I told her I’d spent the day weeding. She was annoyed.

“Weeding is pointless,” she said. ”They just come back. Or a fire comes through and burns everything. And then who comes back first? Weeds.”

“Well,” I tried, “I—“

“And there aren’t even really anything such as weeds,” she decreed. “A weed is just a plant somebody doesn’t want. You don’t even know what a weed is.”

“I know what is a weed,” I said. ”It’s whoever is trying to choke out the true violets, or the little trees.”

“You and your trees!” She’d never liked the thing about the trees. “Letting grow any tree who happens to come up from seed. So that now you can’t even use a lawnmower, or a weedeater: you have to crawl along, weeding by hand, so you don’t whack some tree that can barely be seen. Which is nuts. And since you’re a male, meaning controlled by sloth, and now also depressed as hell, that means half the time your place looks, like even you’ve said, like a Boo Radley house, so wild are the weeds, because you never get to them.”

The DCCC refused to acknowledge that anything changed with 2016. So to prevent another AOC they decided to blacklist anyone that works with any primary challenger.

The UK European elections are about to happen, and it couldn't be worse for the Tories.

Welcome to this first organic Spring Fund Drive: “What does c99 mean to you?"

Why have a community fund drive? Because monthly recurring contributions have dropped more than sixty percent from two years ago; and presently, the site is at the mercy of less than a handful of generous monthly contributors. That’s why. Thought you all would want to know.

Let’s do what we can, renew and increase our past commitments a little or step forward and help for the first time. In community and collectively, whatever you can afford, goes a long way.

Juan Guaido's U.S.-backed coup failed pitifully yesterday.

‘Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks for breaching bail in 2012’, the Guardian, May Day, 2019 (two weeks short of the maximum permitted by law, as I understand it)

I cried watching this, thinking of my beautiful son Henry and his final weeks at home. Thank you, brave, beautiful @AdyBarkan. I will honor your incredible work & continue the fight for #MedicareForAll. PLEASE watch this in full & RT.

There are rules, you see. Many, many rules. So speaketh the DNC.

In order to get a spot in the first two televised national Democratic debates, you must reach at least one of two goals. 1) Get 65,000 unique donors to your campaign; or 2) score at least 1% or more in three separate polls in a nationwide or Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, or South Carolina poll from a predetermined slate of poll takers.

And, there can only be 20 total candidates (that's another rule).

This just happened and there isn't much information about it yet. This article has the most, but the facts are still slim.

2 dead after shots fired at UNCC, Medic says, and 4 other people were injured

Two people were killed and four others are hurt after shots were fired at the UNC Charlotte campus on Tuesday afternoon, Medic confirmed.

According to one poll, Joe Biden has an almost insurmountable lead over every other Democratic challenger, of 14 points over second-place Bernie. Another poll gives him a 24 point lead.
It's possible that these polls are accurate. It's also possible that they are predictive.

From Venezuelanalysis:

Caracas, April 30, 2019 (venezuelanalysis.com) - A military coup attempt is underway in Venezuela on Tuesday, April 30, with imprisoned right wing leader Leopoldo Lopez, and self-proclaimed “Interim President” Juan Guaido and some members of the armed forces blocking a highway in Caracas and calling on the military to rise up

Happy days are here again. Blackwater has returned to Iraq.

Trump promised his huge corporate tax cut would turn into investment, which would turn into jobs, which would turn into bonuses.
That's not how things turned out.