Day: May 17, 2018

Founded in 2017 by Cenk Uygur of 'The Young Turks', and former leadership from the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, Justice Democrats has a stated goal of reforming the Democratic Party by running "a unified campaign to replace every corporate-backed member of Congress and rebuild the Democratic Party from scratch." You can't get anymore corporate-backed than Carper.

Note to Confused Demographers: A handful of wealthy people getting even weathier does not mean that "the economy" has "rebounded."

WASHINGTON — The fertility rate in the United States fell to a record low for a second straight year, federal officials reported Thursday, extending a deep decline that began in 2008 with the Great Recession. The fertility rate fell to 60.2 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age, down 3 percent from 2016, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. It was the largest single-year decline since 2010, when families were still feeling the effects of a weak economy.... The country has been living through one of the longest declines in fertility in decades and demographers are trying to figure out what is driving it. Rates tend to drop during difficult economic times as people put off having babies, and then rise once the economy rebounds. But the rate has not recovered since the Great Recession. A brief uptick in 2014 did not last. The number of births has also declined, and last year was its lowest level since 1987. The fertility rate is the number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44.

The word fascism gets thrown around cavalierly - but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paramilitary arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is just like what you'd expect a fascist government to set up.

Short stack this morning because I have another engagement and haven't had time to digest yesterday's events. This caught my eye, though, considering that Team Trump signaled its intent to…