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[EDIT: People seem to be reading this as a suggestion to vote for McCarthy which was not my intent. I’m expressing concern at Democratic Representatives literally bringing popcorn to the House, and DKos posters literally laughing at the dysfunction....
by 3ML
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on Thu Jan 05, 2023 at 06:41 AM PST
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I understand that CNN has a new boss who wants to make the cable network “non-partisan”. The problem is, CNN was already non-partisan. Now, they have to pretend that both sides of the aisle are equal in order to appear non-partisan.
by Perlinator
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on Wed Sep 14, 2022 at 08:09 PM PDT
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The following diary is based on a comment a bunch of people begged me to make into a diary: A reader asked (paraphrased): “Why don’t the Never-Trumpers, like Nicolle Wallace, Joe Scarborough, Joe Wilson, and David Jolly, carry more weight in the...
by citixen
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on Sat May 28, 2022 at 06:50 PM PDT
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When the Supreme Court hands down an unethical and politically partisan ruling, no one can appeal to a higher court. The so-called “justices” are not elected; they’re installed, after which they usually remain for life. The American people cannot vote...
by Perlinator
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on Fri May 13, 2022 at 06:18 AM PDT
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The House passed a U.S. Postal Service reform bill last week with a huge vote, 342-92, with 120 Republican votes. Yay, bipartisanship, right? Here’s how much Republicans care about bipartisanship: “Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the chairman of the...
by Joan McCarter
149 comments
on Tue Feb 15, 2022 at 09:54 AM PST
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We’ve had liberal Supreme Courts and conservative Supreme Courts. My fear is that the Court we have now will be unlike anything we’ve ever had: a Court that crosses the line into illegitimacy. It’s bad enough to have partisan “politicians in robes.”...
by AndySchmookler
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on Wed Feb 09, 2022 at 08:59 AM PST
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I don’t want to live in a paracosm. I don’t want to just diet on the excrescence of my own news, and I don’t want to live in a tautology, where what I think is good is good because I think it’
by The Geogre
37 comments
on Tue Jan 25, 2022 at 04:00 AM PST
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Hunter has the news about Neil Gorsuch purposely endangering Justice Sotomayor’s health. But it appears that this latest incident of Republican “Fuck You”ism has opened up the huge political paritsan abscess we refer to as the Supreme Court of the...
by Merlin196357
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on Tue Jan 18, 2022 at 02:45 PM PST
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Sunday morning you may have read (or heard) a story on NPR which focuses on something I’ve been writing about since last spring: Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame Since May 2021, people living in...
by Brainwrap
135 comments
on Thu Dec 09, 2021 at 06:03 PM PST
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Frankly, I’m surprised the ratio isn’t even higher. The study of 850 college students finds 71% of Democrats would not go on a date with someone who voted for Donald Trump. Just 31% of Republicans surveyed said they would not go on a date with a Biden...
by Frank Vyan Walton
239 comments
on Wed Dec 08, 2021 at 03:50 PM PST
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How can Democrats get their message out effectively ahead of 2022? Is it worth having conversations with folks from the other side of the aisle? How can we communicate more effectively with those we ...
by Dorothy He
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on Wed Dec 08, 2021 at 05:00 AM PST
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Beginning this Thursday 16 September 2021, I will be urging the Democratic Party to expel Sen. Joe Manchin unless the Senate passes the pending voting rights acts. It’s come to this because Manchin is trying to end democracy. The vast majority of...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Sun Sep 12, 2021 at 04:41 PM PDT
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First of all, the idea that Joe Biden is hyperpartisan is a canard, for the simple reason that most Americans agree with him on the most pressing issues facing our country. On infrastructure, voting rights (specifically the For the People Act), and...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sun Jul 18, 2021 at 12:02 PM PDT
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It's been over a month since I last ran a scatter plot displaying current COVID-19 vaccination rates across every COUNTY nationwide according to the 2020 election results...all 3,100+ of them. With today being the 4th of July, which also happens to be...
by Brainwrap
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on Tue Jul 06, 2021 at 11:56 AM PDT
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The American jingoistic mindset is pretty much like this: “When you talk about America’s problems and how to solve them, what you’re really saying is that you hate America!!! Don’t you dare talk about America having problems!!! Accept everything just...
by Perlinator
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on Mon Jul 05, 2021 at 12:12 PM PDT
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If bipartisanship even was possible, is it desirable with the Republican Party we now face that is committed to the undermining our democracy through the Big Lie? �John Pavlovitz is a minister and ...
by KeithDB
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on Tue Jun 29, 2021 at 12:24 PM PDT
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What are surveys telling us about the direction the U.S. is headed in? How has the nature of political and issue polling changed over the past decade? On this week’s episode of The Brief ,� Civiqs �
by Dorothy He
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on Wed Jul 07, 2021 at 05:05 AM PDT
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It’s clear to me what Republican politicians want. I’m not sure if they actually pray for it, but I would not be surprised if they do.
by Perlinator
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on Mon Jun 14, 2021 at 05:23 PM PDT
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When Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia shot down Democrats' signature voting rights legislation in an op-ed last week, he said that protecting voting rights "should never be done in a partisan manner." But a new Brennan Center analysis of the voter...
by Kerry Eleveld
176 comments
on Fri Jun 11, 2021 at 01:31 PM PDT
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Now that the political class has written off a bipartisan 1/6 commission, Democrats need to impanel their own investigative bodies to find the causes and the culprits. These should be strictly ...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Mon May 24, 2021 at 04:00 PM PDT
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