Hello friends! As you might image (if you read yesterday’s comments) I have a lot going on at the moment so will only be doing this ‘open thread edition’ today. This is by no means ‘The End’ or anything like that of what I am doing here, just a day off! There is certainly no lack of of Bernie news floating around at the moment (and for a change a good deal of it is actually people saying good things about Sanders), and I’m sure you will all do a fine job of compiling it in the comments below!
On another note I just wanted to thank EVERYONE for their kind words yesterday, and for the continued support of what we started here. I have made friends with supporters of all candidates on this site and find that most are very good people despite how hard a very vocal minority might try and persuade one group or another otherwise, so when people in the comments stir up trouble.. please ignore them. When people come with good intentions, please return the kindness!
PS: The BNR Jar keeps rising, 85,480 dollars raise and 100% of it has gone to Sanders. All from grassroots, online activism. Your voice matters, be it out on the streets or here on the the series-of-tubes writing diaries or posting comments. We’ve shown that everyone can make a difference in their own way.
Onward and upward!
Because I can’t leave you without ANY content here is Bill McKibben and Michelle Chan on Democracy Now!