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We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
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The Rise of Trump Shows the Danger and Sham of Compelled Journalistic “Neutrality”
Imagine calling yourself a journalist, and then — as you watch an authoritarian politician get closer to power by threatening violence and stoking the ugliest impulses — denouncing not that politician, but the journalists who warn of those dangers.
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Progressive Lawyer Tim Canova Could Beat Unpopular DNC Chair In Florida Primary
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the living, breathing embodiment of everything rotted and corrupt about the Democratic Party – whereas Tim Canova has a history of activism with the Occupy movement and is a steadfast opponent of the Patriot Act.
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The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson
America now has a domestic police force that looks, thinks and acts more like an invading and occupying military than a community-based force to protect the public.
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How Covert Agents use the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
Western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.
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Snowden: U.K. Government Is Now Leaking Documents About Itself
Edward Snowden said he is not the source of an Independent article about Britain's secret Internet-monitoring station.
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NSA Exposed: XKeyscore Program Collects "Nearly Everything A User Does On the Internet"
The top secret NSA tool allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals.
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Facing Charges of Espionage, Edward Snowden Seeks Asylum in Ecuador
Who is actually bringing injury to America" those who are secretly building a massive surveillance system or those who inform citizens that it's being done?
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NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily
A top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data demonstrates the scale of domestic surveillance under Obama.
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Former FBI Agent: "No Digital Communication is Secure"
Mass surveillance is the hallmark of a tyrannical political culture. And the recent admission by a former FBI agent on CNN gives a very good sense of just how limitless these activities are.
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"The Untouchables": How Obama Let the Bankers Get Away Free
A new PBS Frontline program, "The Untouchables," centers on the Obama justice department's failure to make a single arrest or prosecution of senior-level Wall Street bankers whose crimes and fraud took down the economy.
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The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.
Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.
Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
If the Democrats’ theme of 2017 was Resistance, the theme for Democrats in 2025 needs to instead be Opposition — and these two GOP senators may be the models to emulate.
This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
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If the Democrats’ theme of 2017 was Resistance, the theme for Democrats in 2025 needs to instead be Opposition — and these two GOP senators may be the models to emulate.
Posted 1 month 2 weeks ago
Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
