...the First Lady demands you be fired? We’ve all been there, right?

 + As Norman Solomon reports in this Weekend Edition, the Democratic establishment is quietly propping up Kamala Harris for another run at the presidency. I’m not sure how Biden won the 2020 election with this crew running his campaign, but I’m absolutely convinced none of them were smart enough to rig it.

Cory Booker: “You may disagree with her [Kamala Harris] on 10% of her views, but you let someone get in office who you disagree with on everything. You let somebody get into office who is locking up our children. You let somebody into office who is taking away our healthcare.”

+ The Democratic establishment is incapable of admitting that they habitually run bad candidates, with no ideas, who are in the pockets of the Israel lobby, the war-making industry, the surveillance state, Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Tech, the real estate industry and the banks. Instead, they blame voters for refusing to overlook these fatal flaws.

+ According to Reporters Without Borders the level of press freedom in the US has dropped to 64th in the world, the lowest ever. Congratulations Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss!

+ Sharyn Alfonsi, whose 60 Minutes report on El Salvador’s CECOT prison was pulled by Bari Weiss, on the network under the Ellisons’ new pro-Trump/pro-Israel management team:

I will not linger on the internal mechanics of the dust-up at CBS that led to our Cecot story being pulled, but we have to be honest about what it represents,. It wasn’t an isolated editorial argument. In my view, it was the result of a more aggressive contagion: the spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear. It’s hard to watch.

+ In 2000, nearly two-thirds of American households donated to charity. Today, the share of Americans donating to philanthropy has fallen to only 41%.

+ Twenty years ago, more Europeans moved to the US than Americans to Europe by a margin of 4 to 1. Now, more Americans are moving to Europe than Europeans to the US, leaving the US even more firmly in the grip of xenophobic political reactionaries.

+ Jimmy Kimmel: “You know how sometimes you wake up and the First Lady demands you be fired? We’ve all been there, right? — I agree hateful, violent rhetoric is something we should reject… a great place to start to dial that back would be to talk to your husband.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/01/roaming-charges-being-not-being-being-again/