PRESIDENT OBAMA SPEAKS AT THE U. OF ILLINOIS -- VOTE, BECAUSE OUR DEMOCRACY DEPENDS ON IT

Hope to help us endure dark days ahead.

Start at the 5:00 mark.

Grassley's Kavanaugh nomination hearing is out of order.

It's plain to see.

Giving Dems 40,000 pages to read on Kavanaugh the night before the nomination hearing makes Grassley lack decency, integrity. 102,000 unvetted documents still exist.

This fact alone makes his whole hearing OUT OF ORDER. It disallows senators to do their constitutional duty to review these documents under Article 2 Section 2 for advise and consent.

One man -- Bill Burck (representing witnesses in the Russia investigation -- Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon and Don McGahn) -- should never have gotten to decide which of the nominee's papers the nation's senators get to see, which is over 147,000 documents.

Grassley should be brought up on ethics charges. The minority senators are not obstructionists. The majority party is.

This process is unethically fast tracked after Obama's Merrick Garland did NOT EVEN GET A HEARING. SCOTUS nominations have been turned into political strategy.

Sixty-nine citizen observers were arrested on Thursday, a slight decrease from the 73 arrested on Wednesday and 70 arrested on Tuesday, according to figures released by the Capitol Police. In total, 212 people were arrested.

It's plain to see. This kangaroo hearing is designed to put this obviously ideologically-driven nominee as a lifetime judge on the Supreme Court. The nation's interests matter not.

Chris Hedges, "America: The Farewell Tour" -- What's Ahead Of Us

His book talk is long, but is a good overview of the major problems that have sown the seeds of our empire's demise.

I intend to read and add it to my other Hedges books.

Please refrain from comments, challenges or questions if you don't spend the time to view this first.

Reverend Al Sharpton's Blazingly Soulful Eulogy For Aretha Franklin

Andrew Gillum Is ON IT! "We're Gonna Show Up. We Believe. We're Gonna VOTE AND WIN"!

Lover of the working class, living wages, ex-felon voting rights,' climate science, progressive Democrats and WINNING.

Because our lives depend on all that.

NO New Accounts in American Social Media Until the Election Is Over

Let social media run on current operating expenses for the next 90+ days.

Not by government decree, but by CEO's cooperation with the FBI in lessening new threats to the 2018 election.

That way, the only hacks FBI and intel agencies have to detect and stop are attacks from domestic hackers, trolls and bots, as tech teams continue to ferret out those bad players.

Granted, it still won't be easy, but there will be fewer fake accounts for the FBI and social media tech teams to wade through.

From the business perspective, social media lost money on their brands since the intel revelations of 2016, but this good will gesture can be a way to rebuild them.

From a national security perspective, a 90-day moratorium on new accounts from America's social media is a worthy, necessary, temporary sacrifice that these companies and their shareholders can make for the sake of democratic election integrity.

Love and Honor to James Baldwin On His Birthday

I will never forget my students' and my shared experience of reading one of America's greatest thinkers and writers.

Go Tell It On The Mountain and "Sonny's Blues" stand among America's greatest literary works.

I am deeply proud of this great American thinker; Americans should realize how great our culture is to the world because of him.

Please read James Baldwin.

Obama to Republican Disavowing Trump: WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG

Why So Many Republicans Are Retiring: NRA Quiet On Their Role As Russian Conduit In Butina Charges

They are among those "ongoing cases".

In asking for the return of personal papers, the defense could possibly try a PR case in public.

Silence was consent for all these retiring Republicans who fear for their reputations, salvation and most of all, their stashes of ill-gotten gains.

So they're high-tailing it.

They forget that FBI history shows that it can and will indict by the hundreds.

Stockholmie On Ocasio-Cortez:"I saw something truly terrifying...my children deserve healthcare..."

"Stockholmie" = a conservative woman with political Stockholm Syndrome