Based on Anderson Cooper’s gotcha question, Dems will gang up on Sanders for 40-year-old comments about Castro as they ignore regime change wars…--after last week’s focus on Bloomberg, survival of all other candidates depends on undermining Bernie
--Sanders is prepared for the question “How do you pay for it?”
--WashPost says other candidates fear backlash from criticizing Sanders in one story, outlines probable attacks in another
--riffing on the Cuba nonsense, Bloomberg deletes silly tweets that depicted Sanders admiring infamous dictators
--I get mail from Mike Bloomberg almost daily
--based on one primary and 2 very different caucuses, NY Times report concludes that Sanders is not producing high turnout
--Tom Friedman floats fantasy of Democratic super team of rivals
--NY Times columnist Michelle Goldberg, devout Russiagate believer, says Putin would hate a President Sanders
--at The Nation, Aaron Maté says the new fear campaign about Russia helping Sanders is unlikely to hurt him
--MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews apologizes to Sanders for Nazi comparison
--will Pete and Amy give us a sideshow tonight?
--Assange defense details US-led surveillance of embassy and argues that extradition is illegal under British law, as Kevin Gosztola reports
--for ConsortiumNews, Craig Murray reports from the spectator’s gallery
--and The Guardian is a wee bit defensive about how its reporter Luke Harding published password that led to unredacted postings
--as CDC warns of US outbreaks of coronavirus, Dems slam Trump for weak response, and Rush Limbaugh says the virus is just a common cold
--listener Linda Lewis is former disaster planner, and has a list of concerns about America’s defenses to the virus
--Trump is celebrated in India as world’s #1 Muslim basher, and Hindu-Muslim violence has killed 11 in recent days
--Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian dictator pushed out by Obama, is dead at 91
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