Applying the lessons of Sanders to a state house district in Maine.

(satire) … the White House revealed Friday that it was concerned Ryan Zinke had made a land deal without giving a cut to President Trump.

(satire) … the nation’s wealthiest residents assured the rest of the American public Friday that the heavily armed city being built in the sky high above the central United States had nothing to do with anything and could just be ignored.

The sad thing is, they are really doing this, but in a less visible way.

Just 56 [billionaire plutocrats] Funnel Nearly Half a Billion Dollars to Super PACs.

That is more than 1/3 of the campaign spending for this election. If their attempt to buy the election is successful, it threatens to lock the US into lasting domination by those enemies of democracy.

Here is information on the 20 biggest spenders.

Some of them are labeled as "Liberal", but in several cases the PACs they donate to seem to support plutocratist Democrats — not really Liberals as I understand the word.

The US government keeps over a thousand refugee minors prisoner in Tornillo, Texas. To make sure they will stay a long time, the US demands fingerprints and background checks for everyone that lives with the family that wants to sponsor them.

Demanding someone's fingerprints is asking too much. I would not give my fingerprints for almost anything unless I am coerced into it. Because that demand drives off possible sponsors — and not to mention that someone else living there may not dare call the attention of the deportation thugs — this policy is a gratuitous cruelty to the prisoners.

It is a mistake to call them "children". Some of them are 16 or 17 years old, which is too old to be called that.