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Here’s another powerful reason the Iowa caucuses have to go. The New York Times reports that, despite claims from the Iowa Democratic Party that it is making caucuses more accessible to people with disabilities, the reality is that many people with...
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The 2020 Open Enrollment Period may have ended most states, but it continues for residents of California, New York and the District of Columbia. Combined, they represent over 60 million people, or 18% of the entire U.S. population: California: Enroll...
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By that, I’m not necessarily saying either as vice president for eachother — that hurts our chances in the senate, and may not be as strategic. I’m also not talking about holding some double-think where you have to think of them both as the best. No...
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A Florida prison guard was arrested Saturday after she allegedly poured bleach on an inmate's food tray after earlier arguing with the prisoner, according to the Associated Press. Qualesha Williams, a 28-year-old correctional officer at Lowell...
by Lauren Floyd
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A response to Council of School Supervisors and Administrators’ letter to the Chancellor of NYC Department of Education Richard Carranza by Ashley C. Sawyer Esq., Directory of Policy, Girls for Gender Equity and Sally Lee, Founder and Executive...
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On Monday, Jan. 27, conflicting reports about a plane crash in Afghanistan are flooding social media with unverified images and videos. NBC News, which says it analyzed crash site images, reports that a U.S. military plane crashed in central...
by Marissa Higgins
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It's hard to keep track of every detail of Republican corruption, but Trump-appointed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo got himself into a new scandal when he cut an NPR interview short after journalist Mary Louise Kelly asked him about ousted ambassador...
by Hunter
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House Democrats have been reluctant to call former national security adviser John Bolton to testify in recent weeks, but that may be changing. Bolton wrote in his forthcoming book that Donald Trump explicitly told him that the hold on military aid to...
by Laura Clawson
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Republicans don't give a damn about how dangerous Donald Trump is, or about the fact that he's selling our democracy to whichever foreign governments will help him get reelected. They are absolutely desperate not to hear directly from former national...
by Kerry Eleveld
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From Air Force Magazine: E-11A Reportedly Crashes in Afghanistan Jan. 27, 2020 | By Brian W. Everstine The military is investigating reports that a USAF E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communications Node crashed Jan. 27 in Afghanistan. The Air Force...
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The Advocate has a great piece out about Dr. Eliz Markowitz’s (D. TX-HD28) special election tomorrow to flip the Texas State House blue:
Democrats are nine seats away from flipping the Texas ...
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There are a lot of reasons to be for Elizabeth Warren, but number one is this: she is the only candidate who can genuinely unite the party and not only defeat Trump, but truly change the dysfunction in DC. To some of you, that might be...
by Michael Lux
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Received this e-mail yesterday from Governor Tony Evers (D. WI) on behalf of Democracy for America: I have to thank you. When I won my race for Governor of Wisconsin in 2018, I knew it was ...
by poopdogcomedy
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. The Fate of the Earth See Page Five By Tom Engelhardt Let me betray my age for a moment. Some of you, I know, will be shocked, but...
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The BIG BOLTON BOMBSHELL is the talk of the town this morning, and, of course, every American is simply outraged that it’s now basically irrefutable that our pr*sident is a corrupt, venal maniac who bribes other countries with foreign aid in order to...
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In 1988, the Upper Swan Valley Historical Society was established in Condon, Montana. The goal was to discover, collect, preserve, and interpret materials relating to Montana’s Swan River Valley. ...
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John Bolton is the architect (or at least one of them) of our endless Middle East wars, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, and has never met a war he wasn’t for. He is a stark ideologue and as far right as you can be without falling...
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Clean up on Senate isle one. I wrote a Saturday that there was no chance for witnesses. I now have to retract that claim with the introduction of this stink bomb that just blew up the main argument made Saturday by the Trump defense team who vehemently...
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Dear Sen. Rubio, As a Democrat, I've been cautious about the whole idea of impeachment from the start. It took the July, 2019 incident to tell me what I think we both know, that the President has so little basic knowledge and respect for our 250-year...
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Too bad about Kobe. I have read some terror management theory and right now I'm reading Pema Chödrön, where she talks about how people are afraid of death and try to transcend it. My Professor ...
by SolarKitty
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