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Thursday January 26, 2017 · 9:48 AM PST

2017/01/26 · 09:48

Noble Fur taking a break from driving. — Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur...

Paging James Comey. I have no words.

Are you actually fucking kidding me

(and yes this is real, @POTUS is tied to a Gmail account) pic.twitter.com/LUdeNkEF1O
— Alex Zalben (@azalben) January 26, 2017

Not only is the @PressSec tweeting passwords, he also tied the Press Secretary Twitter to a gmail account. pic.twitter.com/MoqErnojbq
— Nash (@Nash076) January 26, 2017

This needs to change

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Thursday January 12, 2017 · 7:20 AM PST

2017/01/12 · 07:20

While we prepare for Twitler and his minions, it’s time to address what Dems need to take back to win elections before this becomes our future.

I can relate to this article on Obama’s financial policies and their legacy. While I will miss this man in the White House dearly, it is hard to express my level of frustration with him and Democratic leaders in general on financial policies that excuse the behavior of the powerful at the expense of the average American. He had several opportunities during his Presidency to help the working class and passed them up just as often as President Clinton did and with even more effect because we didn’t have the tech bubble.

But Obama can’t place the blame for Clinton’s poor performance purely on her campaign. On the contrary, the past eight years of policymaking have damaged Democrats at all levels. Recovering Democratic strength will require the party’s leaders to come to terms with what it has become — and the role Obama played in bringing it to this point.

Two key elements characterized the kind of domestic political economy the administration pursued: The first was the foreclosure crisis and the subsequent bank bailouts. The resulting policy framework of Tim Geithner’s Treasury Department was, in effect, a wholesale attack on the American home (the main store of middle-class wealth) in favor of concentrated financial power. The second was the administration’s pro-monopoly policies, which crushed the rural areas that in 2016 lost voter turnout and swung to Donald Trump.

Obama didn’t cause the financial panic, and he is only partially responsible for the bailouts, as most of them were passed before he was elected. But financial collapses, while bad for the country, are opportunities for elected leaders to reorganize our culture. Franklin Roosevelt took a frozen banking system and created the New Deal. Ronald Reagan used the sharp recession of the early 1980s to seriously damage unions. In January 2009, Obama had overwhelming Democratic majorities in Congress, $350 billion of no-strings-attached bailout money and enormous legal latitude. What did he do to reshape a country on its back?

I won’t quote more, but please read it. It’s time for Democrats to get serious about supporting the middle class and not govern by protecting multinational corporations from their own screw ups at the expense of the people that end up paying the price. When people lose their jobs and their homes it doesn’t help to say how much better Dems are because they are the only ones who hand out rebates and food stamps.

On a related note:

Hey @CoryBooker. Testifying against Sessions was cool.

Taking $267k from Big Pharma, then voting against lowering drug prices? Not cool. pic.twitter.com/dfsO9sPOp9
— (((JonathanÃ°ÂÂÂ¹Mann))) (@songadaymann) January 12, 2017

Donate to Planned Parenthood in Honor of Mike Pence

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Friday November 11, 2016 · 3:43 PM PST

2016/11/11 · 15:43

TAMPA, FL - AUGUST 29: Protesters stand together during a Planned Parenthood rally as the Republican National Convention continues on August 29, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. The Republican party delegates affirmed Mitt Romney as the party's nominee for president August 28. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) — Spread the Love

Saw this and thought it should get more eyeballs:

Just made a donation to Planned Parenthood in honor of Mike Pence. The especially nice part is that the certificate of honor will be mailed to his office in Indiana. Just in case you're wondering....his address is:

Office of the Governor 200 W. Washington St., Rm. 206 Indianapolis, IN 46204

Maybe we can make this a thing?

Michelle Alexander interview with Chris Hayes

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Saturday April 02, 2016 · 10:41 AM PDT

2016/04/02 · 10:41

I didn’t see this shared on Daily Kos yet, so my apologies if I missed it. This interview is too important to be missed IMHO. It’s about 15 minutes long and is about so much more than the horse race. In case you are not familiar with Michelle Alexander, she wrote The New Jim Cro w: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

The full interview is here (warning MSNBC link): www.msnbc.com/...

Now Updated with a YouTube link (thanks igualdad):

YouTube Video

I would like anyone to explain who votes for Donald Trump!

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Sunday February 28, 2016 · 7:15 PM PST

2016/02/28 · 19:15

Do we need a demographic breakdown? How about we ask the media to talk about what policies he stands for and who thinks its will get 60 votes in the Senate. Ask for specifics, please. Who did they vote for 4 years ago? 8 years ago? Will it happen here? Hitler-lovers or Stalin-lovers? The floor is open.

March for Bernie in Pittsburgh Happening Now

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Saturday February 27, 2016 · 9:37 AM PST

2016/02/27 · 09:37

It has started and will go until 5pm. Read more about it here: marchforbernie.com/…

Facebook event page here: www.facebook.com/…

The march times HAVE CHANGED. To accommodate the Pen's games, the march began at 11:00 A.M. and NOT 1:00 P.M. Voter registration took place at Pitt Campus, from 9:30-11:00, and the rally at Market Square from 1:00-3:00 P.M. The march is from 11:00-1:00 P.M.

Bernie Sanders march happening right now in Pittsburgh. Enormous crowd w/ police escort. pic.twitter.com/ifB4wu8sQK
— Ryan Dittrick (@ryandittrick) February 27, 2016

Enormous parade of Bernie Sanders supporters marched w police escort in Pittsburgh PA pic.twitter.com/ee2WYqXprM
— ANNE (@indigoats) February 27, 2016

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Thursday February 18, 2016 · 8:04 AM PST

2016/02/18 · 08:04

I remember 2008, do you? John Edwards was the progressive darling around these parts for a while. (yikes) Then my Obama peanut butter was in your Hillary chocolate. Finally, we had a road-tested nominee who won big. Twice. The media was talking about democrats and democratic issues all summer long in 2008. Turnout was great!

It’s ugly, but I really don’t want this wrapped up by March. Or April. Or May. I want some skin in this game and have the media fall all over itself interviewing democrats, and socialists, and women and workers. Is big money corrupting our politics? Can we afford free tuition? This is a big deal! Keep talking. Argue. Raise a bloody riot. GOTV

Donald who?

outing myself as a serial baby killer

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Friday July 04, 2014 · 5:42 PM PDT

2014/07/04 · 17:42

So many questions pop into my mind as a result of the Hobby Lobby decision. You see, my husband and I tried to get pregnant for 8 years before finally becoming successful and having a healthy baby son (who is now a tween).

We tried having babies the old-fashioned way and after several years without success, turned to fertility doctors to find out why. After several tests and months of increasingly invasive procedures, our doctor decided to try something before we started IVF. She noticed a small polyp in my uterus, and while she assured me that it was too small to prevent implantation, they would remove it before starting IVF just in case. We were also told to not have unprotected sex for 2 months after that while the site healed.

I got pregnant at month 3.

In the medical and scientific community, they would say we tried for 8 years to get pregnant and were finally successful. The SCrOTUS 5 & Mr/Mrs Hobby Lobby [what gender should I use for a corporation anyway?] would probably say (and I paraphrase) SHE ABORTED 96 BABIES OMG!!!

I took several pregnancy tests during those 8 years -- all negative (the scientific & medical communities would have me believe that I was, in fact, NOT pregnant...). But now that the Supreme Court in all it's wisdom decided that bosses can legally act on their beliefs about contraception rather than accepted medical science, can they fire me and arrest me for murder if they find out? (I'm so confused!) So, how do you protect yourself from this sort of thing if any embryo that isn't implanted is still a baby? I hate to think that I'm a murderer! Does that mean my husband is an accomplice?

We need a Democratic response

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Monday November 12, 2012 · 7:17 AM PST

2012/11/12 · 07:17

I'm watching reactions to the upcoming 'fiscal cliff' and it strikes me that universally the news will get a Republican response and then talk about how the President will respond. The President. Not the Democratic position and how the President will negotiate between the two sides. I believe this always puts a progressive response at a disadvantage and we didn't vote for that.

Where is the Democratic response? Where are our leaders in Congress? Can we finally acknowledge that a majority of Americans doesn't want our FICA contributions robbed to pay for a tax cut or the Defense budget? That we didn't vote to force rape victims to have babies by government decree? Would it be that hard to have a Democratic response to these talks at the same time we hear he Republican one?

It's not that the President doesn't want a lot of the same things, but Democrats are not Republicans and do not work from the same play book from the top down. Why not let the President be the 'compromiser-in-chief' if the compromise is between actual progressive policies and the right-wing/corporate group think? Push him left!

Better ad for Larry Maggi - PA-18

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Monday October 01, 2012 · 8:37 AM PDT

2012/10/01 · 08:37

This is the kind of message that needs to be shown in my home district (PA-18). His first ad was too blue-doggish for me, but please talk more about Social Security and where the money goes after you take it away from the current recipients...

I have my issues with a democratic 'pro-life' candidate that runs against Obama -- even when he's running against a 'pro-life' Republican that runs against Obama... but ads like this remind me that there is still a difference, and..... SPEAKER PELOSI!!!!

OK, now I'm getting cranky - subscription upgrades

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Monday December 12, 2011 · 10:06 AM PST

2011/12/12 · 10:06

I have been an annual subscriber to this site for 3 years. I'm glad to support the site in this way and have enjoyed having an ad-free experience.

Here's my problem. I would like to give myself the gift of a lifetime subscription before I pay it forward, but I can't! Since my subscription is current, I can't switch. By the time it is up for renewal the opportunity will be gone.

So far, I've had no response from the help desk. Hopefully they are working on a fix, but I haven't heard anything about it yet -- so here's a diary.

Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? I get cranky every time I see a diary about gift subscriptions because I've already spent more than the lifetime amount and I'm not too excited about giving other users more privileges than I can give myself. I'm fine with kicking in another $100 to make that happen, but so far no luck...

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Action: Potential closing of the USDA-ARS Pasture Lab

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Wednesday February 27, 2008 · 8:37 AM PST

2008/02/27 · 08:37

This came across my email from the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA). If you are interested in publicly-funded research in sustainable agriculture, you'll be interested to know there is a petition to keep Penn State's Pasture Lab operational (Bush wants to zero out the funding). If you are from out-of-state and are concerned about this, please consider copying Casey and Specter on letters to your own congress critters as well. I am copying the relevant part of their email wholesale and would gladly link to it if it were available on the web. So far I can't find it.

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