US citizens: Call on your senators to reject the House-passed substitute to the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016 (S.2012)

Everyone: call on Illinois to allow prescriptions for 12 months of birth control pills.

Constituents of Nancy Pelosi: phone her office to demand no lame-duck vote on the TPP.

200 retired Israeli army officers called for accepting the Arab peace plan.

That plan is reasonable one, so it makes sense for them to agree. What's surprising is that support for it comes from that direction. But it is not really so surprising. Soldiers that have fought in war have a basis to understand how bad war is, and soldiers who have actually fought understand how occupation duty damages an army for fighting a real enemy.

Clinton won the California primary, and will probably get the Democratic Party nomination.

She will not get my vote, however. I consider her a Republican, based on her support for banksters, welfare cuts, business-supremacy treaties and wars of aggression.

I will decide later whether to write in Sanders' name or vote Green.

As for the fact that the US has now nominated a woman to represent a major party, I think it is good that the US can do that. If in addition she were a progressive, I'd vote for her. However, her sex is no milestone for me: I have already voted for a woman for president (Jill Stein, Green Party, 2012).

I felt the same thing when the US nominated a black man for president for the first time: he was clearly no progressive so I did not vote for him.