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Wednesday’s Mueller testimony will have more theatrical implications, but one hopes for key moments that will define what will likely be the move to further impeachment inquiries, even if they are not yet declared a bill of impeachment.
Recalling...
by annieli
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Announced by tweet , Trump has now given his own endorsement to the deal hammered out between Democrats and administration officials for ...
by Hunter
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on Mon Jul 22, 2019 at 03:10 PM PDT
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By now, you’ve probably heard about The Squad, which refers to four women of color in Congress that are getting a lot of love from progressives: Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Jul 22, 2019 at 10:48 AM PDT
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Bronx, New York school principal Jamaal Bowman wants to join the Congressional "Squad." Bowman, currently principal of the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, is challenging long-term Democratic Party incumbent Elliot Engel in the Democratic Party...
by Alan Singer
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on Mon Jul 22, 2019 at 01:11 AM PDT
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I just watched the MSNBC special on the Mueller Report, but I have to say I’m disappointed in what was left out, and their choice to give undue legitimacy to White House counterpoint.
Ari Melber didn’t mention that the DOJ’s Office of Legal Council...
by ProgToddNorCal
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on Sun Jul 21, 2019 at 07:22 PM PDT
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TODAY IN CONGRESS (C-SPAN TV SCHEDULE) & More:
I’M BACK!
Sorry for the prolonged absence, but the travelling WiFi Gods have not been smiling on me lately. Anyway, I will try to catch you all up on what’s going on in Congress since my last...
by Doctor Who
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on Mon Jul 22, 2019 at 05:02 AM PDT
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Friday afternoon, Donald Trump posted a tweet about wanting to help out his friend, Kanye West, by helping rapper A$AP Rocky (Rakim Mayers) regain his freedom. Mayers and two of his friends have been detained for assault in Sweden for several weeks....
by Leslie Salzillo
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on Sat Jul 20, 2019 at 11:17 PM PDT
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More than eight in ten adults in the United States feel that the nature and tone of political debate has grown more negative in the last few years, as reported by the Pew Research Center. While these initial survey results aren’t too shocking, they’re...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Sat Jul 20, 2019 at 11:10 AM PDT
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Last week, End Citizens United (ECU) rolled out the first round of “Big Money 20,” a list of our top targets to defeat in 2020.
These incumbent Republicans represent the worst of Washington and embody everything that the American people despise...
by End Citizens United
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on Thu Jul 18, 2019 at 10:42 AM PDT
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On 14 July, Trump made a stupid mistake by explicitly attacking four Americans on the basis of race and has since tried to make a clumsy correction by emphasizing a specific Islamophobic attack on Rep. Omar. His racial animus was inserted into the...
by annieli
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on Thu Jul 18, 2019 at 04:45 AM PDT
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Stop the presses! The President is a racist! Okay, I ...
by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Jul 19, 2019 at 04:50 AM PDT
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By a mostly party line vote of 230-198, the House has voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt of Congress for failing to comply with ...
by Hunter
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on Wed Jul 17, 2019 at 03:55 PM PDT
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“A root cause is an initiating cause of either a condition or a causal chain that leads to an outcome or effect of interest. The term denotes the earliest, most basic, 'deepest', cause for a given behavior; most often a fault. The idea is that you can...
by airmechldr
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on Wed Jul 17, 2019 at 11:07 AM PDT
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Sometimes an observation from elsewhere is illuminating. Sometimes, not :)
Today I read this blow by blow on the lead up to this vote on Trump’s Tweets, culminating with Democrat Steny Hoyer ruling Nancy Pelosi out of order for calling Trump’s...
by Daleellama
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on Tue Jul 16, 2019 at 06:07 PM PDT
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Where to start? I guess at the mouth-frothing crazy part.
In a story about Republicans’ non-response to the fact that their president is a raging racist, VICE News quoted one such Republican as saying …
Oh, hell, you just have to read this for...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Tue Jul 16, 2019 at 04:49 PM PDT
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By a near-party line vote of 240-187, the House of Representatives voted this evening to condemn Trump's racist tweets against Democratic House members. Republican Reps. Will Hurd, Fred Upton, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Susan Brooks crossed to vote with...
by Hunter
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on Tue Jul 16, 2019 at 03:53 PM PDT
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“It will always remain one of democracy’s best jokes that it provided its deadly enemies with the means by which it was destroyed.” --Joseph Goebbels
Some joke. The trouble with funeral humor is that it can be ticklish, sometimes literally so....
by kay dub
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on Tue Jul 16, 2019 at 03:13 PM PDT
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Let's dispense with this quickly, because House Minority Whip Steve Scalise isn't pretending to be serious about this or anything else: He rose to power by being one of the most shameless hacks in the Republican House, a very high bar in a party that...
by Hunter
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on Tue Jul 16, 2019 at 12:32 PM PDT
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“The American Dream is still possible,” 2020 presidential hopeful Julián Castro tells Daily Kos behind the scenes at Netroots Nation, “but we need to make the right investments in our country so that it reaches everybody.” At the progressive...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Wed Jul 17, 2019 at 08:21 AM PDT
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Always strange when Trump accuses others of hate, as if he knew what love, even love of country, really was.
The Trump themes of child rape and adult rape in the 1990s still seem like they will return again in the coming months, but go ahead and be...
by annieli
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on Mon Jul 15, 2019 at 09:53 PM PDT
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- Believe me, I wish I could sleep through the Trump years, too — and I don’t even work at the White House. But if you’re a cabinet member, maybe you should stay awake for this? I mean, at any moment Trump could unilaterally declare that we’re...66 comments 144 Recs
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- Jane Mayer is out with a story: The Case of Al Franken in the New Yorker. This is going to throw huge bomb in to the campaign, but it will be a dirty bomb not an explosion. The clear demonstration of the RW hit job nature of the Tweeden photo and...835 comments 171 Recs
- Humans have been eating salmon in Alaska for 11,000 years. The cold-water fish is a protein powerhouse and Alaskan wild salmon is beyond delicious. In a heating Arctic, the consequences of our fossil fuel emissions are coming under intense scrutiny....35 comments 198 Recs
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- For the next little while, we’re going through Ann Swinfen’s In Defence of Fantasy (1), taking it chapter by chapter, as promised. This week, we start with the introductory chapter, “Fantasy ...2 comments 3 Recs
- As a proud previously apathetic member of Generation X, I grew up watching the classic violent, political charged undertones Mel Blanc, Tex Avery and other brilliant creators far ahead of their time crafted to life. As every generation before us, we...5 comments 1 Recs
- I keep coming across opinions using strong language such as “If Dems blow this election...” Noam Chomsky has argued that the Republican Party is the most dangerous organisation in human history — 'Has there ever been an organisation in human...5 comments 1 Recs
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- I fully admit to enjoying some snarky Mean Girl-isms when they are aimed at a deserving target. If you don’t, collect your halo on the way out. And anyone named Trump is about as richly deserving a target as there is. This week Vogue...20 comments 50 Recs
- Gretna, Louisiana police officer Charlie Rispoli who posted a fake news story about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and commented she "needs a round"...and I don't mean the kind she used to serve.” has been fired, along with a fellow office who “liked” the...44 comments 73 Recs
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The Mueller Report is the Summer reading page-turner. It speaks for itself! If Robert Mueller does nothing but quote from it on Wednesday, his testimony will be revelatory to the masses who tube out, but don’t know from books.
- On Monday, The New York Times published a list of questions they’d like to see Robert Mueller address during his testimony this week. We may never hear these questions asked during the hearings, and we most definitely will never know everything Mueller...17 comments 10 Recs
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- Former state Rep. Jeanne Ives, a far-right social conservative who almost beat then-Gov. Bruce Rauner in last year’s GOP primary, announced that she would challenge Democratic freshman Rep. Sean ...9 comments 2 Recs
- Let's face the fact right here and now that Trump will be on the ballot in 2020 and that defeating him is the only thing that will end his wannabe dictatorship. Despite growing pressure to file an impeachment inquiry (with 95 Democratic Reps in...10 comments 0 Recs
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