Entertainment Weekend

“Entertainment Weekend” threads invite you to share anything—including content—on movies, television, and music on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

Open Weekend

This “Open Weekend” thread is a regular thing for Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

Please take this December 29–31, 2017 Progressives Chat to wherever you may want it to go.



 UPDATE: 12.30.2017 @ 04:00 p.m. ET 

ERICA GARNER

May 29, 1990–December 30, 2017

Erica Garner died Saturday, December 30, 2017, at age 27.

Following is a link:

Twitter—Erica Garner Dies At Age 27

‘Is Elizabeth Warren Still Acceptable to the Left?’

Jamarl Thomas has a video, partially baring the title of this blog entry, which speaks to a lot of Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Democratic presidential primaries voters with regard for Elizabeth Warren.

Back in 2012, I thought, prior to her first-term election as the now-senior U.S. senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren could be a future president of the United States. This was because of how she connected with what has been needed for consumers and workers. I was thinking this, admittedly, in a period when it seemed that Election 2008 was a realigning election for the presidency to be won by Democrats with at least three, but more than likely four, consecutive cycles. But, we know the Democrats—still stuck in the 1990s—so please excuse me for digressing.

It sunk in, after she waited for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination to be determined, and that she just basically aligning with the “winner,” that people had it absolutely wrong to be thinking that Elizabeth Warren had the potential for the presidency of the United States. Come to think—her not tossing her name into the 2016 race told me she was actually not interested. But, I do agree that what Elizabeth Warren did in 2016 was a big disappointment. Her choosing to spend much of Election 2016 out-tweeting a pre-45th U.S. president Donald Trump on Twitter was a colossal waste!

This video, appearing above, is long. It is just over 90 minutes. I know some people are not going to be up for it. But, any amount you can take in will likely be appreciated. As usual, Jamarl Thomas is perceptive. Very perceptive.




A Note to Readers of Progressives Chat

Before getting to my “Note,” I want to wish every person a healthy and enjoyable New Year’s Day, as well as a good night leading into that holiday, and a good 2018. (Today is the last regular day for a thread topic for the year 2017.)

A reminder: For the months of November and December 2017, I made the decision to have thread topics three times per week—regular topics on Mondays and Wednesdays followed by weekend threads beginning on Fridays.

This was due to the last two months typically being the busiest period of the year.

I have made the decision to continue with this regularly. One person responded, after I wrote and posted my November/December decision, with mentioning that day-to-day threads made commenting, after others’ posts, a little less convenient.

One benefit for me, frankly, is that I don’t need to stress over coming up with a new topic each day, Mondays to Thursdays, because news comes so fast that people may go ahead and post the link from such reports or, for another example, provide a link from a social media site like Twitter.

Progressives Chat is a place for people to post freely. There has never been a requirement to post responses which relate only to a given day’s topic thread. (A note about comments: I have the setting to allow comments up to seven days following a given blog entry.)

Thank you, to everyone, for being here!

—Candy83

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all readers!

For those who do not celebrate this particular holiday, please excuse me. I mean to always be respectful. And I wish everyone well.

(This blog thread is launched on Monday, December 25, 2017 at 12:00 a.m. ET.)

—Candy83

Entertainment Weekend

“Entertainment Weekend” threads invite you to share anything—including content—on movies, television, and music on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

Open Weekend

This “Open Weekend” thread is a regular thing for Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

Please take this December 22–24, 2017 Progressives Chat to wherever you may want it to go.

The Best of 2017

In the past, but not so much with the more recent of years, I appreciated year-end “Best-of” lists by critics—from print publications—for what they considered stood out in film, television, music, etc.

We are now at that time of the year when one can look back at a year in review.

Since Progressives Chat readers and I commonly posted videos to possibly alert each other for some must-viewing, I have decided to compile a “Best of 2017” citing five videos which really stood out. 

I encourage readers to offer their pick[s].

#01: The Jimmy Dore Show “Ex-MSNBC Host: Democrats Are NOT The Solution To Trump!” (06.29.2017). While a special salute deserves to also go to Jimmy Dore’s accounting of Hillary Clinton’s I Refuse to Take a Look Into a Mirror tour, as she was promoting her book What Happened, in Dore’s “Signs Hillary Clinton Is Having a Mental Breakdown” (09.13.2017), this one gives us Dylan Ratigan nailing the Democratic Party as the biggest reason why the nation now has Donald Trump as its 45th president. (“Think about how bad, how unappealing, how offensive Barack Obama and, ultimately, Hillary Clinton had to be to the American population in order for them to remotely begin to choose someone like Donald Trump as a better alternative.”)

#02: TYT Politics “DNC Unity Member LOVES Superdelegates” (10.20.2017). Although now-disgraced and ex-The Young Turks reporter Jordan Chariton would seem to stick out the most for what he brought to TYT, what was revealed in this video angered me. It had the most impact from TYT. In this video, Emma Vigeland interviews superdelegate Elaine Kamarck, from the Brookings Institution, to discuss superdelegates. Kamarck not only loves them. Kamarck tells Vigeland what she thinks of voters and how, according to Kamarck, they may handle their voting. 

#03: The Ring of Fire “Papantonio: Corporate Sociopaths Are Clearly In Charge Of American Businesses” (04.14.2017). After United Airlines came under fire for having brutally dragged a passenger off one of its flights, Thom Hartmann interviewed attorney Mike Papantonio. Now, one other video had Papantonio describe the Democratic Party [Establishment] as “a party of Martha’s Vineyard.” That was brief. This video, in its entirety, is better. It is about corporate culture. My favorite quote from Papantonio: “They’re graduating more sociopaths from MBA schools nowadays. And those sociopaths go to work as CEOs. Now, add to that, that a CEO typically is moving through a company quickly. It’s about a three-year program. [It used] to be a CEO would stay for a company for 20 years. But, now, it’s quick profits, big risks, [the] hell with everybody else—if we kill somebody in the process, as long as I can report that I made a half of a penny more in this 10k, life is good. I would really like to see a study where they do an MNPI, personal profile, on some of these kids coming through MBA schools now. It would be terrifying.…”

#04: The Humanist Report “Democrat Who Rejected A Mother’s Single-Payer Plea Now Being Primaried by Her” (07.19.2017). Mike Figueredo’s follow-up video was powerful and inspired. U.S. Rep. Ruben Kihuen (D–Nevada #04)—who has since come under fire as one of a number of men accused of sexual misconduct—said no to a constituent who lost her daughter and asked Kihuen to support H.R. 676 Medicare For All. Rather than remain heartbroken and betrayed by her congressman, citizen Amy Vilela made the decision to not accept it. She is going after Kihuen to try to unseat him at least with the 2018 Democratic primaries.

#05: The Rational National “Liberal Voters Trash the Democratic Party on ‘Face the Nation’” (05.09.2017). The CBS program had an excellent panel discussion on the problems with the Democratic Party. One citizen, in the front row and in a blue shirt, did not hold back. The Rational National’s David Doel picks up from that man’s points and adds some more insight explaining what has become of the Democratic Party.

Saluting Jamarl Thomas

Jamarl L. Thomas has a website, The Progressive Soap Box, but he also has a YouTube account, Jamarl Thomas, in which his YouTube-uploaded videos cover current topics. He is a progressive who has been especially direct in stating that the Democratic Party, in its current form, is not a worthy political party for people who are actually progressive.

Jamarl Thomas’s statement reminds me of a scene in the 2005 documentary An Unreasonable Man, which is about the life of consumer advocate Ralph Nader. It comes to a moment in which MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell states he has worked in Democratic Party politics. O’Donnell mentions that the people in charge of the Democratic Party does not listen to The Left (meaning, the faction supportive of not Hillary Clinton but Bernie Sanders). O’Donnell continued with (but this is not an exact quote): The Democratic Party [figures it] doesn’t have to listen to The Left. The only way the Democratic Party will listen to The Left is if The Left shows the Democratic Party they are willing to not vote for the Democratic Party.

That was the summary, in that documentary, from Lawrence O’Donnell. And all these years later, but with a different summary, comes the same conclusion from Jamarl Thomas. I appreciate it. I appreciate it because it is accurate. It is a motivating approach to how I handled my voting during Election 2016. If a major political party is not representing, no amount of saying the opposition party is dangerous makes that non-representative political party—even if it is the one I tend to prefer—worthy of one’s vote. That, when voting, I am voting for; not against. (After all, for are what is in the vote totals.)

Here is one recent video I really like from Jamarl Thomas. He gives focus to the U.K.’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. At one hour and four minutes, it is long. But, if you are up for at least some of it, you should take in whatever you figure is comfortable and sufficient enough with understanding how intelligent, insightful, and progressive is Jamarl L. Thomas.

Entertainment Weekend

“Entertainment Weekend” threads invite you to share anything—including content—on movies, television, and music on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.



 Notes:

In October 2017, timed for the start of the current two-month marathon of holiday movies on Hallmark Channel, I wrote and posted the following blog thread: “It’s Almost Here: The 2017 Hallmark Channel ‘Countdown to Christmas’” October 2017. Someone, outside Progressives Chat, alerted me to this piece, from December 12, 2017, “White! Christmas!” Slate. Read it for your own entertainment. (Some of it is interesting. But, I didn’t take it too seriously.)

Last Monday, December 9, 2017 came nominations for the 75th Golden Globe for film and television for the year 2017. I personally don’t care much for them; don’t make the point to watch their annual ceremonies; but, they are looked at as a bellwether to the Academy Awards. The list of nominees are here: Hollywood Reporter.

Open Weekend

This “Open Weekend” thread is a regular thing for Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

Please take this December 15–17, 2017 Progressives Chat to wherever you may want it to go.



I do want to share some videos. The first two are parts from an interview with The Young Turks’s Nomiki Konst on The Jimmy Dore Show. The third video is reaction from Jamarl Thomas. (UPDATE—12.16.2017 @ 03:30 a.m. ET: I have added The Jimmy Dore Show video featuring Charles Barkley.)

No, Debbie!

A few days ago, I received solicitation to donate to the 2018 re-election campaign of the senior U.S. senator from my home state, Michigan, Democrat Debbie Stabenow.

I say, “No.”

In fact, I don’t want Debbie Stabenow re-nominated let alone re-elected.

Debbie Stabenow has not come out for Medicare For All. That, right there, is enough. But, there was also the GMO Labeling bill from 2016.

I am also not pleased that Debbie Stabenow, and seemingly nearly everyone else who was or is a Democratic incumbent, endorsed Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic nomination for U.S. president before the first contest officially kicked off February 1, 2016 in Iowa.

I suppose I could be persuaded if Debbie Stabenow were to get on board for Medicare For All.

She is not there yet.

I am.

I know how to handle this.

In the meantime, I don’t mind sharing.

If I go by this mailing, I am supposed to be scared of Steve Bannon.

That is the reason, according to U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, why I should mail money to and support Debbie Stabenow.

No, Debbie!

 

 

 UPDATE:  The special U.S. Senate election in Alabama resulted December 12, 2017 in a Democratic pickup for former U.S. federal prosecutor Doug Jones having defeated Republican nominee and ex-state Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore. The margin is between +1 and +2 for Jones. (Last I checked with CNN’s exit polls: Moore carried men by +14. Jones carried women by +16. Males were 49 percent of the size of votes cast. Women were 51 percent.)

In 2014, then-Republican incumbent Jeff Sessions, now the U.S. attorney general, won re-election—in what was a Republican pickup year for the U.S. Senate—without an opposition-party challenger. Sessions received more than 97 percent of the statewide vote. 

In terms of numbers, this is amazing. But, what it also means is that the White House opposition party, the Democratic Party, is in position to flip the U.S. Senate to follow the U.S. House. (All U.S. House seats are scheduled every two years. The U.S. Senate is one-third. That is why the U.S. House usually goes before the U.S. Senate if they don’t flip in the same cycle. Think 2010 and 2014.) The route would be, with the Democrats heading into Election 2018 with 49, to retain all currently held Democratic seats. (In the midterm waves for U.S. Senate pickups in 1994 and 2014 for the Republicans, and 2006 for the Democrats, the minority party going in ended not losing a single seat.) Reaching 51 would be with flipping Republican-held seats from Nevada (incumbent Dean Heller) and Arizona (an open race now that Jeff Flake bowed out). Anything more would be just presenting a tier of which states would follow (Tennessee and Texas; or reverse that order; it could be fun if the Lone Star State’s Ted Cruz would get unseated.)

Since the governorships have aligned to the U.S. Senate since 1995, meaning just four consecutive years of majorities for the Democrats (2007–2010), I would also say that the Democrats will reach their needed +10 for a majority pickup of governorships. (Team Blue goes in Election 2018 with 16 to the Republicans’s 33.) The Democrats’ route to winning a majority-count pickup is mainly with states carried in 2016 by Hillary Clinton with Republican governors. (Eight are applicable: Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Vermont.) This would be followed by the states which flipped, with Election 2016, Republican for Donald Trump. (This includes my home state Michigan.) After this, it would come states prone to elect governors from the party opposite a sitting U.S. president. (States like Arizona, Kansas, and Tennessee have been on this pattern since at least the 1990s.) Amazingly, 36 of the nation’s 50 states hold their gubernatorial elections in midterm years. This includes nine of the Top 10 most-populous states. So, the Democrats have the advantage here as well. 

The upcoming 2018 midterm elections are very much looking to be on a trajectory of a wave for the Democrats. So, given that I wrote and scheduled “No, Debbie!” ahead of time, the update with that is that she does not need my money. I just wish a lot of these Democratic incumbents would lose their bids for re-nomination. (Dianne Feinstein, specifically, is definitely not needed in California.) But, hey, that’s the difference between Republican and Democratic primaries voters—those from Team Red are more effective in denying incumbents re-nomination. (Think of the late Utah U.S. Sen. Robert Bennett, in 2010, and former U.S. House majority leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, in 2014.)  

What does this mean for Donald Trump’s chances for re-election in 2020? Should the Democrats get these majority pickups, and should Trump want to get re-elected, I think some of his approaches in leadership will change to become more palatable—which would get his approval numbers up. (This could be an eight-year parallel following his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama.) And the Democrats would end up a blessing for Trump. (They will likely nominate another empty corporatist.) Yes, this does have to with voting patterns. Don’t ever underestimate that. (Just after Election 2016, Nancy Pelosi revealed she tracks them.) This also goes to show why U.S. politics are sick.

Following is a video of CNN projecting the Doug Jones victory.

Fake News

Over this past weekend, and it really began Friday [December 9, 2017], were the false reports from news programmers both broadcast and cable.

The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald wrote about it, with the headline “The U.S. Media Yesterday Suffered its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages: Now Refuses All Transparency Over What Happened,” and here is the link: Greenwald (12.09.2017).

Friday was one of the most embarrassing days for the U.S. media in quite a long time. The humiliation orgy was kicked off by CNN, with MSNBC and CBS close behind, with countless pundits, commentators and operatives joining the party throughout the day. By the end of the day, it was clear that several of the nation’s largest and most influential news outlets had spread an explosive but completely false news story to millions of people, while refusing to provide any explanation of how it happened.

The spectacle began on Friday morning at 11:00 am EST, when the Most Trusted Name in News™ spent 12 straight minutes on air flamboyantly hyping an exclusive bombshell report that seemed to prove that WikiLeaks, last September, had secretly offered the Trump campaign, even Donald Trump himself, special access to the DNC emails before they were published on the internet. As CNN sees the world, this would prove collusion between the Trump family and WikiLeaks and, more importantly, between Trump and Russia, since the U.S. intelligence community regards WikiLeaks as an “arm of Russian intelligence,” and therefore, so does the U.S. media.

This entire revelation was based on an email which CNN strongly implied it had exclusively obtained and had in its possession. The email was sent by someone named “Michael J. Erickson” – someone nobody had heard of previously and whom CNN could not identify – to Donald Trump, Jr., offering a decryption key and access to DNC emails that WikiLeaks had “uploaded.” The email was a smoking gun, in CNN’s extremely excited mind, because it was dated September 4 – ten days before WikiLeaks began promoting access to those emails online – and thus proved that the Trump family was being offered special, unique access to the DNC archive: likely by WikiLeaks and the Kremlin.

There is lots more to read. This was also covered in a YouTube-uploaded video from Jimmy Dore. That video will appear below. I will mention, in conclusion, that I now typically avoid cable-news programmers CNN and most especially MSNBC. I feel that this is wise. But, it is really something else for the people who still tune in and assume they can automatically trust them.

Music | Entertainment Weekend

This will be the last weekend for the “Music Weekend” thread.

Beginning next Friday, December 15, 2017, will be the first “Entertainment Weekend” thread.

Consider this the segue.

“Entertainment Weekend” is not only for music but also for movies and television and anything else covering the world of entertainment. (If anyone wants to mention theatre, that is also good.) So, one can continue to post music videos. But, it is encouraged that you use this new weekend thread to treat it as an overall entertainment mediums thread on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

This was going to begin Friday, January 5, 2018. I wanted to time it with the new year. But, December is the month which kicks off the Oscar season with film group prizes from National Board of Review, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and New York Film Critics Circle. (The Golden Globe nominations are also announced in the month of December. The fourth major film group, National Society of Film Critics, is typically the first weekend of every January.) The following is a list of winners for the year 2017. But, please keep in mind that I’m not saying one has to now talk Oscar. Just go ahead with about anything movies, television, music, and theatre. (Performing arts.) You can even start today. After all, this blog thread’s title is “Music | Entertainment Weekend.”

For his performance in The Florida Project, two-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe won the 2017 best supporting actor award from all three of National Board of Review, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and New York Film Critics Circle. He is the Oscar frontrunner.

National Board of Review (announced 11.28.2017)

• Best Picture: The Post
• Best Foreign Film: Foxtrot
• Best Animated Feature: Coco
• Best Documentary: Jane
• Best Director: Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
• Best Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread [Original]; Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist [Adapted]
• Best Actor: Tom Hanks, The Post
• Best Actress: Meryl Streep, The Post
• Best Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
• Best Supporting Actress: Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

New York Film Critics Circle (announced 11.30.2017)

• Best Picture: Lady Bird
• Best Foreign Film: BPM (Beats Per Minute)
• Best Animated Feature: Coco
• Best Documentary Feature: Faces Places
• Best Director: Sean Baker, The Florida Project
• Best Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
• Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
• Best Actress: Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
• Best Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
• Best Supporting Actress: Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip

Los Angeles Film Critics Association (announced 12.03.2017)

• Best Picture: Call Me By Your Name
• Best Foreign Film [Tie!]: BPM (Beats Per Minute); Loveless
• Best Animated Feature: The Breadwinner
• Best Documentary: Faces Places
• Best Screenplay: Jordan Peele, Get Out
• Best Director [Tie!]: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water; Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name
• Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
• Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
• Best Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
• Best Supporting Actress: Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

In the following video, Richard Jenkins, a 2008 best-actor Oscar nominee for The Visitor and 2015 Emmy winner for HBO’s Olive Kitteridge, and Laurie Metcalf, who won three Emmys for ABC’s Roseanne (1992, 1993, 1994) and a 2017 Tony for A Doll’s House, Part 2, were interviewed by Variety about their work. Jenkins stars, and will likely get nominated for the 2017 Oscar for best supporting actor, in The Shape of Water. Metcalf stars in Lady Bird. If Metcalf goes on to win the 2017 Oscar for best supporting actress, she would become the 24th actor to have won the Triple Acting Crown: Oscar, Tony, and Emmy. Since 2015, this has become a trend reached by Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand (facing a likely 2017 best-actress Oscar nomination for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Jessica Lange and, the 2016 Oscar winner for supporting actress in Fences, Viola Davis.  

Open Weekend

This “Open Weekend” thread is a regular thing for Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

Please take this December 8–10, 2017 Progressives Chat to wherever you may want it to go.

Happy Birthday, Nina Turner!

Thursday [December 7, 2017] marks the 50th birthday of former Ohio Senate member Nina Turner.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Nina Turner was the best supporter of Bernie Sanders and his 2016 bid for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. She is the very type of Democrat who used to represent in this political party—and for its base—a desire to serve and deliver for the people. Nina Turner is the type of Democrat who make this political party truly voter-worthy before the neoliberal turn, traced back to the 1970s, wrecked it.

Nina Turner, who speaks frankly about the bread-and-butter issues which affect people’s lives, should be the next Governor of Ohio. She is the one who should receive the 2018 Democratic nomination for Governor of Ohio. And, after winning a first-term election with the midterms wave in 2018, that would put two-term Ohio Governor Nina Turner in position for the presidency in 2024. But, this Democratic Party—for who runs it—is corporatist and corrupt. They, and especially the Clintons, will do what they can to make sure this does not happen. Perhaps Nina Turner actually may not want this to happen. I actually don’t know if she is wanting to be Governor of Ohio and/or President of the United States. I cannot assume she does. I should not. But, I will write that she is plenty worthy.

Nina Turner not having real power in the Democratic Party—not having support to encourage a run for higher office—is an example why this Democratic Party did not get any general-election votes from me in 2016 and, in all likelihood, will not get my vote in the midterm elections of 2018. (I’m already thinking ahead also to 2020.)

In the meantime, I really appreciate Nina Turner.

Happy Birthday, Nina Turner!

What follows is a video, from YouTube’s The Rational National [David Doel], who salutes a May 2017 appearance Nina Turner had on CNN.

Joy Reid—Then & Now

Interesting controversy over the weekend. It turns out MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who does have a past, has a past of homophobia. Well, perhaps that isn’t surprising to some. (Not Glenn Greenwald.) But, I admit that I have not paid much attention to her over the years. It has been just over the last year or so. Joy Reid’s tweets, on Twitter, against Bernie Sanders are notable because she is a mouthpiece for employer Comcast and appears to be totally against progressives. (Like was privately said of castaways by contestant Kathy Vavrick–O’Brien, on CBS’s Survivor: Marquesas, going back all the way to 2002, “Who knows how much of it is real?” Yes—this is the feeling I get from U.S. politicians and beltway pundits in Washington, D.C.) But, hey, this is Joy Reid! I think Joy Reid knows what she is doing. What about you? What do you think?

.@JoyAnnReid pulls nonsense out of thin air to attack @BernieSanders’ so-called “physical dismissal of women in his presence.”

cc: @janeosanders pic.twitter.com/ok2BFhM35c

— The Young Turks (@TheYoungTurks) December 1, 2017

Joy used to love Bernie: pic.twitter.com/0W29LV3kmM

— beth hates Pai, so (@bourgeoisalien) December 1, 2017

Bernie and his followers are like that college friend who stays at your place for weeks, pays $0, eats your food & trashes your aesthetic.

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 12, 2017

MSNBC Host Joy Reid Wrote Numerous Anti-Gay Articles on Her Old Blog https://t.co/Af4dE3rOMh pic.twitter.com/jznlHnIWO4

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) December 3, 2017

That @JoyAnnReid wrote multiple homophobic columns about Charlie Crist ("Miss Charlie") is completely unsurprising. She also repeatedly claimed Chelsea Manning leaked not out of conscience but due to emotional problems over gender and sexuality https://t.co/2iFkIs0lX2 https://t.co/mlIEPtk2ZB

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 3, 2017

Music Weekend

“Music Weekend” threads invite you to share any music—especially a video—with all who participate here at Progressives Chat.

Open Weekend

This “Open Weekend” thread is a regular thing for Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

Please take this December 1–3, 2017 Progressives Chat to wherever you may want it to go.





Notes:

• Now that December has arrived, this is the beginning of the last month of 2017. May it be good for all. (Or as much as each person can hope.)

• I have updated the Recommendations list. As of November 30, 2017, it numbers 15. (The new additions are Chris Hedges, Walker Bragman, and Katie Halper.) If anyone has more suggestions, please let me know. You may also want to post a link. (This includes telling me if anyone should get removed from the list.) For the list to get further expanded, I would prefer a full 20. (Now that Recommendations is over 10, I can’t help but think in increments of five. But, I am also mindful of the possibility of overkill. You can let me know if that may be a problem.) Thank you!

—Candy83



P.S. I will post a tweet, just yesterday from Twitter, which I think people will appreciate.

Latest Harvard-Harris Poll: Democrats prefer @BernieSanders over Hillary, Bernie also more highly-favored than Hillary even among her own voters: https://t.co/AbLMTdzuKm #ThursdayThoughts

Americans are ready for progressive change: #MedicareForAll, #CollegeForAll, #RobinHoodTax pic.twitter.com/mufW9wQqdK

— RoseAnn DeMoro (@RoseAnnDeMoro) November 30, 2017

UPDATE:

Friday, December 1, 2017 @ 02:15 p.m. ET—I added five to my Recommendations list. In order of their listing are The Rational National (host David Doel), which are YouTube-uploaded videos, and then the writings of Glenn Greenwald (The Intercept), David Sirota (International Business Times), Caitlin Johnstone (Medium), and Chris Floyd. If there are any more worth adding—and I have considered The Benjamin Dixon Show—to Recommendations, I would like to get another increment of a suggested five. Thank you! —Candy83