Drake posted this in twitter
Thomas Drake @Thomas_Drake1 1h1 hour ago
5 yrs ago today I faced down a 35 yr prison term in a 10 felony count Espionage Act indictment handed down against me by the US gov't. 1/195 yrs ago today I faced down a 35 yr prison term in a 10 felony count Espionage Act indictment handed down against me by the US gov't. 1/19
The Chicago City Council's Committee on Human Relations advanced an ordinance to the City Council Floor which will close a loophole in the city's human rights code which could make it difficult for transgender people to access public washrooms.
Under examination was the requirement that people be able to show a government-issued identification card that indicates that their gender matches that indicated for the washroom.
I don't know the best way to continue what the Occupy Movement and Black Lives Matter and Bernie helped ignite, a true people's movement: a/k/a a People's Revolution. Do we work to change the Democrats from within or become an outside force for change? I just know one thing. We can't stop.
Civil asset forfeiture has long been a civil rights nightmare that should have been banished to the 9th circle of Hell, but Oklahoma has decided to do the opposite. They've put civil asset forfeiture on steroids.
Yesterday I received an email pitch from the Sanders campaign:
When we began this campaign a little over a year ago we were considered to be a fringe campaign. But over the last year, I think that has changed just a little bit.
As of last night, we have won 22 state primaries and caucuses with more than 11 million votes.
Obama On The Battle Between The Campaigns
President Obama said the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders was a “healthy thing” for the Democratic Party and that his role going forward will be to remind people that the job of being president “is not reality TV," in an interview with “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
The AP called California once "100% of the precincts were counted", but WTF does that mean? The counting isn't anywhere close to being 100% done in CA.
Here in CA we don't have election day, we have election week, which means we are still counting votes (lots and lots of votes). 3 million votes might still be uncounted (see below).
This year's presidential primaries were the most interesting in memory.
Simultaneously they brought much needed discussion to long-avoided issues, while at the same time exposed just how farcical and corrupt our political system is.
After reading underwriter505's first essay here, I was dismayed to discover that the DNC Platform Drafting Committee sent two emails requesting feedback from Democratic party members on issues to be addressed by the party's platform.
