The Label is a Distraction
It's a standard Republican ploy:When the reality on the ground would paint them in a bad light (aka, when the situation is a plus for the Democrats), the Republicans will find a means of turning it...
View ArticleBuilding at 8th ave & 14th St in Manhattan collapsed
Update: Looks like just the facade has collapsed: http://static1.businessinsider.com/...---------- There's little info, yet. It has been reported that a multi-residential building at 92 8th Ave (near...
View ArticleReport Incidents at Polls
If you see: Voter harassment, Long lines (more than 45 min to an hour wait), Someone blocking large numbers of parking spaces, Someone trying to enforce ID "requirements" that don't exist, Someone...
View Article#WalmartElves having a bad day
Walmart thought they'd use social media to "help" people plan for the sales on Friday, so they created a new hash tag: #WalmartElves, and launched the campaign with the following tweet:Do you need a...
View ArticleHigh Stakes Testing Fails Our Kids
This began as a comment in the diary Teacher Ken posted re: a number of well-regarded educators coming to the support of teachers in WA state who are boycotting their district's mandatory standardized...
View ArticleLiveblog from Bernie Sanders and Bill McKibben Climate Conference in...
Cross Posted from GreenEnergyTimes.org NOTE: All is paraphrased. I can type quickly, but not as fast as people talk, especially Bernie!Intro: Phil Fiermonte, Sanders outreach coordinator Over 100 high...
View ArticleVideo of Bernie Sanders Climate Change Conference in Montpelier
Super short diary - Last weekend, Bernie Sanders and several VT environmental organizations hosted a conference on climate change in Montpelier, VT. Â The featured speaker was Bill McKibben.I...
View ArticleOkiciyap Quilt Guild Auction. We Help. That's What It's All About.
Okicyap. The word means "We Help."Today is the day bidding starts for Okiciyap Quilt Auction; proceeds will benefit the Okiciyap Food Pantry on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation.Bidding started in...
View ArticleTo Pipeline or not to Pipeline
[Cross posted from Green Mountain Daily]:: Previously ::A few years ago, while the press was providing non-stop coverage of the devastating explosion of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of...
View ArticleHell No! Hunger and Chained CPI
Here's how the word "hunger" is defined for policy purposes in the US: "an inadequate amount of food intake due to lack of money or resources" or "the mental or physical condition that comes from not...
View ArticleBreaking: Explosions at Boston Marathon Finish Line
No real info yet. Two explosions have been reported, dozens injuredUPDATE: Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/...Photos here: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/...
View ArticleFundie President of Eden Foods Responds
Organic food purveyor Eden Foods is suing the department of Health and Human Services because they don't want their insurance to cover birth control and other women's health care, as required by the...
View ArticleBreaking: Hand grenades and atomatic weapons fire in Watertown, MA
Police Scanner: http://www.broadcastify.com/...Officers now being ordered to retreat due to explosive devices on scene.
View ArticleDkos Script-a-palooza is Painful
Just a random rant after another interminable delay.I just loaded the home page of Daily Kos. According to a browser extension I've installed, 618 scripts loaded to display the page.The site has been...
View ArticleI Am Disgusted Beyond Words
In regional news, a young, kind, conscientious high school teacher was murdered by one of her students last week. It's big news for the suburban area in which she lived, and a terrible tragedy. Alas,...
View ArticleList o' NRCC's Fraudulent Web Sites
"Standalone" Sites These sites are standalone domain names whose content is loaded into a frame, from the NRCC servers. So the sites LOOK like they're standalone, but they're really NRCC pages,...
View ArticleKissing the future goodbye
On Monday, our son took a placement exam to get into college a year early. He's a bright kid, and is highly motivated to become a robotics engineer. He has worked so hard for this! He did well on the...
View ArticleVT's Constitutional Convention Vote: Lessig's Testimony
There's a rec list diary about the VT Senate's vote to call for a Constitutional Convention to propose an amendment to end the specious claim that money is speech.What is Vermont thinking? Do they know...
View ArticleYou Need to Comment on FCC's Proposed Destruction of Net Neutrality
Senator Bernie Sanders has set up a page to make it easy to submit a comment to the FCC regarding their proposed "hand the internet to the wealthy" rule.Click the link, and go comment!If you need some...
View ArticleHistory of CO2 in One Video
This video makes the change in CO2 clear in a way I haven't seen before. It certainly puts to rest any of the denialists' implications that "natural cycles" could be causing the current warming.It's...
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