So, Steyer dropped out! The race competition narrows!
Yes, Steyer is a billionaire, but his thing is the environment. It is very possible a lot of his backers might now support Bernie because of that.
I've been offline since Thursday to avoid seeing Joe Biden's smug face and the elation of the punditry that Bernie Sanders lost in all the ways.
The TL;DR version of this race so far:
Iowa: "the real story tonight is who comes in 2nd, and yeah, the voting was an unresolved clusterfuck."
New Hampshire: "the real story tonight is who comes in 3rd, and yeah, we want a Republican billionaire Hail Mary in this."
Julian Assange's trial is a farce. First, they are charging an Australian journalist with treason against the United States for revealing blatant US war crimes. Second, the CIA spied and listened to all his conversations with his lawyers while he was in the embassy. Third, they still will not allow Julian to work with his lawyers on his defense, and actually have him in a bullet proof glass cage during the trial where he has difficulty even hearing the proceedings. Fourth, the Judge has conflicts of interest which should require her to be recused. Fifth, and perhaps most important, is the silence of the MSM about this joke and absolute miscarriage of justice. This whole trial is a shameful scam that shows the depth of the erosion of the rule and respect of law. Meanwhile on the home front, the MSM is quite actively trying to thwart Bernie's movement, as is the DNC. They're back with the no-evidence Russia, Russia, Russia interference without mention of their own bias and election interference.
Watch 3-4 min of this clip to hear directly from the FBI how they subvert democracy in the US.
The whole clip is good but over a year old.
Capitalism's Report Card
Part One: Basic Principles
The American People need to see that something is "possible" before they will support change. Let's hope more headlines like this will do the trick.
So Biden is surging in the polls.
Why?
What has happened to cause this surge?
The man who is running on 'electability' got crushed in Nevada.
This comes after underperforming the polls in Iowa and N.H.
The Center for Disease Control projects 19 million Americans infected and 10,000 deaths in just the month of January alone with the new virus sweeping the country. Yet despite media demands, the CDC refuses to admit this is a national emergency and take steps to contain this pandemic.
Wait...January?
Let me begin on a personal note. This last week, my 88 year old mother-in-law had to be hospitalized for a novovirus. Before we knew it three other family members and a friend fell ill. My wife was hospitalized yesterday. While not nearly as deadly as the current coronavirus, COVID_19, or influenza, there's no vaccine to prevent novovirus outbreaks like this one. Here's what it looks like: 
From a strategic standpoint, no one else in the United States has done more to open up the public space and discourse about the word Socialism, than Senator Sanders, imho. Even though he's not a “pure” socialist.
‘As Trump embraces Modi, communal violence convulses India’s capital’, Keith Jones, 25 February 2020, wsws.org
“US President Donald Trump has been feting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a two-day visit to India, even as the vile consequences of the fascistic, communalist policies pursued by Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government are being bloodily spelled out on the streets of Delhi.
