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Guest: Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel Also: VA's far-right Rep. Good vows to block certification of apparent narrow primary loss... Quite literally, as I signed off at the end of yesterday's show, a ton of alerts popped up on my iPhone with some pretty...
by TheBradBlog
on Tue Jun 25, 2024 at 06:58 PM PDT
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Last Saturday, instead of canvassing with Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers in a Swing State, i attended the Virginia Democratic Convention in Richmond. My wife and i volunteer with our local (Arlington Dems) party org as we can and had...
by snowbored
on Mon Jun 24, 2024 at 10:32 AM PDT
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A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Here are 9 outrageous facts about Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law Wait until you get a look at this hodgepodge of religious thirst traps....
by Daily Kos Staff
on Fri Jun 21, 2024 at 12:13 PM PDT
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Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor on Wednesday became the first major candidate from either party to announce a 2025 bid for attorney general of Virginia, a post that Republican Jason Miyares flipped three years ago. Taylor, though,...
by Jeff Singer
on Thu Jun 20, 2024 at 12:40 PM PDT
with 94 Recommends
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Guest: Pulitzer Prize biz reporter, Michael Hiltzik Also: NM fires 'Alberto' in the Gulf; Surprise VA results LA mandates Ten Commandments in schools... Today on The BradCast we try and nip another completely false, outrageous rightwing Zombie Lie in...
by TheBradBlog
on Wed Jun 19, 2024 at 07:20 PM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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Downballot primaries continue tonight with races in three states, with the first polls closing at 7 PM ET in Georgia and Virginia. We'll be liveblogging the results here and also covering the ...
by Daily Kos Elections
on Tue Jun 18, 2024 at 09:33 PM PDT
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Hey folks, It’s going to be a slow week for cartoons (at least from me). I’m having some health issues that are slowing me down. I was going to be working my local polls, but had to call out ...
by PrivateIce
on Tue Jun 18, 2024 at 05:55 AM PDT
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Three states are holding major primaries on Tuesday, headlined by Virginia, where Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy are both working to punish the chair of the Freedom Caucus for his disloyalty. ...
by Jeff Singer
on Mon Jun 17, 2024 at 01:43 PM PDT
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The man just can’t stop. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is an Energizer Bunny powered by fossil fuels (or at least by their fatcat donors), on an endless quest to halt clean energy progress like some sort of Exxon-sponsored Terminator. Every program,...
by kindler
on Thu Jun 13, 2024 at 05:15 AM PDT
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My district used to be represented by a Democrat, and then it was jerrymandered to throw the Dem out and elect the ever so useless (dis)Hon. Rob Wittman. I’m supporting Leslie Mehta in the primary.
by PrivateIce
on Sat Jun 08, 2024 at 05:55 AM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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With Republicans’ strict abortion bans blanketing nearly the entire Southeast, Virginia has become the last Southern state where pregnant people can access abortion care through fetal viability or to protect their health. Just north of its border with...
by Kerry Eleveld
on Thu Jun 06, 2024 at 02:00 PM PDT
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It should be awfully clear by now whom Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin represents – not the people of the Commonwealth, but the special interests that control the Republican party, chief among them the Big Oil, Gas and Coal fatcats who funnel millions...
by kindler
on Thu Jun 06, 2024 at 05:40 AM PDT
with 22 Recommends
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Donald Trump officially endorsed Rep. Bob Good’s primary challenger on Tuesday, despite the fact that Good joined the parade of GOP Congress members who traveled to Trump’s New York trial ...
by Walter Einenkel
on Tue May 28, 2024 at 12:30 PM PDT
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In Texas, 20 women who’d had dangerous pregnancies (plus two doctors) sued the state of Texas over its draconian anti-abortion law. The details of what they endured are horrifying: �One plaintiff,
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
on Sat Jun 01, 2024 at 05:00 PM PDT
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The New York Times is reporting that in the summer of 2023, another provocative flag was flown outside a home belonging to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. The revelation came after an earlier report by the newspaper that an an upside-down American...
by Charles Jay
on Wed May 22, 2024 at 03:30 PM PDT
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With fewer patients, clinics have to scale back, pivot or close. Ballot measures this November could restore abortion access — but may come too late.
By Shefali Luthra and Chabeli Carrazana, ...
by The19th
on Sat May 25, 2024 at 10:00 AM PDT
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I was preparing for an interview this afternoon: it was a job that I’d recently applied for (unrelated to the subject of this diary) and I was Zoom-Interview ready. While I was waiting, at the suggestion of one of my friends, I asked a local mayoral...
by shespeakspolitics
on Mon May 20, 2024 at 02:42 PM PDT
with 32 Recommends
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In 2020, just before the COVID pandemic hit and the week prior to Virginia closing all its schools, I received some of the worst news of my life. The principal of my then seven-year-old daughter's school called me. "Hello, Mrs. Miller, this is Dr....
by shespeakspolitics
on Wed May 15, 2024 at 11:47 AM PDT
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If there's one region in the Commonwealth of Virginia that epitomizes the climate crisis, it's Hampton Roads. You can practically watch the effects of sea level rise unfold with each hard rain – suddenly, major thoroughfares morph into vehicular...
by shespeakspolitics
on Tue May 14, 2024 at 11:40 AM PDT
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One intriguing occurrence across the Commonwealth has been Aaron Rouse's Lieutenant Governor candidacy. When I saw the headline on my phone, I blurted out, “Aren’t these dudes friends?” Instantly, frustration welled up. Why focus on the LG race NOW...
by shespeakspolitics
on Mon May 13, 2024 at 09:32 AM PDT
with 2 Recommends
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