Bravo. Very well done.

I have now heard the interview with Sam Seder and appreciate it.
I have felt for some time that the energy is no longer here in the blogs. We have lost also Chris Bowers as a writer and Matt Stoller, and Jane. The energy, depth and intelligence seems to be so much thinner. I always have thought that the endless concentration on the utterances of the right wing by our bloggers was sapping the energy of our conversation. And lately everything seems repetitive; I often read headlines, with no motivation to read the articles themselves. And I wonder where all the thinkers have gone — maybe I’m missing it.
So I very much appreciated your conversation with Sam Seder. Once again, you were right on.
Thanks again for your excellent work. And best wishes for the new evolution.

As someone who has been reading your blog posts since I followed the California site, before you moved to firedoglake, and someone who was thrilled by your move to this site, because I welcomed in advance how good it would be, I will say that I am devastated by this news. I somehow missed your pre-announcement that it was coming. That is strange, because you are my main source of news and information on the web.
I have lately perceived that you were tired of doing it, tired of the horrible winding difficult to swallow reality that it is. And I thought you might most understandably be burning out — and I feared that we would lose you, like we lost Billmon, due to the morass of reality.
And there was another lovely writer who started this site with Jane, whose lovely and brilliant insights we still miss.
But people have to live– and after giving us so much, they have to be able to breathe again.
I really will miss your writing terribly. I come here so many times every day.
I will check in to the interview.
Blessings, be well, find somewhere, someway to thrive– as we all must.
sandra

Thank you. I’ve been looking all morning for these figures.
I saw something about the proposed huge hourly and benefit cuts somewhere yesterday and thought surely that the mainstream coverage would include that information in its coverage — this is the first I’ve seen.

You’re doing a great job. Thanks so much.
I read your posts everyday and have developed a deep respect for your work.

I want to thank you for all of your good work lately.
I really appreciate your last three articles.
They are important and excellent work.

I need to say that I thought of you as I was reading the profile of Joe Wiesenthal. I recognized you–

Welcome home. We missed you!

Well, do it already. If he can do it, go right ahead! Please!

AG may still pursue injunctive relief against banks (i.e., court order directing banks to reform ways they use MERS system, stopping illegal and deceptive foreclosure filing practices, including filing foreclosure actions where party lacks authority to sue, and directing banks to take all necessary actions to cure any title defects and improper liens resulting from illegal and deceptive practices)

This is really creepy. After reading this account of yesterday’s Oakland actions, and several other accounts, I attempted to send the following email rant to Mayor Quan on the Oakland City administration form.
The letter was blocked as a “security threat”. I have written letters before a few times on this subject. I tried three times. The letter was blocked as a security threat each time– and there was a link to file a form if I thought there was an error.
The link did not work when I tried it.
Here is the rant I tried to send.
Do you think Quan is being blocked by someone from hearing such complaints-
or what?
Letter to Mayor Quan:
As a 68 year old retired resident of Richmond, your neighbor, I am proud that Richmond City Council voted not to participate in the illegal and egregious police tactics employed in Oakland.
What a horrid disappointment to watch the news and hear the official slant which was
inexcusably false.
Police did not need riot gear. They did not need to be deployed in such numbers.
The demonstrators should not have been demonized. If they entered a boarded up city building or the YMCA that was not an assault or an invasion of any kind.
Your version of events is really crazy–
and shameful.
You really have no right to put out so much misinformation and no right to hurt the people who live in Oakland.
They are heroes to put up with your police violence, just to show us how corrupt and dishonest are the people in charge.
I am horrified by your version of events and your waste of funds and your acting illegally to hurt civilian protesters.
How dare you let the police act out such violence and such stupidity as to attack an entire crowd, pen them in, and not let them leave.
The mayor and the acting police commissioner should be forced to resign.
Period.

It can only work if you get Republicans on your side.

I remember thinking at the time that it was only Jane’s energy at the end that was keeping the option open.
Of course we all wrote hundreds of letters –
And it was proven then that there was no connection between the public and
the option.

This observation is right on.
I remember the support for the public option was 85 percent of Democrats, 67 percent of independents and something like 49 percent of Republicans supporting a strong public option.
That it was killed was a definite statement that someone else was in charge.
It was not the vast majority of Americans.
The power brokers can get the administration and/or a couple hundred representatives in a room and tell them what to do.
The Democratic Party stopped defending us (the people who elected them). Period.
That meant everything had changed. And we can no longer deny it.

It was an amazing day. It was peaceful, it was celebratory, it was joyous. There were no policeman at all when I visited. We did not see one policeman. At any moment during the day or the evening police could have arrived with riot gear and caused violence.
They did not do that until — you say — after midnight. When they attacked
people in an abandoned building.
It sounds clear to me that if there was violence, it was police violence. Period.