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Andrew YangÂ tries to reinvigerate dying mall spaces.

This Guy Couldnâ€™t Find a Date to School Prom, So He Took His Cat

Rudy Giuliani and Joseph Lieberman at a conference for MEK.

in partial half-defenseÂ Â of kkk co-founder Nathan Bedford Forrest… If I had to “commemorate” him, as Tennessee’s governor apparently thinks so, keeping him down as a historical figure of notice, I’d slide that in for some sort of “redemption” narrative.

How much butt does a bikini barista need to cover up?

The Jeffrey Epstein case is why people believe in Pizzagate.
… good thing.Â Bi-Partisan whips lashes.

Did Russia Launch the Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory?

How the South Rose up to Destroy New Coke.

Is George Clooney fucking Barack Obama?Â Just asking…

Amy McGrath’s the latest Democratic challenger for a Senate seat in Kentucky.

Big Cannibis’s carbon footprint is huge

Murray woman charged after letting cat lie on frontÂ lawn.

Border Agents Caught Posting Racist, Sexist Messages About Migrants &Â AOCÂ in Secret Facebook Group.

FAer John Blum was indeed not an innocent by-stander at the big fa / antifa battle.

In an astonishing turn, George Soros and Charles Koch team up to end US â€˜forever warâ€™ policy

Jacobin interviews Mike Gravel

The Daily Beast doesn’t like Bill Maher’s interview of Tulsi Gabbard

Busing?Â Really
Why Berkeley was a unique case.

David Brooks is mad Americans aren’t war mongerers.

Tucker Carlson beat out John Bolton for Donald Trump’s Iran policy

Speaking of “Shithole countries”

Great Britain bans gender stereotypes
Â parsing aoc’s “concentration camp” statement

Alabama Republicans trying to recruit Jeff Sessions to stop Roy Moore, enlist Donald Trump to intervene
How can Trump stump for Sessions in this primary after reaffirming what a mistake he was in his cabinet?

“Three percenters” running around Oregon’s capital to lay seize

The Versailles Treaty: it was okay, not the destructive entity it’s made out to be…

Mitch McConnell now favors last presidential year Supreme Court votes

Hettie O’brian Catching up with Cass Sunstein and where “nudge” is today.

Helen Lewis parses various parts of terfs and etc.

Listening to a high school porn star

devolution of country music

If the Central 5 Park Case happened today

twitter shuts down pile of hoods image, never mind its illustrative purpose.Â The computer algorithm’s not so smart.

Why we believe every bad thing about North Korea.Â (Partly because a lot of bad comes out of North Korea)

Russia creates their own Chernobyl flick

Trump “not a fan of that war” (Vietnam)Â … hey, it’s one intelligent thing he’s said.

on the revelations of MLK that move from that which has long been established to that which shoves him into firm “metoo” territory:Â Since when is the FBI reliable?

Senator Alan Olsen’s lone vote no is correct, if politically deadening, and even as the “crack down on racially motivated 911 call” bill has an understandable logical edge to it.Â I suppose I’d take a deep breath, vote no, and then seek a racial justice vote of some kind.

Mark Evanier solves the question of who leaked the Jeopardy Champion losing

Mike Gravel mocks the Democrats who are lagging him in polling.

Gillibrand versus Buttigieg on Al Franken.Â The great thing is that (ex Republican turned centrist blue dog democrat turned mainline democrat following the left pull of the party) Gillibrand will be forever chiding me for sliding equivocatingly with Franken.

Kamala Harris is a cop.

Jacobin magazine throws a lot in for Mike Gravel

Biden’s comment to 10 year old is cause for pause

Biden fought against ACA

He’s the closest thing we’ve had to an antiwar president in 40 yearsâ€”but the entrenched interests have proven too strong.Â … Consistency has not been a strong suit of Trumpâ€™s administration. Yet terminating our interminable wars while lowering the U.S. military profile in the Islamic world does seem to be something to which the president is actually committed. …
Every elected President has been a â€˜peaceâ€™ candidate at least back to Clinton, but we donâ€™t get peace for the reason expressed at the end of the article â€¦ the â€˜war partyâ€™ has too much power. For those who think that Trump is simply too stupid to resist, we have the example of Obama. Obama is clearly intelligent (if not wise). He was also a peace candidate â€¦ proudly proclaiming his opposition to the Iraq War. He ended by destroying one country, Libya, and trying to destroy another, Syria. Probably killed half a million people and in the last year of his Presidency dropped 26,000 bombs.
We have another peace candidate, Tulsi Gabbard, and perhaps Bernie Sanders. I donâ€™t give either of them much hope. Gabbard will be crushed by the war party, because she is even more clearly their enemy than Trump was (the only reason Trump wasnâ€™t subjected to even more dirty tricks by the CIA, etc. is that they had no real expectation that he could win), and if Sanders were to make it to the White House, he would be another Obama.

The evolution of Godzilla

Rap arrives in Russia.

Writing letters to and receiving letters from John Walker Lindh.

Men and Women do not diverge on abortion views.

How phonies and self-promoters came to rule the world.

Stanton FriedmanÂ of ufo-ology and guest for Art Bell fame, and for some reason the NYT obituaries thinks its notable he appeared in an Archie Comic book.

who’s running the Mike Gravel campaign?

Of course Justin Amash has a primary opponent.

How the right lost interest in capitalism.

Rahm Emanuel’s sorry record.

Trump’s pick for ICE — “Can look into their eyes” and see if they’re MS-13.

“since buying this t-shirt” — comment.

Republicans and Democrats divide by neighborhood

Harvard caves to students and fires Weinstein defense lawyer

Is the “Ok” sign a signal for white supremacy?

TrumpÂ compares Buttigieg to Alfred E Neuman, Buttigieg doesn’t know what that is.

Using Amino Acids to identify pornographic images

Kanye West on Bi-polar disease… and everyone can take that one wherever they want regarding his political positions regarding Trump

If it is Bolton Versus Trump, with Trump being the (by hook or crook) good guy here… what the hell is John Bolton doing in Trump’s cabinet?

Joseph Biden responds to the “free tuition” bid with (maybley more reasonable; at least not a regressive wealth transfer) “2 years of community college” … and, quick question though on his “12 years not enough anymore”… can we maybe fortify the 12 years so that it can be valuable again?

Good Luck in battling this regime.