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Yesterday, the Biden Administration changed the lives of millions of Middle Class Americans with a change to the OVERTIME RULE. For years, companies have made employees work overtime for free by making them “management.” But starting July 1, most...
by TheMFer
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Recruiting, investigating, vetting, and training CIA (and USIC) personnel is a time-consuming process and costly to the US taxpayer, which Congress is fully aware of. This unclassified bipartisan investigation reveals that CIA leadership fails to...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 01:08 AM PDT
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This sort of slipped under the media radar, but Republican Governor Youngkin of Virginia gutted a law sent to him to protect contraception in the state. Instead of legal protections for contraception, Youngkin “amended” the law to make it essentially a...
by Merlin196360
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 03:16 PM PDT
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Twenty years since the appalling images of detainees in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq emerged, a civil lawsuit filed by some of those former prisoners will finally proceed. CACI, a Virginia-based contractor, is being sued for supplying the interrogators...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 04:42 AM PDT
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The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team. Subscribe to The Downballot, our weekly podcast ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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A data wonk kind of diary here but thought it would be worth mentioning just to show how completely unreliable and off the mark the polling “science” has become lately, latest data point being the Republican primary results. To make it clear, not...
by Tweedledee5
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 10:18 PM PST
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When Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley ended her long-shot 2024 bid against Donald Trump on Wednesday, she explicitly called on the GOP front-runner to work "to earn the votes of those ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 03:30 PM PST
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In a genuine democracy, a citizen’s right to vote regardless of their socio-economic circumstances shouldn’t be infringed upon. Not so in America as the map below indicates. In many states, citizens convicted of felonies must undergo labyrinth,...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 10:45 PM PDT
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Child labor is alive and well today in the US, almost 120 years after Upton Sinclair wrote his eye-opening but stomach-churning novel The Jungle. Last week the US Department of Labor filed an injunction against Fayette Janitorial Service LLC in...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 02:47 AM PST
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Republican Rep. Bob Good of Virginia spent his weekend getting booted from a pop-up Donald Trump store in his own district. Good’s problem, it seems, is that he initially backed Ron DeSantis’ bid for president. It took only “minutes” after DeSantis...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Feb 21, 2024 at 10:56 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by Chitown Kev
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By 1774, the English colonies in North America were firmly established and the colonists, with a growing population bolstered by a steady stream of new arrivals from Europe, were seeking to obtain ...
by Ojibwa
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 08:30 AM PST
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Indian people tend to be very patient. After three years of dealing with English arrogance and bullying, the Indian people of Virginia had had enough. The Powhatans felt that the advantages of ...
by Ojibwa
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on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 07:36 AM PST
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“I’m not a Democrat. Why did you knock on my door?!?” 2018 was the first time i talked to a voter who was testy that his house was on our walk list because he assumed we were only knocking on the doors of Democrats. This was before Hope Springs from...
by snowbored
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 10:29 AM PST
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Also: Haley notches small victory in Dixville, NH 2020 mistallies in VA benefited Trump Deadly, climate-fueled storms slam nation... As noted on today's BradCast, CBS News' legendary radio and TV broadcaster Charles Osgood has passed away at age 91....
by TheBradBlog
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Yesterday was a profoundly historic day in Virginia. In Richmond, the former capital of the Confederacy, the Virginia General Assembly unanimously elected Democrat Don Scott as House Speaker, making him the first Black Speaker in the history of the...
by fromberkeleytocville
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on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 05:09 AM PST
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“The Watch” by Radley Balko has a profile on Virginia's culture warrior attorney general, Jason Miyares: When Miyares disbanded the AG’s CIU [Conviction Integrity Unit], he effectively ended any proactive effort by the state of Virginia to seek out...
by AChris
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 02:04 PM PST
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Originally published by The 19th
In the thick of campaign season, Susanna Gibson seemed well on her way to clinching a competitive Virginia district on her very first run for office. For the nurse ...
by The19th
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on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 09:39 AM PST
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For too long, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee was overlooked by the party apparatus and the donor class, which were more focused on presidential and congressional elections than on races for state legislatures. But that has changed in...
by Charles Jay
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on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 06:50 AM PST
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Now that we’re over a month post election, and I’ve somewhat recovered, I’ve gathered a few thoughts regarding the entire cycle. Full disclosure, this is most likely going to be snippet of a larger work, but for now, this is what I need to get off of...
by Jade Harris
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