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Spoke to Billy Taylor this morning, the lead organizer for The March on DNC who is working with many groups to coordinate events planned for the thousands of people expected to go to Philadelphia and show the DNC they can't ignore Bernie and our movement. He had some bad news. Facebook itself is actively blocking posts from organizers to their own FB pages for these events

Take a look at a couple of screenshots he sent me:

I found WindDancer13's blog entry this morning very informative re: the current debate among Sanders 'revolutionaries' as to how we ought to be focusing ourselves from this point on.

I can tell you that while I agree with much that Sane Debbie has to say, I actually lean more toward Cenk's take on how Sanders followers might best respond to a Hillary Clinton nomination.

Volunteer. Attend if you can. But please if you have some spare change, and would like a tax deduction, too please Donate.

We need your help to take a Platform by the people brought to the floor of the DNC Convention by the delegates working with The People's Revolution & our event on July 23rd, The People's Convention.

It's not an easy job 'doing God's work', and this week was no exception.

The People's Summit - $50 - 200. per person June 17-19

Before I get to my take on the “real” definition, the political scientist in me feels a need to define some commonly misunderstood terms of which socialism is a great example. Like many people here in the US, I have always been very uncomfortable with the word socialism, and in my case, I realize it is because that one word has many very different meanings.

Back in the mid-80s my friends and I were at the only gay bar within 100 miles in any direction and one of the only five in the entire state of Tennessee. It was the middle of summer and everyone had Saturday Night Fever. Being the only gay bar around it was always crowded on the weekends and everyone was in their groups. The lesbians were hanging out by the pool table. The preppies were in the corner booth. The punk and new wave crowd were in the darkest corner.

In the wake of the Orlando massacre, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn writes at Health IT News about health disparities faced by the LGBT community in America.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, has an over-arching goal to improve the health, safety, and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. The CDC points out that LGBT individuals face health disparities linked to societal stigma, discrimination, and denial of civil and human rights. These challenges have been associated, in clinical peer-reviewed literature, with higher rates of psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, and suicide.

Experiences of violence are frequent for LGBT individuals

--CDC

About to take my adult son over to get tested for "Drugs." It's part of a on the job training program he was accepted into for people with severe neurological disabilities. He only takes gummy vitamin D and marijuana tincture that helps his anxieties due to autism.

I am staying at a friends place in Cali and they watch a lot of corporate news -- I mean, A LOT!

The tone of the last week has been monotonous and rather boring -- Hillary's coronation and the Drumpf. It was a low intensity, bored howl. A bit aggressive and standoffish, to keep the edge, but it was sedate.