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Texas Latinos have launched 100 days of protests and organizing in response to the Texas law that forbids cities to offer sanctuary to unauthorized immigrants.

The US practice of arresting them and deporting them when they get medical treatment, when they meet with government officials, and even when they appear in court, threatens public health and public safety.

The mainstream media's intense focus on troll/Russia and the firing of Comey has pushed all the political nastiness of Republican policies into the shadows. Could the troll have intended this?

Making announcements as distraction is his standard modus operandi. I don't think that was his motive for firing Comey; I think he considered the investigation a real danger and wanted to stop it. But it could be that his shocking way of firing Comey was a distraction operation.

Right-wingers want people to think that the widespread prosperity and lesser inequality of the 1970s is a "fantasy", impossible in the real world.

Since we did it once, we can do it again — if we stop the plutocrats from getting in the way.

The Tories offer to give back to the non rich a little of what they have taken, and say that is support for workers' rights.