Hillary News & Views 11.13: Saving Coal Country, and 4 New Supreme Court...
Today's Hillary News & Views begins with coverage of Clinton's ambitious plan to transition coal-dependent local economies as we become a nation powered by clean energy.The Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleRepublican party eviscerated in one quote
Link to Yahoo Article:news.yahoo.com/…"I was raised a Republican, but I just can't imagine supporting a party that doesn't support women's basic rights," Lawrence told Vogue. Link to Vogue Article:...
View Article"The Video That Might Rip Chicago Apart - And Why You Need To See It."
Back in October of 2014, Laquon McDonald was shot 16 times by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. There was a fairly hasty $5 million settlement, approved by the city council even before the family...
View ArticleFor White America, Black Protesters Never Do it Right
In the wake of protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, the prevailing refrain from White America was consistent. While especially contemptible cretins described protesters as animals and used...
View ArticleNina Turner, former Clinton supporter, endorses Sanders!
Some good news for the Bernie Sanders campaign. Nina Turner, the former state senator from Cleveland and a top Ohio Democratic Party official, is ditching Hillary Clinton in favor of Bernie...
View ArticleBNR - 'Postal Workers Deliver Bernie A Big Endorsement' & 'Sanders Inspires...
Postal Workers Deliver A Big EndorsementThe union representing postal workers is announcing its endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders for president on Thursday, giving the underdog candidate a much-needed...
View ArticleISIS/Daesh is Salafi Islam, and Salafism is Saudi Arabia. Aux idées, citoyens!
ISIS/Daesh is Salafi Islam, played out to its logical extreme and with vastly greater support throughout broad swaths of the Sunni world (98.5% of whom live outside the West) — in varying degrees —...
View ArticleMFWOT Daily Update Thread - Saturday November 14, 2015
This is a diary for those who continue to participate in the Mojo Friday diary throughout the week.You are welcome to join us.iPhone flashback picture, Netroots Nation 2012:
View ArticleDK5 Update, Day 6: Early metrics and the short-term to-do list
There is always a dip in participation when changing over to a new system, the question always is—how deep, and how lasting? For the DK4 transition, it was very shallow if anything, and certainly...
View ArticlePanic in Paris after multiple explosions and gunmen reported in the French...
Information is still coming in, but explosions and gunmen have been reported in Paris: x BREAKING: witnesses describe panic in central #paris as it appears gunmen are on a shooting spree in various...
View ArticleWhy regulations increase when you privatize government
Every now and then some politician pulls a stunt where they print out a list of regulations from some agency or other to try to make the point about the “burden” of regulation.What they don’t talk...
View ArticleAlabama "Jim Crow conservatives" retreat, again, under DOJ scrutiny for...
Last month Alabama “conservatives” were forced to retreat on their Jim Crow plans to close down DMV offices in every single county in which AAs made up 75 percent of registered voters. Every one....
View ArticleThe thing speaks for itself, more killer cops exposed after hiding 2 years....
Res ipsa loquitur: The thing speaks for itself. Namely, the police do violence because it seems that’s all they know. This unfortunate state-sponsored killing by police occurred 2 years ago in South...
View ArticleBill Maher has an important message for White people
This is an extremely funny piece. More importantly it has some concepts buried that one should know."Someone must remind white Americans that even though other people are winning small victories and...
View ArticleWhy is Marco Rubio so incredibly poor?
We’ve heard a lot about Marco Rubio’s credit card problems, but as I was researching that interesting subject, I came upon this nugget at OpenSecrets.org:Marco Rubio (R-Fla) ranks 98th in the Senate...
View ArticleThe latest news from Paris
As the previous Blog was getting very longFrom The Guardian. What we know so far Claire Phipps At least 120 people are feared to have been killed in a series of devastating attacks across Paris....
View Article25 of America's worst charities—plus tips on how to avoid getting scammed
In 2014, Americans donated an estimated $350 billion to charities. A generous country we are, but how much of those funds actually went to the advertised causes? You might not want to know. There are...
View ArticleThe Right Wing Loses Its Collective Mind on Twitter
The attack in Paris has caused a tsunami of stupid among conservatives on Twitter. Without further ado:Judith Miller: x Now maybe the whining adolescents at our universities can concentrate on...
View ArticleBernie is for real
It's time to break out of the straight jacket of incremental progress or none at all. We are told that we must support the establishment democrat or get stuck with a crazy republican. Either way, the...
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