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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Chris Murphy’s (D. CT) re-election campaign:
Today, I joined up with Senator John Cornyn to introduce a breakthrough bill on background checks. To put it bluntly, this is a big deal.
Along...
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This diary is dedicated to art ah zen in the first instance (because it was this IAN story that reminded me of… well, you’ll see shortly!) and everyone, included moi, who has raged at their computer and/or their sad lack of computer expertise.
The...
by Mopshell
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Hello, writers. Next week WO! will be the annual Turkey Trot Edition hosted, as ever, by the redoubtable mettlefatigue. To be sure of always finding the diary no matter who’s hosting it, click on the #WriteOn tag to the left of this diary. (If there’s...
by SensibleShoes
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I’m not a professional TV critic. This means I don’t have to watch every new TV show that comes out if I don’t find it interesting. It also gives me the freedom to change my mind about a show.
by Alonso del Arte
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Received this e-mail today from Rep. Jacky Rosen’s (D. NV) U.S. Senate campaign:
Senate Republicans are cutting health care to pay for a corporate tax cut – Vox, 11/15/17
Sign our petition now to oppose...
by poopdogcomedy
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Five days ago I wrote a diary on the allegation against George Takei, and why I felt the case against him was weak. Many commenters saw my point but others pilloried me. Among their arguments was that there was no evidence of a right-wing plot to...
by Karen Wehrstein
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The Director of The Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships at the Department of Homeland Security, The Reverend Jamie Johnson, resigned today because of a CNN report detailing racist commentaries in various radio appearences dating from...
by Chitown Kev
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The GOP continues to try to get traction for Uranium One as the countermeasure for #TrumpRussia, so the McCarthyist “secret witness” meme got dragged out, however its irrelevance.
FoxNews’s Shep Smith went to actual journalistic objectivity to...
by annieli
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I kid you not.
Even deep red state Alabama realizes what a disaster Donald Trump is:
A new Fox News poll shows former President Barack Obama is more popular in Alabama than Donald Trump.
The poll, conducted from Monday to Wednesday and...
by First Amendment
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Edward Harrison...
“is a banking and finance specialist at the economic consultancy Global Macro Advisors focusing on global economics and corporate strategy. Previously, he was a partner at the consultancy Lion Strategy Advisors, and worked in...
by durrati
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I’m not from Alabama and I don’t intend on ever traveling there. That said, I’m am very interested in this race, as are millions of others. And if this Fox News poll is to be believed, it looks as if Doug Jones might shock the political world a month...
by Eihenetu
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Let us build our monuments!
Let us build our statues!
For this is our history,
And it makes us strong.
Let us build a statue,
Of the Vietnamese VietCong,
And remember them for their sacrifice and their determination,
To...
by SansSanity
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A little over a month ago – on Monday, October 9 – I wrote a diary about a viral meme alleging that a Dove soap ad was racist. That diary generated a great deal of negative reaction, to put it mildly. Over the next several days more information emerged...
by Krotor
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s (D. OH) re-election campaign:
Last month, The Washington Post came out with a "Top 10 Senate Races of 2018" list. Eight of the 10 were incumbent...
by poopdogcomedy
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Recently, Sen. Al Franken has been accused of sexual assault in 2006, when Franken was a private citizen. A picture of the assault has been made public and leaves little room for doubt. Sen. Franken has acknowledged his behavior and offered his...
by Hugh Jim Bissell
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For fuck's sake people I mean seriously.
You faux woke neoliberal assholes in this “reality based community" (lol), after two years of smearing the left as woman hating sexist monsters, are now defending a man who forced his tongue down a woman's...
by Gallifreyan Jedi
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Welcome back to the Climateside Chat, cross-posted as always from our Greenpower blog. And now, the soothing voice of Dr. Jon Conway….
I, like many others, had taken the three-year plateau in global carbon emissions as a sign that humanity’s...
by GreenpowerCA
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Until a few hours ago, Al Franken was my very favorite Senator. No more. No, he’s not a monster. He’s not a rapist. But he violated Tweeden’s consent — for the picture (whether he physically groped her or just pretended to, she didn’t agree to such...
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Evening Live Blog — A Place for All to Come Together and Discuss the Day’s Events!
70+ million who voted against him. We are the majority. Our voices will be heard.
"Let resistance plus persistence equal progress for our Party and our...
by SJohnson
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Every time Republicans take control of the federal government they decide that a new round of tax cuts is urgently needed because 1) we need to spur economic growth in the midst of an economic downturn, or 2) we have a budget surplus and need to return...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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