Danny Small (aka Singing Dragon) serenades riders in New York Subway.
No-Good Will Come of This Campaign
Ted Cruz is a hack, an idiot, a hypocrite and a con man, and, as such, he embodies everything that is wrong with our politics.
But headlines like "Ted Cruz doesn’t have a prayer: Why the Texas senator will never sniff the White House" sound too much like whistling past the graveyard.
But headlines like "Ted Cruz doesn’t have a prayer: Why the Texas senator will never sniff the White House" sound too much like whistling past the graveyard.
Elizabeth Warren for Majority Leader
"Her lifetime of fighting for the little guy against Wall Street power … shows she can think big, wage tough fights against powerful interests, and win key votes in the Senate,” the Progressive Change Campaign Committee said in a statement expressing support for Warren to replace Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who announced that he won't seek reelection in 2016.
Progressives push for Warren as next Senate Democratic leader by Jonathan Easley (The Hill).
Frank Little: The Hobo Agitator (PBS)
The summer of 1917: the war of the Copper Kings was winding down, a highly charged time for Butte, which had a socialist mayor and no unions. This extremely well done profile of Frank Little, the hobo agitator, brings that summer to life, when vigilantes roamed freely though the city and dominated the mines. Little was one of the major IWW leaders of the time; he was lynched at Butte on August 1 1917. The doc also provides background on Butte and copper, the emergence of militant unionism, and some of the radicalism of the times. Don't pass this up.
Rail: Fail
One measure of American political dysfunction is the not-so-slow collapse of infrastructure during the last four decades, including passenger rail service, an area where the U.S. is dead last versus all its economic rivals.
"In the 1960, the United States had an extensive network of passenger rail trains. All the major cities in the Midwest and South were linked by regular train service. You could get service on smaller routes, like the one from Boise, Idaho, to Portland, Oregon, three times a day. Then a lot of lines got shut down in the late 1960s and 1970s, as this animation shows."
Source: Watch American passenger rail shrivel up and die in this animated map by Timothy B. Lee (Vox).
Resource: National Association of Railroad Passengers
"In the 1960, the United States had an extensive network of passenger rail trains. All the major cities in the Midwest and South were linked by regular train service. You could get service on smaller routes, like the one from Boise, Idaho, to Portland, Oregon, three times a day. Then a lot of lines got shut down in the late 1960s and 1970s, as this animation shows."
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| (Maps from the National Association of Railway Passengers and Malcolm Kenton. Animation by Joss Fong) |
Source: Watch American passenger rail shrivel up and die in this animated map by Timothy B. Lee (Vox).
Resource: National Association of Railroad Passengers
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