I agree with the general idea that Obama, and Democrats, have had a share in the authoritarian turn in our neoliberal and over-policed era, but I think you are mistaken about who deployed the National Guard to Ferguson in 2014. I am pretty sure it was the Missouri governor, not Obama.

It will rot in a field somewhere one day, lauded by few, eaten by time, like that "Presidents' Park" in Virginia, an ironic tombyard full of giant presidential busts collapsing in on themselves...

Happy birthday. Love Sanders but he is the senior senator from Vermont. Welch was elected 2022. :)

A pair nested in my grape vine this year, second year in a row, in the same general spot. Several juveniles found their way into the world some weeks later... Partners for life ... Love these...

Well it does add "et al" to AARP... And besides... The 55 year old lawyer is as sharp and far more experienced and skilled than the 35 year old. ;)

I can see it, broadly. It is good to have such truths and to live them publicly.

Maybe? Interesting anyway. I don't remember you ever mentioning this.

Thx Roxane... Trip with students visiting the Agua-Cliente and other Nate American reservations.

And you have to buy the stairway. The highway is free.

We look someone and help them.

Wealth serves humanity on a plate.