"Mr. Robot" and the rabbit hole. Helpful *spoilers*?

Donald Trump knows exactly what he's doing

Source: The Week, by Paul Waldman

Intern Q&A with the President

"Becoming President involves a lot of luck...But being useful, and having a satisfying life, and making a contribution, that is entirely within your reach."

Bill Clinton Calls Comey's Statement On Email Classification “Biggest Load Of Bull I’ve Ever Heard”

Something we may have noticed before?

This Supreme Court decision poisoned our campaign finance system

Fundraising email from Hillary campaign:

<name>,

Almost a decade ago, I learned that a film called “Hillary: The Movie” was being released by a conservative group called Citizens United. It took aim at me and other progressives. What we didn’t know at the time was how much damage this 90-minute film would do to our country -- because the movie set in motion a legal roller coaster that affected our entire democracy.

Citizens United -- a special interest group -- argued that the First Amendment protected their right to spend unlimited money to influence the outcome of elections. The case made its way to the Supreme Court. And on January 21, 2010, the Court handed down its landmark ruling, "Citizens United v. FEC," clearing the way for special interest groups to bankroll campaigns.

In the years since, we’ve seen the aftermath of that decision. Let’s be frank: that ruling has perverted and poisoned our campaign finance system. It has stifled the voices of ordinary Americans. Instead, it has amplified the opinions and interests of corporations and billionaires.

<name>, I used to teach law students -- and nowhere in the Constitution does it say that corporations and wealthy special interests have the right to control our elections. A Fortune 500 CEO should not have more sway ​over an election than an elementary school teacher.

That’s why, as your president, I will work tirelessly to put in place a constitutional amendment reversing that Supreme Court decision. I'll put that process in motion within the first month of my tenure in the Oval Office.

But I need your help to get there.

We cannot have people like the Koch brothers buying our elections. We need to work as hard as we can, for as long as we must, to protect the sanctity -- and transparency -- of our democratic process.

You understand that. And that’s part of the reason I’m so honored to have End Citizens United’s endorsement. You know the power of a grassroots movement. And you get that our foremothers and forefathers would be sick at the thought that -- in 2016! -- a few players at the top of the pyramid hold so much of our nation’s political power.

Our opponent in this election is on the side of the billionaires. Can you chip in $X now to my campaign and help me transform our broken campaign finance system?

Thank you for standing with me.

As your president, I promise -- I'll stand with you, too.

Hillary

Recreational closing of Bankhead Tunnel planned for Saturday

Why is recovery taking so long—and who’s to blame?

- Since the recovery’s trough in June 2009, employment took longer (51 months) to reach its pre-recession peak than in any other of the previous three recoveries. Much of this too-slow march back to the pre-recession employment peak can be attributed to the length and severity of the Great Recession itself—the economy had a much larger hole to dig out of. But the pace of job growth in the recovery phase following the recession was also slow relative to previous recoveries—slower than any on record except the recovery in the early 2000s. At the trough of the Great Recession the economy was more damaged than at the trough of any postwar business cycle; only the 1982 trough was comparable.

- The ability of conventional monetary policy to spur recovery following the Great Recession was more limited than in any other postwar recovery.

- Given the degree of damage inflicted by the Great Recession and the restricted ability of monetary policy to aid recovery, historically expansionary fiscal policy was required to return the U.S. economy to full health. But this government spending not only failed to rise fast enough to spur a rapid recovery, it outright contracted, and this policy choice fully explains why the economy is only partially recovered from the Great Recession a full seven years after its official end.

New way to message President Obama!

Blue Cross proposes rate hike of nearly 40 percent on some Obamacare plans