A few weeks ago, I sat down with Gwen Danielson, a close friend of Ziz LaSota's, co-founder of the Rationalist Fleet, and a participant in the 2019 CFAR protest. It's the first time any "Zizian" has spoken outside of court appearances: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
I wanted to profile Martin for those reasons and because—while he's been putting out fires at the DNC,—he's been grieving loss of his close friend Melissa Hortman (gunned down in her home by a paranoid Trump fan), and seen his hometown occupied by ICE: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Ken Martin has gotten a lot of shit since he was elected DNC chair, but I think there's a strong argument that a person with his background — born to a teen mom addict, spent his early years bouncing between shelters, surviving on SNAP and Medicare — (1/2)