Disclosure: Jake is a friend of mine, but I did not do any work for the campaign and I do not live in the 4th. I am a little dismayed by some of the sour grapes I am seeing from progressives regarding the Jake Auchincloss win in the CD4 … [Read more...]
Preparing for the obvious — what do we do next?
CNN is currently broadcasting a piece by Fareed Zakaria that we should all be paying careful attention to: We need to prepare for this deeply worrying scenario. Multiple models suggest that the most plausible and most likely scenario, … [Read more...]
Odds & Ends
When the Covid Crisis is over, will Democrats in our state house or DC consider mandating a sustainable wage and benefits for all workers who, during the pandemic, were designated as "essential"...or will we go back to dismissing them as … [Read more...]
How to shut up a Trumpist
I have been confronted recently by vulgar, screaming, Trumpists while holding signs campaigning for Joe Biden / Kamala Harris in my hometown of Wakefield. Believing that arguing with someone who has lost his reason is like giving medicine … [Read more...]
Precinct Map – 2020 Democratic US Senate Primary
Here's a precinct by precinct map for the Democratic US Senate Primary. It's a Tableau file, so you can zoom in. Hovering over a precinct generates a popup with vote totals. … [Read more...]
Thank you, President Biden
"I'm not gonna make any news today. I'm not gonna talk about anything other than 9/11. We took all our advertising down, it's a solemn day, and that's how we're going to keep it." Joe Biden This is what decency and honor sounds … [Read more...]
Pro Tip to Joe Biden: Bringing Manufacturing Back is Not the Cure.
Workers at an appliance manufacturing facility in Louisville Kentucky start at $12 an hour. The typical Tesla Assembly Line Worker makes $19 per hour in Freemont California where the average rent for an apartment is $2,500 a month. That … [Read more...]
Agolf Twitler has our blood on his hands
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, now we learn in Bob Woodward's "RAGE" that Trump knew how deadly COVID was on day one yet lied to us about it leading to the tragic loss of over 190,000 lives to date. In a series of … [Read more...]
Joe Biden is the first Democratic nominee in 36 years without a degree from an Ivy League university.
By the time of Mr. Trump’s election, the Democratic Party had become a party of technocratic liberalism more congenial to the professional classes than to the blue-collar and middle-class voters who once constituted its base. In 2016, … [Read more...]
Jack McGinty. One of Trump’s “Suckers”.
My father, John Joseph McGinty, pictured below in San Francisco on his way to serving America in the Occupation Army of fascist Japan, in Nagasaki, in 1946. He died of cancer in 2000. We do not know whether it was related to exposure to … [Read more...]