A Minor Observation
Here we all are watching the Really Stupid Wing of The Stupid Party, who thinks you are stupid, hold the nation hostage...To get what? Something, evidently. Doesn't matter what it is, only that there...
View ArticleProgressive Groups: Please do continue asking for money!
I'm going to make this short and sweet! (This diary is not intended to address the other with the Don't Title)Like it or not, there is a lot of money in politics. The only check on that is people and...
View ArticleUPDATE: Why young people need the ACA
I am on mobile and this just happened. If I need edits on this diary, I will process them a bit later today. All done.We have a 20 something in our life who is just trying to get established. Jobs...
View ArticleThe problem with touch screen and Internet voting
I am short on time, but this is a topic very close to my heart.The problem, put simply, is that voting machines do not record voter intent. They only record what the machine interpreted the voter...
View ArticleHow come we are not talking about Mayday.us money in politics reform?
I've been following Larry Lessig for some time now. He's well known for his work on Copyright and for Creative Commons, with Aaron Schwartz involvement there.As I read the dialog here, I am frankly...
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Mayday.us just funded $5 Million today
Screen capture just after $5,000,000 mark! I'm pretty stoked. The problem of money in politics impacts everything. The appeal of this movement to me was that it centered on us as people, citizens....
View ArticleThey don't send progressive ballot initatives to my cellphone
I just read this on a Reddit politics GOTV thread, and it was profound. To set this up, there were a few people, myself included chatting about voting. I'm a Gen-Xer, and will take these threads to...
View ArticleLet's talk about what is a loss
I read this diary: http://www.dailykos.com/......and I liked it. Great diary. Do not take this one as any thing but positive for the author, who brought us some good food for thought.Be sure and...
View ArticleAbout Touch Screen Voting
This is a Public Service Diary. I know you don't want to think about it, but you really do need to think about it. Over the years, I've been consistently frustrated by the failure to recognize the...
View ArticleAbout our loss. We didn't turnout the vote.
Yesterday, I wrote this public service diary on touch screen voting: http://www.dailykos.com/...I wrote that because any of us who voted on a touch screen doesn't really know anything about our votes....
View ArticleAsk Dk: Health care options for uninsured in Oregon?
I've an ugly scenario that I could use some advice on. Put simply, a family member unwisely chose the "I'll get insurance when I get sick" path, got sick with what appears to be an expensive to...
View ArticleA root cause of police violence
This was a comment on this diary http://www.dailykos.com/... that got a diary request.Years ago, just prior to 911, and I'm thankful for that given how things have gone since, I got brutalized by the...
View ArticleOn why we need more focus on policing doctrine reform
Everyone, I wrote about this yesterday: http://www.dailykos.com/...I just made another comment on the topic that morphed into a diary, and here it is! I feel strongly about getting this matter more...
View ArticleOn trial expectations when you get caught up in the Escalation of Force to...
Hey, it's me again. Yes, another comment turned diary. Apparently, I've got just a little bit more to say on this than I expected.My other recent work on this police doctrine problem can be read...
View ArticleOn the dynamics of personal change
I made some comments in response to this diary: http://www.dailykos.com/...They ended up a somewhat longer dialog that is worth a diary. Seems this is a theme with me lately...For me, this is hard...
View ArticleWow! I should have done beta...
This is really cool! I’ll come back later and figure it all out.Any tips for peeps who were unable to get a running start? Put ‘em in the comments.
View ArticleOne person, one vote is under threat by authoritarians.
This front page piece made me realize it’s time to remind everyone about the basic forces in play here. It all goes way beyond mere differences in policy preferences or opinion.There are days when I...
View ArticlePut down the hate hammer, please.
Here we go! It’s almost time for the real voting to begin, and here we are once again pie fighting like no other on Dkos. We do that, don’t we? Now, don’t get me wrong. For the most part, getting...
View ArticleGetting Real With Bernie
My son is Black, and we are a mixed race family. This is powerful:xYouTube VideoIf you have another 6 minutes, watch rapper and social advocate Killer Mike talk with and about Bernie:xYouTube VideoWe...
View ArticleGet to work for Bernie!
Grassroots and the official campaign have dished out over 600k phone calls!Right now, the campaign for Bernie is asking for priority phone banking to Wisconsin. This means you can sign up and make a...
View ArticleBernie Can Have My Money As Long As He Wants It!
There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding in play regarding the Sanders For President campaign. One artifact of that misunderstanding is why Kossacks For Sanders has come to exist. (Yes, I...
View ArticleAction for Bernie: Get independent voter registration updated to Democrat to...
I am bumping into a lot of Oregon voters registered independent, who don't know they can change and vote for Bernie, and who don't know that independent status will prevent them from voting for Bernie...
View Article"WE" vs "I" Rhetoric, what it could mean.
I wrote this comment and realized it’s likely gonna get lost amidst a sea of comments related to the Democratic Party nominee.Many of us have noted that Bernie says, “WE” most of the time, and that...
View ArticleKilling It With Kindness
Morning thought:You know, I feel awesome about the Sanders campaign. I haven’t had this much fun and hope in politics for a long time.Maybe you should try it. No Joke.All this war framing, and on the...
View ArticleI'm not sorry. I'm not living in fear, and I am not ashamed.
This is going to be a total pig of a diary. Buckle in, because what I have to say, and the realizations I’ve come to, just aren’t pretty. And they can’t be, which is why I feel no fear or shame.let’s...
View ArticleI get it. Fundraising is important.
John Oliver just covered how the Congressional fundraising for individual legislators and the party work last night:xYouTube VideoGo ahead, watch it. Won't take long. I’ll wait…Done? Sure? Ok...
View ArticleCalled it! Bernie Had Meeting With the Pope!
BAM!Take that naysayers. I put a lot of comments here detailing how the church politics work, and why it’s a little baby step at a time, and that fast talking critics needed to cool their jets and let...
View ArticleWe aren't asking. We are paying our own way. We are here to stay!
It is time to understand a few things about the Bernie Sanders campaign, movement, and the growing number of people who will gladly identify as Berniecrats. Many of these people also identify as...
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I am in Oregon, and I'm voting Bernie all the WAY!
Meta: www.dailykos.com/…Apparently, some of us want to assign intent to this diary not intended. Before we get to the fun diary, let me be clear here: This diary is a positive advocacy diary for...
View ArticleBERNIE SANDERS WINS INDIANA!!
Way to go INDIANA! Thank you!Visit IGUALDAD’s Diary For Results and CommentaryWe are in this to win this! Great work everyone. Special thanks to all the ground workers and phone bankers who have...
View ArticleThis Race Is Not Over. We go to Philly.
xYouTube VideoHere, for all you naysayers calling your friend and fellow Democrat Spud ugly names, is a brief statement from Bernie that explains all this process clearly, and that validates much of my...
View ArticleCalifornia Does Not Matter Just Stay Home (Updated!)
Bad form. It won't be forgotten.This will not end us, and that is all.
View ArticleBernie To Speak In Next Few Minutes
xYouTube VideoThis campaign has been flat out awesome. Sometimes politics is beautiful, and this is one of those times. Berners, just know we will get through this rough time. Our movement doesn’t...
View Article2016: The Year Progressives Came Of Age
If you are wondering what that headline means, you do not yet understand Bernie Sanders. There is no shame in that. Plenty of people don’t. The establishment media doesn’t, and it shows in how they...
View ArticleRe: Sigh
BBB made this statement: “I don't know what it is that is keeping you folks from moving on.”I’ve been away for a while, actually getting after that which deserves a quick answer here. So, here we go!...
View ArticleWe Must Become Government!
I’ve been away. For reasons. Understandable, right?Hey brothers and sisters, I did that because a fight didn’t make sense. Wanted to keep options on the table, just in case. Sweet Jesus! Here we...
View Article"It's Time To Move On"
First, no.I’m going to be blunt: Democratic Party performance for labor and the middle class has been deplorable. Those of us all upset over the divide in the party need to realize that you created...
View ArticleWe Have to Relitigate the Primary
Look around. We remain divided. Bernie Sanders is out there basically showing up an awful lot of people who see him as old news, loser, whatever.In a past diary, I admitted my complicity in all of...
View Article~100K People Tuned In On A DNC Chair Live Stream?
Are you kidding me? xYouTube VideoAt this time of year? A supposed snooze fest like this?Gotta tell you, I was riveted! Literally, watched the whole thing, eager for more! This is something I crave....
View ArticleThe Party Platform Is "just a piece of paper nobody cares about"
So, I watched that Ellison / Sanders DNC Chair Rally. Was good. 100k people joined me.And I got to thinking. Sanders made a big deal out of working the convention, putting our mark on the party...
View ArticleResult Oriented Democracy
“Bernie lost 22 States and 45 percent of delegates”No, he won those. While the nomination outcome of a primary is binary, win / lose, the overall election data, gauging support, and all sorts of other...
View Article11:59:60 The leap second this year! ONWARD!
Yes, some clocks will display “11:59:60” as a valid time mark this year, due to a leap second correction. Cool. Don’t miss it!www.elleuk.com/...In these few minutes left to me in 2016, I must say,...
View ArticlePlease tell me you didn't just say, "F**k the poors!"
All of the drama surrounding Clinton and the DNC boils down to one and only one thing:Labor and the middle class.In the camp for Clinton? Fuck the poors!Pining for Perez? Fuck the poors!Thought Obama...
View ArticlePerez and friends afraid of "real Progressives?"
They should be. No joke. Why? Last year we learned:Democrats are trading on social progress to advance moderate GOP policy while Republicans trade on social regression to advance more extreme...
View ArticleOssoff is what happens when...
Hey Kossacks!Ever think about how many Bernicrats could have won office with the money spent on Ossoff? I do, but that’s just a sidebar.The real story here is very simple:Money and branding aren’t the...
View ArticleDispatch from the Alt-Left, A.K.A The Left: You Bet Your Ass It's The Economy!
I’m going be brutal here, because there just isn’t any nice way to say it:Democrats are trading on social progress to advance neoliberal economics, while Republicans trade on social regression to...
View ArticleUnderstanding Is The Foundation For Revolution
Hey everyone! It’s been a while. Thought I would swing by to say hello to some friends and pass along a bit of insight to come out of many difficult political discussions I’ve had recently.I just had...
View ArticleThe Future Of The Democratic Party Looks Like This:
Watch the rally!While we watch the GOP assemble the absolute worst tax reform possible, where are our people?Tweeting scribbles? Doing the TV circuit?Some people are out there building what will be...
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ROUND TWO, FIGHT!
Yes, we are doing this all over again. Isn’t it GREAT! I think so.Nothing gets me going like a Bernie run does. You all notice he took it straight to the people? No big, expensive, shallow, wasteful...
View ArticleFeel the Bern Trifecta!
Like many Berners, I have been nose to the grindstone, finding time to help the campaign when and how I can. This year, I am donating $27 / month, and $2.70 when asked.And I have been asked a lot....
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