The Progressive Wing

Tip jar for the usual suspects and bar/bud tenders.

Sure Happy Its Tuesday.

Thank you Benny. For both the thread and the feistiness!

I think it’s a good thing that Bernie continues to use his presidential bid to help elevate the issues that he feels strongly about, and about which I tend to agree with him 99% of the time.

jcitybone

This comment reveals that the president doesn't have a clue how public health crises work. He think it'll be a good idea for churches to be packed in 16 days. It's absurdly irresponsible. https://t.co/qFPwgfALux
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 24, 2020

phatkhat

Packed churches. Oh, yay. Just what we need. The man cares for nothing but his own ego and image. Well, and money, of course.

Murder. How many of his followers will follow the new jim jones.

wi64

Why would he put his main voting block in danger of getting sick?

Paul ADK

Why, because he’s an amoral psychopath, of course.

That’s the answer to a lot of really bizarre questions.

Holy hell. This one literally hurt to watch.
pic.twitter.com/vjR4UFns5T
— Rebecca Bitton (@rebeinstein) March 24, 2020

phatkhat

How much are they paying Jill? Or does she want to be FLOTUS that bad? This is really pathetic.

New York becomes U.S. epicenter of coronavirus as cases skyrocket @EricaRHill reports https://t.co/VH3mrRctpB pic.twitter.com/Jlrk3HxxGB
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) March 24, 2020

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bernie-sanders-musician-supporters-2020-election-972273/

And apparently we are on track to become the epicenter of the world. Yay America

jcitybone

Those rallies, and the live events that have helped boost Sanders over the past year, came together thanks to a team that included Caleb Wilson, the national director of talent outreach for the 2020 campaign. Sanders “made it a mandate that all of [his] events have to incorporate music, arts, and culture,” Wilson tells Rolling Stone. “The senator is extremely aware that throughout history, political movements and their success can absolutely be attributed to the artists of the day championing them. It’s crystal clear why music is so important to us.”

On a practical level, the Sanders campaign has seen music as serving dual functions. One effect is increasing the campaign’s exposure through media outlets that cover music and celebrities, like Rolling Stone. “It’s the earned media,” says Wilson. “The association with these major national recording artists, if that gets … platforms that wouldn’t normally be covering a political rally to cover a political rally, well, that’s looked at as a huge win.”
More important, big-name musicians can help expose the campaign’s message to voters who might not otherwise be engaged in electoral politics. The campaign has done that in part by shaking up the structure of a typical political rally: If a bigger artist has signed on to be part of a Sanders 2020 rally, the band, and not the senator, will often serve as the headlining event.

The campaign has also understood that it has offered a big platform for artists, particularly smaller acts. “It’s certainly a ‘You scratch our back, and we scratch your back,’ ” says Wilson. “The Bernie base is so massive that you’re exposing this artist to a whole new demographic of people.”
“We would be lying if we didn’t think that our engagement went up after our first Bernie rally,” says Hector Flores of the band Las Cafeteras, a Los Angeles Chicano group that has performed at several Sanders rallies. “Immediately after our performances in Iowa, we had Bernie supporters at every show. But the performances with Tio Bernie were beyond algorithms and Instagram likes. … The love from our base was reciprocal. Our fans came out in the thousands to publicly pledge support for Bernie after we did, because they knew that if Bernie was down with an independent band from East L.A., then Bernie would be for them too.”

phatkhat

Really nice bar, Benny! I’ll have an Irish coffee!

There you go! I made an extra one in case someone else wanted the same beverage!

phatkhat

Thanks! Looks good… 🙂

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/watch-live-sen-bernie-sanders-holds-town-hall-with-health-experts

Bernie Sanders Plans to Participate in Next Debate, Campaign Says

It was the strongest sign yet that he plans to keep competing against Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential primary.
Senator Bernie Sanders plans to participate in the Democratic presidential debate in April if one is held, his campaign said on Tuesday, the strongest indication yet that he plans to continue competing against Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the 2020 primary for the foreseeable future.
The Democratic National Committee has said previously that there would be a debate in April, but one has not been scheduled. The committee has not announced a media partner or a site host — critical elements that are typically agreed upon at least a month in advance. The coronavirus crisis has already upended most facets of the Democratic primary, and there is no guarantee that the debate will take place.
Still, the fact that the Sanders campaign is signaling, for now, that he would be on a debate stage in April is a strikingly public sign of the Vermont senator’s determination to wield political influence and challenge Mr. Biden for primacy despite the former vice president’s nearly insurmountable delegate lead.
“Senator Sanders is still running for president,” said Mike Casca, a top campaign official. “If there is a debate in April, he plans to be there.”
Mr. Sanders has been holding regular live-streamed events to discuss the coronavirus response, including one on Tuesday night with Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington and several health experts.
Before the coronavirus outbreak effectively put the primary race on hold — most upcoming primaries have been moved to later dates and neither Mr. Sanders nor Mr. Biden is holding any in-person campaign events — Mr. Sanders had soundly lost a string of primary races beginning with South Carolina and continuing through last Tuesday, when he lost contests in Arizona, Florida and Illinois.
Mr. Biden’s decisive victories, and his ability to attract so many demographic groups, have left Mr. Sanders with no realistic path to the nomination. After Mr. Sanders’s losses last week, his campaign manager said the Vermont senator would “assess his campaign,” and Mr. Sanders has shifted his focus since then to the virus. He has not made any announcements about his campaign’s future, and snapped last week at a reporter who asked about his plans. During an interview on MSNBC on Monday night, he said his campaign was “kind of moving day by day.”
The Democratic National Committee has not set a media partner, a venue or a date for the party’s final planned debate, nor has it released qualification criteria to participate.
Xochitl Hinojosa, a D.N.C. spokeswoman, declined to say whether a debate would still take place in April as planned or move later in the calendar to follow primary contests from several states that have switched from April to June. The Biden campaign declined to comment.
Mr. Sanders and Mr. Biden met in their first one-on-one debate just over a week ago, a forum that was moved from Arizona to Washington, D.C., because of travel concerns related to the coronavirus, and held in a CNN studio with no live audience.
Nine states and the District of Columbia now plan to hold primaries on June 2, making it the day with the second-largest delegate haul on Democrats’ presidential primary calendar, after Super Tuesday, when California and Texas voted.
Mr. Biden cannot officially clinch the presidential nomination before June 2, even if he were to win all of the delegates from all of the states and territories voting before then.
And some of the states with contests scheduled in April and May are contemplating moving back on the calendar. Elections officials in New York and Pennsylvania, with April 28 contests, have said they will seek to delay their primaries.

https://www.nytimes.com/…

jcitybone

Senator Bernie Sanders will hold a roundtable event with a group of health experts to discuss the novel coronavirus pandemic in the United States.
Sanders is expected to speak at 8 p.m. EST.
Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate, has tried to stay in the public eye through livestreamed events focused on tackling the pandemic, alongside other pressing national issues. Last week he hosted a similar town hall focused on the economic impact of COVID-19.

Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, join us for a roundtable on the coronavirus crisis. I'll be joined by our campaign Health Policy Chair Rep. @PramilaJayapal and health professionals, featuring music by @SarahLeeGuthrie. Tune in at https://t.co/vreIiWfeoS. pic.twitter.com/kWebnML16B
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 24, 2020

he’s “tried to stay in the public eye.”. They think they’re so clever. To be honest, it seems that they are considering how many people think they’re so wonderful.

shoot. i have a meeting. celebrate with him for me. ❤️🦜🦜

I’ve over-taxed my computer, but managed to grab a screenshot, couldn’t quite fit the invitation to submit your questions you can almost see along the bottom.

What a lovely concept, music and a discussion.

That’s the best thing I’ve seen in a long time! Thank you!

And here is Shaun’s tweet. I have not seen a couple of these. seen together these are really really bad.

There are 5 altogether.
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1242577865331412993?s=20

wi64

Biden is going to increase the spread of Covid-19 by causing everyone to facepalm repeatedly without washing their hands first.

Omigawd, you’re all on fire tonight, (muffled laughter)

Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death

Lol

Bernie’s TH to be live at 7:05 CT:

I don’t EVER WANT TO HEAR that we can’t afford #tuitionfreecollege, the #GreenNewDeal, #Medicare4All, or #Alivingwage for workers ever again! https://t.co/B0m3M4oPLT
— ISIAH JAMES🌹 (@isiah4congress) March 24, 2020

As we figure out how to deal with the coronavirus, we must listen to the experts. Join me for a conversation with @PramilaJayapal and public health experts @AbdulElSayed, @JoiaMukherjee and Dr. Rishi Desai. With music from @SarahLeeGuthrie . https://t.co/KY6ln8yhaQ
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 24, 2020

Tonight @BernieSanders is holding an online town hall on healthcare. Grateful to the Senator for his leadership and grateful that he and @ninaturner showed up for #Hahnemann fight last summer. We are back in the fight to reopen Hahnemann again so stay tuned! https://t.co/i8yn9PVJGc
— Helen Gym (@HelenGymPHL) March 25, 2020

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1lDxLgmMPnaJm

Watching now..I think. Bernie just asked: “So you’re going to be doing 5,000 tests per day?”

I like this link too, because I’m a sucker for all of the hearts on periscope, lol.