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Nina Turner, RoseAnn DeMoro, Others Call for New Third Party

Bernie Sanders in Wisconsin. Could a third-party candidate do this?by Thomas NeuburgerI'm thinking out loud these days, trying to crack the uncrackable nut, escape the inescapable trap laid for policy-minded voters, the one that says “It's a Republican or a neoliberal; there's no other viable choice. Pick one.”More and more, people want to pick neither.

Is the Tara Reade Story Approaching Critical Mass?

Big Media silence is breaking in the Tara Reade storyby Thomas NeuburgerIs the Tara Reade story reaching critical mass, approaching a tipping point? It seems so.The initial response to this story was silence from anyone with political or media power. The media in particular completely ignored it. Comparisons of CNN coverage of the Reade story with their coverage of the Blasey Ford story show a marked discrepancy.

In a Slap in the Face to Progressives, Biden Appoints Larry Summers, a "Literal Architect of Neoliberalism," to Economic Advisory Role

Joe Biden has chosen as his economic adviser the main Democratic proponent of the China PNTR deal and Wall Street deregulation. Apparently, Biden may really have meant it when he said “nothing will fundamentally change.” https://t.co/UokamnmgyA— David Sirota (@davidsirota) April 23, 2020

What's Next? A Look Into the Middle Distance

The Sack of Rome in 1527 by Johannes Lingelbachby Thomas NeuburgerDiverse pathes leden diverse folk the righte way to Rome.—Geoffrey Chaucer, A Treatise on the Astrolabe The following offers a brief look into the middle distance, a view past the immediate future — the next few weeks or months when the virus will run its predictable, consequential course — but not so long a view as to reach the logical next phase of human history, the reduction of the species by t