North Dakota thugs want to arrest Jill Stein for spraying graffiti on a bulldozer as part of a protest against the new pipeline.

No sign that they want to arrest the private security guards that used dogs and pepper spray to attack protesters. These "laws" are just instruments for plutocracy. Nothing here about democracy.

Clinton is making it very clear that there is nothing progressive about her.

Some of us never expected anything different of her. We should learn to reject right-wing Democrats the way we reject Republicans. You can't build democracy and give people in general a good life if your main goal contradicts that.

US TV network news has mentioned the pipeline protests just once: less than a minute, at 4am, and biased against the protesters.

I don't have a TV set, but I sometimes go to places where people are watching them. I actively avoid watching mainstream TV news programs, figuring that their purpose is only to poison our minds.

Facebook's Instagram division demands that the activist campaign LitterGram change its name.

I hope LitterGram stands firm long enough for public pressure to come to its support.

Between voter suppression and the possible rigging of voting machines, and the design of the Democratic primaries to favor establishment candidates such as Clinton, the mechanics of democracy are under attack.