As we watch the riots in Minneapolis and the rest of the country, we discover:  Progressive policies are insufficient.  Affirmative action is not enough.  Small fixes in police departments are insufficient. Worse, radical change is rarely a fix.  Charter Schools were intended to be a radical change in education.  Instead, we got Betsy De Vos. We need to do the job right.  Treat everyone with the respect they deserve.  Minnesota and Minneapolis should be able to do it. They have the people who could do it.  But they are not getting it done: Tim Walz, Governor:  12 year Congressman, former…

Without violence, the police arrested and handcuffed the reporter.

Consider May an indication to all of us that elections will happen in November.  People will vote.  Democrats, if they weren’t already aware, should know that they cannot be complacent about November

The technical term for how Representatives Sims responded to the Republicans would be “bat-shit angry.”

Will the world be different when the places that attract dense crowds in Republican areas open up?

In Porter’s case, the dog does not bark.  No one complains her monitoring was insufficiently supportive of people who lost their homes.

Station Eleven, a book about a flu pandemic. Written in 2014. Look for it.