Bernie and Righteous (Published way late)

The 2020 Democratic primary has narrowed down to two long-time politicians, centrist Joe Biden and progressive Bernie Sanders. Many folks on my Facebook and Twitter feed already seem to be assuming that Biden has already won, but the primary is months from its actual conclusion. Super Tuesday has come and gone, a week prior to Super Tuesday Sanders was the clear frontrunner. Now Biden is now leading in number of delegates.

The media will spend a lot of time reporting on the percentages of votes candidates will earn in any given, but it truly comes down to a candidate's acquisition of delegates. That is how the eventual nominee is decided at the party's summer convention.

Immediately before and a couple days after Super Tuesday candidates quickly dropped out of the race when it became clear they had no path to actually winning the nomination. Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen Amy Klobuchar dropped out, consolidating the centrist lane of the race. Meanwhile enthusiasm remained with the progressive lane with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Mayor Mike Bloomberg, the former Republican also stayed in the race for Super Tuesday and performed poorly, usually coming in third or fourth. He and Warren, who finished third in her own state, withdrew from the race after Super Tuesday.

Now why did Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Bloomberg all endorse fellow centrist when they withdrew, but Warren has yet to endorse her progressive ally Sanders. Why? This would seem to be the logical course if she wanted to commit to working for their shared progressive agenda, such as Medicare for All and cancelling all student debt. This is one of the burning questions currently...

No idea why I did not publish the above sooner...

Now it appears 45 is getting ready to exit after his pathetic denials of reality, and Joe Biden will become our 46th president. Much more in my next blog post.

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Guantanamo put on trial -- May 27th

In eight days, Eve Tetaz, a 76-year old retired D.C. public schoolteacher, will enter a courthouse in Washington, D.C. and engage in the legal debate over the fate of America's detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The name of Noor Muhammad has never appeared in an American criminal court. On May 27th, Tetaz will change that. On that day, she will appear at the Washington, D.C. Superior Court as Noor Muhammad. Tetaz was arrested, along with 78 others, at the U.S. Supreme Court on January 11, 2008, protesting the denial of habeas rights to and the torture of inmates at Guantanamo. Like her fellow protestors, Tetaz took the name of an inmate during her arrest. ( See the January 13 Washington Post article "Activists Pose as Guantanamo Prisoners" ) Tetaz says she felt compelled to participate in the protest at the Supreme Court because detainees are being tortured at Guantanamo. "Torture is a terrible crime and sin against humanity," she said. Thirty-four

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