Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Peace, Bobby

      RFK speaking to campaign workers just before he was shot.

The lost day: How we remember, and don't, the 26 hours after Robert F. Kennedy fell

7 comments:

  1. From my inbox:

    BIG UPDATE: Last night, we went 3 for 3 in hotly-contested California congressional contests...

    Together, PCCC members helped Katie Porter (CA-45), Mike Levin (CA-49), Ammar Campa-Najjar (CA-50) win! Vox wrote, "California is testing the viability of Medicare for All candidates in competitive House districts." We passed with flying colors!

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    1. And a message form Pelosi says the Dems have successfully gotten a candidate on the ballot in all competitive districts. I know that at least one and maybe all the districts she's referring to are those mentioned above.

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    2. And I also see that DFA supported precisely these three candidates.

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  2. The “Nightmare” Democrats Need[Click] Can Dems have a deep field in 2020, not a big clown car like the GOP had in 2016?

    —Alan

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  3. Thoughts on Trump’s Attempted Trade Wars[Click] By Josh Marshall
    “One of my most important lessons in Trumpist ideology came early and it came from then-Times columnist Joe Nocera…”

    Trump Is Choosing Eastern Europe[Click] This fits right in with the article above.

    The Astonishing Tale of the Man Mueller Calls ‘Person A’[Click] “One of the most shocking revelations from the special counsel’s investigation is the suggestion that Paul Manafort’s longtime aide is a pawn of Russian intelligence.”

    —Alan

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  4. Rev Al Sharpton: Democrats 'too tame to deal with Trump'[Click] He makes a number of good points; but it seems he hasn’t read the Supreme Court decision in the wedding cake case.


    540m-year-old bug tracks are oldest footprints ever discovered[Click]

    Flooding from high tides has doubled in the US in just 30 years[Click]

    —Alan

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  5. You can't make this up:

    “We have a very strong relationship with the government of Germany. Looking back in the history books, today is the 71st anniversary of the speech that announced the Marshall Plan. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the D-Day invasion.”

    — State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, quoted by the New York Daily News

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