Releasing preliminary data on the safety or effectiveness of a new drug is a bad idea; it replaces careful testing with manipulation.

Republican plutocratists are giving advice to "mainstream" Democratic plutocratists about allying to reject progressives.

This is just one superficial aspect of the plutocratic system in which the "mainstream" Democrats have participated since Bill Clinton's day.

Faux News and other Murdoch outlets have made a blatant switch from supporting the conman to supporting the kinder, gentler plutocratist.

For me, this highlights the amount of power that these organs of plutocracy exercise, and the harm that that power has done. It is not fortuitous that they have a plutocratist president-elect to cooperate with, instead of Sanders who might have acted to reduce their power.

Barr has asked federal prosecutors to create evidence for accusations of a conflagration of Democratic election rigging by blowing a lot of smoke.

The real problems of election rigging were various forms of voter suppression carried out by Republicans.

Denmark has decided not to kill all the minks after all. There may be no more need.