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I have never hated the shouts of white men more than I have tonight.

This is for anybody wasting time online blathering about how Hillary and Trump are the same; how if Hillary gets the nomination, they won’t…

“…your assertion that you can’t in good conscience vote for Hillary is an insult to me and women and queer folks and all the people who benefit and even have a chance to thrive under Democratic policies. You’d consign us to 4 years of Trump and two or three decades of a disgusting, vile Supreme Court because you have a sad feelz in your tum-tum?“

politico

5 numbers that mattered this week

By STEVEN SHEPARD

Continuing our POLITICO feature, where we dig into the latest polls and loop in other data streams to tell the story of the 2016 campaign. Here are five numbers that mattered this week.

Read more here

liberalsarecool

GOP train wreck.

Super delegates take the democracy right out of the Democratic Party

#I usually think people are too dumb to know their own good #but in this case the regular people are right

shrekyourself

occupywatchdog

The erroneous ruling of the supreme court, where millionaires, billionaires, can put in unlimited amounts of money, give legal bribery the chance to prevail, because all the candidates, whether they are honest or not, or whether they are Democratic or Republican, depend on these massive infusions of money from very rich people in order to have money to campaign. As the rich people finance the campaigns, when candidates get in office they do what the rich people want. And that’s to let the rich people get richer and richer and the middle class get left out. All the statistics show that the middle class are stagnant or going down in their income for the work that they do. When I ran against Gerald Ford, or later Ronald Reagan, we didn’t raise a single penny to finance our campaign against each other … nowadays you have to have hundreds of millions of dollars to prevail.

Jimmy Carter calls US campaign finance ruling ‘legalised bribery’ (via occupywatchdog)

micdotcom

Donald Trump has been using Adele’s music at rallies — and she’s so done

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump apparently enjoys walking out to Adele. Trump’s campaign regularly plays “Skyfall” as one of several songs before he enters at and “Rolling in the Deep” during his entrance. Adele, however, is apparently not down for that.

#Adele's my spirit animal #Rolling in the Deep forever uncleeaaannnn

micdotcom

As of midnight on Monday night, Sen. Bernie Sanders trails Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses by less than a percentage point. Sanders has labeled it a “virtual tie.” Considering where Bernie stood a year ago (and the massive percentage growth) this is truly remarkable.

Related: Watch Sanders’ full Iowa speech.

kileyrae

Republicans are always advocating for some type of Articles of Confederation government like we haven’t already done that and it wasn’t a complete disaster.

kileyrae

She can’t be a champion of women’s rights at the same time she’s got this that is always lurking out there, this type of behavior.

Rand Paul responding to question about Hillary Clinton’s marriage and her husband, former President Bill Clinton’s past transgressions.

Okay, first of all: F**k you, Rand Paul. Second of all, YOU do not get to determine who can and cannot be a “champion of women’s rights.” You literally just got done advocating for making abortion illegal and you want to talk about women’s rights? No, sir. Third of all, Hillary Clinton’s marriage is none of your business. You can think that what Bill Clinton did is reprehensible. You can think that he should have been removed from office. But to say that a woman is not allowed to champion rights for her own gender because she chose to forgive her husband? Why? Every relationship is different. Every woman is different. There are many valid criticisms against both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, but their marriage is not something you can use to degrade and disrespect Secretary Clinton or any other woman who makes relationship choices you don’t agree with.

(via kileyrae)

micdotcom

Watch: The Iowa caucus is a bit of a mess, so why is it so important to the nomination process?

guardian

Robert Gates: Republicans’ grasp of national security is at a child’s level

Robert Gates, a Republican stalwart and former US defense secretary who served under eight presidents, has derided the entire field of Republican presidential candidates for lacking a grasp of national security issues. Read the article in The Guardian.

kateoplis

Why Bernie Sanders Is Right to Oppose Reparations

There are lots of principled reasons that an anti-racist socialist might not favor the policy.

In June 2014, when my colleague Ta-Nehisi Coates published “The Case for Reparations,” I wrote in praise of its powerful description of housing discrimination as depraved, invidious theft that harmed black Americans long after the repeal of Jim Crow. And I declared myself “persuaded that relatively radical action ought to be taken to compensate victims of redlining and to address its most destructive, lasting consequences.” Specifically, I urged radical changes to the criminal-justice system and advocated some of the policing reforms that Black Lives Matter now champions.

But I opposed the payment of reparations to African Americans as a group.

I argued that race-neutral remedies to housing discrimination, the drug war, abusive policing, and other racist policies are a superior alternative––politically, practically, and morally––to race-specific remedies, even if one believes, as I do, that U.S. policies injured black people far more than any other non-indigenous group.”

“Perhaps when Sanders says that reparations would be divisive, he doesn’t mean that they would damage his campaign or the Democratic coalition by dividing its supporters––the plausible interpretation that Ta-Nehisi argued against in his critiques––but that it would divide Americans of different races against one another in a manner likely to cause more harm to vulnerable minority groups than good, or necessitate a divisive process of bureaucrats defining who qualifies as black. Maybe he was thinking that reparations poll dismally when their terms are undefined, and that hashing out specifics (I’m not sure if Ta-Nehisi wants Sanders to embrace the policies suggested by his 2014 article, or as popularly defined) would be divisive even among those on the left who favor reparations in the abstract.

I cannot disprove Ta-Nehisi’s less flattering theories. I am open to the possibility that they are accurate. But I see no evidence in favor of that proposition. And the arguments so far offered all seem to beg the question as to whether the reparations are the most just, the most effective, even the only effective way to dismantle white supremacy. Odds are that Bernie Sanders disagrees with those premises. I definitely do.”

Do read on: The Atlantic