50,000 +.  Beginning to believe that minus an economic collapse, Trump will be re-elected. It'll be fun though preserving all of the great, detailed  progressive plans Bernie and  Warren have so far come up with in an election memory scrapbook.

The administration’s moves to weaken the Affordable Care Act have taken hold, and companies are cashing in.........The Trump administration, thwarted in its attempts to overturn the ACA, has widened that loophole by stretching the definition of “short-term” from three months to a year, with the option of renewing for as long as three years......(Florida temporary insurance broker Dorfman) swindled tens of thousands of people out of more than $100 million by passing off “sham” insurance policies as comprehensive health insurance, spending the profits on private jet flights, a white Lamborghi

This is exactly what I had posted from the book The Half has Never Been Told, by historian Edward Baptist.

“I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration,” Trump tweeted, adding that he would name a replacement next week.

HOUSTON — Oil and gas producers might have been expected to welcome a decision to loosen regulations affecting their business.. Global oil and gas companies generally distanced themselves from the administration decision.. .. Natural gas often escapes unburned during production and distribution, and its essential component — methane — is more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide in trapping heat in the earth’s atmosphere..

"Death to America" and "Death to Israel." Some trampled on an American flag as they marched.The Shiite militiamen, meanwhile, held a funeral procession in Baghdad for the commander killed Sunday.

The U.S. Defense Department issued a statement Monday denying responsibility for the recent attacks and promising to cooperate with Iraqi investigations.  "We support Iraqi sovereignty and have repeatedly spoken out against any potential actions by external actors inciting violence in Iraq, " Pentagon spokesman Jonathan R. Hoffman said.

Netanyahu now officially joins Kim Jong Un as a Trump soulmate and mini-me! Congratulations, Israel!

...During slavery, “Americans built a culture of speculation unique in its abandon,” writes the historian Joshua Rothman in his 2012 book, “Flush Times and Fever Dreams.” That culture would drive cotton production up to the Civil War, and it has been a defining characteristic of American capitalism ever since. It is the culture of acquiring wealth without work, growing at all costs and abusing the powerless. It is the culture that brought us the Panic of 1837, the stock-market crash of 1929 and the recession of 2008.

Republicans point to the belief that “China’s economy is on the brink of collapse,” ...Republicans may also believe Trump will “galvanize” his base behind him, while attracting “anti-trade and union Democrats in the Rust Belt as he takes on the mantle of a war time president going into 2020 by engaging in this trade war.” The administration may view China’s communist regime as a “systemic advantage” versus “free markets and democracy” in the U.S., as the Chinese can “subsidize domestic industry, quickly, enact lower tax rates and provide stimulus.”

"We cannot let those killed in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, die in vain,” Trump said in early-morning tweets, referring to the massacres that left 29 people dead. “We can never forget them, and those many who came before them. Republicans and Democrats must come together and get strong background checks, perhaps marrying this legislation with desperately needed immigration reform. We must have something good, if not GREAT, come out of these two tragic events!”

Texas congressman and El Paso native was asked by a reporter, "Is there anything in your mind that the President can do now to make this any better?"

O'Rourke - "What do you think? You know the s--- he's been saying. He's been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. I don't know, like, members of the press, what the f---? Hold on a second. You know, it's these questions that you know the answers to,

(Even with a Dem  trifecta) Could a President Biden or Bennet even hope to add a public option to Obamacare?.. is President Inslee going to convince Manchin to pass a good climate bill through his energy committee? How can any of the candidates proposing that we decriminalize illegal border crossings get that through Congress? How about creating a slavery reparations program? Is Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren going to be able to deliver a trillion dollar college loan forgiveness program? Will the DREAMERS get any relief? Will comprehensive immigration reform pass?

A judge condemned Ms. Harris’s indifference to the systemic violation of the defendants’ constitutional rights...600 cases handled by a corrupt technician were dismissed.
In 2015, she opposed a bill requiring her office to investigate shootings involving officers.
She refused to support statewide standards regulating the use of body-worn cameras by police officers.

Unionized campaign organizers working for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential effort are battling with its management, arguing that the compensation and treatment they are receiving does not meet the standards Sanders espouses in his rhetoric, according to internal communications.

Campaign field hires have demanded an annual salary they say would be equivalent to a $15-an-hour wage, which Sanders for years has said should be the federal minimum

After criticizing Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) during a rally in Greenville, North Carolina, the crowd erupts into chants of "send her back." 

America is circling the drain of racism, ignorance and hate. This will not end well.

Replacing Acosta. " Mr. Pizzella has spent years advocating for the interests of businesses.." Pizzella has already been confirmed by the GOP Senate.  In the 70's (yeah we can talk about the 70's, right?) Pizzella compared George McGovern, the Democratic nominee for President to Hitler. McGovern, as pilot, survived 35 missions in a B-24 over Nazi Europe, was awarded the Distinguished Air Cross and Air Medal.  The right wing incivility, big lies and crazy did not start with Trump! Pizzella has fought minimum wages, workplace regulation, unions and worker benefits. MAGA!