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Survivors call out Joni Ernst for sticking with the NRA to block the Violence Against Women Act Sen. Joni Ernst is facing a re-election battle in her home state of Iowa, and now she’s facing a series of domestic abuse survivors and family members asking her, publicly and powerfully, why she’s trying to help abusers and stalkers keep their guns....	Laura Clawson	02/17/2020	49
Forget socialism: The threat in 2020 is Trump's Stalinism Impeached president Donald Trump has learned a lot from Russian President Vladimir Putin, and for someone who has a personality more akin to that of Josef Stalin—the narcissism, paranoia, messiah complex fostering a cult of personality—that's...	Joan McCarter	02/17/2020	120
Ted Cruz commits vasectomy-related 'epic self-own' Alabama state Rep. Rolanda Hollis has executed a troll for the ages, and Sen. Ted Cruz got snared. Hollis filed a bill that would force men to get vasectomies at age 50 or after their third child—and yes, it was a direct response to Alabama’s extreme...	Laura Clawson	02/17/2020	315
Koch network endorses its first Democrat, Henry Cuellar. We're going to help boot him on March 3 The Koch network has never endorsed a Democrat and has certainly not been involved in Democratic primaries. Until now. It’s found a Democrat it can love, for better or worse for him: Rep. Henry ...	Joan McCarter	02/17/2020	26
1,100 former Justice Department officials warn of 'grave threat' to justice, call on Barr to resign Attorney General William Barr should resign because of the “grave threat to the fair administration of justice” posed by his political interference in the sentencing of Donald Trump associate Roger Stone, more than 1,100 former Justice Department...	Laura Clawson	02/17/2020	57
MFWOT Daily Update Thread - Monday February 17, 2020 Mojo Friday’s Weekly Open Thread This is a diary for those who continue to participate in the Mojo Friday diary throughout the week. You are welcome to join ...	bsegel	02/17/2020	4
Cattle Call 2020: It's shaping up to be a Bernie-Bloomberg clash, so who else competes? The national polling aggregate : We now have a delegate count as well, after the first two white, non-representative states cast their unearned early votes:	kos	02/16/2020	605
Dawn Chorus: February on the Salish Sea February 9, 2020 Salish Sea, PacificNorthwest We like to go out boating when the weather and tides are agreeable, as often as we can manage it both to enjoy being out at sea and to get a sense of what the birds are like at different seasons and year to...	OceanDiver	02/16/2020	97
Black History Month: Haitian Americans—from the American Revolution to Temporary Protected Status When we talk about the early black history of the U.S and black ancestry, we often discuss it in reference to those African Americans who are descendants of enslaved people who were dragged to ...	Denise Oliver Velez	02/16/2020	115
MFWOT Daily Update Thread - Sunday February 16, 2020 Mojo Friday’s Weekly Open Thread This is a diary for those who continue to participate in the Mojo Friday diary throughout the week. You are welcome to join ...	bsegel	02/16/2020	4
2018 and 2019 hit a 35-year high for major strikes, this week in the war on workers Large work stoppages, aka large strikes, had been on the decline for years . That turned around in 2018—going from 25,300 workers involved in major strikes in 2017 to 485,200 in 2018—and ...	Laura Clawson	02/15/2020	8
The Pete Beat- “To Me, You Are American”: Alcalde Pete in LULAC Townhall Last Thursday LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) held a townhall in Nevada This are some excerpts (whole townhall below) gg this Latin American Latino felt conexión y sinceridad, #20pete20	El Mito	02/15/2020	24
The Daily Bucket - a rolling gull The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns. We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part of the world, and to share your observations in the...	OceanDiver	02/15/2020	44
MFWOT Daily Update Thread - Saturday February 15, 2020 Mojo Friday’s Weekly Open Thread This is a diary for those who continue to participate in the Mojo Friday diary throughout the week. You are welcome to join ...	bsegel	02/15/2020	4
Moscow Mitch makes clear the 395 House-passed bills are dead, but they're alive for the election Moscow Mitch McConnell went on Fox News to chortle and gloat over the 395 bills the Democratic House has passed in the last year that he's refusing to consider. "It is true," the Senate majority leader said. "They've been on full left-wing parade over...	Joan McCarter	02/14/2020	88
MIT report on voting app demonstrates criticality of election security legislation One of the online voting technologies that's already made it out for testing in five states is highly insecure, according to a new report published Thursday by researchers from MIT. The app can be hacked to alter, or block, or make ballots public,...	Joan McCarter	02/14/2020	60
Trump shows Collins a lesson he learned from impeachment: Don't let anyone listen to your criming Sen. Susan Collins has done her best to walk back her ridiculous statement that impeached president Donald Trump learned a lesson from the impeachment process, and to absolve herself of any responsibility for a now totally unfettered Trump. The thing...	Joan McCarter	02/14/2020	117
9 Senate Democrats call on Barr to resign over 'clear violation of your duty' Trump Attorney General William Barr’s latest abuses of the justice system have nine Senate Democrats calling on him to resign. Their letter describes the “unethical political intervention” of top Justice Department officials in the Roger Stone case as...	Laura Clawson	02/14/2020	122
House Democrat acts to end Trump's border wall piracy, Senate Republicans look the other way Rep. Joaquin Castro has, once again, introduced his resolution to terminate the emergency declaration by impeached president Donald Trump that he's using to steal military funding for the border wall. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans are keeping mum. The...	Joan McCarter	02/14/2020	10
Mike Bloomberg gives Elizabeth Warren a (very, very, very) narrow path to victory Elizabeth Warren currently sits in third place in the Democratic primary delegate math, but there’s no need to sugarcoat it: She desperately needs to show strength somewhere soon in order to keep making the case that she’s a viable candidate. Yet by...	kos	02/14/2020	537
Just headaches? People who've felt traumatic brain injury's impact push back on Trump's bluster Donald Trump’s first story about the Iranian missile strike on U.S. forces in Iraq was that “no Americans were harmed.” Then, after 11 service members were airlifted out with traumatic brain injuries, Trump dismissed those injuries as “headaches and...	Laura Clawson	02/14/2020	78
Nation’s second-highest court rejects Trump's Medicaid work requirements A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled unanimously Friday against the Trump administration's efforts to attach work requirements to Medicaid in a case brought against Arkansas' efforts to do so. It's a...	Joan McCarter	02/14/2020	12
Trump's budget asks for $1.5 billion over 10 years to prop up uranium mining industry It’s all about the priorities, people! Donald Trump’s proposed 2021 budget would cut $292 billion from Medicaid, federal housing assistance, and food stamps, and $70 billion from federal student loan forgiveness, but uranium mining? That’s a different...	Laura Clawson	02/14/2020	30
Pentagon will steal more funds from military preparedness to build Trump’s wall The Defense Department has notified Congress that it's going to be diverting another $3.83 billion from already appropriated money to go to another 177 miles of impeached president Donald Trump's border wall. At least this time they're not stealing...	Joan McCarter	02/14/2020	38
Pete Buttigieg is a top contender, so obviously high-profile Republicans are going full homophobe Republicans are going to attack any Democrat who shows any strength in the presidential election. There will always be something. After a contested win in Iowa and a close second in New Hampshire, Pete Buttigieg’s moment for those attacks has arrived,...	Laura Clawson	02/14/2020	399
39 prosecutors blast Barr's 'fear-driven narrative' on criminal justice reform Attorney General William Barr intervened to reduce the sentencing recommendation for Donald Trump’s friend Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative. But the very same week he did that, he attacked progressive prosecutors around the country for not...	Laura Clawson	02/14/2020	36
MFWOT Daily Update Thread - Friday February 14, 2020 Mojo Friday’s Weekly Open Thread This is a diary for those who continue to participate in the Mojo Friday diary throughout the week. You are welcome to join ...	bsegel	02/14/2020	8
Moscow Mitch won't let Senate vote to secure the election, but he will allow anti-abortion bills There are dozens of critical bills from the House Democrats in Mitch McConnell's trash can, never to see the Senate floor. Gun safety, environmental protection, election security, voting rights, healthcare bills—dozens and dozens of things that matter...	Joan McCarter	02/13/2020	58
Trump is inspiring a generation of kids ... to be racist bullies at school Donald Trump is America’s bully-in-chief, and too many kids are following his lead. An analysis by The Washington Post finds more than 300 cases of Trump-inspired bullying in schools bad enough to make news reports over the past four years; “At least...	Laura Clawson	02/13/2020	26
Senate gives Trump rare rebuke in Iran war powers resolution Impeached president Donald Trump tweeted a warning to the Senate Wednesday as it was debating Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine's war powers resolution to attempt to constrain his actions in Iran. "It is very important for our Country’s SECURITY that the...	Joan McCarter	02/13/2020	80

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