I am considering running in the 2020 Democratic primary. The goal will not be to win, but to bring a critique of American imperialism to the Democratic debate stage. The website (https://t.co/j5qZdJoH7S) is under construction. Official announcement will be in the coming days.

— Senator Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) March 20, 2019

For asdf: He was born before the fall of the Weimar Republic.

The 2020 Democratic field pretends to progressivism, but don't buy the lie. @KamalaHarris kept innocent men on death row. @JoeBiden voted for the Iraq War. @CoryBooker invented a drug dealer friend (and voted with Big Pharma).

— Senator Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) March 20, 2019

Mike Gravel 2020 starter pack pic.twitter.com/E8OIJD2AD4

— Senator Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) March 20, 2019

As far as I can see it is actually two kids wearing one trench coat while standing on each other's shoulders. Which doesn't mean he isn't running.

He said he'll decide after he meets with the students on if he'll run, but  "they need to persuade my wife." I asked him if he knew about the exploratory committee: "They asked me if it was okay, I said they could do what they wanted, as long as they were doing it and not me!"

— Zach Montellaro (@ZachMontellaro) March 20, 2019

Warren takes aim at Electoral College in 3-day trip to South
(3rd press warning in as many weeks)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrapped up a three-state Southern swing on Tuesday with appearances in Alabama, where the Democratic presidential candidate ramped up her call to eliminate [?] the Electoral College.

Warren, when pressed Tuesday on how she would accomplish a shift to a national popular vote, said it could happen through a "constitutional amendment, someday." [DOH!] But instead she urged the crowd -- to laughter from some voters who doubted the viability of the idea -- to push for the passage of a state law that would award Electoral College votes for president [!] to the winner of the most votes nationwide.

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Explanation It has been enacted into law in 13 jurisdictions with 181 electoral votes (CA, CO, CT, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, RI, VT, WA). Map showing status in states
[...]
National Popular Vote's Advisory Board includes former Senators Jake Garn (R-UT), Birch Bayh (D-IN), and David Durenberger (R-MN); former Congressmen John Anderson (R-IL, I), John Buchanan (R-AL), Tom Campbell (R-CA), and Tom Downey (D-NY). Other supporters include former Cong. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Governor Howard Dean (D-VT), Governor Jim Edgar (R-IL), and House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA).

Warren presents a crafty electioneering proposition to voters: "first mover advantage". Competitors are still working hackneyed political grievances. She has a tenuous interest in the Occupy Wall St period. For her, the instrumentality of this National Popular Vote program --not unlike the ADOS reparations movement-- is not its legitimate effect by 2020. It is the convergence of rhetorical claims on "reform" belatedly captured in her figure. IDK that she can sustain the image in the long-term, however.

archived big man syndrome
the meaning of "gerrymander" in the USA
unilaterally "award" a state's electoral college delegates [to] a POTUS nominee
wut
Colorado governor will sign bill aimed at bypassing Electoral College

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Who is Andrew Yang? Democrat and entrepreneur enters race to replace Trump as US president in 2020, 22 Jan 2019
"He describes his upbringing as 'pretty nerdy'", UBI and more.

Magic Hour?: 19 March
538 | How Andrew Yang Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary, Nerd Match
"Yang now looks likely to qualify for the Democratic primary debates this summer"
(C)NBC | More than free money: Here's how long-shot 2020 candidate Andrew Yang would reshape the American economy
Econ Digest: "more than six dozen policy proposals listed on his campaign website"

"Yang Gang" Drum Roll!

For those of you who miss the donation counter and the mini-Andrew, he's back on the website! Our new goal is 200,000 donors by the June debates. Let's become the campaign to beat in 2020. 👍🇺🇸🥊 https://t.co/nYWdJYpqVC pic.twitter.com/Aho61IqOX3

— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) March 14, 2019

archived
HR 1 Cuts Green Party Campaign Funding, Sics Homeland Security and Political Police on the Left
(it's not about the Green Party, actually) TITLE V: new barriers to entry to all federal offices and "public" campaign finance qualification of candidates
Chelsea Manning has registered her candidacy
$5K
who isn't qualified?
gauge of a Free and Fair Election ^TM is no barrier to entry

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Google Trends

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Ruben Carranza, senior expert on reparations for the International Center for Transitional Justice, noted that U.S. courts have become a resource for survivors of dictatorships, war criminals and genocides.

Several experts contacted about the case called it important for German society and government to do right by the Ovaherero and Nama, particularly given how the West has grappled for decades with fallout from the Holocaust. The latest version of Katuuo's complaint calls Germany's annihilation efforts in southwest Africa a "precursor" to the events of World War II less than four decades later.

William Darity Jr., an economist and professor of public policy at Duke University, also said German citizens should pressure their government to pass legislation for Ovaherero and Nama reparations.

"Trying to do this through the U.S. court system evades the question of who has direct responsibility and obligation for the compensation," Darity said in an interview, wryly noting this same court system has a history of shooting down cases for domestic slavery reparations.

archived "reserved words"
U.S. imposes visa bans on International Criminal Court investigators - Pompeo, 15 Mar 2019
Rome Statute (2002) circling the drain
Wrong claim. Wrong venue. Wrong "race".
piracy and jurisdiction, Eichmann in Jerusalem
Immediate action on today's problems"
There are differences in perceived legitimacy of justice in US hierarchy
US-UK do. not. do. international law, 'k?
long-run evolution of racial income inequality

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

AP: GOP redistricting edge moderated Democrats' 2018 gains

The AP examined all U.S. House races and about 4,900 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a statistical method of calculating partisan advantage that is designed to flag cases of potential [?] political [!] gerrymandering. A similar analysis also showed a GOP advantage in the 2016 elections.

The AP used the so-called "efficiency gap" test in part because it was one of the analytical tools cited in a Wisconsin gerrymandering case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2017 and is part of a North Carolina case ... whether Democrats in Maryland ... Massachusetts ...Pennsylvania ... South Dakota ...Nevada ...Iowa ... Michigan

archived political education
I think I've never heard gerrymander used in the strictly legal sense ...
VA compliance with the Voting Rights Act is a pretext., sources
"one of the lines dividing two districts was drawn "in the middle of the street with black houses on one side and white houses on another side."
CENSUS
"The term "racial gerrymandering" is a euphemism for bi-partisan electoral control of voter segregation (district "packing") by race."

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), who are both Jewish, unveiled a measure that opposes the boycott, divest and sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel and reaffirms support for a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict.

The resolution's introduction comes days before the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington that starts this weekend, where multiple top Democratic leaders are expected to speak.
[...]
The Senate previously passed legislation in February that would allow states to penalize businesses that take part in boycotts or divestments of Israel. But some Democrats, including freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), opposed the measure due to concerns about free speech.
[...]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) are all slated to speak at this year's annual AIPAC conference, which begins Sunday. ...Several 2020 Democratic contenders have said they will not attend the conference this year, including Sanders, Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas).

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also expected to speak at the AIPAC conference and meet with President Trump at the White House early next week. Netanyahu's visit will come ahead of the Israeli elections in early April.

Concerns about the health of the world economy heightened last week after remarks by the US Federal Reserve indicated that it would not raise interest rates this year. The comments confirmed to analysts that the Fed has backflipped on its hawkish policy of the past year when it hiked rates four times and is now more pessimistic about the outlook for the US economy.

Adding to the fears of a more widespread global downturn, manufacturing output data from Germany on Friday showed a contraction for the third straight month.

In response, US 10-year treasury yields slipped below the three-month rate for the first time since 2007 as nervous investors ploughed their money into the safe haven of bonds rather than riskier assets such as shares.

This so-called inversion of the of the bond yield curve - where long-term rates fall below short-term - has predicted every recession for the past 60 years. It is a function of bond markets that the return, or yield, falls when the price of the bond rises.

Nothing weakens like a strong economy.

I used to be afew. I'm still not many.