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Laura Clawson's Profile
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Daily Kos contributing editor since December 2006. Labor editor since 2011. Laura at Daily Kos
Real Name: Laura Clawson
Location: Washington, DC
Groups: Top Comments, Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, Saturday Evening Geek Out, In Support of Labor and Unions, Take New Hampshire Forward!, Educator Voices, Comics, Kossack Air Force, A Fighting Chance, Daily Kos Labor, Occupy Wall Street, Transcripts and Documents, Daily Kos Economics, DKE Ticker, Five Questions
Home Page: http://labor.dailykos.com/
Twitter: lauraclawson
Diaries published: 8420 (0 days since last diary on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 10:06 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 26773 (0 days since last comment on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 10:06 AM PDT)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 263452
Total Comment Ratings: 77190
Most Recommended Diary: How Bernie Sanders lost me ... and Hillary Clinton won me over, 2384 comments, 713 recommends
People Following Laura Clawson: 1336
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According to government statistics, there are 51,000 coal mining jobs in the entire United States. According to Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency head, “Since the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, we’ve added...
by Laura Clawson
 15 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 10:06 AM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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Another day, another outrageous Republican ad trying to link Jon Ossoff to terrorism or bad choices by D-list comedians. Hours before a televised debate between Ossoff and his Republican opponent, Karen Handel, the pro-Trump America First Policies came...
by Laura Clawson
 11 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 09:04 AM PDT
with 48 Recommends
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The right-wing group Frontiers of Freedom is running ads against three Republican House members over their support for an over-the-counter hearing aid bill. What does Frontiers of Freedom have against over-the-counter hearing aids? Elizabeth Warren.
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by Laura Clawson
30 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 07:30 AM PDT
with 33 Recommends
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Donald Trump went to Saudi Arabia and he did it again: claimed credit for a YUGE deal that doesn’t exist and if it did exist, started during the Obama administration. Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has advised four...
by Laura Clawson
27 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 06:38 AM PDT
with 69 Recommends
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Donald Trump, populist hero of the working class. It’s a myth, but it’s an enduring one and, to the extent that Trump does or did have a minority of working-class supporters, he’s certainly bent on testing their loyalty. Under Trump, the Occupational...
by Laura Clawson
6 comments
on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 12:09 PM PDT
with 17 Recommends
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Jon Ossoff continues to be a better candidate than Karen Handel. With just over two weeks until the June 20 special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, the race continues to be hard-fought, and Handel continues to be kind of … weak. While...
by Laura Clawson
51 comments
on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 10:40 AM PDT
with 62 Recommends
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- Donald Trump’s openly anti-Hispanic rhetoric – for which he has never apologized -- has only fueled anti-Latino sentiment and racist acts in the country. Take for instance, the verbal abuse of Hispanics who speak Spanish in public. In one recent...91 comments 66 Recs
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- Choosing Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos as the commencement speaker at Bethune-Cookman University was a nothing short of a complete disaster. Her support of racist, bigoted policies and tone-deafness aside, that she was chosen to speak in spite of...109 comments 155 Recs
- Dear Daily Kos readers, if you are as invested as we are in flipping the House back to Democratic control in 2018, we invite you to take a look at the following pictures (below the fold) to help us identify which GOP House members attended Donald...293 comments 97 Recs
- Old southern black women are poets. The way they turn a phrase might make you cringe, groan, or laugh—but you never forget. Phrases like "knee-high to a grasshopper" or "high as giraffe coochie" just stick with you forever and you laugh and can't wait...149 comments 383 Recs
- The news is spreading like wildfire today. After a 21-year run at Fox News, sources tell New York Magazine, hotheaded, serial sexual harasser Bill O’Reilly is soon to be out of work. According to sources briefed on the discussions, network...53 comments 43 Recs
- President Donald Trump met with a bunch of CEOs at the White House last week, prompting the same old, tired and untrue round of assertions that America lost millions of manufacturing jobs because of automation, regulation, illegal immigration and lack...1 comments 5 Recs
- This year is a rebuilding year, simply put. By now, you should have accepted that we lost—by 70,000 votes—the Electoral College, which means we lost the presidential election even though we did win the popular vote by some 3 million votes. We can go...57 comments 104 Recs
- Campaign Action Click here to listen in to Agitator Radio live. The interview with Benard Simelton, Alabama NAACP President, Joe Keffer, Moral Movement Alabama and John Zippert, President Alabama New South Coalition will cover the history of their...26 comments 31 Recs
