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Pelosi Warns Democrats: Stay in the Center or Trump May Contest Election Results. -Via the NYT. How did the Germany not see it? Hitler had written a book about his…

Former campaign manager for Eugene Young/Kerri Evelyn Harris and Network Delaware activist Drew Serres join RE Vanella in the bunker (back in February) to talk about how he got into…

Facebook banned several prominent accounts promoting white nationalism on the platform on Thursday. Accounts barred from Facebook, as well as its subsidiary Instagram, as part of the new enforcement include…

Barr testified that Presidential campaigns getting help from foreign governments is OK, but (absurdly) draws the line at getting help from foreign intelligence service.

Winner: Foreign governments who want to interfere in US elections

Barr went to extreme lengths to normalize the Trump campaign’s extensive contacts with Russia. Barr hesitated before answering a question from Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) about whether presidential campaigns offered dirt on their opponents by foreign governments should report the offer to the FBI. The Trump campaign faced this exact scenario when top members of its campaign took a meeting in Trump Tower with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who was offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.

“If a foreign intelligence service does, yes,” Barr said, making a distinction between intelligence services and governments.

Things we already know about piece of shit Trump defense attorney William Barr, who is posing as Attorney General, have been confirmed by the Washington Post. We know Barr lied. We know Trump is a criminal. But the only reports that matter are the vote totals in 552 days.

Two people are dead and at least four others were injured and a suspect was taken into custody after a shooting Tuesday at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte…

My sense is that Bethany Hall-Long REALLY wants to be Governor someday. If I'm right, she is making a big mistake by not primarying the weak, distracted, friendless, checked out, dithering John Carney. She'd have one candidate to beat - a weak, distracted, friendless, checked out, dithering candidate. But if she waits her turn and runs in four years she'll be facing a platoon of tough, determined, fighters in a primary. Simply put - she is blowing it. This same logic goes for Sean Lynn and if not Lynn, whatever candidate Delaware United, and/or Mom's Demand Action are looking at supporting. Take Carney out in 2020 and you have a walk to the Governor's office in an Anti-Trump wave year. Wait, and you've got a tough uphill fight.

Mark the time. I'm calling it. It is a three person race: Biden/Bernie/Mayor Pete. The good news is that all three candidates are great and will mop the floor with Donald Trump, provided we avoid turning the primary into a Titus Andronicus-style meat pie buffet. Biden announced in person yesterday in an address to fat union guys that is being lauded by Dem insiders and beltway talking heads. (Like it or not, Dem insiders are a Democratic constituency.) If Iowa and New Hampshire agree with beltway talking heads that Anita Hill, the Crime Bill, and "handsy" is old news, then Biden is in a very strong position going forward. I know it is temping to talk about all the things you don't like about Biden, so I am issuing a challenge to you, dear commenter. For every negative thing you say about Biden, provide two positive things. I'll start. I don't like that Joe voted to support Bush's stupid vanity war in Iraq, but I like the fact that he gets under Trump's skin and I think he can give a decent set piece speech.

It just is.

David Akadjian's post at Daily Kos splits the arrow in the bull's eye with this explanation of why Democrats might as well do the right thing instead of looking for…

These synagogue and mosque attacks are not the acts of isolated individuals. The Escondido synagogue shooter purposefully aligned himself with the White Power politics endorsed by President Donald Trump in an online anti-Semitic screed.

A gunman armed with a semiautomatic rifle walked into a suburban San Diego County synagogue and opened fire on the congregation Saturday, killing one person and injuring three in an attack that authorities believe was motivated by hate. The gunman entered Chabad of Poway in the 16000 block of Chabad Way about 11:20 a.m. and started firing, authorities said. The 19-year-old suspect, identified as (NO Publicity for Murderers), of Rancho Penasquitos, was arrested a short time later.

The LA Times reports that (The murderer) appears to have written a letter posted on the Internet filled with anti-Semitic screeds, connecting his act with racist attacks in New Zealand and Pittsburg.

Megan Hart of Network Delaware joins RE Vanella to talk about the politics of Sussex County and how to organize in a place that seems beyond saving.

Just because the Health Care Industrial complex has LOUDLY endorsed Joe Biden, that doesn't mean Biden endorses them.  He could still have his "Sister Souljah" moment and smack down this "Joe is running to kill single payer" talk, but I'd view that as a long shot, based on the fact that he needs money. And yet, he did say that we are in a "battle for the soul of the nation" so maybe his all out pro-corporate stance on issues such as outsized guaranteed profits for insurers and BigPharma at the expense of the soul of America has softened(?)