From the It's-A-Dark-Cloud-That-Doesn't-Have-A-Silver-Lining Desk:

The House Appropriations Committee this week approved its $690.2 billion version of the fiscal 2020 defense spending bill, sending the measure to the House floor.

In good news, the panel adopted an amendment by California Rep. Barbara Lee to repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, which opponents across the political spectrum have derided as a blank check for war. Lee's proposal would sunset the AUMF eight months after the spending bill becomes law.

For the record, total military spending is "budgeted" at $733 billion when contingency costs and nuclear-related funding are added.

From the It's-A-Dark-Cloud-That-Doesn't-Have-A-Silver-Lining Desk:

The House Appropriations Committee approved its $690.2 billion version of the fiscal 2020 defense spending bill on Tuesday, sending the measure to the House floor.

In good news, the panel adopted an amendment by California Rep. Barbara Lee to repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, which opponents across the political spectrum have derided as a blank check for war. Lee's proposal would sunset the AUMF eight months after the spending bill becomes law.

Total military spending is "budgeted" at $733 billion when contingency costs and nuclear-related funding are added.

Nina Turner on Bernie Sanders Record

Since the Reagan-Clinton era, these ideas have been considered "radical." Not anymore. Now it is time to complete the political revolution begun by Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.
Voters who have already made up their minds about 2020 probably won't watch this, but anyone still genuinely undecided should give it a look.

Thimblerig

Nancy Pelosi is refusing to advance impeachment because "it won't pass the Senate," promoting instead legislation that won't pass the Senate.

Factoid:

Robert Caro, author of the epic must-read biography of Lyndon Johnson, has 11 identical Smith-Corona Electric 210 typewriters, proving that, even in the digital age, it is still the craftsman that matters, not the tools.

You have entered another dimension...

quote unquote: G. K. Chesterton

"The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up." -- G. K. Chesterton (the first sentence of "The Napoleon of Notting Hill")

Could happen.

Warren: President. Booker: Veep. Sanders: Senate Majority Leader. Gabbard: Sec. of State. Harris: Attorney General. Hickenlooper: Defense. Yang: Treasury. Buttigieg, White House chief of staff. Inslee to Interior or EPA. Williamson: U.N. Ambassador: Moulton: Veterans Affairs. Bennett: Dept. of Education. Klobuchar: Agriculture. Castro: back to Housing and Urban Development. Swalwell, Ryan, Delaney and Messam play rock-paper-scissors for Transportation, Homeland Security, Labor and Energy. Gillibrand: Ambassador to Nauru, with apologies to Nauru. O'Rourke: U.S. Senator (TX).

Or not.