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On Thursday, Old-Age Mutant Cringey Turtle Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor to whine about Democrats’ supposed deep dive into partisanship: "Let's be clear: the House's vote yesterday was not some neutral judgment. ... It was the predetermined...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
 279 comments
on Sat Dec 21, 2019 at 08:46 AM PST
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When CBS Sunday Morning interviews an author published by Simon & Schuster, they disclose Simon & Schuster as a subsidiary ‘of our parent company, CBS.’ When The View promotes a Disney tie-in, they’re careful to disclose that, too. In these...
by dana anderssen
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on Wed Nov 20, 2019 at 05:00 AM PST
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Over the past three days, the Kirsten Gillibrand vs Al Franken debate has flammed across Dail Kos with much anger and disagreement. It is a legitimate debate, like it or not. Franken clearly misbehaved. If you don’t think so, go look at the Tweeden...
by lyleoross
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on Sun Sep 01, 2019 at 08:37 AM PDT
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It is certainly the case that not all accusations of sexual misconduct are well-founded, and appropriate levels of skepticism should be applied. But let’s not kid ourselves — the MeToo movement is necessary, because if you are a woman who has been...
by DiesIrae
609 comments
on Fri Aug 30, 2019 at 06:28 PM PDT
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I thought I’d get this out now, before tonight’s debate, because if it is run as badly as it was last night, (Heckuva job CNN), odds are CNN will create more smoke and confusion than light. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is considered a long shot (more on...
by xaxnar
38 comments
on Wed Jul 31, 2019 at 02:28 PM PDT
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Intro: Tour de France
Sometimes when I write one of these diaries I take myself out to a local restaurant with wi-fi where I don’t feel uncomfortable sitting for a few hours writing. On my way here this morning, I heard an NPR story about the...
by ramara
122 comments
on Sat Jul 27, 2019 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Over the past few decades there have been at least forty instances where people have claimed that teachers have slept with underage students. The website lifestylepassion.com has an article entitled, “40 Female School Teachers Arrested For Sleeping...
by StevenJoseph
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on Mon Jul 22, 2019 at 11:22 PM PDT
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With Donald Trump occupying the White House and Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, the news will soon resume its discussion of Al Franken. The New Yorker has just published an article that depicts the story that ultimately ended Franken’s career as...
by scrabblerJoshP
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on Mon Jul 22, 2019 at 05:25 PM PDT
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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...
by Judeling
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on Mon Jul 22, 2019 at 08:39 AM PDT
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I have been wondering what has become of Gillibrand as the women in the 2020 presidential election fade into the background of this presidential race. I have not heard much about her since the town hall she had on MSNBC in which I started to have a...
by LMeltzer81
103 comments
on Fri Apr 19, 2019 at 05:12 PM PDT
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Kirsten Gillibrand, the Democratic senator from New York, has officially launched her bid for the 2020 presidency. This isn’t too surprising, as the senator’s exploratory committee made headlines a few months ago. The senator has a considerable career...
by Marissa Higgins
495 comments
on Sun Mar 17, 2019 at 12:41 PM PDT
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Given some of the diaries and comments over the past couple of days I thought that everyone could use a little poetry to soothe their savage breasts. Put on some Bach, sit back, and enjoy.
In the Desert
By Stephen Crane
In the desert
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by Arilca Mockingbird
57 comments
on Wed Feb 20, 2019 at 04:05 PM PST
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Revenge or restitution? I’ve been thinking of Paulo Freire’s powerful notion of a thematic universe. He wrote that every epoch is characterized by “a complex of ideas, concepts, hopes, doubts, ...
by arlenegoldbard
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on Wed Feb 06, 2019 at 08:45 AM PST
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Calls for VA's Governor to step down may make political sense for Democrats, but is it wise and/or the right thing to do? Callers ring in...
On today's BradCast, should Virginia's Democratic Governor Ralph Northam resign after his 1984 medical...
by TheBradBlog
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on Mon Feb 04, 2019 at 06:28 PM PST
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The fight to count every vote in FL and GA gets messier still, as Dems pick up yet another U.S. House seat; Also: Ernest A. Canning on CNN's lawsuit against the Trump White House...
On today's BradCast: The electoral dysfunction -- and the fight to...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 06:33 PM PST
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Donald Trump made it a two-fer Thursday night and Friday morning, first mocking former Sen. Al Franken for resigning in the face of sexual harassment allegations and then attacking sexual assault survivors protesting Brett Kavanaugh as “paid...
by Laura Clawson
109 comments
on Fri Oct 05, 2018 at 08:02 AM PDT
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This is encouraging.
And anybody remember this?
If it was a good enough rationale to do in Al Franken, whose alleged transgressions pale next to this schmuck Kavanaugh’s then by all means, stepping aside is the right and proper thing to do.
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by ursulafaw
206 comments
on Sun Sep 16, 2018 at 09:30 PM PDT
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Interesting two of the democratic’s finest speakers and leaders of the sane in America, have come forward to do what they can to help clear our House (white and of representatives) of the stench and stain we have suffered through these past 20 months. ...
by Diddybop
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on Sat Sep 08, 2018 at 09:52 AM PDT
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Donald Trump has a weird effect on people. He’s a totally binary human being (things are either the best of the best or the worst of the worst), and despite having the wit and charm of a syphilitic fruit bat, he somehow Svengalis people into embracing...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
252 comments
on Fri Jul 13, 2018 at 07:42 PM PDT
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We live in a funny world and I like to see funny things done in the name of justice and liberty and so on and so forth.
So why not primary Kristen Gillibrand with Al Franken running against her?
I, for one, would like to see her lose the party...
by Situational Lefty
108 comments
on Sat May 19, 2018 at 10:21 PM PDT
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