The hell you can’t. I’m an attorney, I went to skill to learn a skill too, but in the event that I’m the only attorney in the jurisdiction who hasn’t been disqualified to take a criminal case, the judge can demand, and the defendant absolutely can expect, that I will show up, and that he is entitled to my services.

Government owes its people basic protections for the taxes they pay in. NOT just military protection. Access to clean water, safe food, etc. Currently, affordable healthcare and health insurance is beyond a very large portion of the population.

1) Yes, I’m not going to take a Koch-funded “study” seriously.

This is currently intended as a toothless show-committee. Democratic leadership has no intentions of doing anything that might interfere with their futile plan to appeal to non-existent centrists. They have let deniers define the public debate on climate change and are now afraid it will alienate people who won’t vote…

And if they refuse to testify, any report supporting proposed legislation will include nothing but the perspective of climate scientists, with a note that the energy industry decided they did not need to give input.

It is not intended to investigate wrongdoing, as far as I can tell.

In my first contested hearing as a trial attorney, I did not subpoena a witness because she promised to show up. Not only did she not show up, but the hearing went on as planned, because I hadn’t subpoenaed the witness and thus had not preserved the relief available when someone ducks a subpoena. Luckily the hearing…

I like her more and more every day. I’m on board with the Green New Deal.

If it’s an unrealistic purity test to expect Texas politicians to refuse fossil fuel executives’ money, why did O’Rourke make a pledge to refuse fossil fuel executives’ money?

If only there were widely available transportation method that used existing streets, gave you a maximum wait time in most major arteries of, about 10 minutes, had a flat monthly fee, ran on a simple grid system that made it easy to navigate, could easily accommodate your whole group, and got you there about as fast…

This is the same argument that the Clintons made about Obama in 2008. “He lacks experience.” “He’s not qualified.” Did you agree with that? Did you support Clinton over Obama because the latter wasn’t qualified enough for you?

We should only elect candidates who have decades in government or, in the case of Cuomo, who have family that has spent decades in government. It’s like feudalism, only it’s not because we call it being “qualified.”

The alternative to a co-op is not that you have all the power to yourself, it is that all the power rests in the hands of a single entity that doesn’t give a shit about you.

You know who else wore pants? Pol Pot.

I get that they want the Dems to do better. The Dems should do better.

Currently on the front page: piece calling Trump an idiot, piece about a white nationalist being charged with domestic abuse, piece about Trump being scared of Southern California, piece about Mike Pence being petty, piece about the Trump whitehouse being a shitshow, piece of self-advocacy from a Mexican American,…

You know, I bitched about about Schumer when he sold out DACA and ended the shutdown after 23 minutes. I was told he’s playing the long game. He knew what he was doing. He’s playing the GOP guys!

Their name is taken from the Black Jacobins, the name given to the Haitain revolutionaries of the 1790s -hence the use of Toussaint Louverture in the logo.

It’s a reference to a book about the Haitian Revolution called The Black Jacobins.