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I read an article over at Salon by Gabriella Ferringine about how a major number personal donations for the $6600 maximum allowable donation to a campaign are coming from Republican donors going to conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer Democratic...
by Noodles
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on Tue Jul 18, 2023 at 02:17 AM PDT
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On June 24, 2022, a U.S. spy plane provocatively flew over the Taiwan Strait. The next day, the U.S. Navy sent a warship, the USS Benfold, to the South China Sea. According to Jeremy Kuzmarov, sending U.S. warships into the South China Sea and Taiwan...
by gyoung4ky
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on Sat Jul 09, 2022 at 09:17 AM PDT
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Arizona's Sitting Senator Krysten Sinema, (D?) held her first Public Townstall at Arizona State University. She had been avoiding her Latino constituents in planes, airports and pricey fundraisers, when they had the nerve to ask her questions about...
by laloalcaraz
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on Mon Oct 04, 2021 at 09:25 PM PDT
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Joe Manchin should be kicked out of the Democratic party for aligning with Republicans to obstruct the agenda of the Democratic president. (I don’t know if that’s a thing, but if it isn’t, it should be.) He damn sure shouldn’t be allowed to be part of...
by lafosner
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on Tue Sep 28, 2021 at 11:44 AM PDT
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Maureen Dowd asks that in her her June 6th column. I answered in my NYT comment, which I do not expect to be published on line, so I am posting it here. 1 Maybe because Dowd's scoop about Biden using Neal Kinnock's stump speech ended his 1988 run for...
by 888guy
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on Sat Jun 05, 2021 at 01:46 PM PDT
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It has been a very eventful June/July. Heck, all of 2020 has been one for the record books! I intended my latest email to be about how my daughter Natalie just turned 13, how I was organizing against the RNC coming just 4 blocks away from our...
by angienixon
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on Wed Jul 08, 2020 at 06:13 PM PDT
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Over the last 10 years I have held many titles; community organizer, mentor, small business owner, Higher Education Director for SEIU-FPSU. None I am more proud of than mother. As a single working mom, I don’t want my daughter to have to continue to...
by angienixon
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on Fri May 15, 2020 at 07:34 PM PDT
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About ten minutes ago I read a BBC article wherein several Democratic Senators, apparently starved for attention, sided with Mitch McConnell: Senate Democrats said prolonging the standoff would be pointless. "The longer it goes on the less urgent it...
by Ur Regular
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on Wed Jan 08, 2020 at 04:02 PM PST
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My U.S. House Rep, Jeff Van Drew, is a Democrat in Name Only (DINO). His strategy in New Jersey elections, when he was a state Senator, was to run as a “team” block in whatever issue they were voting on, and combine their advertising budget in order to...
by DeniseHa
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on Sat Nov 02, 2019 at 09:39 AM PDT
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Dutchess County NY is on the brink of flipping blue, led by a strong slate of progressive Democratic candidates like Joash Ward, the brilliant and inspiring young candidate for Mayor of the City of Poughkeepsie. Local Republicans, led by [failed GOP...
by am
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on Sat Nov 02, 2019 at 06:44 AM PDT
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Reps. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey and Collin Peterson of Minnesota both voted "nay" on the historic resolution. They also voted against going forward with resolution during the preliminary procedural vote. I’d say these two should, indeed must, be...
by jtg
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on Thu Oct 31, 2019 at 03:29 PM PDT
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According to Politico, Joe Manchin (D*-WV) has endorsed Republican Susan Collins’ 2020 reelection bid. It’s a short piece so I’m quoting the whole thing: Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin endorsed GOP Sen. Susan Collins for reelection on Thursday, in a...
by CaliSista
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on Thu Apr 11, 2019 at 01:13 PM PDT
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Statement from Color of Change:
“Bankers Surety, the largest bail insurance company in the country, has particularly come under fire for their role in exploiting, harassing, and overcharging clients--mostly Black families who are already under...
by Marjani
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on Tue Aug 14, 2018 at 02:15 PM PDT
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Well, this is uncomfortable.
According to NBC News, The Rhode Island Democratic Party is so terrified of radical socialist ideas like universal health care, job guarantees and women’s right to an abortion (yes, you read that right) that they prefer...
by DyedInTheWool
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on Tue Jul 03, 2018 at 01:10 PM PDT
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Prominent San Juan, Puerto Rico-based attorney and “Democratic” lobbyist Francisco Domenech has resigned his position as at-large member of the Democratic National Committee following his arrest earlier this week on serious domestic abuse charges.
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by Prenter
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on Fri Apr 06, 2018 at 06:41 PM PDT
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I keep seeing commentary that the Democrats were negotiating from a position of weakness. I’m sitting here trying to figure out what that weakness was.
The Senate required 60 votes to gain closure. There are not 60 Republican senators. We had...
by DoctorCorey
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on Mon Jan 22, 2018 at 02:04 PM PST
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Ossoff lost.
No surprise there. He was a conservative and a DINO. No true liberal was excited about him. And Democrats were lukewarm at best.
You know, in order for Democrats to actually win elections, they have to provide alternative policies...
by carolinacal
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on Wed Jun 21, 2017 at 03:26 AM PDT
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It’s been years since we began hearing about RINO’s: Republicans judged “not Republican enough” to suit other Republicans, especially the Tea Party and their ilk. It means “Republican In Name Only”. In other words, to the Republicans who use that...
by Mercy Ormont
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on Sun May 22, 2016 at 03:08 PM PDT
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With the uptick in hate based discrimination legislation, I have found it necessary to define a term that I have not yet seen elsewhere:
CHino.
Much like Dino and Rino, this describes a person who is ‘CHristian’ in name only. These people...
by compulut
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on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 02:51 PM PDT
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I believe in reasoned debate and positive, uplifting blogging. However, I have to express my admittedly personal, passionate, and extraordinary disappointment in the continuing prattle that Hillary Clinton is the best choice for the Democratic...
by Tristan Black Wolf
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on Mon Apr 11, 2016 at 04:56 PM PDT
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