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Sen. Ted “ Cancun ” Cruz is closer to enacting an airport security amendment that would allow top federal officials like him to apply for a dedicated security ...
by Walter Einenkel
 209 comments
on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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Ahhh the polls…. THE POLLS, everyone seems to be either freaking out�or getting overly optimistic about this or that poll.�
While it appears Biden’s numbers are turning around depending on ...
by NotSoNew
41 comments
on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 03:00 PM PST
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According to the New York Times, “Israel has charged that at least 12 employees of UNRWA — the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees — participated in the Oct. 7 attack and that as many as 1,300 employees are members of Hamas.”...
by ybruti
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 12:07 PM PST
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Congress sent President Joe Biden a short-term spending bill on Thursday that would avert a looming partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies into March. The House approved the measure by a vote of 314-108, with opposition coming mostly...
by Associated Press
55 comments
on Thu Jan 18, 2024 at 02:04 PM PST
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Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on topline spending levels for the current fiscal year that could help avoid a partial government shutdown later this month. The agreement largely hues to spending caps for defense and domestic programs...
by Associated Press
179 comments
on Sun Jan 07, 2024 at 01:28 PM PST
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Funding List for you to consider Democrat Senate Committee: https://www.dscc.org/ https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dscc-1?refcode=directory Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: https://dccc.org/...
by Starchs
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on Mon Jan 01, 2024 at 08:20 AM PST
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tldr: For years, I’ve wanted to find 100 new volunteer fundraisers and pair them 1:1 with 100 downballot candidates. To try it out I need some help. A perennial challenge for political donors is knowing whether their funds make a difference. Most...
by davidslifka
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on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 10:33 AM PST
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A coalition of "Stanford scientists invested in helping the Doerr School of Sustainability achieve its full potential as a beacon of research excellence that accelerates the energy transition, with the speed and scale necessary to avert catastrophe"...
by gmoke
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on Fri Oct 06, 2023 at 09:29 PM PDT
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Freedom Caucus members are admitting that they have "no evidence". There's bad polling if they do it Morgan State Political Science Professor Jason Johnson took over duties for Joy Reid who could not do her show yesterday. He quoted MTG who said impeach Biden now or I'll shut down the government. The fact that she has to say this instead of...
by Dem
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on Tue Sep 12, 2023 at 09:40 AM PDT
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Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville seems to have finally found a vocal ally in his war against military readiness: Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. Tuberville has single-handedly blocked more than 300 military promotions and nominations, for over six...
by Walter Einenkel
134 comments
on Mon Sep 11, 2023 at 11:59 AM PDT
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged his colleagues on Wednesday to support a supplemental funding request for some $40 billion by the Biden administration to aid Ukraine, as well as funding ...
by Kerry Eleveld
37 comments
on Thu Sep 07, 2023 at 12:28 PM PDT
with 136 Recommends
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Parents’ rights? What does that mean? I understand what the words mean, that parents have rights concerning their kids. But what does that look like? What rights? What if what they see as their rights infringes on the rights of parents who don’t agree...
by RickElia
13 comments
on Thu Sep 07, 2023 at 08:38 AM PDT
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Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s war on military readiness continues as he refuses to back down from his one-man blockade of top-level military promotions and confirmations. All because the ...
by Walter Einenkel
334 comments
on Thu Sep 07, 2023 at 10:51 AM PDT
with 212 Recommends
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All the way back on Jan. 16, 2023, newly elected governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, went to her twitter account and barfed up this gem: “As long as I am your governor, the meddling hand of big government creeping down from Washington, D.C.,...
by Walter Einenkel
129 comments
on Wed Apr 05, 2023 at 12:01 PM PDT
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Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis popularized the phrase “laboratories of democracy” when he wrote that “a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without...
by RickElia
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on Tue Feb 14, 2023 at 02:15 PM PST
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A Christian school in a low-income neighborhood in Kansas City has, for nearly a decade, quietly supported its LGBTQ students and staff by offering K-8 students tuition-free private education with “inclusive theology.” Last winter, according to...
by Rebekah Sager
124 comments
on Mon Feb 06, 2023 at 01:52 PM PST
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In his story here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/25/2149207/-Daily-Kos-is-laying-off-staff-Here-are-the-two-painful-reasons-why kos lays out the problem: about a third of site revenue has been decimated It appears just subscriptions alone...
by Angela Marx
208 comments
on Thu Jan 26, 2023 at 10:29 PM PST
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There are many reasons I feel like DeSantis is a disaster and so is the legislature but it is hard for me to believe Miami Dade went for him since he has diverted all these billions of dollars to private schools. DRAMATIC INCREASE IN FLOW OF DOLLARS...
by Vetwife
23 comments
on Sat Nov 19, 2022 at 10:15 AM PST
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Have you ever seen a political campaign say "we've got enough money, donate elsewhere?" Me either. The conventional wisdom is more money means you win. Hillary Clinton raised over a billion dollars, approximately double what Donald Trump raised. Trump...
by DavidThi808
6 comments
on Fri Sep 23, 2022 at 04:29 PM PDT
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I just saw an article on my news feed about a community in California suing the state to keep a state prison open because they needed the federal funds having the prisoners counted as part of their population brought in. This reminded me of something I...
by DBowman
6 comments
on Mon Aug 22, 2022 at 07:47 AM PDT
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