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My own little election flyer: please don't vote for Marshall Tuck

One of the joys of being a registered Democrat, apparently, is that one receives a number of election mailers from various organizations telling Democratic voters who to vote for in California's...

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Just Say No to War

We don't need it.We have advanced enough to feed everyone on the planet several times over. So the defending the tree/waterhole impulse can be easily stopped world wide if food and water are made human...

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URGENT: Ohio Union Rights in Jeopardy!!

Ohio Republicans are trying to strip Ohio public university faculty of union collective bargaining rights, with NO DEBATE, rammed through in a budget bill – all with the usual underhandedness of Scott...

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BREAKING/ACTION: Rachel Maddow: House to vote on Fast Track TOMORROW

At the end of Rachel Maddow's discussion about President Obama's interview with Chris Matthews, she announced that the House was going to have its vote on Fast Track tomorrow. This is the first I've...

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Sign Warren's Petition -- So 'We CAN Read This'

On elizabethwarren.com You can't read thisby Elizabeth Warren, elizabethwarren.com -- April 22, 2015 Have you seen what’s in the new TPP trade deal? Most likely, you haven’t – and don’t bother trying...

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BFSkinner bled again. Back in hospital, awaiting surgery.

Sigh. Our friend BFSkinner returned to the emergency room on Friday due to intestinal blood loss and extreme weakness. He remains hospitalized at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan,...

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BREAKING: 2nd Senate Fast Track vote TOMORROW

Despite Tuesday's cloture-block, the Senate will be voting on Fast Track again on Thursday.Apparently (according to Roll Call, The Hill, & Politico), several Democrats are caving on their previous...

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BREAKING: McConnell files to end Fast Track debate on Thursday

So much for Mitch McConnell's "robust amendment process". After the Senate debating only 2 amendments thus far (& possibly 2 more Wednesday), McConnell has already filed plans to invoke cloture to...

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BREAKING: Fast-Track now on House schedule for THIS WEEK

Within the past hour of this writing, the House of Representatives added 3 Senate-passed trade-bills (HR 1314, HR 644, & HR 1295) to the weekly schedule. HR 1314 is the main fast-track bill, the...

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The Inevitability of Bernie Sanders

At last, friends, the Angry Fringe has reared its beautiful head, and is making its voice heard.  And wow, doesn’t it feel good to have a candidate who articulates the things we’ve been thinking for...

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ACTION: Tell your rep to OPPOSE the Trade Adjustment Assistance bill

As we speak, opponents of Fast-Track are gathering behind a plan by which this bill may be scuttled — defeating the TAA bill first on Friday. By the way the question is being divided, defeating TAA...

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BREAKING: GOP to attempt NEW Fast Track deal (UPDATE: Vote is TOMORROW)

The Hill and Politico are both reporting that John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, & fellow Republican congressional leaders are now floating a new plan to try to ram though Fast Track as soon as this...

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Hey you, take this stick and ...

… wait, that's not a stick, it's an olive branch!  Imagine that.  I have a crazy idea.  Bear with me, I have had a lot of changes in my life, mostly good but some bad, there was some personal growth, I...

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ACTION: Congress trying to kill Net neutrality by budget-rider; Stop them NOW...

I just now found out about this, so this will be short but enraging.Big Telecom's friends in Congress have sneaked a rider into the budget bill discussions that kills the FCC's new net-neutrality...

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Final version of TPP's intellectual property chapter: it's as bad as we thought

If you've opened any online news source today, you've probably already seen this: Wikileaks has published what is reportedly the final draft of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans...

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I will never have a beer with you, Bernie Sanders

I'm not fooling myself. It's never gonna happen.And I don't care if you are dashing or charming. I don't need no damn made-up GQ model, or need you to win fashion awards or get on some fancy magazine...

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Breaking The Gentlemen’s Agreement

I believe that the power of corporate America, the power of Wall Street, the power of the drug companies, the power of the corporate media is so great that the only way we really transform America and...

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ACTION: Tell your Senators to oppose CISA spy bill

The spy-bill that will not die is back again.Yesterday the Senate filed cloture& started debate on the Cyberintelligence Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015, the latest version of CISPA. Like its...

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The War Against MSF

So, this is United States policy now.  To ignore the Geneva Conventions and murder civilians and non-combatants in their hospital beds.Disgusting.Yemeni hospital hit by Saudi-led air strike: medical...

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angel d's apartment burned down!

Living room view from the patio. Talk about shit happening! Three days ago, an ember from Kossack angel d's fireplace managed to coax the rest of her living room into burning into a fiery rage, with...

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