Elizabeth Warren spoke to our group this week...

about hernew bill to clean up Washington. The effects are varied to sum up here, but making policy to enrich oneself, as with the tax cuts, came in for some scrutiny, as did some members' stock trades.  One thing I appreciate about being a volunteer forProgressive Democrats Of America is that volunteers get to hear the same things as paid staff. Because it's an election year, she answered a messaging question in her no-nonsense style.  "Pick one or two things you want to talk about and talk about them all the time."
She chose "Every Republican voted against protecting people with pre-existing conditions." and that the amount of the tax cut could have paid the country's student debt.

Stop Running Your E-Books Through Spell-Check And Calling It Good...

Maybe I'm a little more  sensitive about this as I'm hoping to write the Query Letter that Will Change My Life(TM) at a time when I have to fight a million other writers for a busy agent's time and every part of the process tends to remind me how disposable I am, but:
-a "complement" and a "compliment" are not the same, even though, if you have a spouse, she probably likes both.
"discrete" is not "discreet"
Don't even get me started on the dude with the legal thriller who depicted someone as "waiving her arms frantically"(I've heard a good  legal team *can* cost an arm and a leg, but I wasn't sure anyone meant it literally!)Yes, it's a word so the computer won't spot it, but it's the wrong word, so it makes you picture the wrong things.  Spend money for copy-edits or make your mom read it...get some human eyeballs on it.