If ever there was going to be a grassroots rebellion within the Democratic Party, now is the time.

Honesty? Realism? A sense of the bigger picture? I'm still looking for the exact term. (This is a reaction to the vast display of "support Ukraine" flag-waving you can see on social media at this moment.)

To focus the mind, let's look at this Bernie Sanders tweet again:

All kinds of things -- most specifically telling the Muslims to go away:

Today's assassination attempt pretty much sealed it. We are getting a Republican trifecta. This might be the end of the "safe state" system, the system that has dominated American Presidential elections since 1992, in which the West Coast and the Northeast are (D), the Plains states and the Deep South are (R), and everything else is a tossup.

This is the new version of "Look! Shiny object!" It's now all over Facebook. Here I'm going to try to connect the dots. Anyway, Project 2025. We are supposed to be deeply concerned, once again, about America becoming a theocracy, decades after Reagan put them into power and decades after the publication of Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale.

01/08 is World Typing Day

~~ Typewriter

Remember when 2024 election was all about democracy. Guess that doesn't include Democratic primaries

Over at RBN they posted this short, six minute video:

So here we have Cornel West, on the advice of Jill Stein, hiring Peter Daou as a campaign manager. Here's Sabrina Salvati breaking it down: