* California Sen. Kamala Harris and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren are strong candidates for vice president on the Biden ticket. Recent events have underscored no less status. Harris, a former district attorney and attorney general, has introduced well-timed legislation: the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 that is all about police accountability and a criminal justice overhaul. Warren wrote the proposal–coming out of the Armed Services Committee–that added a mandate (to a key defense authorization bill) to require the Pentagon to strip military bases of Confederate names and monuments within three years.
* Speaking of female VP candidates, Florida Rep. Val Demings, the African-American, former police chief of Orlando, has the support of Florida Congressman Charlie Crist, D-St. Petersburg.
* Re: Any Democratic partisans seen sporting MOFA hats. Relax, it means a progressive with a sardonic, literary sense of political humor sharing aspirations to “Make Orwell Fiction Again.”