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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special, River ...
by justiceputnam
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on Mon Jul 22, 2019 at 07:50 AM PDT
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There has been a lot of questions to the Democratic candidates about healthcare and what they want to do about it. Some want Universal Single Payer Healthcare, some want Medicare for All, some want to just improve Obamacare and some have no real...
by Master Foo
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on Sun Jul 21, 2019 at 06:01 PM PDT
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Kamala Harris recently said she would not raise middle class taxes to pay for Medicare For All. The Sanders campaign (and others) criticized her saying that's not possible. The Sanders position is yes there will be new middle class taxes but...
by joedemocrat
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on Sun Jul 21, 2019 at 05:52 AM PDT
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Fridays!
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Rand Paul whined about Jon Stewart being so mean while fighting for...
by justiceputnam
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on Fri Jul 19, 2019 at 07:50 AM PDT
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Words and phrases like “single payer” and “Medicare for all” have been tainted. Utter one of these and a regular Fox viewer will counter with “Are you talking about socialized medicine?” With this big grimace for additional emphasis on the word...
by McCamy Taylor
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on Thu Jul 18, 2019 at 10:20 AM PDT
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Adolescent men whose partners have abortions benefit from those abortions for decades, according to a new study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health . About 25% of women have had an abortion,
by ZawnVillines
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on Thu Jul 18, 2019 at 08:00 AM PDT
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe ,
by justiceputnam
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on Thu Jul 18, 2019 at 07:50 AM PDT
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Yo, Yo, Yo, trouble in River City.
What, a 66-year-old high-level state employee can't send Tupac-related emails to 4,300 colleagues and bring 'Thug Life' cookies to his birthday?
(T) here’s intrigue over the fact that his resignation took...
by annieli
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on Wed Jul 17, 2019 at 07:20 PM PDT
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Guest: Constitutional law expert Ian Millhiser on the GOP's ACA challenge and the passing of SCOTUS' 'last great conservative Justice'...
The United States, according to our guest today on The BradCast, lost "the last great conservative Justice" on...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Jul 17, 2019 at 07:06 PM PDT
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, John Paul Stevens was known as the “Rule of Law Justice,” but he...
by justiceputnam
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on Wed Jul 17, 2019 at 07:50 AM PDT
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Guest: Politico's Alice Ollstein; Also: House votes to condemn Trump 'racism'; Dem Rep. to introduce Articles of Impeachment...
As a chaotic vote to condemn Donald Trump's racist comments against four Democratic freshmen Congresswomen of color moved...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Jul 16, 2019 at 06:52 PM PDT
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If I could only ask one question of the 20-odd candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for President at the next debate coming up right here in Detroit, Michigan, here's how I would word it. I've customized it for each of the five major...
by Brainwrap
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on Tue Jul 16, 2019 at 03:25 PM PDT
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Much of the public’s growing ire with politics is a result of President Trump’s inability to govern a big-tent coalition of Americans while insulting and belittling anyone who points out that fact. While so much public attention is being paid to...
by framestrchris
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on Mon Jul 15, 2019 at 06:30 PM PDT
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Peope wonder why Joe Biden’s healthcare proposal was met with a “Meh” by some in progressive circles and on Daily Kos. I admit to being one of those who was not impressed. And this was before Biden tipped his hand and made further critical comments...
by Merlin1963
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on Mon Jul 15, 2019 at 03:56 PM PDT
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe , ...
by justiceputnam
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on Tue Jul 16, 2019 at 07:50 AM PDT
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“Who’s on first. What’s on second.” “I don’t know!” “Third base.” abbot and Costello
It’s little wonder that President Trump is sarcastically referred to as The Pampers President, since these days being a Republican seems to entail acting like a...
by Murfster35
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on Mon Jul 15, 2019 at 09:01 AM PDT
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Joe Biden has released a health care plan. It’s an interesting plan, and worth taking a careful look at, because it is likely to be the most centrist plan released by any major candidate — and as such it is going to set a marker on one half of the...
by DiesIrae
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on Mon Jul 15, 2019 at 04:23 AM PDT
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Providence Health Systems and Microsoft are now partners. They are even going to build a Hospital together in Seattle.
www.cnbc.com/...
Meanwhile Apple, Amazon and Alphabet are also looking into the $3.5 trillion sector, but with different...
by lynn47
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on Sun Jul 14, 2019 at 10:27 PM PDT
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special, River ...
by justiceputnam
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on Mon Jul 15, 2019 at 07:50 AM PDT
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Before we start, for a list of all this group’s Saturday diaries Jan 2019 onward: click HERE, the “wow1” tag. Everyone organizes their own as they choose, and the group contributes and helps! And don’t miss: WOW2 - Mid-July's Women Trailblazers...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Jul 20, 2019 at 04:55 PM PDT
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- Hermitage, Tennessee community members rushed to a neighbor’s home to protect him and his son from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents early Monday morning, Nashville Scene reports, at one point forming a human chain around the van where the...63 comments 210 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
- This is a goddamn rant. I’m seriously sick and tired of debating what is appropriate touching and behavior with fellow human beings. How hard is it to keep your goddamn hands to yourself? As a woman, here are all the things I have never had to...79 comments 82 Recs
- 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
- On Wednesday the Congress will finally hear from special counsel Robert Mueller. His first-hand account of the conclusions from the investigation he led should settle the debate on whether Donald Trump's tedious mantra of "no collusion, no obstruction"...98 comments 104 Recs
- 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
- A rant ‘cause folk got their fee fees hurt on FB when I called a racist a racist…..aww… My father — a combat veteran of WWII. Korea and ‘Nam — was NOT a paradigm of progressive values. He had that racist bone. We could rarely talk politics. ...244 comments 289 Recs
- Anti-racism activist and writer Tim Wise (bio here) was Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism And Nazism, an organization that, in coordination with other orgs, successfully waged a campaign to prevent infamous racist David Duke...464 comments 664 Recs
- 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
- On Monday, 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wendy Davis announced that she would take on freshman GOP Rep. Chip Roy in Texas’ 21st District (or as Roy’s own House site identified it, Texas’4 comments 22 Recs
- After a week of having to deal with an openly racist president, it’s nice to have a bit of good news—and from Florida, no less. In the last election, our backward state narrowly elected Donald Trump supporter Ron DeSantis as governor, which was...164 comments 608 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
- 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...5 comments 16 Recs
- 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
- Continue chatting into the evening! Here are some conversation starters. Luckily Mueller is no longer a DOJ employee. Hopefully this instruction is ignored.22 comments 12 Recs
- On Monday, 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wendy Davis announced that she would take on freshman GOP Rep. Chip Roy in Texas’ 21st District (or as Roy’s own House site identified it, Texas’4 comments 22 Recs
- Just a quick notice about the loss of a notable American. I hope one of the better writers here at DKos will compose a proper tribute for this remarkable man7 comments 6 Recs
- Critical reading. ICE is empowered to demand papers. Read all the way to the end of the post. This was signed July 19th and published July 23 (?). Time to protect what you have and members of your family. If you have white privilege of stability and a...2 comments 1 Recs
- With Bob Mueller prepared to testify in less than 48 hours, Bill Barr’s Justice Department (or, more appropriately, Donald Trump’s personal attorneys in the Justice Department) have fired a shot across the bow to Mueller. The DOJ and the White House...12 comments 4 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
- There has been an on-going scandal in the UK with clothes tumble-dryers catching fire. They were made by Whirlpool but sold under the brand names Hoover, Creda and Indesit and the store “own brand” labels Proline and Swan. Over 5 million o the...2 comments 2 Recs
- 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
- On Wednesday the Congress will finally hear from special counsel Robert Mueller. His first-hand account of the conclusions from the investigation he led should settle the debate on whether Donald Trump's tedious mantra of "no collusion, no obstruction"...98 comments 104 Recs
- With less than three months to go before Louisiana’s Oct. 12 all-party primary for governor, wealthy businessman Eddie Rispone is putting more than $1 million behind his opening TV ad. Rispone’s commercial doesn’t mention either Democratic Gov. John...3 comments 3 Recs
- This is a goddamn rant. I’m seriously sick and tired of debating what is appropriate touching and behavior with fellow human beings. How hard is it to keep your goddamn hands to yourself? As a woman, here are all the things I have never had to...79 comments 82 Recs
- Hermitage, Tennessee community members rushed to a neighbor’s home to protect him and his son from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents early Monday morning, Nashville Scene reports, at one point forming a human chain around the van where the...63 comments 210 Recs
