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Diaries published: 43 (48 days since last diary on Tue Jan 17, 2017 at 04:37 PM PST)
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...was squandered a year ago, in his shameful performance at the CBC PAC press conference. If ever there was a case for using the clichés “projection” and “blowback” at the same time, this is it.
Lewis claims Trump’s presidency is not...
by SChelydra
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on Tue Jan 17, 2017 at 04:37 PM PST
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One rant is Bob Keeler’s opinion piece in Newsday— see link at the end of this.
The other (below) is my introduction to a facebook-sharing of Keeler’s piece, which ended up far longer and more complicated than I intended. I confess I haven’t been...
by SChelydra
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on Sat Dec 17, 2016 at 05:13 PM PST
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A DK diary from earlier today is the single most useful statement I’ve come across in the past week or so:
The Ugly Path to One-Party Minority Rule and Why Demographics Might Not Save Us
By JacquesRigaut
It quickly fell through the...
by SChelydra
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on Thu Nov 17, 2016 at 12:30 PM PST
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I expected one of those useless opinion/analysis pieces that wash up like dead fish on the outer strands of google news: “After Winning the Election, Here’s How Democrats Can Prevent the Next Donald Trump” . . . The title made no sense—why...
by SChelydra
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on Sat Oct 22, 2016 at 12:54 PM PDT
with 31 Recommends
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David Dayen starts off his new piece in The New Republic with a bang:
The most important revelation in the WikiLeaks dump of John Podesta’s emails has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton.
You may not agree it’s true but you have to admit it...
by SChelydra
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on Sat Oct 15, 2016 at 12:52 AM PDT
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This long and thoughtful article, from a Times reporter who got to know Hillary in the early 1990s, attempts to explain what lead to her present difficulties.
DK is filling up with diaries expressing confusion, bewilderment, outrage, and pain as...
by SChelydra
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on Fri Sep 16, 2016 at 03:58 AM PDT
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- The Democrats hysterical warnings about Russians under our beds, and Donald Trump's weird connection with poor, working class whites, are equally bizarre as long as you are using the archaic and obsolete left-right paradigm of democracy that we've...373 comments 256 Recs
- From the Department of Sure, Why Not? The leader of the Austrian far-right Freedom Party has signed what he called a cooperation agreement with Russia’s ruling party and recently met with Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the designated national security...270 comments 142 Recs
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- ● Here’s a very good, if depressing, introduction to the people being mentioned for labor secretary . ● Oh look. Attacks on teacher pensions in Michigan. I wonder where the DeVos ...2 comments 3 Recs
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