#John Nichols, "Mr. President... " The Nation, February 3, 2020.
"81 percent of Democrats favor electing presidents with a popular vote, according to a June 2019 NBC/Wall Street Journal survey." "Democrats should begin by shredding the myths about the Electoral College and recognizing it for the abomination it has been since slaveholding delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 worked overtime to restrict popular democracy." "Of the considerations that factored into the Framers' calculus, 'race and slavery were perhaps foremost,' according to the Brennan Center for Justice fellow, Wilford Cobington."
#Julian Assange's attorney has said that Dana Rohnabacker, a former member of Congress, dangled a pardon to Assange if he would say that Trump had no role in unveiling Hillary Clinton's emails. Rohnabacker has largely confirmed the offering of a pardon by saying that Trump did not dangle the pardon in advance, but if Assange seemed to be interested, he [Rohnabacker] would try to convince Trump to offer a pardon.
#Channing Gerard Joseph, "The First Drag Queen," The Nation, February 17, 2020.
In 1879, the 'Evening Star' reported that the abolitionist Frederick Douglas advised that "with a full complement of 'manly qualities' the negro could and would make [him-or-herself] respected in every part of the republic." "In post-Civil War America, there was very little patience for men who subverted gender norms." "The term 'queen,' though used loosely today, was, until the 1960s, often used for someone in a position of honor and leadership in the community."
#Deliah Friedler, "Ghost Stories," Mother Jones, March/April 2020.
"The popularity of trans porn has been rising for years. Data shared by PornHub, one of the most popular porn sites, reveals that searchers for trans content tripled between 2014 and 2017: it now ranks among the top 10 categories in many parts of the world. Trans porn is especially popular among men,whose searches for the term climbed another 167 percent in 2018."
"In 2019, at least 25 trans or gender-nonconforming people of color were killed in the United States."
#Joan Walsh, "Indivisible," The Nation, September 9/16, 2019.
"Dozens of Virginia Indivisible affiliates were crucial to state Democrats picking up 15 seats in the 2017 House of Delegates elections. Pennsylvania's Indivisible movement got national attention for its work electing Conor Lamb in the state's 18th Congressional district,which went for Trump by nearly 20 points."
"In an interview, [sociologist Theda Skapol's] estimate that 70 to 90 percent of Indivisible activists around the country are white women with an average age of about 55."
#Mike Konczal, "Think of the Children," The Nation, February 10, 2020.
"The Bennet-Romney proposal would make several changes to the current system: the most important is that most of the child tax credit would be fully refundable." "Effectively, the bill would create a basic income for all families with children linking the interests of poor, working-class, middle-class families."
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