Read it as you will. I don't see it as being nice to Wall Street, though it was said diplomatically. She didn't say "all you motherfuckers and cocksuckers" once, which is probably the litmus test minimum for some to be "tough on Wall Street", but from my view it was a come-to-Jesus call delivered in the halls of finance for shouldering some responsibility, especially with mortgages and helping to kill the American Dream, a few months before the shithouse crumbled.

I'm just becoming accustomed to reading these things as if I spoke a different language. Huffpost says this wasn't "tough". I'd beg to differ, and I suspect if Hillary had been President in Jan 2009, the bailout would have come with more strings attached. Just a feeling, and we all know what feelings are worth.

For vulnerable kids a web of support.

After pissing off Romney, Rubio, Cruz & Trump, looks like Bernie Sanders is next in line to be pissed off at the Tax Policy Center. Fair? or Biased? More on the TPC here before you shoot the messenger.

43 year old professional speaks - there's always that "just a girl" sting waiting, just below the surface. Women are accepted, but.... it's those "buts", frequent or infrequent, that add up.

Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Tulsi Gabbard resigned from her post on Sunday to endorse Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, following months of rising tensions within the group.

Hillary Clinton’s cozy ties to Washington’s powerful neocons have paid off with the endorsement of Robert Kagan, one of the most influential neocons. But it also should raise questions among Democrats about what kind of foreign policy a President Hillary Clinton would pursue

“I volunteered to join Mr. Trump’s campaign because he is a champion of working families; not Washington-Wall Street elites. What makes Mr. Trump my choice for president is he will break the grip of the donor class on our government and make it accountable to working families again. I’m honored to help Mr. Trump Make America Great Again,”

Hillary Clinton has raised $26 million for the Democratic National Committee and state Democratic parties so far this campaign. And Sanders? $1,000. This is the source of the panic that Sanders causes the Democratic elites. It’s not about ideology; it comes from a fear that having Sanders as a nominee will decimate progressive candidates down the ballot—and leave Republicans in control of the House, and state capitals, for another decade or two.Since Obama’s election in 2008, Democratic losses at all other levels have been staggering: 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats, 910 state legislative seats, 30 state legislative chambers and 11 governorships. Democrats are at their weakest position in state capitols in nearly a century; they have unified control of only 11 legislatures, while Republicans control 30 (31 if you include nominally nonpartisan Nebraska).

Muricans don't trust each other so they buy guns. They don't trust their government so they want legally untouchable iPhones. Deep distrust doesn't bode well for a big government, 'bring us all together', progressive revolution. Bernie's free everything pie-in-the sky-promises may be all there is motivating his i wanna supporters.

Long after the chads quit hanging, however it turns out, we will remember that Donald Trump saved us from a man who loved him some Abu Ghraib and the Florida national guard

[updated to point to Gene Lyons' column]

Chris Hayes edits Bill Clinton's comment to make him look like a jerk. He later admitted his mistake, but the damage is done, big hits on social media. "you don’t have a president who is a change maker who, with a Congress who will work with him" is a far cry from ""you don’t have a president who is a change maker."