Remember watching Silver Linings Playbook where you learn a four-leg parlay is language exclusive to compulsive gambling addicts? And now it's just sold every 90 seconds on network television as the new national pastime?

The way these two killings have been handled--who got the immediate NYT editorial piece, who had to wait a week; who got a moment of silence; whose death was "mourned" vs. just an abstract symbol of generic violence--is deafening in what it is yelling at us about how broken our media is.

President Trump stumbles while attempting to board Air Force One

Trump nearly falls flat on his face while struggling to walk up the steps to Air Force One today

President Trump stumbles while walking up the stairs to Air Force One

I've spent years reporting on how democracies die. And I've noticed something: by international standards, Donald Trump is really, really bad at destroying a democracy.

And that should give us real reason for hope. www.vox.com/politics/410...

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”