Talking Points Memo

  • newTea Party Sees IRS Debacle as Chance for Movement's Rebirth
    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so. They say the IRS acknowledgement tha…
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  • Official: 'Amazing' No One Died In Conn. Train Crash
    FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it's fortu…
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  • Up To 60 Injured After Car Drives Into Virginia Parade
    DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) -- About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia m…
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  • IRS Probe Ignored Most Influential Groups
    The IRS largely maintained a hands-off policy with the much larger, big-budget organizations on the left and right that were most influential in the elections and are organized under a section of the…
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  • Amid Protests, French President Signs Gay Marriage Into Law
    French President Francois Hollande has signed a law authorizing gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples, after months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate.    
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  • Boy Scouts To Vote On Accepting Gay Youth This Week
    With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay…
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  • 80 Percent Of Number Combos Already Purchased For Record Powerball Jackpot
    With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot on Saturday night, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars -- an…
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  • Rush-Hour Train Collision Injures Dozens In Connecticut
    FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in a crash that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel i…
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  • What Republicans Already Knew About The White House Benghazi Emails
    Sources at key classified Congressional briefings about Obama administration Benghazi emails say it's hard to fathom how Republicans left with misquotes and the impression that the White House had pla…
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  • Colorado GOPer Accused Of Storming Away From Aurora Victim's Dad
    This week, Tom Sullivan went to a forum being held by Denver Post. State Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman was there answering questions about the recent legislative session in which several gun cont…
    - 2 days ago, Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:55 GMT -

Daily Kos

  • newOpen thread for night owls: Austerity and debt wreck lives of working American families
    The following excerpt, via Alternet, comes from Robert Kuttner's new book, Debtors' Prison, titled Austerity and Debt Conspire to Wreck the Lives of Working American Families:“Living within one…
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  • newBig-thinking Cato Institute: 400ppm haz got what plants crave
    Whatever keeps the checks coming, I guessI continue to be impressed at just how devoid of sentient thought you can be and still land a gig at a "think tank." In this case, the Koch-founded, hypothe…
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  • newLife back in the canopy
    "Room with a View," copyright by climber-photographer Greg Epperson. Used here with his permission. Click image for more breathtaking climbing shots at Greg's homepage.If you hang out up high with…
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  • newWelcome to the Darrell Issa Hall of Shame
    With Washington engulfed in scandals real and imagined over the Benghazi tragedy, the IRS' handling of applications by political groups for tax exempt status and the Justice Department's seizure of A…
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  • newThe most vulnerable House members in 2014, in two charts
    Jim Matheson (UT-04), most vulnerable DemocratOver the last couple weeks, we've been talking about the 2014 House election, and in particular, which members might be especially vulnerable. First, w…
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  • newMidday open thread
    Google's Sergey Brin wears some scary lookin ish.Lawmakers questioned Google about privacy concerns with it's Google Glass technology. I'm no Luddite, but this thing is a bit ummm...unsettling:Go…
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  • newThe hard lessons of the post-partisan unity schtick
    Ezra Klein recently wrote a piece imagining President Obama going Bulworth, including this pretend exchange:Q: Sir, you've been criticized in recent weeks for being overly passive. And as you say he…
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  • newClimate change isn't AN issue, it's THE issue
    HomeNicholas Stern has been a lecturer at the University of Oxford, a professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics, chief economist and special counsellor…
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  • newRepublican outreach report card: Graded 'F' for Fail
    Students holding report cardsWe have had numerous articles here in recent days about Jason Richwine, his racist Republican sponsored research on Latino low IQ (and about blacks too) for which he re…
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  • newThe next biggest scandal ever, until the next one
    Yes, Mitch McConnell. IRS bureaucrats targeting "tea party"-related groups is a conspiracy. Everything is a conspiracy. Everything is a conspiracy meant to distract from all the other conspiracies, a…
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Think Progress

Obama Biden 2012

Wonkette

Firedoglake

Crooks & Liars

DNC Rapid Response

Eschaton

  • newCoT: Glory Days
    Translation. And exegesis (audio) featuring both a Nooners and a Mitchipoo imitation.
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  • newEvening Thread
    Enjoy or not
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  • newSunday, Sunday
    Travel day tomorrow so blogging will likely be suckier than usual.
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  • newJournamalism
    It's telling that there hasn't been (that I've seen) pressure from other journalists for Karl to burn his source.They never, ever do it.
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  • newKenyan Gay Muslim Tentacles Extend Everywhere
    The Texas judiciary proves yet once more that it is merely a puppet doing the bidding of the Obama administration.
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  • newI'm So Old I Remember When $86 Billion Was A Lot Of Money
    We could build the California HSR for this, basically. And we spend it every year. It's 4 times the GDP of Afghanistan.The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the…
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  • newNostalgia
    It may seem hard to believe, but long before the Dancin' Master took over for Working Class Tim, Meet the Press provided an actual service to the public.Also interesting that the right wing bias…
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  • newXVIII
    David Waldman's weekly compilation of reported gun accidents.  Hashtag: #gunFail
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  • Late Night
    rock on.
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  • Saturday Evening Thread

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Feministing

  • Stop Telling Me To Make Things For Women If I Want Them
    I was having a conversation with someone about sexualized images of women, i.e. posters of half naked women in office environments. I pointed out that the problem is not with partial nudity in itself…
    - 4 days ago, Thu, 16 May 2013 19:38:03 +0000 -
  • Mother’s Day is Over – But Pregnancy Discrimination Isn’t.
    By Vania Leveille, ACLU Washington Legislative Office & Lenora M. Lapidus, ACLU Women’s Rights Project Women make up almost half the workforce today, and, if they become pregnant, most will work thr…
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  • Update! “Bartow Bomb” student Kiera Wilmot will not face criminal charges
    Update – The Wilmots will not need to be in court defending Kiera against felony charges, but the matter of her expulsion remains. Also, the fund being established by family attorney Larry Hardaway…
    - 5 days ago, Wed, 15 May 2013 07:29:03 +0000 -
  • Single mothers in the military service the silent battle for their children
    How do you think a soldier feels that has served his or her nation for many years and suddenly loses custody of the child while she is on another continent?  The number of suicides in the military ha…
    - 6 days ago, Mon, 13 May 2013 22:37:38 +0000 -
  • How the Maximum Family Grant rule hurts families
    Originally posted at Strong Families By Melissa Ortiz Melissa and her family Most families who receive welfare live in dire poverty. Even with the aid that California Work Opportunities and Responsibi…
    - 7 days ago, Mon, 13 May 2013 19:41:44 +0000 -
  • Indigenous mamas: Mothering resistance and reclamation
    Originally posted at Strong Families By Erin Konsmo  In many ways, the Native Youth Sexual Health Network is a family that works together and throughout Turtle Island to reclaim ourselves through sex…
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  • “It’s just a harmless advertisement”: On liposuction, media, and perpetuation of sexism
    Article originally appeared on TheFeministWire.com, May 10, 2013. Several weeks ago, Bucknell University, my alma mater, published its weekly campus newspaper. While just about every edition of The Bu…
    - 7 days ago, Mon, 13 May 2013 19:25:34 +0000 -
  • Why I live my life for my mamá
    Originally posted at Strong Families By Bernardita Yunis For a writer, I could not have struggled more with getting words down on paper for this post. I consider my Mother to be the most important per…
    - 7 days ago, Mon, 13 May 2013 19:19:57 +0000 -
  • Finding strength through struggle: The most important gift my mom gave me
    Originally posted at Strong Families By Anthony Carli Tears barreled down my face; I stumbled from my seat into the aisle of the school bus and hurriedly disembarked. My heart stung like a piece of it…
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  • After dark
    I can still feel it in my chest after a night out. Between my sternum, where the ribs press against each other whenever I breathe out after a huge inhale. My lungs feel raw, my spit tastes bloody; tha…
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Americablog

The Young Turks

Newshounds

Media Matters for America

Drudge Retort

  • newJesus-Endorsed-Me Candidate Loses
    A North Miami, Fl., mayoral candidate who claimed to have been endorsed by Jesus Christ finished in seventh place in a seven-candidate field. Anna Pierre made the endorsement claim in a campaign flyer…
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  • newCassidy: The IRS Non-Scandal
    John Cassidy: I hope you had better things to do with your Friday morning that watch the members of the House Ways and Means Committee berating Steven Miller, the acting head of the Internal Revenue A…
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  • newMan Slips Abortion Pill to Girlfriend
    A man in Tampa, Florida, has been arrested for allegedly tricking his pregnant girlfriend into taking an abortion pill, causing her to have a miscarriage. Prosecutors allege that John Andrew Welden, 2…
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  • newActivist Seeks Armed March on D.C.
    Activist Adam Kokesh has asked 1,000 people to march across the Potomac on July 4 carrying loaded rifles, which he calls a protest against "tyranny." In his six years as a professional rabble-rouser,…
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  • newBecoming an American Bad for Your Health
    A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. And while their Americ…
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  • newCanadian Oil Waste Rises Over Detroit
    Assumption Park gives residents of Windsor, Ontario, lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they've been treated to another sight: a three-story pile of petroleum coke c…
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  • newBillionaire Couple Redefining Philanthropy
    Wall Street Journal: John Arnold, it turns out, had accumulated a fortune estimated at $4 billion in the past decade -- only a handful of people on Wall Street made more during that time. Although he…
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  • newGay Man Murdered Blocks from Stonewall
    New York Times: Mark Carson did not hide that he was gay, and when he went out on the town he would often head to Greenwich Village, where years before he was born, much of the struggle for gay libera…
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  • newArkansas Treasurer Arrested for Extortion
    Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner (D) has been arrested and jailed by the FBI on federal charges of extortion. Shoffner was arrested on charges of extortion under color of official right, said FBI sp…
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  • new10 Bars to Visit Before You Die
    ABC News lists bars that should be on your bucket list to visit before you die. Among them: "Heinold's First and Last Chance, Oakland, Calif. Built from an old whaling ship in 1883, this waterfront sa…
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Talk Left

  • newSunday Open Thread
    Our last open thred (Friday) is all filled up. I'm off to a college graduation this morning (which unbelievably is going to last four hours until 1 pm, and then with lunch, till 3pm.) Then I get…
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  • Jacksonville's "I Spy" Program
    Jacksonville, Florida , and 11 other counties in northeast Florida are the latestto introduce a program encouraging people to report people they see engaging in behavior they deem suspicious and possi…
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  • Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Docket: Missing Entries
    Yesterday, the Judge in the Boston bombing case of defendant Dzokhar Tsarnaev issued an order denying a motion filed under seal in which the defense asked to take periodic photographs of Dzhokhar (Ja…
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  • Galanter Throws O.J. Simpson Under the Bus
    O.J. Simpson's former attorney, Yale Galanter, threw O.J. under the bus today, testifying O.J. told him he knew others were bringing guns to the hotel room where O.J. planned to retrieve his possessio…
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  • Uzbek Terror Suspect Pleads Not Guilty
    Fazliddin Kurbanov, a 30 year old Uzbek truck driver legally residing in the U.S. has pleaded not guilty to terror charges in Boise, Idaho. He's accused of providing material support to the Islamic Mo…
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  • Thursday Open Thread
    I'm offline today, here's an open thread, all topics welcome.[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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  • Why the U.S. Wanted to Investigate the AP Leak
    The media uproar over the subpoena of AP telephone records continues. The reason for seizing the records that is being put forth is that it was part of an investigation into intelligence leaks about…
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  • Federal Courts Seek Emergency Funding
    The federal courts are in a state of financial crisis due to sequester. Here is the letter the Federal Judicial Conference sent to the White House yesterday seeking emergency funding. "The judicia…
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  • American Idol Finale
    Despite it being a boring season, I thought Candace Glover knocked it out of the park tonight with "I (Who Have Nothing)." On a related note, Shakira and Usher are probably leaving the Voice. Chri…
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  • Acting IRS Director Steven Miller Resigns
    President Obama tonight announced that Acting IRS Director Steven Miller has resigned, at the request of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. A transcript of Obama's remarks at his press conference tonigh…
    - 4 days ago, 2013-05-15T21:20:16-05:00 -

The New Civil Rights Movement

Informed Consent

Nancy Pelosi

The Raw Story

AlterNet

Truthdig

  • newRise Up or Die
    We must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species. We have been stripped of the power to express dissent or effect change. Rebellion is the only way to remain fully human.
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  • newObama Unscathed by Scandals, Mayor Denies Smoking Crack, and More
    Holding Steady: Last week certainly wasn’t the best of Barack Obama’s presidency, but a new poll shows that the trio of political scandals that have rocked his administration haven’t negatively…
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  • newThe Lotto Symbolizes the False Promises of Barracuda Capitalism
    One of the social control mechanisms deployed in a plutocracy to keep people quiet while their pockets are being picked is the lottery. It is a scam.
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  • newWill Yahoo ‘Ruin’ Tumblr?
    The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Yahoo’s board has approved a deal to buy social media site Tumblr for a whopping $1.1 billion in cash. Tumblr boasted about 117 million unique users wo…
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  • new‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper
    In the season finale, “SNL” gave a fitting tribute to the character, as Stefon—played by outgoing cast member Bill Hader—gave us all one more “New York City’s hottest nightclub” to add t…
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  • newThe IRS and the Real Scandal
    The Internal Revenue Service has interpreted our tax laws to allow big corporations and wealthy individuals to make unlimited secret campaign donations through sham political fronts called “social w…
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  • Truthdigger of the Week: Sen. Angus King
    Sen. Angus King was the lone voice of sanity at a hearing where Pentagon officials said the war on terror could last up to 20 more years—or however long the president deems fit.
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  • Letter From Birmingham Jail
    May 19 marks the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Martin Luther King Jr.’s plea for white Americans to recognize the rights and humanity of their black fellow citizens. We reprint his le…
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  • Flaring Violence Kills 130 People in Iraq in Three Days
    Gunmen killed an anti-terrorism policeman and his family in Baghdad on Saturday; kidnappers abducted eight policemen on a highway to Jordan and Syria; and attackers shot dead a Sunni cleric in the cou…
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  • ‘Left, Right & Center’: The White House Scandal Trifecta
    Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists ask whether the Obama administration will be distracted and ineffective from here on out. The head of the IRS…
    - 2 days ago, 2013-05-18T17:14:14+00:00 -

DCCC 2012

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Pandagon

  • The great feminist revival
    “An anti-Page 3 campaign, SlutWalks and the relaunch of Spare Rib show that feminism is as vigorous – and necessary – as ever. Why did we ever doubt it?2 I’ve lost count of all the times I’v…
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  • Charlotte Raven: why feminism needs to get radical again
    When I go to speak to Charlotte Raven about her relaunch of feminist magazine Spare Rib – born 1972, died 1993 – I quickly realise she is talking about something much bigger. She is 43, and has b…
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  • Just do it: Sheryl Sandberg’s feminist manifesto at work
    Facebook boss Sheryl Sandberg – one of the world’s most powerful women – shares her secret of career success. Don’t hold back or sell yourself short, she says. Does her advice ring true? Shery…
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  • Are you too white, rich, able-bodied and straight to be a feminist?
    Illustration by Matt Kenyon This is a story about intersectionality. It’s going to displease a few people who don’t know what intersectionality is, annoy a few people who do, and enrage a load of…
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  • Are men more likely to tell lies for money?
    iStockphoto (MoneyWatch) Gender is always a hot topic in economics, and nowhere more so that in the work of behavioral economists who focus on what happens in the real world rather than in theory. Of…
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  • Gender gap in the ‘Women’s Olympics’
    USC (US) / U. TORONTO (CAN) — The 2012 Olympic Games in London was the first time all participating nations allowed women to compete, but there were still 1,233 more male athletes and 30 more medal…
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  • Sexism in Universities: Who’s To Blame?
    It’s a time of freedom, a time when people are away from home, often for the first time and understandably they tend to go a little wild. Freshers’ week is by now an infamous rite of passage, an a…
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  • Was Margaret Thatcher a Feminist?
    One woman’s success does not mean a step forward for women. Far from ‘smashing the glass ceiling’, Thatcher made it through and pulled the ladder up after her. She was, of course, the first and…
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  • Femen Stage Topless Protest Against Putin in Germany
    Femen, the Ukrainian feminist group, have staged another topless attack on Vladimir Putin, as he toured a factory in Hannover this morning. The Russian president was in the company of German chancello…
    - 40 days ago, Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:58:29 +0000 -

The Political Carnival

Balloon Juice

  • newMonday Morning Open Thread: Scandalmania Among the Professionally Manic
    (Jim Morin via GoComics.com) Spring may have come late to much of the country, but the summer Silly Season is starting early. Frank Rich, NYMag, May 15th: … Wasn’t the BP spill supposed to end the…
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  • newLater Night Open Thread: Good News for Democrats in 2016 – GOP Edition
    My current assumption about the 2016 GOP primary is that, barring an act of the Trickster God, its end stage will devolve into an epic battle between Rick Santorum and whichever schlub the “sane”…
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  • newLate Night Open Thread: Good News for Democrats, 2016
    The Washington Post, in its role as the industry paper of a company town where the product is national politics, takes five pages to highlight four people who swear they won’t be working for Hillary…
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  • newOpen Thread: Different Societies, Different Solutions
    As the great Richard Pryor once said, “People are people, all over the world… they fck with your luggage in Nairobi just like they fck with your luggage in Newark.” And every society has its own…
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  • newWhack a mole
    A convincing case can be made that Jonathan Karl is a GOP mole: Karl came to mainstream journalism via the Collegiate Network, an organization primarily devoted to promoting and supporting right-leani…
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  • newNHL, Game of Thrones, Mad Men Open Thread
    Let’s go Pens!
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  • newKitty 4:20
    After a long day of relaxing in the sun and cool grass, what’s better than a little after dinner catnip buzz: It’s good to be the king. I just love this cat. I hope I never ever have a skinny cat.…
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  • newSunday Evening Open Thread: “Do Not Waste A Minute Living Someone Else’s Dream”
    Many thanks to Paddy at Political Carnival for the video. This is truly an excellent commencement speech, and not just for the snippet everybody is quoting: “Failure is the key to success for so man…
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  • newAnd we don’t care
    As with LewisnkyGate and TravelGate and SoxGate and FastAndFuriousGate before it, the public doesn’t give a fuck about IRSGate and BenghaziGate and APGate: According to the survey, which was conduct…
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  • newKarl’s Folly
    Here’s the media matters rundown on how veteran journalists are reacting to Jonathan Karl’s exploits last week: The slippery language Karl and ABC News adopted in describing the emails has drawn f…
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DSCC

DNC

  • Obamacare matters for kids like Zoe
    What I care about is keeping my child healthy — and that's what Obamacare makes possible.My daughter Zoe was born with a congenital heart defect that required her to have multiple open heart su…
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  • WHY FAMILY REUNIFICATION IMMIGRATION IS SO IMPORTANT TO THE AAPI COMMUNITY
    As we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month, we celebrate our differences as much as the very rich history that binds us together.  The AAPI community has made enormous contri…
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  • My Mom and the American Dream
    Over 40 years ago, my mom decided to do what so many moms had done before her. She decided to leave her home country so that her children could have a better life with more opportunity, better educa…
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  • #ThankATeacher
    In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, we asked members of the DNC leadership team to share stories about their favorite teachers. Here's what a few of them had to say.Our Chair @dwstweets was…
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  • DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Statement on Groundbreaking Legislation to Make Voting Easier
    DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement on the Colorado elections bill, to be signed today by Governor John Hickenlooper, to make voting easier for Coloradans.“Th…
    - 10 days ago, 2013-05-10T19:00:03+00:00 -
  • Sign Michelle Obama’s Mother’s Day Card
    In honor of Mother's Day, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz sent the following email to supporters asking them to sign a special Mother's Day card for Michelle Obama.Friend --When I fir…
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  • Thanks, Ms. Botton
    It's Teacher Appreciation Week.As Democrats, we know that our most important investments are the ones we make in our kids. That's why, for years, we've been on the cutting edge of education refo…
    - 13 days ago, 2013-05-07T16:11:56+00:00 -
  • DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Statement in Honor of Cinco De Mayo
    DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement today in honor of Cinco de Mayo:“Cinco de Mayo is an important opportunity to honor a singular moment in Mexican history. On…
    - 15 days ago, 2013-05-05T17:34:08+00:00 -
  • DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Jewish American Heritage Month
    DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued the following statement on May 2013 being the eighth Jewish American Heritage Month:“This month, we are proud to recognize May as the annual Jewish Am…
    - 19 days ago, 2013-05-01T19:11:32+00:00 -
  • DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on AAPI Heritage Month
    In recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement:“Throughout the month of May, we celebrate and honor t…
    - 19 days ago, 2013-05-01T17:23:08+00:00 -

Human Rights Campaign

ACLU

  • New Push, at Home and Abroad, to Combat Modern-Day Slavery
    A White House task force set up to combat human trafficking held its annual meeting today, chaired by Secretary of State John Kerry. The cabinet-level group, called the President's Interagency Task Fo…
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  • Maryland Stands Up for Pregnant Workers
    Yesterday, Maryland's governor signed into law legislation protecting pregnant women from workplace discrimination. This should be a no-brainer.Picture this: you have a good job, you have medical ben…
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  • Experts Discuss Surveillance Society at Domestic Drones Hearing
    An important Congressional subcommittee held a hearing today on domestic drone use. Members and witnesses didn't just rehash familiar concerns; they dug deeper to explore how advanced surveillance tec…
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  • This Week in Civil Liberties (05/17/2013)
     In which state was a Heights High School senior class president suspended and banned from delivering his scheduled convocation speech because of a harmless tweet?Which political group was unfairly…
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  • Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights (05/17/2013)
    Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is the highest it's ever been in U.S. his…
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  • A Duty to Protect Lives
    This post was originally featured on philly.com.In 1929, Clara Bell Duvall died in Pittsburgh from complications of an illegal abortion. She left behind a grieving household - five young children, an…
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  • What the Government Says When It Says Nothing
    On May 8, the ACLU released a slew of government documents obtained from the FBI, U.S. Attorneys' offices around the country, and the Justice Department's Criminal Division concerning the government's…
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  • It Is Time to Modernize Discriminatory HIV/AIDS Laws
    While science has vastly advanced since the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic more than 30 years ago, the ways in which many criminal laws treat people living with HIV look like throwbacks to the da…
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  • Scholars to Senate: Prolonged and Indefinite Immigration Detention is Unconstitutional and un-American
    While most countries accept the return of their citizens if the United States orders them deported, several refuse to take back them back, either because of a lack of formal relations with the U.S. (C…
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  • Open Letter to the Corrections Corporation of America after 30 Years of Locking People Up for Profit
    What do I have to say to the Corrections Corporation of America?After 30 years, CCA should be ashamed.For thirty years, CCA's profits have grown because more people are behind bars. For CCA, the fac…
    - 4 days ago, Thu, 16 May 2013 12:41:00 -0400 -

White House

The Progressive

The Nation

  • I Knew J. Billington Bulworth and You, Mr. President, Are No Bulworth
    Jeremy PikserObama knows his job much too well to say it out loud, like Warren Beatty’s character did.
    - 3 days ago, Fri, 17 May 2013 19:50:19 +0000 -
  • Why Christians Like Me Should Listen to Critiques of Evangelical Adoption
    Melanie Springer MockI’d like to believe my sons’ best life is in my home, and not with their first families. But Christians committed to justice need to remember we are not entitled to other peop…
    - 3 days ago, Fri, 17 May 2013 14:14:30 +0000 -
  • Cashing In On Breast Cancer Awareness
    Rose-Ellen LessyIn the wake of Angelina Jolie’s well-intentioned exhortation for “every woman” to explore their risk of breast cancer, one company stands to make a staggering profit.
    - 4 days ago, Thu, 16 May 2013 19:57:49 +0000 -
  • The New Pay-As-You-Go Landscape of American 'Democracy'
    Andy KrollIn this banana republic, billionaires don't need to go to the Cayman Islands to park their savings.
    - 4 days ago, Thu, 16 May 2013 17:11:39 +0000 -
  • Fight Clubs: On Napoleon Chagnon
    Peter C. BakerOne anthropologist’s place in his field’s ongoing battle over questions of power, means and ends.
    - 5 days ago, Wed, 15 May 2013 20:21:15 +0000 -
  • Adler's Way
    Alexandra SchwartzThe slowly panic-making power of Renata Adler’s novels Speedboat and Pitch Dark.
    - 5 days ago, Wed, 15 May 2013 20:17:03 +0000 -
  • At Brú na Bóinne
    Elizabeth Arnold
    - 5 days ago, Wed, 15 May 2013 20:08:43 +0000 -
  • Empire States: On Pankaj Mishra
    Thomas MeaneyWhy a passionate history of global alternatives to liberal capitalism becomes an exercise in nostalgia.
    - 5 days ago, Wed, 15 May 2013 20:04:28 +0000 -
  • Ways of Rebelling
    Nathalie Handal
    - 5 days ago, Wed, 15 May 2013 20:00:21 +0000 -
  • Rome's Cassandra: On George Weigel
    Paul BaumannThe neoconservative leading the fight over the legacy of Vatican II in the American Church.
    - 5 days ago, Wed, 15 May 2013 19:57:36 +0000 -

The New Republic

  • newThe Hillary Clinton Movie: The Winners and Losers
    Hillary Rodham Clinton may or may not be starring in presidential election season TV ads come 2016. But there’s also a good chance that Clinton—or at least a celluloid depiction of her back when s…
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  • newHow Michelle Rhee Misled Education Reform
    The other day I picked up a copy of The Adventures of Augie March. I hadn’t remembered that Saul
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  • newLittle Debbie Gets a (Very Minor) Fashion Update
    Last week we looked at Cracker Jack, which is engaged in a transparently desperate brand overhaul that seems predestined for failure. This time around, let's look at another snack brand that's undergo…
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  • newGay Marriage Hasn't Won Yet
    It’s a free country.We say that a lot in America, sometimes with a shrug of acquiescence when someone says something we think wacky, and sometimes with an edge of defiance when we claim our right to…
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  • newWhat Hard News Misses
    Lamentations of the purported downfall of international news coverage have been plentiful in recent years, as American newspapers have slashed budgets and scaled back their global presence. The New Yo…
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  • He Square Roots, He Scores
    The Memphis Grizzlies entered this NBA season as a good basketball team living in the worst of all possible worlds. Coming off two consecutive playoff runs, they were bound to compile a record suffici…
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  • Even Before the Crack-Smoking Videotape, Rob Ford was the Most American Politician in Canada
    Few Americans had probably heard of Rob Ford before yesterday evening, when a bizarre story about the mayor of Toronto allegedly smoking crack cocaine appeared first on Gawker and then the
    - 3 days ago, Fri, 17 May 2013 22:13:41 +0000 -
  • The Origins of Paul Scott's Vast Masterpiece
    I first met Paul Scott at Firpo’s bar on Chowringhee in Calcutta in 1944. I was an NCO in what was euphemistically described as “Special Duties,” that is, intelligence, but more often meant taki…
    - 3 days ago, Fri, 17 May 2013 21:45:34 +0000 -
  • The Latest Exercise in "Blue Texas" Wishful Thinking

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  • The IRS Scandal Has Nothing to Do With Obamacare
    The debate over the IRS scandal officially became ludicrous on Thursday, when Republicans decided to use it as a cudgel for bashing Obamacare.The day started with Republican lawmakers warning darkly …
    - 3 days ago, Fri, 17 May 2013 15:12:03 +0000 -