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Dear progressives,
First off, I'm on your side. Always have been. Always will be. So, don't go all cray-cray on me for what I'm about to write.
You've got to stop demonizing friends of your movement because they aren't pure enough for you. Bill... |
David Guilbault | 02/23/2017 12:25 AM |
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I was out this evening and DVR’d the debate. I just finished watching it. I’m not going to say who I think won or lost, because I’m not sure there was a clear winner, but if anyone else watched it, I wonder if you saw what I did.
1. CNN’s... |
historyschmistory | 02/23/2017 12:11 AM |
3 | ||
Mojo Friday’s Weekly Open Thread
This is a diary for those who continue to participate in the Mojo Friday diary throughout the week.
You are welcome to join us. |
bsegel | 02/23/2017 12:00 AM |
1 | ||
If you want to understand 45, investigate the popular psychology of professional wrestling. If, for no other reason, than that Linda McMahon runs both World Wrestling Entertainment and the Small Business Administration of the United States. Give me a... |
John M Webb | 02/22/2017 11:36 PM |
7 | 6 | |
Day 35 - "Irresistible Targets" by John Stewart
On Day 33 we heard Phil Ochs in "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" mention those who remain with us only in spirit: Medgar Evers, JFK, Malcolm X, and singer Pete Seeger. Two years later we lost RFK and... |
Dr A W Niloc | 02/22/2017 10:50 PM |
2 | 2 | |
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions made their attack on the rights of transgender students official Wednesday evening, rescinding an Obama directive allowing them to use bathrooms consistent with their gender. The New York Times writes:
In a joint... |
Kerry Eleveld | 02/22/2017 10:44 PM |
2 | 9 | |
For 15 years, Margarita has worked in Environmental Services for a hospital. That means she’s the housekeeper. She cleans the floors of vomit, blood and the bodily waste that we don’t want to think about, smell or see. She’s 62 years old but looks much... |
tulaholmes | 02/22/2017 09:55 PM |
6 | 32 | |
It just felt like more eyes should see this. I’ve never read Laurie Penny before, but I will certainly read her again. Excellent observations and writing in this piece.
What she accomplishes here is, to me, a great mix of observation,... |
water willow | 02/22/2017 09:51 PM |
25 | 22 | |
As I read social media everyday, I am struck by the volume of unflattering nick names the liar in the oval office has acquired. I am going to list some of them here because they are so inventive ... |
art ah zen | 02/22/2017 09:45 PM |
12 | 8 | |
Perfectly stated
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN AMERICAN
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality... |
jmessick | 02/22/2017 09:45 PM |
4 | 8 | |
It’s surprising enough to hear of a government project ending on time, but the fact that they reached their goal years in advance is incredible. The largest county in Washington State recently released a report saying that King County may be the first... |
wagatwe | 02/22/2017 09:44 PM |
3 | 4 | |
Just seconds before 9:00 pm PST; felt the windows rattle here.
Event incident is here but site over-whelmed.
www.pnsn.org/…
No early reports of damage;
Interesting early epicenter placed nearly in the center of the Hood Canal. |
VeganMilitia | 02/22/2017 09:38 PM |
18 | 11 | |
I went with a friend to the first one that was being held at a gun store in the little rural town of El Dorado. He agreed with me that there was no coherency to any message, we left trying to figure out what they wanted. We clearly saw that every... |
Woodguru | 02/22/2017 09:31 PM |
3 | 11 | |
Dear DNC Voting Members,
You are about to participate in a historic moment. You are about to vote for the next DNC chair. Please choose wisely. Please vote for Keith Ellison or Sam Ronan. They are the only candidates that appear to care for the... |
BlueTexan2008 | 02/22/2017 09:08 PM |
48 | 3 | |
Welcome to Overnight News Digest where the usual crew, consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Man Oh Man, side pocket, rfall, and JML9999, alumni editors palantir, Bentliberal, Oke, Interceptor7, jlms qkw, and... |
Doctor RJ | 02/22/2017 09:07 PM |
30 | 24 | |
The Insomniac's Vent - Hole (hereinafter known as IVH) is a noncontroversial topic, no flame zone. The IVH, if lost or stolen will not be replaced or purchase price refunded. Violation of IVH rules will result in expulsion without refund. A copy of IVH... |
sallym | 02/22/2017 08:55 PM |
20 | 5 | |
We’ll do something sinister.— A Message from Millennials |
analyticFunction | 02/22/2017 08:53 PM |
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Lord Dampnut’s Four D’s
Preemptive Framing (Distracting),
Diversion,
Deflection,
Trial Balloon (Decoying)
George Lakoff interview |
annieli | 02/22/2017 08:53 PM |
3 | 7 | |
… Just to catch a whiff of some damn fine cuisine as we wait for the other shoe to drop… and maybe catch a whiff of what the Ubers and Filthys* are up to.
We're up late Jibbering our Jabber about the Great Dem Party Divide, Indivisible, the... |
winkk | 02/22/2017 08:45 PM |
1 | ||
Ever heard of Scott Taylor?
No, me either. But my phone rang this evening with an unfamiliar number and I ignored it, only to hear a message from...Mike Huckabee?
Yup, Mike Huckabee had a recording for li’l ol’ me, promoting the Oregon Freedom... |
noplot | 02/22/2017 08:44 PM |
1 | 3 | |
Two-thirds of Americans are not contributing to a 401k for their retirement. And on the day after Valentine’s Day, House Republicans voted to block states from trying to fix this.
California, Oregon, Illinois, Maryland, and Connecticut... |
eyeRollz | 02/22/2017 08:29 PM |
10 | 7 | |
So every time I read a gunfail diary, I'm left speechless. There is a willful stupidity on display throughout the diary, and no I'm not referring to the author KagroX (David Waldman). He's not being stupid at all. The stupidity I'm referring to is in... |
A Bleeding God | 02/22/2017 08:19 PM |
11 | 7 | |
While “45” is out playing golf and charging “loser” taxpayers to ferry friends and family to his resort, ISIS has been a bunch of busy little beavers. They’ve graduated from raping and pillaging. Now they’ve got Drones, and they’re happy to use them. ... |
Victor Klemperer Respawned | 02/22/2017 08:10 PM |
11 | 5 | |
We are the UNITED States of America, and one of the important features of the country is in its name, UNITED.
When people argue about the Pledge of Allegiance, as if it is an official document or some kind of incantation, they stress the “under God”... |
joe quigley | 02/22/2017 08:07 PM |
3 | 5 | |
According to numerous news reports this evening, an Arlington, Texas preschool teacher, Nancy Salem, has been fired over a series of anti-Semitic posts on social media, including a tweet that said “kill some Jews” to a friend who was apparently... |
LADC | 02/22/2017 08:01 PM |
61 | 1 | |
Donald Trump has done journalists a huge favor, inadvertently using his insane unpopularity to boost voters' trust in them. Apparently when you get attacked by a pr*sident who has the lowest approval ratings in the history of presidential approval... |
Kerry Eleveld | 02/22/2017 07:48 PM |
38 | 94 | |
Tonight I read a Diary about Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) wanting to hear testimony from Michael Flynn based on a Politico Story here:
GOP Senator wants Flynn to testify
This is a very fine idea- even the Intelligence Chair Richard Burr (R-NC)... |
Jason Of Argo | 02/22/2017 07:44 PM |
2 | 4 | |
Must-watch slam on senator: 'I've got a husband dying. If you can get us better coverage, go for it' Want to watch Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas get absolutely lacerated at a town hall on Wednesday night by a constituent who went thermonuclear on him for wanting to take away her dying husband’s health insurance? Trust me on this: You really,... |
David Nir | 02/22/2017 07:44 PM |
78 | 123 | |
…
Another day, another unfathomable Trump outrage. Such is the price we all pay, these days.
Who is Carter Page, ally of Trump, and staunch repeater of “blanket denials” … ?
Memos: CEO of Russia's state oil company offered Trump adviser,... |
jamess | 02/22/2017 07:35 PM |
12 | 15 | |
The president has been telling California’s farmers and ranchers he wants to give them water that’s currently allocated for environmental and wildlife protection, as reported last night by PBS ... |
raatz | 02/22/2017 07:00 PM |
7 | 24 | |
Since the beginning of the year, I seem to be doing a whole lot more activism recently than I have in the 57 years previous to that. I suppose there’s an extremely good reason for the change. ... |
gizmo59 | 02/22/2017 07:00 PM |
44 | 36 | |
OVER 45,000 VISITORS IN THE PAST WEEK: How many could lose coverage in YOUR Congressional District?? I’ve posted this a few times before, but this project has exploded into something huge.
In the past week, over 45,000 people have visited the “How Many Could Lose Coverage...” link over at ACASignups.net. Much of this was sparked by this feature... |
Brainwrap | 02/22/2017 06:59 PM |
8 | 22 | |
'It's the Paranoia that Worries Me the Most,' says grandmother/minister on Memphis police black list Persons on the police and mayor’s “black list” of political activists showed up in front of Memphis City Hall on Tuesday Feb. 21 to challenge and “watch the watchers” who have illegally conducted political surveillance, defying a 1978 DOJ consent... |
FreeSpeechZone | 02/22/2017 06:52 PM |
3 | 12 | |
The latest memos coming out of the Department of Homeland Security regarding the immigration crackdown are frightening in their scope. With the exception of those previously protected under DACA, virtually every undocumented immigrant is now subject to... |
m2c4 | 02/22/2017 06:51 PM |
10 | 3 | |
Where do I go to tell the President to STOP this pitting the press against himself? It makes it impossible for the American citizen to make informed choices. The press is the best conduit to a free and open democracy. A president theoretically, uses... |
jotrafford | 02/22/2017 06:31 PM |
2 | 2 | |
The NASA news conference to present new findings on exoplanets is in progress now around 1:30 PM EST. NASA just published a summary of the findings at www.nasa.gov/...
As somewhat expected, the announcement is about the discovery of new exoplanets,... |
AKALib | 02/22/2017 06:22 PM |
128 | 113 | |
DJT sent out something a few days ago called a “Mainstream Media Accountability Survey”.
I had a great time filling it out.
Be forewarned—you need a fake email address to submit your answers.
Unless you want to be a badass and give your real... |
TrueBlueMajority | 02/22/2017 06:21 PM |
6 | 15 | |
This was my first political cartoon. |
jotrafford | 02/22/2017 06:16 PM |
5 | 1 | |
Most of you are U.S. citizens, a few more are greencard holders… the latter isn’t worth so much in the Trump times, of course.
I’m just a former resident of the U.S. (legal) but please understand that it frightens me that I might never be allowed... |
BelgianBastard | 02/22/2017 06:10 PM |
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I have been spending time putting some of my thoughts about the state of our great and vast country and the man who is the apparently elected official into my art. I have a few. I will post them occasionally. |
jotrafford | 02/22/2017 06:06 PM |
2 | 1 | |
About 350 people showed up in Glens Falls, NY, tonight at Elise Stefanik’s Town Hall which she wouldn’t attend. Constituents asked the moderator and camera questions from whether Stefanik would support impeaching the mentally ill Trump to whether... |
adigal | 02/22/2017 06:06 PM |
12 | 17 | |
Wisconsin lost one of its progressive heroes today. Ed Garvey was a labor attorney, politician, and activist. Although he is well known in Wisconsin, he gained national prominence in the early 1980’s as the executive director of the NFL Player’s... |
macleme | 02/22/2017 06:05 PM |
2 | 13 | |
My heart is bouncing up and down tonight. UP with the many clips of folks showing up in town halls and speaking their minds. DOWN with the news of Trump’s latest cruel slash of of a pen against such a small, brave minority.
With ALL the strife and... |
StellaRay | 02/22/2017 05:58 PM |
39 | 25 | |
Since the day that Donald Trump was inaugurated, the American people have flooded the streets and town halls to express their opposition to his agenda. Unprecedented numbers of citizens turned out for the nationwide Women's March on January 21. A week... |
News Corpse | 02/22/2017 05:58 PM |
110 | 164 | |
I came across this media bias survey in my face book feed (through a share to RAD Politics) and it is very therapeutic to complete the survey. Irony is lost on these incompetent fools in that they are using a worthless survey to prove that media is... |
eashep | 02/22/2017 05:55 PM |
6 | 4 | |
There were two big takeaways from pile of garbage Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Florida last week. First, that his ego is so fragile that he desperately needed the adulation of his uninformed supporters to keep himself from having a nervous... |
Alonso del Arte | 02/22/2017 05:51 PM |
3 | 3 | |
According to www.rawstory.com/..., another GOP rep is getting hammered by his constituents, this time in Arkansas.
Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) hosted a “coffee with the congressman” event Tuesday morning at the West Fork City Hall, where more than 150... |
BlueInARedState | 02/22/2017 05:45 PM |
13 | 19 | |
While many remain distracted by the hope that Lord Dampnut will “die in jail”, others need to see how GOP immigration enforcement is really a PIC profit center. It is a capitalist’s wet-dream to be able to profit from criminalizing your presence.
... |
annieli | 02/22/2017 05:34 PM |
7 | 13 | |
I forget now exactly what triggered the memory, but I was reminded not that long ago of a road trip I took almost 16 years ago, in August 2001. I had a new car, a new-ish job, a little money in ... |
Avilyn | 02/22/2017 05:30 PM |
78 | 27 | |
Much as many would like, the fact is that not all Trump voters/supporters think the same way, or voted for him for the same reasons – or continue to support him. There are different (and sometimes surprising) demographics when you break it all down. ... |
dsnottselliott | 02/22/2017 05:30 PM |
6 | 6 | |
Dear Senate Majority Leader McConnell
Because of Trump and his enablers like you, America is no longer seen as a force of good in the world.
You will go down in history as one of the key individuals that enabled and accelerated the decline and... |
HM1028 | 02/22/2017 05:28 PM |
5 | 4 | |
Guest: Attorney Mark Joseph Stern of Slate...
On today's BradCast, as dark as yesterday's show was, today is somewhat the opposite, with a whole bunch of encouraging news from the courts and the people across these United States. [Audio link to show... |
TheBradBlog | 02/22/2017 05:26 PM |
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We can and should happily gloat at how unpopular the new Quinnipiac poll shows that President Trump has already become, just a month into the job. But I found an even more interesting datum in the Quinnipiac poll’s internals. Support for Republicans... |
LeftOfYou | 02/22/2017 05:14 PM |
26 | 10 | |
President Obama’s Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has its roots in LBJ’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) . The “title” programs in the law, (I through VIII) have specific purposes, formulas for funding and have been at least somewhat... |
7th term is small | 02/22/2017 05:07 PM |
5 | 5 | |
I wish Maxine Waters was in the Senate or at least one person followed her lead, because she is what our country needs.
Maxine Waters is a representative from California, one who I deeply respect ... |
RightAboutNow | 02/22/2017 05:05 PM |
3 | 1 | |
Welcome to bookchat where you can talk about anything...books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.
“I was leaving the South
to fling myself into the unknown . . .
I was... |
cfk | 02/22/2017 05:00 PM |
103 | 36 | |
“What kind of president will Trump be?” headlines an article on fox news live streaming by Chris Stirewalt who makes regular appearances on Fox News Television. He begins his analysis by categorizing Trump’s 44 predecessors into Agents of Change,... |
ismial | 02/22/2017 04:53 PM |
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Tonight at 10 PM ET, we will watch as the candidates for the DNC chair face off on CNN to see which one of them can lead our party, the party of the people, out of the wilderness. Then, three days later, the DNC will convene in Atlanta to elect one of... |
Risen Tree | 02/22/2017 04:53 PM |
44 | 5 | |
I realize I’m preaching to the choir with this one. Sounding off in my own blissful bubble. I can’t help it. I am a big believer in self-reflection. Of taking a quick review of my recent choices to ensure they match my core values. It allows me to... |
Darrin Stephens | 02/22/2017 04:48 PM |
3 | 1 | |
It’s wonderful. Makes me happy. |
Jensequitur | 02/22/2017 04:46 PM |
27 | 23 | |
The federal transgender guidelines established by popular President Barack Obama are to be revoked reports various news outlets.
The administration is coming down on the side of states' rights, revoking federal guidelines that had been issued by... |
Walter Einenkel | 02/22/2017 04:42 PM |
15 | 14 | |
Chief Chase Iron Eyes, From Cheyenne River Camp. The Whole World, Is Watching! |
rebel ga | 02/22/2017 04:05 PM |
6 | 24 | |
Susan Collins (yeah, I know) says she wants Flynn to testify before the Committee. She also says that they may subpoena Trump’s tax returns.
GOP senator wants Flynn to testify on Russia ties
CNN already covered the story about... |
mimi9 | 02/22/2017 04:05 PM |
17 | 32 | |
Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington all are very diverse states, but they share one thing in common: An explosion of interest in local... |
Mattrek | 02/22/2017 04:04 PM |
104 | 171 | |
Heard on the news tonight, from Mitch McConnell responding to protestors.
“Winners make policy and losers go home.”
There you go — STFU. This is the true face of the GOP. Pure authoritarianism.
So much for a government of all the people. Pity... |
xaxnar | 02/22/2017 04:04 PM |
7 | 4 | |
Evening Live Blog — A Place for All to Come Together and Discuss the Day’s Events!
Our Goal is to Resist everything Donald Trump and his minions try to slip passed the American people, the 70+ million who voted against him. We are the majority.... |
SJohnson | 02/22/2017 04:00 PM |
200 | 46 | |
Well, this is a sticky wicket.
Six days ago, Michael Flynn resigned as Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser after it was exposed that he had colluded with the Russian ambassador, both before and after election day. It was then revealed that... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 02/22/2017 03:44 PM |
16 | 21 | |
Take the survey here. If you like. |
Sidof79 | 02/22/2017 03:39 PM |
22 | 4 | |
Ronald Reagan may have stood for — and done -many things that we progressives justifiably abhor, but there are two historical moments in his tenure which may still inspire us today.
On the 75th anniversary (Feb. 19,1942) of F.D.R.’s Executive Order... |
jaaneezutto | 02/22/2017 03:37 PM |
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Although it seems you can’t fully trust what comes of the Trump White House — such as how quickly news that Kellyanne Conway had been pulled from all TV appearances was quickly denied — there are now reports that White House staff are struggling to... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 02/22/2017 03:26 PM |
15 | 28 | |
The Republicans’ campaign promises are coming back to haunt them as they confront the reality of dealing with a law that is supported by at least half of the population. The debate among Republicans in Congress over how to deal with the GOP’s promise... |
John Geyman | 02/22/2017 03:11 PM |
1 | 1 | |
Here’s one for Colorado
https://youtu.be/ZWqOAM8FjIQ
LYRICS
Hey, Mr. Cory Gardner
(To the tune of Mr.Tambourine Man)
Refrain: Hey, Mr.... |
BillWood | 02/22/2017 03:09 PM |
1 | 1 | |
Not that long ago I wrote about my Congressman’s attempts to kill me. Since then I’ve joined in an ongoing game of “Where’s Randy?” with many — oh, so many — of my fellow residents of IL-14. We’ve been calling his office, we’ve been visiting his... |
Downtowner | 02/22/2017 03:03 PM |
5 | 8 | |
We know that Trump’s anti-immigrant doctrine is red meat to all those Trump-ites who believe that ripping millions of hard-working women, men, and their children away from friends, families, homes, jobs, and schools is absolutely essential to making... |
DavyZJones | 02/22/2017 02:37 PM |
47 | 109 | |
I walk almost everyday at a Natural Park near my house. Usually, I have a pair of binoculars around my neck, just in case the birds are active. This is a park for walkers and runners, only a few trails, with no bikes or dogs allowed. There are no... |
pcf | 02/22/2017 02:33 PM |
14 | 36 | |
Here we go with Jeff Sessions. Again. As if everything we know about him isn’t horrific enough for us to want to set the entire Department of Justice on fire and start again from scratch.
But now that he officially has the job of Attorney General,... |
Kelly Macias | 02/22/2017 02:25 PM |
6 | 20 | |
The Bay Area city of Richmond, California just made history last night. It’s the the first city in the nation to pass a resolution unanimously supporting impeaching Donald J. Trump. The resolution—spearheaded by Councilmember Gayle Mclaughlin—was... |
wagatwe | 02/22/2017 02:24 PM |
5 | 16 | |
About six months ago, when the kids went back to school, I started making homemade soup for dinner every Saturday night. Sometimes I bake bread too (this milk bread is perfection to me) but usually I just buy some rolls from the grocery store and make... |
mrules | 02/22/2017 02:08 PM |
18 | 24 | |
Former New York City council member Eva Moskowitz is notorious for calling off classes at her chain of charter schools to load students and teachers into buses to rallies for charter school ... |
Laura Clawson | 02/22/2017 02:07 PM |
12 | 21 | |
If you are not interested in participating, please take your self-righteous condescension elsewhere.
If you would like to enter the pool post your numbers in the comments.
The rules are simple You have to be a kossack to play.
We only split... |
eeff | 02/22/2017 02:00 PM |
73 | 14 | |
A man and his (likely) daughter were kicked off of a flight going to Houston, Texas from Chicago. As the passengers were boarding, a Pakistani couple dressed in “traditional cultural attire” was asked by the man if they had a bomb in their bag.
... |
Walter Einenkel | 02/22/2017 01:48 PM |
145 | 214 | |
A small but growing majority of Americans are concerned that Russia has interfered with our national elections. While much has been made about hacking, and Russian intelligence service involvement, there are other more obvious ways that Vladimir Putin... |
Greg form Vermont | 02/22/2017 01:48 PM |
11 | 14 | |
So the fight for Democratic chair is coming up soon. I have been following it from a distances. Personally I would like Ellison because he seems really sincere, but it wouldn’t be a terrible thing to have Perez. I keep reading how there really isn’t... |
wilbur | 02/22/2017 01:41 PM |
192 | 13 | |
As we’ve been following the news over the last few weeks, we now know that the Trump administration has enacted a plan to widen the pool of immigrants who can be deported to anyone who is undocumented—regardless of criminal background. This means that... |
Kelly Macias | 02/22/2017 01:25 PM |
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In what is a national first, the Richmond California City Council unanimously passed a resolution supporting impeachment of Trump last night. The resolution was brought to their attention by Ellen Faden of the Richmond Our Revolution group and... |
ammasdarling | 02/22/2017 01:07 PM |
6 | 10 | |
Donald Trump’s top appointees have brought with them some terrifying headlines about what they plan to do to the United States. But what’s equally terrifying is that below the people who make headlines are hundreds more Republicans doing Trump’s will... |
Laura Clawson | 02/22/2017 01:03 PM |
4 | 5 | |
Normally the community helps part of Helping Humpday starts below the fold — and the rest of it is — but we’ve got a 6-day deadline for gtghawaii. Donate if you can and send out the gofundme link to your social media list if you’ve got one. Thank... |
bfitzinAR | 02/22/2017 12:58 PM |
18 | 13 | |
Dear Republican Legislators,
IF you believe your town hall participants to be paid,
and
IF you believe the participants to be Democrats and, therefore, folks you don't care about,
and
IF you believe outside organizers are responsible for... |
MOAS | 02/22/2017 12:45 PM |
1 | 4 | |
As a newly politically active progressive from a small, rural town in a very red county, I’ve noticed that some of the strategies that work for drumming up support in blue districts are backfiring on us here in the red zone, even when we’re not using... |
littlehouseinoh | 02/22/2017 12:32 PM |
7 | 14 | |
Having seen the effect that selective breeding has on animals, it has occurred to me that throughout our history since biblical times people have been culled for one seriously flawed set of mental and personality traits. Both the church and monarchies... |
Woodguru | 02/22/2017 12:32 PM |
52 | 4 | |
As the dead line for Storm-troopers to move into Camp Oceti Sakowin approached, water protectors set ceremonial fires in the soon to be abandoned site.
“As police prepare to raid Oceti Sakowin Camp on Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m., the water... |
durrati | 02/22/2017 12:29 PM |
40 | 129 | |
The GOP pollster Magellan Strategies, on behalf of a group called “Committee to Defend the President” (wonder what their political leanings are?) is out with the first poll of next year’s ... |
Jeff Singer | 02/22/2017 12:24 PM |
46 | 48 | |
Sadly, we’ll probably see more of this, after Trump’s deportation-on-steroids memo yesterday outlined a policy that could send any undocumented immigrant to Mexico for the slightest “crime,” including a traffic ticket. Which means Latino drivers can... |
Mother Mags | 02/22/2017 12:23 PM |
73 | 129 | |
For those who are wondering who's behind those ads we keep seeing on CNN and MSNBC promoting confirmation of Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court Justice, the organization paying for them is the secretive JCN (Judicial Crisis Network) formerly the Judicial... |
David Elder | 02/22/2017 12:19 PM |
19 | 9 | |
Before attending Dave Brat’s Town Hall in Blackstone, VA last night, I thought I knew all I cared to know about Dave Brat. His overconfident, condescending manner, his insistence on drawing attention to his seminary education and his academic career... |
kmava | 02/22/2017 12:15 PM |
20 | 20 | |
New Quinnipiac poll released today shows Trump with lowest numbers yet and a clear downward trend.
According to their pollster:
President Trump’s popularity is sinking like a rock. He gets slammed on honesty, empathy, level headedness and the... |
mnkh | 02/22/2017 12:11 PM |
353 | 452 | |
In the aftermath of the American Civil War, naval military forces underwent a revolution. The old wooden sailing ships with broadsides of smoothbore cannon were replaced by sleek steam-powered steel-... |
Lenny Flank | 02/22/2017 12:07 PM |
43 | 41 | |
U.S. immigration officials, acting quickly to enforce new rules from the Department of Homeland Security, conducted the first mass-deportation earlier today at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington D.C. The building, known locally as “the White... |
Burtfrombrooklyn | 02/22/2017 11:55 AM |
4 | 3 | |
I like museums like this: the Heritage Village is a collection of old historic buildings from the area that have been dismantled, moved here to the site of the old city park, and reassembled as a ... |
Lenny Flank | 02/22/2017 11:54 AM |
5 | 14 | |
When Donald Trump promised and then imposed a federal hiring freeze, his supporters were probably thinking he meant stuffy bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. And while the D.C. area will doubtless be hit hard (and many of the jobs lost there are doing... |
Laura Clawson | 02/22/2017 11:52 AM |
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