Benjamin Netanyahu seems to have gone to the Republican Party school of negotiating, where you get a concession, and in return ask for a bigger concession.

The promised reports from inside the Democratic fundraiser at NBA superstar Alonzo Mourning’s bayfront estate won’t be possible, apparently. Former Democratic Congressional candidate, honorably discharged West Point grad and Iraq War veteran Anthony Woods’ $5,00 check was returned by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and he was denied access to the event today. So no one was around to provide President Obama with personal, necessary context, one-to-one, about the GetEQUAL protests he saw today by land, by sea, and by air.

For Los Angeles punk rockers, sprawl of the city, the swaths of freeways gave punks from all parts of the city–the Valley to the South Bay– opportunities to merge and mosh. When sixteen year old Dave Travis’ dad gave him a video camera, Dave began documenting the flourishing scene, and out of thousands of hours of footage comes A History Lesson Pt 1 which links four bands that helped shape modern American music.

SST Records was a pivot point for punk music with a roster of acts and a flourishing touring network. In A History Lesson Pt 1, we meet four different acts associated with SST: The Meat Puppets, the Minutemen, Twisted Roots and Redd Kross. Live footage–including full length songs–is interspersed with interviews from the bands. The anarchistic roots of SST are clear in the story of the Meat Puppets–the band shared a bill with SST’s Black Flag in Phoenix and was invited to open for them in Costa Mesa, CA. The Meat Puppet’s country-tinged psychedelic punk jams caused a riot a the club; surf soaked hard core fans just couldn’t wrap their heads around the jams. The musical anarchy appealed to Black Flag guitarist/SST founder Greg Ginn who immediately signed the Meat Puppets to his label.

Why didn’t seven U.S. Senators — the men responsible for making laws related to the establishment and regulation of corporations — know that Koch Industries is no different than an overwhelming number of businesses here in the U.S. with regards to their tax payments?

Here are some of the photographs of the folks with banners who greeted the the presidential motorcade as President Obama entered the exclusive Coconut Grove gated community where Alonzo Mourning is entertaining high-level Democratic donors today. The motorcade was greeted by chants of “Stop the Discharges” and “What Do We Want? Equality! When do we want it? NOW!”

GetEQUAL has a massive protest demonstration effort ongoing in Miami today, at the home of NBA superstar and Miami Heat player Alonzo Mourning, where President Barack Obama is appearing now at a big-dollar private fundraiser for the Democrats. There are three prongs to the demonstration: by Land, by Air, and by Sea.

Infrastructure spending is a bargain right now because of low borrowing costs and low labor costs, it would generate a lot of economic activity in sectors that have a lot of excess capacity at the moment, like construction and manufacturing, and it would leave a lasting legacy that would increase productivity and growth for decades. To say nothing of the fact that repairing broken infrastructure in the event of a catastrophe would cost inordinately more than getting it done before something bad occurs.

There is no better sign of just how deeply unpopular the Obama administration is in West Virginia than the newest ad from Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin. Manchin makes taking on some of the tent poles of this administration central to the ad, and uses the language of the right to do so: repealing the “bad parts” of “Obamacare,” and keeping the federal government “off our backs.” He quite literally takes a shot at “Cap and Trade” legislation.

There’s an epidemic in America: due to the rapidly expanding homophobia tolerated, and rewarded, in our political sphere and due to more tolerance of bullying, LGBTQ teens are taking their own lives in despair and mistaken shame. America is rapidly reaching double-digits in teen suicides in the past few weeks, and these are the ones we know about. Why won’t Barack Obama speak out?

My colleagues have helpfully broadcast the Administration line on foreclosure fraud, basically against a national moratorium and toward allowing banks to evade the rule of law. I assume these people would have the same reaction to, say, planted evidence in a murder trial. “Well, the defendant looks pretty guilty, and a tainted investigation or not, he probably did something wrong, so might as well convict.” It occurs to me that David Axelrod and the head of the FHFA wouldn’t be allowed on a jury anywhere in the country.