Income of Americans age 20-24 since 1979 compared to other age groups (source; click to enlarge)by Gaius PubliusThe Sanders- and Trump-led (for now) political rebellion is not going to go away. There are only two questions going forward:
Mug shot of Jeffrey Dahmer taken immediately after his 1991 arrest by the Milwaukee Police Departmentby Gaius PubliusShort and impossibly ugly. To lack a conscience is to lack any inner sense of what's right and wrong. In extreme situations, the medical condition is described as psychopathy or sociopathy.
It's as though one day the whole town assembled in the square, and all the nobles and officials took the stage and threw off their masks. What a sight for the people — masks rising high into the air like a flock of birds rising from a tree (source; click to enlarge). by Gaius PubliusJust passing this on.
Bernie Sanders talks about his and Clinton's foreign policy differences with Chris Hayes. I've set the clip to end after the foreign policy discussion (about 10 minutes); listen to the rest if you want to hear him talk about Trump violence, his path to victory and his plan, if he wins, for the Democratic Party.by Gaius PubliusThere's no other way to think about this. Hillary Clinton would be a more aggressive, "muscular" commander-in-chief than Obama. By a lot. I have two pieces on this, one from Sanders supporter Rep.
Turnout in the most recent 2016 Democratic contests relative to 2008 (source; my annotation)by Gaius PubliusI want to do two parallel pieces, one today and one tomorrow. The piece today points to Tom Cahill's reflections on Hillary Clinton's chances of beating Donald Trump in a general election.
Members of the club enjoying a round of golf. Do they fear a Trump presidency more than you do?
Don Blankenship, coal baron and boss of Massey Energy (source). He made his money by exploiting miners. Should he and his kind be made to pay for his miner's transition out of his now-dying industry?
Dirty coal is going down in Oregon (source)by Gaius PubliusShort and very sweet. There are two states that don't use coal at all to generate energy, Vermont and Hawaii. All of the rest burn some coal, and no state has banned coal completely; until now; until Oregon. My emphasis below:
