’ve done it, there’s not really any going back, either for the water or for you. I guess people wanting to use the well could conceivably purify the water after the fact, but that would take both an honest assessment of the poisoning, and expert knowledge of how to get poison out of water. Lacking either of those elements, the water is poisoned—that’s that.

Post these, use them as talking points, and please don't forget the water protectors (and homeless people, and black and brown folks, and Muslims, and queer people, and all others targeted by the state and by hateful people) today.

DAPL: a class I pipeline: likely made of imported scrap metal with flimsy welded seams, under high pressures not forseen by deliberately antiquated laws, running through the drinking water supplies of millions. (self.Kossacks_for_Sanders)

submitted an hour ago by Sorrowforhumans*

The last performance of our election theater has begun to wind down and the reviews are very amusing. So many otherwise discerning people are still seeing significant differences between the outcome we have and others we might have had.
Never mind the clear history leading up to this point. It is all new now. Alas, even more time and energy is being wasted recapitulating and speculating as Mr. Trump tries to figure out what he is going to do with this thing he has done.