Wow.
Congratulations to 28-year-old Latina candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who defeated some 10-term incumbent old, white guy in New York’s 14th congressional district.
This shows me Democrats are will to change. Ocasio-Cortez is a bit of a radical.
Watch her superb political ad on YouTube.
Thanks Dvora.
I want to vote for MJ Hegar running for Congress in Texas District 31.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The girl’s father, Denis Hernandez, corrected the Time Magazine photographer: His daughter, Yanela Sanchez, and his wife are being held together in a family detention center in Texas.
Still … the image is legit. This is Trump’s GOP in 2018.
I question whether or not the G7 is worth the cost and trouble.
On the upside, in 2018 a $3bn pledge for girls’ education was announced.
AND I’m pleased some world leaders stood up to the irrational egomaniac. You have to call out this kind of stupidity. Even if you suffer consequences. Trump won’t be around forever.
Donald Trump, toddler President, is the worst politician that ever happened to the USA. I’m embarrassed for the nation. 🤨
Fiscally conservative Economist Magazine put together stats on 11 key economic indicators. The numbers aren’t all bad. Yet.
Fiscally conservative Economist magazine put together a succinct video explaining the word Liberal.
The first truly Liberal government was the USA. In 2018 Canada and France are good examples.
USA under Trump in 2018 is run by a few billionaires and rich corporations funding the GOP.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I don’t particularly like Bill Maher.
But when he nails it, he nails it. 😀
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
With a rating of 4.36 / 5.00 on GoodReads, this book is popular. And depressing.
My takeaways:
The U.S. political system is a fail, I’d say.
40% think Trump is doing a good job. A majority of those, I’m guessing, believe what they hear on FOX News and right wing radio.
Americans so easily misled deserve worse education, worse health care, medical bankruptcy, etc. … There’s no helping people like that.
I keep thinking American voters will figure out the richest of the rich are taking too much money. They don’t
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (2016) is a non-fiction book written by the American investigative journalist Jane Mayer, about a network of extremely wealthy conservative republicans, foremost among them Charles and David Koch, who have together funded an array of organizations that work in tandem to influence academic institutions, think tanks, the courts, statehouses, Congress, and the American presidency for their own benefit.
Mayer particularly discusses the Koch family and their political activities, along with Richard Mellon Scaife and John M. Olin and the DeVos and Coors families.
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Jane Meredith Mayer is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1995. …
In 2016, Doubleday published Mayer’s fourth book, Dark Money, which became an instant national best-seller, and the New York Times named it one of the ten best books of the year. …
Mayer revealed that approximately six investigators, led by former New York Police Chief Howard Safir, had been hired by the industrialist Koch brothers in an effort to try to dig up dirt in order to smear her reputation, and that accusations of plagiarism had been leveled at her. She responded by publicly airing those tactics of intimidation, effectively debunking the smear campaign.
The third book (2014) in the Century Trilogy, after Fall of Giants and Winter of the World.
For me it’s the 6th book in his historical fiction series starting chronologically in the 12th century with the Kingsbridge series.
Each of the 6 books got better, I’d say.
I learned a lot. Kennedy and King were critically important for human rights in the USA, yet both were flawed men.
Edge of Eternity tells the story of the third generation of families developed in the first two novels and located in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Russia during the height of the Cold War.
The novel’s characters become involved in a number of the most important global events during the period, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the British Invasion, the J.F.K. Administration, Watergate, and the Civil Rights Movement. …
Superb. I’m very sorry to have finished them all.
I MIGHT start over one day.
Click PLAY or watch Ken Follett explaining the book on YouTube.
Donald Trump:
“This is all very well, but I’d just like to know who is at home taking care of the babies?”
It might not have been Trump. But some other dinosaur trying to protect his white, male privilege.
In 1919, the Missouri Legislature approved letting women vote in presidential elections — an act made moot by ratification Aug. 18, 1920, of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting the denial of voting rights “on account of sex.”
