A lot of things bothered me today. As if it makes it different than any other day. For instance, I now have to work on a tobacco-free campus. While wildfires in northern Cali have left their smoke all over the Bay Area. Trees are starting to fall upon people, and salmon now have to be transported by Uber to their spawning grounds.
More beneath the orange monogram on the white linen.
Bernie Sanders came to the city of my birth today. A day after the Cubs ended their 9 day winning streak. This was not a rally, but a minimum $50 fundraiser in a "boutique Chicago theater" in Lincoln Park.
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n Chicago, Sanders devoted a portion of his speech to the issue, saying he was "appalled and outraged" by police shootings of unarmed African-Americans.
The populist sentiment fueling both the Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump campaigns
The populist sentiment fueling both the Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump campaigns
"I know you do not want to see any more of those videos of a black woman thrown out of her car," Sanders said, a reference to a Naperville woman who was found dead in a Texas jail cell after she was arrested during a traffic stop.
"What's her name, Bernie?" someone in the crowd shouted. Reciting the names of victims of police violence is a hallmark of the Black Lives Matter movement.
"Her name is Sandra Bland," Sanders said.
Next year in Wrigley Field, Bernie.
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