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Apr 22, 2018 Twenty years after Columbine, an American generation raised on school shootings fights back Nineteen years after the massacre at Columbine shocked the entire nation, five years and four months after Sandy Hook made the American president cry on television, and two months after Parkland shocked us again, students at over 2,500 schools across the U.S. united for a second National School... 5 DailyKos Headlines more
Apr 22, 2018 Not just Starbucks: LA Fitness profiles, ejects, bans longtime member for working out while black While everyone was still (rightfully) raging at a Philadelphia Starbucks for racially profiling black male customers as dangerous users of restrooms, another national chain was doing the same damn thing in New Jersey, with just a fraction of the public scrutiny. On Monday, Tshyrad Oates joined... 5 DailyKos Headlines more
Apr 22, 2018 Nuts & Bolts: Inside Democratic campaigns—Issue briefs Welcome back, Saturday Campaign D-I-Y’ers! For those who tune in, welcome to the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. Each week, we discuss issues that help drive successful campaigns. If you’ve missed prior diaries, please visit our group or follow Nuts & Bolts Guide. Candidates... 5 DailyKos Headlines more
Apr 22, 2018 This week in science: space diamonds in the dark If our understanding of how the solar system formed is at all accurate, there were probably at least several and probably dozens of planets accruing from the flattened disk that surrounds young, forming stars circling that have long since been gobbled up by other planets, sent into a fiery... 5 DailyKos Headlines more
Apr 21, 2018 Arizona Republican's history of copying and pasting lobbyist-written legislation Arizona State Sen. Republican Debbie Lesko is running in the special election on April 24, for the vacant seat of Republican scandal-resigner Trent Franks’s seat, against Democrat Hiral Tipirneni. She is favored to win the red seat back for the Republicans in a race that’s shown... 5 DailyKos Headlines more
Mother Jones Politics
Apr 22, 2018 How a Skeptical High School Teacher Learned to Take Teenagers Seriously This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. During the first week of May 1963, more than 800 African-American students walked out of their classrooms and into the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, to call for an end to segregation. Despite frequent arrests and having dogs and high-pressure... Mother Jones Politics more
Apr 21, 2018 Trump Is Considering Another Presidential Pardon President Donald Trump on Saturday announced on Twitter that he is considering granting a posthumous pardon to the late boxing legend Jack Johnson after speaking with actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone. Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of heavyweight boxing champion Jack... Mother Jones Politics more
Apr 21, 2018 Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Has Separated Hundreds of Kids From Their Parents at the Border Though the Trump administration has claimed its immigration agents do not often separate families at the border, new data reveals that hundreds of kids have been taken from their parents while attempting to cross into the United States in recent months. An analysis by the New... Mother Jones Politics more
Apr 21, 2018 Trump Began His Morning By Attacking a Times Reporter on Twitter While several former presidents were en route to attend the funeral service of former first lady Barbara Bush on Saturday morning, President Donald Trump was tweeting insults at reporters and heading to the golf course. Trump took to Twitter to bash the New York Times after the... Mother Jones Politics more
Plunderbund
Apr 21, 2018 Ohio Dark Money in the 2018 Primaries Newly filed Federal Communications Commission (FCC) documents reveal links between a newly created SuperPAC called Conservative Alliance PAC and the same Ohio Dark Money players behind Rob Portman’s 2016 single-candidate SuperPAC, Fighting for Ohio PAC. Conservative Alliance PAC is running... Plunderbund more
Apr 20, 2018 The Orwellian Trump Jonathan Chait begins his essay in New York Magazine’s withering report on the Trump dynasty’s corruption with a direct quote from Trump himself: “I’ve grabbed all the money I could get. I’m so greedy. But now I want to be greedy for the United States.” Candidate Trump spoke... Plunderbund more
Apr 18, 2018 Ohio Democrats Outraising GOP Incumbents in Key Congressional Races There might be an anti-incumbent wave building in the midterms, as six Ohio Democrats seeking to flip districts to blue raise over $100,000, four of them topping the fundraising of the incumbents they are challenging. Plunderbund more
Slate
Apr 22, 2018 The Homestar Runner Guys Celebrated Record Store Day by Making a New Fisher-Price Record One of the highlights of the Homestar Runner universe is the indie band sloshy, who were briefly Strong Bad’s favorite group after an opening gig for hair metal rockers Limozeen mistakenly convinced him they were metal. Sloshy doesn’t show up on the website often, but when they do, it’s... Slate more
Apr 22, 2018 Who the Heck Are Mr. Magoo and Mr. Peepers, Anyway? It’s not every day that a nation wakes up to discover its president is publicly claiming to have never heard of Mr. Magoo or Mr. Peepers. But these are extraordinary times for the United States, and so Saturday morning, its citizens faced a bizarre statement from the president claiming that he... Slate more
Apr 22, 2018 Appreciating Anthony Davis Alley-Oops For What they Really Are: Terrifying Inevitabilities The New Orleans Pelicans are on a rampage. They completed a first-round sweep of the Portland Trailblazers on Saturday, winning Game 4 131-123. The ease with which the Pelicans dismantled the higher-seeded Blazers is downright terrifying. Each game was a statement. If you have a favorite team,... Slate more
The Nation
Apr 20, 2018 What Andrew Cuomo Has in Common With Scott Walker John Nichols The New York governor’s failure to call a prompt special election to fill a vacant congressional seat disregards democracy. The post What Andrew Cuomo Has in Common With Scott Walker appeared first on The Nation. The Nation more
Apr 20, 2018 This Gun-Control Activist Helped Plan the March for Our Lives. Now She’s Running for Congress. Joan Walsh Lucy McBath, whose son was shot and killed in 2012, has jumped into the primary to take on Karen Handel in Georgia’s sixth district. The post This Gun-Control Activist Helped Plan the March for Our Lives. Now She’s Running for Congress. appeared first on The Nation. The Nation more
Apr 20, 2018 How a Feminist Uprising Is Saving South American Soccer Dave Zirin Speaking to Brenda Elsey, who is in Buenos Aires, covering the sports and politics story that demands more attention. The post How a Feminist Uprising Is Saving South American Soccer appeared first on The Nation. The Nation more
Apr 20, 2018 Cubans Face the End of the Castro Era Peter Kornbluh As Raúl steps aside, the country faces transition and transformation. The post Cubans Face the End of the Castro Era appeared first on The Nation. The Nation more
The Hill
Apr 22, 2018 House Republicans prepare to battle for leadership slots A slew of ambitious Republicans are eyeing slots on the leadership ladder. The Hill more
Apr 22, 2018 Romney forced into GOP primary for Utah Senate nomination Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney failed to secure the Utah Republican Party's nomination for Senate on Saturday, triggering a June primary.In the final round of voting at the party's convention, state... The Hill more
Apr 22, 2018 Romney won't commit yet to supporting Trump in 2020 "I will make that decision down the road," Romney told CNN. The Hill more
Apr 21, 2018 Sanders ally pushes Dems on cutting superdelegates A top aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign is circulating a letter to top Democrats, asking them to back an effort to remove superdelegates from the Democratic primary nomination system, ... The Hill more
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