My Millennial Daughter's Message on Voting for Hillary
Submitted by Steven D on Wed, 04/27/2016 - 10:55amI am posting this verbatim from my daughter's Facebook page:
I am posting this verbatim from my daughter's Facebook page:
The State Department has now acknowledged that it withheld a key Benghazi e-mail in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in July 2014. The State Department acknowledged finding the e-mail in 2014, but it was withheld in its entirety until last week.
How has a Senator from my tiny home State even run a globally known politician close? How has he even run her close despite the DNC and the media? How has he even run her close despite the corporations money, despite the broken electoral process, despite Citizens United and contrary to the talking heads inevitable coronation monologue?
Complete and utter disgust with the current social and political system.

On Sunday April 24th an unnamed source told me that Sanders campaign staffers Corbin Trent, the founder of Tennessee for Sanders and Zack Exely, Sanders Senior Digital Advisor had left the Sanders campaign to start something called "Brand New Congress". I was also told the soft rollout for a brandnewcongress.org would occur Monday.
Any alternate approach to climate change mitigation should start with an essay titled "Beyond Paris: avoiding the trap of carbon metrics" by Camila Moreno and a number of coauthors. The essay's byline is telling:
Ted Cruz has decided to step his transphobia up a notch.
In essence, Cruz wants to eliminate transgender people from the public sphere.
Speaking in Plainfield, IN:
Wednesday April 26, 1916
From the New York Evening World:"Irish in Dublin Rise In Revolt"

Juan Cole has appeared at several NetRoots meetups, long before the sell-out nature of the great orange Satan became so visible. He is one of the finest students and writers about the Muddle East that I have had the pleasure to meet. Today's article is by his contributor, Rebecca Gordon, who just authored Not al-Qaeda: Abu Zubayda as Bush’s Mengele Experiment

