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pnwmom's JournalNYT: FOUR Sanders campaign user accounts improperly accessed proprietary HRC-gathered voter data.
The Sanders campaign is blaming this on the software vendor -- but they have fired a staffer over this. Presumably for a good reason.
And the NYTimes reports that there were 4 Sanders campaign email accounts that improperly accessed the information.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-sanders-campaign-improperly-accessed-clinton-voter-data/2015/12/17/a2e2e14e-a522-11e5-b53d-972e2751f433_story.html
Officials with the Democratic National Committee have accused the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders of improperly accessing confidential voter information gathered by the rival campaign of Hillary Clinton, according to several party officials.
Jeff Weaver, the Vermont senator’s campaign manager, acknowledged that a low-level staffer had viewed the information but blamed a software vendor hired by the DNC for a glitch that allowed access. Weaver said one Sanders staffer was fired over the incident.
The discovery sparked alarm at the DNC, which promptly shut off the Sanders campaign’s access to the strategically crucial list of likely Democratic voters.
The DNC maintains the master list and rents it to national and state campaigns, which then add their own, proprietary information gathered by field workers and volunteers. Firewalls are supposed to prevent campaigns from viewing data gathered by their rivals.
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Officials said they were unlikely to ask for a criminal investigation. However, Sanders could face political fallout from the impression that his staff worked to gain an unfair advantage.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/18/sanders-campaign-disciplined-for-breaching-clinton-data
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The Democratic National Committee has told the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont that it was suspending its access to its voter database after a software error enabled at least one of his staff members to review Hillary Clinton’s private campaign data.
The decision by the party committee is a major blow to Mr. Sanders’s campaign. The database includes information from voters across the nation and is used by campaigns to set strategy, especially in the early voting states.
The breach occurred after a software problem at the technology company NGP VAN, which gives campaigns access to the voter data. The problem inadvertently made proprietary voter data of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign visible to others, according to party committee officials.
The Sanders campaign said that it had fired a staff member who breached Mrs. Clinton’s data. But according to three people with direct knowledge of the breach, there were four user accounts associated with the Sanders campaign that ran searches while the security of Mrs. Clinton’s data was compromised.
Well, there is one grace (not necessarily a saving grace) to this crazed supporters situation.
You can guess which supporters I'm referring to.
It has opened my ignorant eyes to the depths of unconscious racism still lurking in the progressive soul.
And I'm including myself in that number. I didn't realize that I wasn't teaching enough to my own kids about the realities of our world. We have AA among friends and extended family and at least one of my kids really did think we were in that "post racial" world -- already. So he asked me why "all of a sudden" I've been talking about it so much "lately."
Huh? What? Just lately?
P.S. He is really -- literally -- color-blind, so he's never quite gotten the whole thing. As a first grader, he thought that to call someone "black" meant they had black hair. Because there are plenty of black-haired people around (including him).
But in his eyes, everyone's skin is just a shade of green. 
White people could learn a lot from other white people who have adopted
transracially -- and had to be introduced to the subject of racial privilege the hard way: by seeing their own children suffer as a result.
They could tell you for sure that we aren't living in a post-racial society and that white people, even non-racists, are the beneficiaries of the white-as-norm state.
http://time.com/the-realities-of-raising-a-kid-of-a-different-race/?pcd=pw2-TransracialAdoption900x500
Myth 2: If I talk to my kids about race, I’m just creating an issue
When I tell Hagland, who is a co-moderator on the closed Facebook group TRA (a Transracial Adoption community comprised of adoptive parents, adult adoptees and birth parents) that many adoptive parents, including me, feel tremendous anxiety around introducing concepts of racism to their children he is kind but emphatic. “May I please nuclear bomb that for you?” he says. “It’s inevitable that your black children will be called the N word. It’s inevitable that they will be othered for being black. So if you prepare them for that you are helping them.” He’s well-used to adoptive parents’ hand-wringing, which often masks a great fear of inadequacy and powerlessness, on the subject. “Are you not going to teach your child how to cross the street?” he asks. “ ‘I could never talk about being hit by a car because then my child would fear it.’ Well guess what? Part of your role as a parent is teaching your child how to safely cross the street.”
Alex Landau, a 25-year-old from Denver, remembers his first racial encounter. He was four years old, an African-American boy scuffling with a white boy on a Denver playground. “And he said ‘Not all white kids like to play with black kids,’” remembers Landau. “I didn’t know the gravity of what he was saying, and I don’t think he even fully knew what he was saying. But I just knew that my skin was different and I had no control over that.” As Landau struggled to make sense of his hurt he remembers his white adoptive mother Patsy Hathaway careening into the picture. “My mom came out of left field, grabbed him by the arm, and said ‘You don’t talk to my son that way. You need to leave!’ and kicked him out of a public park.”
But for the most part, race was never a conversation in their home. Patsy loved her son fiercely, and didn’t think much of the fact that he was the only black kid in his high school graduating class. Meanwhile Landau spent much of his adolescence gelling his hair straight and wearing long sleeves and pants in the summer to cover up his dark skin. When he left home for college, his dad, who comes from a long line of Denver policemen, never gave him the talk—a tradition in many African-American homes—about how to have self preserving interactions with police and other authority figures. “I think my parents were under the impression that we were living in this post-racial era where police were not racially profiling,” says Landau.
In 2009 Landau, then 19, was driving in Denver with a white friend in the passenger seat. Cops pulled him over and the officer accused Landau of making an illegal left turn. Landau was hauled out of his car and patted down. “There were three officers there, I was comfortable putting my arms out to the side and asking to see a warrant before they continued searching my car,” he says. “I’m not in handcuffs, I’m not being detained, there’s nothing wrong. We should be able to talk as people. And then immediately I had my world changed.”
The officers grabbed Landau and started hitting him in the face. When he came to, his blood was all over the grass and he couldn’t see out of his right eye. “’Where’s your warrant now, you f—ing n—–?” were the first words he says he heard upon regaining consciousness. When Hathaway arrived at the city jail and saw her son’s brutalized face her world changed forever too.
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Hillary: No Need to Prove She's a Populist
http://bluenationreview.com/hillary-no-need-to-prove-shes-a-populist/By Martin Dickinson
Presidential candidates have to prove themselves every day. But the last thing Hillary Clinton should have to prove is her commitment to overcoming economic injustice. So-called progressives who delight in attacking her are trying to sell their craziest idea ever: that she just lately got religion on income opportunity. Not true, folks, not even close.
How do I know? I worked at the Children’s Defense Fund in the ‘80s and early ‘90s when Hillary was chair. Anybody who has yet to hear of CDF should check it out. The group’s long-term vision is to end child poverty in America. If that doesn’t address income inequality, then what does? Hillary was one of CDF’s earliest staffers, and by the time I signed up as foundation development officer in the late ‘80s, she chaired the board.
Weren’t we out to rectify the unjust distribution of wealth when we advocated for child care support, children’s health insurance and tax relief for low-income families? If not, then how did it happen that visionary Marian Wright Edelman, leader of Dr. King’s Poor Peoples Campaign for economic justice was our founder and president? And why did Hillary chair a board that included Joseph Rauh, labor lawyer and civil liberties attorney, and civil rights legend Dorothy Height, not to mention Donna Shalala, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin and later Secretary of HHS?
When I signed up for CDF, I was a union staffer working on projects like grassroots lobbying for the Family and Medical Leave Act. I sometimes wonder how many of today’s more-populist-than-thou Hillary detractors have ever done grassroots lobbying, worked a phone bank or walked a precinct for economic justice. I had, and I was eager to work for Edelman, but knowing zero about Hillary, assumed the First Lady of Arkansas would only be a “figurehead” chair.
I was wrong.
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All of which leads me to wonder, when I read headlines like the one recently in The Nation screaming “Hillary’s Newfound Populism will be Tested Early and Often,” whether we now must remind Hillary’s detractors of what the late Senator Moynihan once said: “You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”
Martin Dickinson is a career nonprofit executive currently serving as vice president for development of a Washington, D.C.-based environmental group. Before working in nonprofit fund raising, he was an organizer and political staffer for the Service Employees International Union.
For those who still don't "get" white supremacy: "How I discovered I am White"
http://www.renegademothering.com/2014/12/09/discovered-white/I realized the reason I had never thought about race was because I was of the privileged one, because I didn’t have to, NOT BECAUSE RACIAL DISPARITY DIDN’T EXIST. I didn’t have to think about race because I was having a fundamentally different life experience than people of color. But I could ignore them, because of my privilege.
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Does it mean that I am a bad person? Nope.
It means that we live in a highly racialized society rooted in a history of discrimination and that we have a long way to go. It means that watching “The Help” and feeling bad is not enough. Sentimentality is not action. It means that I have had an advantage over people of color. Yes, always. Yes, no matter what. Because even if you’re poor and white you can join the culture of power by learning the walk and talk. But you can’t change your skin color.
From the day I was first introduced to this “other story,” I couldn’t get enough. Not because I’m some sort of saint or conspiracy theorist, but because I was curious. I was interested out of a sense of shared humanity. And I was fucking angry that I had been swindled. I wanted the truth. Or, I wanted a fuller picture. I wanted more sides.
That, my friends, is pathetic in its privilege.
I learned in graduate school what every person of color knows through life experience. I learned in graduate school that we weren’t “fixed” during the Civil Rights movement.
But when this information was presented to me I felt a sense of relief, because I think deep down I always knew something was terribly wrong, but I couldn’t put my finger on it.
Amanda Knox, exoneree, urges millennials to get political.
And she's not liking what she's hearing from the other side.
(She has also become an activist in criminal justice reform, and has recently served as a keynote speaker for Loyola University's Life After Innocence fundraiser.)
http://www.westseattleherald.com/2015/12/14/opinion/memes-motivations-and-millennials
Calls to deny the fact of climate change. To criminalize immigration. To abolish public health care. To enforce Christian religious morality on the rights of a secular state. To refuse entry of Muslim refugees into the United States. To implement a mandatory death penalty policy. To carpet bomb the Middle East.
Whoa.
But what made the hair on the back of my neck stand up was that these sentiments were not just being expressed by isolated, ignorant, hateful, extremist trolls who made the memes, but they were being echoed, in one form or another, by actual Presidential candidates.
Either this was an ingenious ploy to shock people into political participation, or this was the dangerous consequence of opting out for too long.
Either way, I’m informing myself, and I’m going to vote. Not because I’m excited. Because we are better than this. I invite my fellow millennials to do the same.
I'm having a weird little bug with the new DU.
I posted an OP and every time I answer a post, the computer erases all but the first word of my subject line. And then I retype the subject line, but every time I respond to a new post, the subject line disappears again.
Leaving only the word "Bernie."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251898502
Bernie "isn't impressed" by the climate change agreement signed by almost 200 countries.
Because he could have done so much better than Obama, right? He could have just scolded the diplomats of almost 200 countries till they did what he wanted.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-climate-agreement_566c795ee4b0fccee16ed457?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business§ion=business
Bernie Sanders Isn't Too Impressed By The Historic Climate Agreement
"While this is a step forward it goes nowhere near far enough.
"Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday criticized the global climate change accord adopted after two weeks of negotiations among diplomats in Paris, saying the agreement goes "nowhere near far enough."
The landmark 31-page agreement includes a pledge to curb climate change by reducing carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, calling on countries to support each other in adapting to the environmental challenges resulting from climate change, such as devastating droughts and rising sea levels.
Sanders said he didn't think the accord went far enough to demand action from those countries to lower carbon emissions.
"While this is a step forward it goes nowhere near far enough. The planet is in crisis. We need bold action in the very near future and this does not provide that,” Sanders said in the statement.
Hillary, who actually has experience dealing with foreign leaders, IS impressed.
http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/12/hillary_clinton_praises_paris.html
"The Paris agreement is testament to America's ability to lead the world in building a clean energy future where no one is left out or left behind," she said in a statement. "And it was made possible in part by every person, business owner and community in the United States and around the world that stepped up to prove we don't have to choose between growing our economy and protecting our kids' health and future - we can do both."
Clinton added that action is critical in the next decade, saying if the U.S. doesn't push to drive what she called clean energy growth, it will not be able to avoid "catastrophic consequences."
"We cannot afford to be slowed by the climate skeptics or deterred by the defeatists who doubt America's ability to meet this challenge," the former first lady stressed.
If elected president, Clinton added, she will make combating climate change a top priority.
And Martin O'Malley also praised the agreement.
http://www.wisn.com/politics/democratic-presidential-hopefuls-laud-paris-agreement/36934188
He followed up his tweet with another, writing, "Now the U.S. needs to do what it does best---lead with action. We need full transition to clean energy. #100by50 #COP21"
Donald Trump Given a Perfect Bill of Health by a Ghost.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/14/10123368/donald-trump-health-doctor-report-heaven-protect-meAt least, according to "the highly respected Dr. Jacob Bornstein of Lenox Hill Hospital," otherwise known as "Dr. Jacob Bornstein, Harvard Medical School Class of 1942," otherwise known as "a person who died five years ago." The report was actually written by his son, Harold Bornstein, who says he has been Trump's doctor since 1980. I can't remember the last time someone I had known for 35 years forgot who I was and referred to me by my dead father's name several times, but I'm sure it happens to everyone.
Some amusing photos of Adolph Trump's illustrious doctor.
I know, I know, don't judge a book by its cover. But I'm making an exception this time. This doctor has crazy eyes.
This is the guy who was willing to sign a letter saying that he could attest to the fact that, if elected, Adolph would be the healthiest President in history. (Supposedly Adolph has no health problems but for some reason he's taking a drug only given for high cholesterol.)
Interestingly, the letter was addressed "To Whom My Concern."
Not "To Whom it May Concern."
Interesting slip.
It is also interesting that this physician said he had been Trump's personal doctor since 1980. And yet Trump referred to him by his father's first name. If this guy has been his doctor for 35 years, why is Trump getting him mixed up with the father who died 5 years ago at the age of 93? Maybe Trump is having some memory issues?
http://heavy.com/news/2015/12/harold-bornstein-donald-trump-doctor-dr-letter-note-medical-record-physician-photos-bio-father-jacob-md-age-hair-tufts-medical-school-new-york-practice/
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