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Last night we noted that the Dems have a plan for another bailout. Former Congressman Alan Grayson, who likes Pelosi, waded through hundreds of pages and called me and said-- word for word: "This is a horrendous strategic mistake.

The Democratic Party establishment is conservative in the sense of defending and bolstering the status quo-- not as perniciously as the GOP, but perniciously enough. It is also incredibly corrupt-- no less so than the Republican Party.

In the Senate, from the right-wing fringe of the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), Joe Manchin (WV), Dianne Feinstein (CA), Doug Jones (AL)-- to the heart and soul of the progressive wing of the party-- Bernie (VT), Elizabeth Warren (MA), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Mazie Hirono (HI), Sherrod Brown (OH), Brian Schatz (HI)-- everyone is getting behind Biden's candidacy with endorsements. Same in the House.

On Monday, we broke the story that one of Andrew Cuomo's top political operatives, Maggie Moran, is helping Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a corporate hack Wall Street is running against AOC, to raise money and find staff for the June 23 primary. Moran has been working surreptitiously but the cat is out of the bag now.

And he wasn't ever really a liberal on civil rights and civil liberties eitherI really liked the two Jeff Sharlet books I read, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy and his Netflix series, The Family (based on the two books).

The video above is most of Obama's predictably eloquent endorsement of Status Quo Joe yesterday, starting with the part where he tries to wash the blood off his hands for having coordinated the successful neoliberal effort to derail the #NotMeUs campaign.And there's some stuff there that anyone can like. "If I were running today," he said in his endorsement of a virtual corpse who talks about nothing but the good old days between 2008 and 20016, "I wouldn't run the same race or have the same platform as I did in 2008. The world is different.

Thursday evening Bernie did his first TV interview since dropping out and instead of going on TV with some hostile establishment shill he went on the air with MSNBC's savviest critical thinker and most reliable journalist, Chris Hayes. Talking about his discussions with Biden, Bernie said that Biden's "people are very smart and they understand that in order to beat somebody like Trump they're going to have to generate a lot of excitement, a lot of energy and reach out to people who have not necessarily been all that supportive of the vice president.

When Trump first got to the White House, he saw infrastructure spending as a perfect way to transfer taxpayer dollars into his own pocket and the pockets of his campaign donors-- until Pelosi and Schumer told him that isn't the way it works. So he colored on his campaign promises of rebuilding American infrastructure.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss US President Trump’s State of the Union speech.
Once again the US President scored a big win, and Nancy Pelosi looked like a spoiled child when, at the end of Trump’s speech, Pelosi stood and tore up her copy of the remarks he had handed her.
Pelosi later told reporters it was “the courteous thing to do, considering the alternative.”

The protests took place against the backdrop of an unpopular new campaign to enforce the payment of fares, using 500 new police to patrol the subways.