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• 5 DailyKos Headlines
• Jan 25, 2020 Voting Rights Roundup: Proposed Ohio ballot measure would enact sweeping expansion of voting rights Leading Off ● Ohio: Voting rights advocates in Ohio have filed a proposed ballot initiative that would amend Ohio's constitution to implement a massive expansion of voting accessibility if it qualifies for the ballot and passes. The initiative would enact same-day voter registration;...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jan 25, 2020 Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Feigned Senatorial outrage, real House moral courage So the Democrats have rested their case, and it was a powerful comprehensive one. Of course, they had facts, logic, and presidential guilt on their side, making this an unfair fight. Later today, we have the nonsense defense to look forward to. But remember, Senators are a prickly lot who...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jan 25, 2020 Friday night owls: SF DA Chesa Boudin eliminates cash bail, proving elections have consequences John Nichols at The Nation writes—How Much Did Chesa Boudin’s Election Matter? He Just Eliminated Cash Bail: The simple fact that Chesa Boudin got elected San Francisco’s district attorney last November confirmed that political revolutions are possible. A political outsider preaching...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jan 25, 2020 Trump's 'best people' in HHS forgot to renew public health emergency declaration on opioids For the past two years, the nation's opioid crisis has been deemed a national public health emergency. That ended last week, temporarily, because no one in Health and Human Services bothered to renew it when it lapsed. They're calling it a "clerical error." It is not merely a clerical error. It...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jan 25, 2020 Trump administration takes aim at California abortion-coverage requirement Pandering to anti-abortion zealots with a side of California bashing? For Donald Trump and his lackeys, the answer is an eager “Yes, please!” Trump’s Health and Human Services Department is planning to go after California’s requirement for health insurers to cover abortion The Wall...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Daily Beast
• Jan 25, 2020 Netflix’s ‘Cheer’ Is the Best and Worst of Reality TV Courtesy of NetflixThis is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here.This week: My heart has still not recovered from binge-watching...     Daily Beast        more   
• Jan 25, 2020 27 People Died in a Nightclub Fire. Did Their Government Help Kill 37 More? Courtesy of Sundance InstituteOn Oct. 30, 2015, a deadly fire at the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest, Romania, killed 27 people and injured as many as 180. The tragedy made international news, especially when video of the incident began circulating. First, the lead singer of the metalcore band...     Daily Beast        more   
• Jan 25, 2020 The GOP’s Terminal Infection of Advanced Trumpism Has No Known Cure Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA dangerous virus is rapidly spreading that threatens grave danger to those afflicted. I’m talking, of course, about Trumpism. Even moderate exposure renders Republicans unable to discern lies from truth, often causing them to mistake scandalous...     Daily Beast        more   
• Jan 25, 2020 Colin Kaepernick, Blackballed by the NFL, Is Why League Will Air a Police Shooting PSA During the Super Bowl Reuters/Andrew KellyIt takes real effort to stand on amid cynical, profit-driven social justice campaigns that wrap flip flops, french fry boxes and vodka bottles in pride flags, sodas that unite protesters and police, and beers that bond bigots and the people they loathe. But even in this...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mother Jones Politics
• Jan 25, 2020 Meet the Millennial Farmers We’ll Be Counting on to Endure Climate Change Nearly four years ago, Maddie Oatman, Kiera Butler, and I launched Bite, Mother Jones’ food podcast. Looking back over Bite’s first 99 episodes, I’m proud of the way we’ve stuck to our original vision: to explore “how your food intersects with other important topics...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Jan 24, 2020 Trump Is Coming After California’s Abortion Protections While Trump addressed crowds of people on the National Mall at the annual anti-abortion March for Life Rally on Friday—a major symbolic gesture—his administration announced a far more tangible attack on abortion rights in America. The Department of Health and Human Services announced that...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Jan 24, 2020 Blocks From His Impeachment Trial, Trump Tells Extreme Abortion Foes He Has Their Back While Democrats made their case to the Senate that President Donald Trump had betrayed the Constitution and national security in the interest of his own political gain, Trump was a few blocks away, declaring his undying loyalty to a fringe group critical to his reelection. “The unborn have...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Jan 24, 2020 The Main Trump Super-PAC Is Covering Up Its Own Role in the Impeachment Scandal The number-one super-PAC for Donald Trump, which is expected to raise tens of millions of dollars to help re-elect him this year, has come up with a nifty fundraising gimmick: the “Witch Hunt Timeline”. This interactive chronology supposedly details “the road to a sham...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Plunderbund
• Jan 23, 2020 Republicans – Whatever Happened to the Term Public Servant? Radical unelected bureaucrats. Deep state. Socialism. Loser teachers. But that’s only the short list of epithets. Nattering nabobs of negativism. Remember that one? More on that later. When it comes to hurling slime, Republicans are masters of the art of dousing people with rhetorical...     Plunderbund        more   
• Dec 20, 2019 Statehouse Watch: House And Senate Primary Races To Watch This week, candidates seeking office in the 2020 election had to file petitions to earn a spot on the ballot. Here's a look at some potentially interesting intra-party battles for the Ohio House and Senate to watch in the March 17 primary.     Plunderbund        more   
• Dec 18, 2019 Rumor Humor: Rob Portman Nominated for Prestigious Earl Landgrebe Memorial Award "I have a sworn duty to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law. I must vote to impeach." Believe it or not, those words are from Ohio Senator Rob Portman about the impeachment of another president.     Plunderbund        more   
• Slate
• Jan 25, 2020 How to Break an Addiction A psychologist shares advice on building a new life without drugs.     Slate        more   
• Jan 25, 2020 Help! I Can’t Stop Cheating On My Wife. I don’t want to blow up my perfect life—or stop seeing other women.     Slate        more   
• Jan 25, 2020 The World Is a Terrifying Place The Slate Money hosts discuss Clearview, coronavirus, and bushfires.     Slate        more   
• The Nation
• Jan 25, 2020 Mark Pocan Makes the Case That Sanders Is the Electable Candidate John Nichols The Congressional Progressive Caucus chair says Sanders can win Wisconsin and the other upper Midwest battleground states. The post Mark Pocan Makes the Case That Sanders Is the Electable Candidate appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Jan 24, 2020 The Senate GOP Is Getting Desperate Joan Walsh After slamming House Dems for not working through the courts to get evidence, they refuse to work through the courts to get evidence. The post The Senate GOP Is Getting Desperate appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Jan 24, 2020 These Students Are Bringing Transformative Justice to Their Campus Mara Dolan A first in the country and built from the ground up by students, Brown University’s Transformative Justice Program addresses harm on campus without relying on the punitive legal system.   The post These Students Are Bringing Transformative Justice to Their Campus appeared...     The Nation        more   
• Jan 24, 2020 Impeachment Shouldn’t Overshadow Saudi Scandals Jeet Heer Mohammed bin Salman is out of control and has Trump’s protection. Democrats should ask why. The post Impeachment Shouldn’t Overshadow Saudi Scandals appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• The Hill
• Jan 25, 2020 Megyn Kelly, Bill Maher agree on 'Real Time': 'The media's so messed up right now' Kelly argued during the segment that too many journalists allow their personal feelings to be presented, while Maher asserted that "money and conflict" guide the bias.     The Hill        more   
• Jan 25, 2020 Tennessee governor signs bill allowing state adoption agencies to reject gay couples Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) on Friday signed a measure that allows adoption agencies to refuse to place children with same-sex parents, drawing backlash from gay-rights advocates.The law, whic...     The Hill        more   
• Jan 25, 2020 Biden nabs endorsement from Iowa Democrat in swing district Rep. Cynthia Axne (D-Iowa) is backing Joe Biden's White House bid, giving the former vice president a sought-after endorsement and becoming the second member of Iowa's congressional delegation to back him ahead of the sta...     The Hill        more   
• Jan 25, 2020 Poll: Sanders opens up lead in Iowa Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has opened up a 7-point lead in Iowa, according to a ...     The Hill        more   
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