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Every day you think it can’t get any weirder, but 2020 says ‘Hold My Bong’. In a scene from the new Borat film, Rudy Giuliani shows us just how debased a human being he really is: Guardian In the film, released on Friday, the former New York mayor and...
by DoctorWho
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on Wed Oct 21, 2020 at 10:14 AM PDT
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Do you know why the people who hate Obamacare hate Obamacare?
Have you ever thought about the reasons why the bill inspired so much vitriol on hate radio? So much anger in the tpotty rallies?
The objections to Obamacare boil down to three...
by TrueBlueMajority
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on Thu Mar 23, 2017 at 08:59 PM PDT
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Filmmaker, activist and outspoken Bernie Sanders supporter Michael Moore sent out an email Sunday morning, via MoveOn.org, stating he will be voting for the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. In the subject box of his email Moore admits...
by Leslie Salzillo
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on Sun Oct 23, 2016 at 08:37 AM PDT
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If you love District 9 and Matt Damon action movies and you give a damn about health care and immigration, then take your friends and family who are on the fence on these issues to see Elysium and ...
by AntonBursch
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on Sat Aug 10, 2013 at 09:05 PM PDT
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By Donna Smith, National Nurses United community organizer who also appeared in Michael Moore's 2007 film SiCKO
Today in West Covina, the California Nurses Association summer 2012 Medicare for all ...
by National Nurses Movement
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on Thu Jul 12, 2012 at 09:37 AM PDT
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By Donna Smith, National Nurses United community organizer
Notes from the road in California: I’ve been on the National Nurses United Medicare for All for life bus tour since mid-June, with one ...
by National Nurses Movement
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on Thu Jul 05, 2012 at 02:47 PM PDT
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Even though it's been a few hours now, I'm guessing you're still pinching yourself to make sure you're not dreaming. But yes, it happened. At 10:07 this morning, the conservative Chief Justice of ...
by Michael Moore
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on Thu Jun 28, 2012 at 05:41 PM PDT
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Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker is famously engaged in a war against public workers in that state. Hawaii’s legislature, with no Republican governor to fear, is about to do a job on ...
by LarryHI
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on Thu Apr 28, 2011 at 11:13 AM PDT
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If you want to know how things really get done in Washington — or don't get done, depending on the desires of America's corporate executives — all you have to do is read a couple of ...
by Wendell Potter
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on Tue Jan 25, 2011 at 03:33 PM PST
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A local library in Enfield, CT, has decided not to show the Michael Moore film, "Sicko" in it's weekly non-fiction film series, due to pressure and threats from the town council.
by skohayes
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on Thu Jan 20, 2011 at 01:42 PM PST
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I am an admirer of a lot of Mr. Moore’s work, but he has misled people by saying on his blog that the diplomat who wrote the WikiLeaks cable lied about the banning of Sicko in Cuba. The ...
by superba
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on Thu Dec 23, 2010 at 07:08 AM PST
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Twice within four days, my name has popped up in the Bush-era secret cables uncovered by WikiLeaks. Lucky me. Though nowhere near as earth-shattering as the uncovering of American misdeeds in Iraq ...
by Michael Moore
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on Wed Dec 22, 2010 at 08:19 PM PST
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Yesterday WikiLeaks did an amazing thing and released a classified State Department cable that dealt, in part, with ...
by Michael Moore
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on Sat Dec 18, 2010 at 03:38 AM PST
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As I head off for Thanksgiving, I wanted to share a final thought with you about this past week's news regarding the health care executives who sat around that table in Philadelphia four years ago ...
by Michael Moore
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on Thu Nov 25, 2010 at 01:26 AM PST
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Two health care reform giants Wendell Potter and Michael Moore spoke for the first time ever on Keith Olbermann's show. Wendell Potter apologized to Michael Moore on behalf of his actions for the ...
by tinhut
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on Tue Nov 23, 2010 at 05:12 AM PST
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Anyone who reads my blog learns that word, algorithms which sometimes I refer to as the "A" word. I am striving to let people know how they are written and how they work, behind the scenes of all ...
by medicalquack
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on Sat Nov 20, 2010 at 10:20 AM PST
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The other day I mentioned in a comment, that my dear friend Wendell Potter had registered to write posts on Daily Kos.
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by nyceve
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on Fri Nov 19, 2010 at 08:52 AM PST
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As an American expat who had previously lived in the European Union, while I was living in the US I found myself in a movie ...
by Democrats Ramshield
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on Fri Oct 29, 2010 at 05:52 AM PDT
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Ever since early 2007, when Pelosi took over as House Speaker, I think she has done a pretty good job. Pelosi's ability to count votes and push through legislation I think has been pretty impressive.
by FlipperWaves
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on Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 10:35 AM PST
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Well, sounded like a good idea after I just watched it. It'd be one way of re-framing the debate to the big picture, which seems to be missing in the current congressional debate.
Anyone have ...
by EagleOfFreedom
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on Sat Dec 19, 2009 at 04:07 PM PST
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