Breakage

I’m taking a little time away–still spilling today, but that’s all, no attendant promises. Mainly because tomorrow I’ll be on the road briefly again, for an old-fashioned milk run into Prettytown, and we know what traveling does to my dependability here. Also because I’ve said as much as I can in the mildly public eye about that story I need to give. I need to figure out how and where to go from here.

In the meantime, I was listening to Rumble 107 and mmoore’s guest was Alexandra Rojas. The host said that she was a founding member of Justice Democrats, and I said whaaat? I thought that was founded by Cenk and Kyle …

Well, turns out both things are true. Kulinski and Uygur were the most prominent names, but there were maybe a dozen people in on the ground floor in early 2017, per the Wikipedia page. Toward the end of the same year, the Big Two left, mostly amicably, but others, including Rojas, soldiered on.

In 2018 there were 78 people running for something as Justice Democrats. This year there seem to be far fewer, but most seem to be going straight after positions in the congressional House, and …

A majority of them have already won, including the members of “The Squad” up for re-election, and some stunning upsets, like Cory Bush in Missouri and Jamal Bowman in New York, who both knocked off corporate Dems who’d been wedged in their seats for decades.

Some good news for a change.

See you on the other side.

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